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1924027485Madras 1924 Ganesh & Co Hardcover Poor
19227946Allahabad: Sudhindra Nath Vasu at the Panini Office 1922. First editions thus. 2 volumes 10x7" continuously paginated 352 and 353-796pp. Modern Indian binding in slightly different shades of soft red leather tooled in gilt with gray spine labels speckled page edges gilt turn ins and black silk endpapers. The binding technique and cheap paper has caused some cracking at front hinges. Few pencil marks in margins scattered light foxing. Housed in cloth slipcases. <br /> <br /> The first 8 books of the Devi Bhagavatam of Vedavyasa here translated from the Sanskrit to English for the first time by Swami Vijnanananda. This translation appeared as volume XXVI in the Sacred Books of the Hundus series edited by Major B.D. Basu and published in Allahabad. This canonical text for Devi worshippers promotes Bhakti or devotion towards the divine feminine one of the earliest Hindu texts to do so. <br /> <br /> OCLC cites perhaps 7 physical holdings for this text. From the library of Blanche DeVries and Pierre Bernard. <br /> <br /> . Sudhindra Nath Vasu at the Panini Office unknown
19037956Berlin: Lotus-Verlag 1903. First edition. 25x17cm 1 101pp plus 3 35pp paginated section of notes at rear. Text in English 4 unnumbered color plates at front. 1/2 polished red calf over checkered cloth boards brown spine label lettered in gilt. Samuel Weiser ticket on front pastedown original front wrapper bound in. Stab holes at inner margins few smudges to outer margins else clean and near fine. <br /> <br /> Rare English translation of the Ratirahasya a ca. 12th century Indian Sex Manual written by the poet Kokkoka. The text differs greatly from the ancient Kama Sutra in that it deals with medieval Indian society and it is speculated it was written for a king named Venudutta. The manual deals with various topics such as types of genitals pleasing women based on the lunar calendar sexual congress and positions stages of love such as weight loss and fainting detailed descriptions of Indian feminine beauty aphrodisiacs and others. <br /> <br /> <br /> The Ratirahasya has been translated into several languages the most well-known English version being done by Alex Comfort author of The Joy of Sex in 1964. This version is credited to Richard Schmidt 1866-1939 an Indology scholar and lecturer at the University of Halle and librarian at the German Oriental Society. His academic work was primarily focused on producing reliable editions and translations of works of ancient Indian narrative literature and on making Sanskrit texts on eroticism available to researchers in other disciplines. From the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. <br /> <br /> We find little mention of this translation by Schmidt although it was reprinted in Calcutta by the Medical Book Company in 1949 and 1960. Of the 1903 first edition OCLC cites a single holding at Waseda University in Japan. <br /> <br /> From the library of Blanche DeVries and Pierre Bernard. . Lotus-Verlag unknown
1990054397Llewellyn PublicationsU.S. 1990. Book. Good. Soft cover. Cover has been laminated with clear contact paper otherwise VG tight copy. 296pp. Llewellyn Publications,U.S. Paperback
19187944Allahabad: The Panini Office 1918. Second edition. Sammelband of 3 works 9.5x6.5" 5 xvii 32 iipp; 5 xiv 86pp; and 3 xiv 154pp. In English and Sanskrit. Indian binding of soft red leather with gilt ruling and lettering on spine speckled page edges metallic cloth endpapers. Spine toned few scuffs to boards. Samuel Weiser ticket at front some scattered light foxing page block toned. Housed in a cloth slipcase. <br /> <br /> Set of three works likely issued together and being translations of foundational Bhakti Yoga texts with commentary. The first two are translated into English by Nandalal Sinha with the third being credited to "A.B." <br /> <br /> The Narada Bhakti Sutra is a well known and revered Hindu text reportedly spoken by the famous sage Narada. The aphorisms offer a deep exploration of process of Bhakti yoga.<br /> <br /> The Shandilya Sutram also known as Shandilya Bhakti Sutras is a collection of 100 devotional aphorisms. It explains the path of love and devotion for God and how to cultivate this spiritual virtue.<br /> <br /> <br /> Bhakti-Ratnavali is a collection of verses from the Srimad Bhagavata compiled by Vishnu Puri that provides a systematic outline of the philosophy and practice of Bhakti.<br /> <br /> OCLC cites 4 holdings from 1917 of these three titles bound together. From the library of Blanche DeVries and Pierre Bernard. <br /> <br /> . The Panini Office unknown
193371326Berlin 1933. 3, 199 S. Kl.-4to. OHLwd.
