The Pop-Up Kama Sutra [With] Six Paper-Engineered Variations

Burton, Sir Richard & F. F. Arbuthnot

ISBN 10: 1584793023 / ISBN 13: 9781584793021

Published by Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2003

About this Item

Color Art and mechanical pop-ups; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 48 pages; 2003 Harry N. Abrams. Oversize HC in glossy color pictorial boards. 4th printing. Bright fresh and very neat. Tissue guards inside the front and rear cover; pictorial paper panel that was included as an external lining in the original packaging is laid in at rear. Mecahnicals in perfect wotrking condition; they have perhaps been moved a few times. Overall about as new. NF . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pop-Up Kama Sutra [With] Six Paper-Engineered Variations
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584793023
• ISBN 13: 9781584793021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Fourth Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

About this title

Synopsis

What do you get when you combine the classic, almost 2,000-year-old Indian treatise on the art of love with the most up-to-date paper-engineering techniques? The Pop-Up Kama Sutra!

This lively distillation of the world's most famous sex guide features choice excerpts from the original text, translated in 1883 by the renowned explorer Sir Richard Burton, and is illustrated with vintage color plates from India. Best of all, six incredible pop-ups present the Kama Sutra's most interesting, instructive, and wildly acrobatic positions in three dimensions. More Bollywood than museum piece, this fun gift book adds a new dimension to the literature of lust and romance.

About the Author

Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) was an English explorer and author of 43 volumes about his adventures. While working for the East India company, he was stationed in India where he acquired a thorough knowledge of the Persian, Afghan, Hindustani, and Arabic languages. This enabled him to publish the first English translation of the Kama Sutra as well as a complete translation of the Arabian Nights, for which he is best known.