[Literature] Burton, Richard F. Group of Two Titles
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Sep 10, 2024
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[Literature] Burton, Richard F. Group of Two Titles
Burton, Richard F.
Sind Revisited: With Notices of the Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, etc.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1877. In two volumes. First edition. 8vo. xii, 343; iv, 331 pp. Three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red and black morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, rubbing to boards and extremities; top edges gilt, other edges trimmed; matching marbled endpapers; armorial book-plate of James Albert Garland, Jr., on front paste-down of each volume; scattered light soiling to text. Penzer, pp. 94-95
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Ananga-Ranga; (Stage of the Bodiless One) or, the Hindu Art of Love...
Cosmopoli: for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, and for private circulation only, 1885. Third reprint (with "Oh songster sweet, begin the lay" on p. xiii, and no watermark on pp. 110 and 140). 8vo. xvi, 144 pp. From the library of American poet Louis Untermeyer, and with his Rockwell Kent-designed book-plate on front paste-down. Three-quarter crushed brown morocco over blue buckram, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; rear hinge split. Penzer, pp. 172-173
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