The Beharistan (Abode of Spring)
Published by Kama Shastra Society, Benares, 1887
- Used
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, CanadaKarol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
AbeBooks seller since July 3, 2012
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 219.43
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8vo, pp. vi, 183, [1] (errata). A literal translation from the Persian by Richard Francis Burton. Privately printed by the Kama Shastra Society for subscribers only. An unexpurgated English version of this 15th-century Persian classic. Bound in full vellum, spine lettered in gilt, vellum darkened, more so at the spine. Endpapers lightly foxed; text clean throughout. A good and clean copy overall. Provenance: Pickford Waller, with his bookplate to the front pastedown.
Seller Inventory # 49591
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Beharistan (Abode of Spring)
- Author
- Jami; Burton, Sir Richard F. trans
- Publisher
- Kama Shastra Society, Benares
- Publication year
- 1887
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Vellum
- Seller catalogs
- Literature, Poetry
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Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
ON, Canada
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Karol Krysik Books
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