[INDOLOGY] Might anyone have an idea what this could be?

[Rosane Rocher]

I don't know, but he published an open letter on international finance 
two years later at the same publisher:


  Valutasorgen; or, "The flight from the mark." An open letter to the
  president of the United States of America on the vexed problem of
  German exchange .

Rosane Rocher

On 2/6/22 10:16 AM, Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY wrote:
>
> Friends
>
> I recently came across the following listing at
>
> https://www.zvab.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22479990694&searchurl=n%3D100121503%26pt%3Dbook%26sortby%3D1%26kn%3Dsanskrit&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp6-_-title25 
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> I have no idea what this could be, do you?
>
> The Tanjur and The Kanjur: A Dissertation on Sanskrit, the Language of 
> Antiquity, and on the corollary question, "Where was the Cradle of the 
> Aryan race?"
> RICHARD, William L.
> Verlag: La Casa Amaraca, Freeport, N.Y., 1920
>
> described as follows:
>
> First edition. Oblong octavo. Printed wrapper: 7, [1]pp., photographic 
> frontispiece portrait and unpaged (approximately forty-one) gelatin 
> silver photographs of the Sanskrit manuscripts. Contemporary custom 
> binding by the Atelier Bindery in full pale brown morocco with four 
> raised bands and black morocco spine label with title and decorations 
> of dragons and swastikas in gilt, dentelles in elaborate gilt floral 
> pattern, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Top corners slightly 
> bumped, very near fine in custom cloth slipcase. One of 500 numbered 
> copies, this copy unnumbered. Brief dissertation about the author's 
> copies of rare Tibetan Sanskrit manuscripts. Apparently issued as an 
> eight page pamphlet, this copy has been enhanced with the photographs 
> and seems likely to have been the author's own copy. Attractive and 
> beautifully bound volume. *OCLC* locates two copies of the pamphlet, 
> but nothing with accompanying illustrations. (Yale and NYPL). 
> Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 408916
>
> it seems to me in the first place probable that the person who wrote 
> this does not know the difference between Tibetan and Sanskrit, but 
> maybe that is not true? Interesting, i think, and it makes me curious.
>
> Jonathan
>
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