19449851New York: Clarkstown Country Club; American Import Book Company; Vedic Research Press 1944. First editions. Sammelband of 3 publications 22x16cm 12pp; 5 47pp; and 24pp. Few plate illustrations in the middle pamphlet. Modern Indian binding of soft red leather tooled in gilt with brown spine label and gilt lettering metallic silk endpapers. Light rubbing along joints clean internally and nearly fine. Housed in a red slipcase. <br /> <br /> 3 scarce publications from the controversial man who became known as America's first Yogi Pierre Arnold Bernard 1875-1955. Bernard founded the Clarkstown Country Club at Nyack New York in 1918 and with his wife Blanche DeVries popularized Yoga and Eastern philosophy among the affluent population which spread from New York to other cities in the ensuing decades. The first pamphlet advertises a year long lecture course in yoga at the club which was free to members $100 membership fee $25 in yearly dues. Apparently to qualify for club membership you must have been "free white and twenty-one."<br /> <br /> The second publication contains 47 pages of blurbs from various figures from Nietzsche to Max Muller with MANY of them by Bernard on the Vedas and other aspects of Hinduism. A large section of the quotes read like a modern dust jacket with many in praise of Bernard and his teachings. One plate in this pamphlet shows Bernard in the midst of his famous "Kali Mudra" death trance demonstration where he would enter a deep meditative state of self hypnosis and allow physicians to pierce him slowly with needles showing no pain response. Seemingly a self-promoting publication from the time when Bernard had just opened Clarkstown. <br /> <br /> <br /> The third is the first of 2 journal issues of the never-formed International School of Vedic and Allied Research. The organization was founded for the purpose of promoting understanding of Eastern philosophy through publishing research scholarly articles and educational programming in America Britain and elsewhere. Bernard is not mentioned in the journal but he must have been closely associated with the organization's efforts in New York. <br /> <br /> We do not find the first publication listed in OCLC which cites just 2 holdings for the second. One or both issues of the journal are held by perhaps 20 institutions but we have not encountered one in the trade. <br /> <br /> From the library of Pierre Bernard and Blanche DeVries.<br /> <br /> . Clarkstown Country Club; American Import Book Company; Vedic Research Press unknown
19237960Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1923. Second impression. 8vo 377pp. Warm gift inscription to Blanche DeVries on the front fly. Modern Indian binding of soft red leather tooled in gilt with brown spine label and gilt lettering speckled page edges marbled endpapers. Few pencil annotations and marginal markings presumably by DeVries. Near fine copy in attractive binding housed in a cloth covered slipcase. <br /> <br /> Pioneering woman Yoga guru Blanche DeVries' copy of Ellis's popular philosophical work on understanding ourselves and the world by perceiving life as a dance. This copy bears a warm gift inscription on the front fly:<br /> <br /> "To DeVries - a dancer of Life of Time Strength Imagination and Grace - in the Theater of Karma. In appreciation Hawley." <br /> <br /> From our research it seems Hawley was the lodge name of a Mrs. Loring Andrews a prominent woman teacher in Bernard's Tantric Order.<br /> <br /> <br /> Ellis's philosophy was quite influential on DeVries as in 1919 she opened a school in New York which combined Yoga with sensual dance known as a Gymnosophy Institute. Gymnosophy combined nudity with meditation dance and Eastern philosophy DeVries' studio being a pioneer institution in the movement. A few years later Ellis would write the introduction to another pioneering work in the young movement Maruice Parmelee's The New Gymnosophy which was clearly inspired by Ellis and his ideas outlined in The Dance of Life. <br /> <br /> An interesting copy with ties to multiple philosophical and cultural movements of the early 20th century. . Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
