The Beharistan (Abode of Spring)
Benares: Kama Shastra Society, 1887. Vellum. Very Good. Item #49591
8vo, pp. vi, 183, [1] (errata). A literal translation from the Persian by Richard Francis Burton. Privately printed by the Kama Shastra Society for subscribers only. An unexpurgated English version of this 15th-century Persian classic. Bound in full vellum, spine lettered in gilt, vellum darkened, more so at the spine. Endpapers lightly foxed; text clean throughout. A good and clean copy overall. Provenance: Pickford Waller, with his bookplate to the front pastedown.
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