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The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa'di
by Rehatsek, Edward [Translator]
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Benares: The Kama Shastra Society, 1888. A famous work by the Persian poet Sheikh Muslih-uddin Sa'di Shirazi (1193-1291) in a famous translation by Edward Rehatsek, even more famed due its publication by the Kama Shastra Society, a fictitious organization formed by Sir Richard Francis Burton and Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot in 1883 to avoid the censorship Obscene Publications Act of 1857. The Society continued to Burton's death in 1890, but this was the last book of five that were published. Scarce to rare. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Printing. White vellum binding with beveled edges, ruled and titled in gilt on the spine, which also has the date "1888" at its foot - this was eliminated in the second edition. Clean text; viii, 282 pages; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. There is a bookplate from a previous owner on the front paste-down; offset to pages 12 and 13, likely from a laid-in newspaper clipping; some spotting to the endpapers only.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005407
- Title
- The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa'di
- Author
- Rehatsek, Edward [Translator]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Kama Shastra Society
- Place of Publication
- Benares
- Date Published
- 1888
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mid East History & Literature;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Fine
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