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Kalidasa's Meghaduta. Edited from manuscripts with the commentary of Vallabhadeva and provided with a complete Sanskrit-English vocabulary.
by E. [Eugen] Hultzsch
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Burgundy pebbled cloth with gilt particulars to spine. Bookplate of The Royal Asiatic Society to front pastedown with corresponding transfer to recto of front fly. The personal copy of Professor Royal W. Weiler, who taught Sanskrit at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, and whose name is neatly inscribed to the front free fly paper. "46x513" stamped in purple to bottom of dedication page. Preface and appendices in English, text of poem in Sanskrit. Some inked scholia to margins. A nice and an otherwise clean and serviceable copy. ; Prize Publication Fund; 8vo; xix, 113, [i] pages.
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- Bookseller
- William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3563
- Title
- Kalidasa's Meghaduta. Edited from manuscripts with the commentary of Vallabhadeva and provided with a complete Sanskrit-English vocabulary.
- Author
- E. [Eugen] Hultzsch
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Royal Asiatic Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Asia, Sanskrit, Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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About the Seller
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida
About William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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