arbuthnot translators (6 Ergebnisse)

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. A soft cover non-fiction in fair to good condition. Pages are tanned, but clean and intact, with no markings. The cover is generally clean and well-preserved, with minor signs of wear along the edges of the spine.

Reprint. Dust jacket a little worn at head of spine. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear and chippings to the front top edge. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. Good hardback copy. Dustwrapper is shelfworn, priceclipped with a few small tears and scratches. 25pp, colour photos. Images on request.

(Stage of the Bodiless One), or The Hindu Art of Love. (Ars Amoris Indica.)First edition, third issue. 8vo. Original vellum, bevelled edges, spine gilt, single gilt border to boards, somewhat soiled with small section of vellum missing from upper board (55 by 30mm), internally fine, presented in cloth drop-back box. xvi, 144pp. Cosmpoli, for the Kama Shastra Society (London & Benares), "In the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the translation appears under the generic name of Kama-Shastra, which we first adopted, and the reader is told that only four copies exist for reasons best known to the printer. This is so far true that the limited supply has hitherto prevented the public deriving any benefit from our labours. We now take advantage of an offer made by a well-known house in Cosmopoli, and produce a reprint for PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY, with many additions and emendations." Although this work was first published in extremely limited numbers in 1873 (see above) under the title "Kama-Shastra", twelve years passed before Burton was able to find a publisher brave enough to reprint the text. The resulting Ananga-Ranga is essentially a manual for love-making, thought to have been written by the poet Kalyana Malla. Whilst the descriptions are somewhat graphic, the aim was simple: if a man is able to vary and heighten the pleasures of sex within marriage, there would be no need to seek it elsewhere. Not surprisingly, given the date of the original work, it has an entirely phalocentric outlook, the wife being little more than a sex object: "the husband by varying the enjoyment of his wife, may live with her as with thirty-two different women, ever varying the enjoyment of her, and rendering satiety impossible." The "Ananga-Ranga" was the second of the five publications produced by the Kama Shastra Society, which was founded by Burton and Arbuthnot with the aim of publishing Eastern texts. They were, as Penzer coyly puts it, "chiefly of an erotic nature." However, unlike the notorious "Kama-Sutra", first published by Burton in parts in 1883, the "Ananga-Ranga" was not an immediate success. Penzer, p171-3; Casati, 73.