Arbuthnot Translators (20 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Diamond edition first published 1993. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

19,5 x 12,5 cm Paperback. Condition: Gut. 295 S. Noch guter Zustand, Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren, Eintrag auch Coverinnenseite, keine Texteintragungen, Markierungen, etc. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, a Sanskrit book of about the third century A.D., has for long been honoured in India as the earliest Indian treatise on the science and art of sex and love. Edited with a preface by W.G. Archer and introduction by K.M. Panikkar. Zustand: leichte Gebrauchsspuren 0048910481 Sprache: en Gewicht in Gramm: 320.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. blue & full color illustrated trade paperback soft cover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~8"x11"). large "coffee table" book, vg cond. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. edges clean. rear cover & last few pages wavy from dampness. rear corners a tiny bit rubbed. contents free of markings. 14th printing. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~. illustrated 1/2 title & frontis. decorative title pg. 156p.+ publisher's ad. glossy pages throughout. " illustrated in color with a dazzling and unique collection of indian (erotic) painting and sculpture " (explicit). full color illustrations of vintage indian art works. many full page. medieval literature. medieval history. art history. anthropology. psychology. erotica. tantra. sociology. yoga. sexology. eroticism. hindu literature. arabic literature. mughal miniature painting. north africa. kalyana malla. kama shastra society. ~ Sexual frankness~without a hint of gullt or prurience ~is the great legacy which the Eastern, and in particular Indian, traditlons have given us. Here, for the flrst time, Sir Richard Burton and F.F. Arbuthnot's translations of three classic Eastern love texts have been published in one volume, illustrated in color with a dazzling and unique collection of Indian painting and sculpture.These erotic treatises are not "sex manuals" in the modern sense~clinical collections of coital postures~but a more encompassing and sens?tive exploration of Eastern sexual customs. The idea that something as natural as sexuallty could be shameful in any way would have been incomprehensible to the old sage Vatsyayana who wrote Kama Sutra as a religlous duty nearly 2,000 years ago. Kalyana Malla wrote his Ananga~Ranga wlth the worthy intention of preventing "separation of the married pair." And even if Shelkh Nefzawl was a little less pious in intention, he can be forgiven for the poetry and humor in his Perfumed Garden. As an expression of human culture, and as a "pillow book" for the modern boudoir, the Kama Sutra (the most famous work on sex ever written), the Ananga~Ranga, and Perfumed Garden set forth the principles of sexual pleasure with candor and grace, celebrating the sclence of love as an ecstatic expression of life's beauty. Sir Richard F. Burton (1821~1890) was one of the greatest traveler~explorers in history, whose lfe has recently been chronicled both in blography (Captain Sir Richard Burton) and film (Mountains of the Moon). Famous as the translator of The 1001 Arablan Nights, Burton also searched for the headwaters of the Nile and was the discoverer of the central lakes of Africa. Orlentallst, prolific author, and member of the Royal Geographic Society, he was one of the most remarkable and controversial men of his century.…

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

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Lancer Book 78-635. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; small discoloured patch on the front endpaper. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Lancer Book 78-635. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; small discoloured patch on the front endpaper. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very little wear; slight crease to the front bottom corner. Text is clean. 159 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. 4th impression, 296 pages, edited with a preface by W.G. Archer, introduction by K.M. Panikkar, rear of jacket soiled.

5th Printing. Near Fine condition. Berkley Medallion N1236.

Hardcover. Translated from the Sanskrit. Edited with a preface by W. G. Archer. Introduction by K. M. Panikkar. Fifth impression thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club. Binding is dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dj very bright and clean. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. New Edition. New edition 8vo .Dark blue with silver to sunned spine, mild wear, slight forward lean, small scuffs, sound binding, a signature inside front, pale spotting to eps, very good page condition.

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.

Presumed 1st. Frank and explicit successor to the Kama Sutra, originally written in Sanskrit by a 16th c Hindu poet. Nice clean tight copy of scarce title. 191 pp. Near Very Good unmarked, light shelfwear. MM Paperback in color illus wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Slight fading of spine edge. Faint scratches on dust jacket due to shelf wear. A few foxing spots on paste downs and block edge. Kama Sutra is one of the classics of world literature; the oldest and most famous of the Hindu love manuals. It was written nearly 2000 years ago by the sage Vatsyayana in the city of Benares on the River Ganges. Kama Sutra contains a good deal of humane advice as useful and important now as it ever was. The book's other great message is that sex is an important subject for study; that good sex is essential to a complete life, and - most important of all - sex is a wonder and a godsend. Beautifully illustrated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear and chippings to the front top edge. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, 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.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. G.P. Putnam/ Berkley Medallion Ed 1966. 223 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges. Creased spine.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.…