Le Bon, Gustave: Les civilisations de l'Inde. Paris: Firmin-Didot 1887. 27,7 x 19 cm. With 7 (1 as frontispiece) chromolithographic plates and numerous illustrations, some of which are photographs, in the text, as well as 1 full-page map. 3 leaves, VII pp., 743 pp. Original illustrated cloth binding with gold embossing; gold-edged pages.

(Scratched and bumped; slightly torn at the top and bottom. Front joint broken off. Slightly damp in places and showing some light age-related staining.)

Vicaire V,134. Caillet 6299: ‘It is the best book ever written about India.’