19297962Madras: Ganesh & Co 1929. First edition. 24x17cm 239 1pp. Modern Indian binding of red morocco tooled in black with gray spine label lettered in gilt. Spine toned few scuffs to boards. Internally clean with some light toning to page block. Near fine. Housed in a pink silk covered slipcase. <br /> <br /> Scarce first edition of this text from British Tantra scholar Sir John Woodroffe 1865-1936 who wrote extensively under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon. Woodroffe through his writings helped stimulate and spread interest in Hindu philosophy and Yoga in the West. This is the third text cowritten by Woodroffe and Mukhyopadhyaya in the World as Power series. From Woodroffe's preface:<br /> <br /> "A comparison is made between Shakta-vada and the better known Vedanta system called Mayavada. Both systems speak of Maya but understand them differently as explained in the ten chapters of this book. Its object is not to prove the truth of this or any other system but to give an exposition of Consciousness as conceived in the doctrine of Power and in such exposition to show that it is not a mere fossil in a museum of antique thought but has practical utility today. It offers to Western philosophy a new conception of Consciousness and Mind and brings to the controversies within the Vedantic schools a profoundly conceived contri-bution in its theory of power and in its doctrine of the unity of conditioned and unconditioned being of the state of worldly experience which is Samsara and that super-worldly experience which is Moksha."<br /> <br /> <br /> This text was reissued in at least 3 editions through 1964. The first of 1929 is scarce. From the library of Blanche DeVries and Pierre Bernard.<br /> <br /> <br /> . Ganesh & Co unknown
1992135715Orbec-en-Auge (Calvados), Shanti - Cercle de Yoga 1992 38 numéros. In-8 21 x 14,5 cm. Agrafés, couvertures imprimées, 30 pp. par fascicule, sommaires. Exemplaires en bon état.
1981OKKU2045München, F. Hirthammer Verl. (1980-1981). Gr.-8°. OLeinenbde. m. goldgepr. Rü.titel u. 2 Bände m. (stark lädierten) OSchutzumschlägen. Buchschnitte etw. stockfleckig u. angestaubt, im Text etw. gebräunt, Bd.1 m. Anstreichungen. 1. Bd.: Leadbeater, C[harles] W[ebster]. Astralebene - Mentalebene - Träume - Hellsehen. 323(1) S. - / 2. Bd.: Besant, Annie. Der Mensch und seine Körper - Reinkarnation - Karma - Dharma. 353(3) S. - ISBN: 3921288614 / 3. Bd.: Taimni, I[qbal] K[ishen]. Selbsterziehung und Selbstverwirklichung. Anhang: Auszüge aus 'Die Wissenschaft vom Yoga'. (Aus dem Englischen 'Self-Culture in the light of Occultism'). 332(4) S. - ISBN: 3921288568
1975110931Presses de la Connaissance 1975 Les Presses de la Connaissance, Paris, 1975 (copyright), 207 p., cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette, environ 29x25cm, légers frottements épars sur les bords de la jaquette, bon état et intérieur très propre.
1983RO30345188Dervy. 1983. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 229 pages. Couverture rempliée. Quelques illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte. Quelques planches d'illustrations en noir et blanc. Frontispice en noir et blanc.. . . . Classification Dewey : 181-Yoga
190615265Second Year, Volume IV. July - December 1906. London, collection de 6 numéros (19 à 24) reliés en un fort volume in-8 ; pleine percaline bleue de l'éditeur, titres en blanc ; (4), VI, 424 pp., 3 planches photographiques hors-texte (portraits du Professeur Caesar Lombroso, du Professeur James H. Hyslop, 1 planche de 2 clichés concernant un fantome), quelques figures.
