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

[Richard Mahoney]

It looks like the the NYPL holds both:

https://www.nypl.org/research/research-catalog/search?filters[creatorLiteral]=Richard,%20William%20L
.

And there's another copy of "The Tanjur ..." at Yale:

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/2693489


Best, Richard



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 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
> 
> 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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