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Préface et traduction par A.-Ferdinand Hérold. La miniature servant de frontispiece est de P. Zenker. 5ème édition. 135 pp. 15,8x11 cm. Collection " Ex Oriente Lux " / L'Edition d'Art H. Plazza, Paris, 1923. - Minor signs of usage on the spine. Otherwise, an excellent copy.
- "Voici l'histoire de Damayanti et de Nala, telle à peu près qu'on la lit au troisième livre du Mahabharata, celui de la Forêt. Le Mahabharata est un poème fort long, si long qu'ils sont bien rares ceux qui ont eu la patience de le lire en entier. Et pourtant, à tenter pareille lecture, on goûterait des joies diverses: après de beaux contes, on trouverait de sages règles pour se conduire dans la vie; le poète, comme le philosophe, comme l'historien, reconnaîtrait le prix du vénérable livre. [….]"
- Mahabharata is a major epic of Hindu culture and history, and a holy book. Dating from the first millenium BC, its 110.000 couplets make it the longest epic in the world. It was orally transmitted and later became… Read More

Author: Jamila Hasanzade. Translated by Neil McGowan. 232 pp. 30x23 cm. Heydar Aliyev Foundation, 2013.
--- Richly illustrated. Pages bright and clean.

With 16 maps and 55 plans. Fifth edition. xxxv+454 pp. 16,2x11 cm. Karl Baedeker, Publisher, Leipzig, 1909.
Last edition of this title.
--- Text in english. Cloth-bound (publishers cloth) with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Discolourated marbled edges. Some wear at the edges of the spine. Tight binding, pages clean.

viii+831 pp. 23,5x15 cm. Librairie de Victor Masson, Paris, 1853.
--- Text in french. Half-leather (private binding). Wear at corners and spine ends. Very tight binding. Small engravings in text, occasional foxing.