Friends
I recently came across the following listing at
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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