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

[Antonio Ferreira-Jardim]

I'm not sure if this helps... but according to page 1118 column b of
the Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets. Volume 17, Issue 2
(1920) the full name of the author is William Louis Richard.

The copy of this pamphlet held at the New York Public Library belongs to
the Pforzheimer Collection.

Kind regards,
Antonio

On Mon, 7 Feb 2022, 1:17 am Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY, <
indology at list.indology.info> 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
>
> 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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