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Lajard,F.
Introduction a l'etude du culte public et des mysteres de Mithra en Orient et en Occident. Nur Tafelbd. Paris, Imprimerie Royale 1847. Imp.Fol. Mit 110 gest. Taf. 26 S. Hldr. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Fileten. u. Kopfgoldschn. (Tls. berieb. u. best., kl. Schabspuren).
Sehr seltene erste Ausgabe. Ohne Textbd. - One of the seiminal works of 19th century religious/cult studies. Jean-Baptiste Felix Lajard, the French archaeologist, was born in Lyon, March 1783. One of his most important studies was on the relationship between the Greek civilization and its eastern counterpart, and another was on the origins of Hellenistic cults. - Tls. etw. stockfl., sonst ordentlich.