19883262CBParis, Flammarion, 1988. 8°, 464 S. mit s/w-Abbildungen (Text: Französisch), original Leineneinband mit original Schutzumschlag, 2. Auflage sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar mit einer Widmung des Autors (Für meine Freunde ... A. van Lysebeth - Villars 13.8.1995) auf der Seite nach der Titelseite (Re09 - A)
19197953Allahabad: Sudhindra Natha Vasu at the Panini Office 1919. First edition. 25x16cm 124pp. Bound in India in crushed red morocco tooled in gilt with gray spine label and gilt lettering speckled page edges black silk endpapers with gilt turn ins. Edge tear and wrinkling to title page scattered light foxing few spots to front endpapers. Few marginal marks in pencil boards a bit bumped and rubbed. Very good. Housed in cloth slipcase. <br /> <br /> Metaphysical text on the central Hindu Brahma Sutras which explore the relationship between the individual and ultimate reality. This English commentary and interpretation with a few passages in the original Sanskrit was published as part of the Sacred Books of the Hindus as Vol. XXII part II. <br /> <br /> From the library of Blanche DeVries and Pierre Bernard. Sudhindra Natha Vasu at the Panini Office unknown
19597947New York: Henry Holt and Company 1959. 8vo 172pp. Photos illustrations. Signed with a generic inscription by Spring on the first blank page. Bound in red morocco with gilt lettering and design on spine and orange spine label. Samuel Weiser ticket at front front and inner flaps of jacket bound in as single leaf at rear. Some scuffing to endpapers else clean internally. <br /> <br /> An important mid-century Yoga manual written by a woman and student of Blanche DeVries to whom the book is dedicated Clara Spring 1899-1989. This is one of a few titles from the decade written by women which sold well and helped advance the emerging Eastern philosophy-adopting counterculture. Other pioneers of the era included Indra Devi Elisabeth Haich and Swami Sivananda Radha. Spring's inscription reads:<br /> <br /> <br /> "May Yoga always be your best friend as it has been mine!"<br /> <br /> Signed copies are scarce. . Henry Holt and Company unknown
198491892Union Nationale de Yoga 1984 In-8 21,5 x 15 cm. Agrafé, couverture imprimée orange, environ 30 pp. par numéro. Bon état.
198941202Ansata, Interlaken 1989. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. 326 S. OPpbd. mit Schutzum. Ca. 20 S. mit radierbaren Bleistiftanstreichungen. Gutes Exemplar.
1979YRG-330Broché 24cmx12cm, 298 pages plus texte Sanscrit plus table. Légèrement jauni dans les marges, petit surlignage orange sur quelques pages, accros au sommet de la quatrième de couverture.
1983RO20250356BUCHET/CHASTEL. 1983. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 395 pages - nombreuses photos en noir/blanc dans le texte - couverture rempliée - ex dono au stylo en page de faux titre - planche photo en noir et blanc sur le 2e plat - 3 photos disponibles. . . . Classification Dewey : 181-Yoga
1978R200110224Seuil. 1978. In-Folio. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Intérieur frais. 301 pages. Nombreuses photos en noir et blanc, hors texte. Couverture avec rabats. Jaquette en état d'usage.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 181-Yoga
1983R160222101non précisé. 1983. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Tome 1 : 45 pages - Tome 2 : Paginé de 46 à 91 - Tome 3 : 42 planches de 70 photos en noir et blanc - Tome 4 : 63 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 181-Yoga
197626310Freiburg, Bauer, (1976). 100 Asanas für Anspruchsvolle als sicherer Weg zu Dynamik, Vitalität und Selbstvollendung. Aus dem Englischen un bearbeitet von Ursula Messall. Mit einem Fotoporträt, einer Textabbildung und 184 ganzseitigen Fotoabbildungen. 23/17 cm. 304 S. OPappband mit beschädigtem Schutzumschlag. Minimal muffig.
19583175CBStuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1958. gr.8°, 487 S., original Leineneinband, 2., umgearbeitete und um den 2. Band erweiterte Au ohne Schutzumschlag, Einband am Buchrücken minimal fleckig, Einbanddeckel oben leicht aufgehellt, Seitenränder ein wenig nachgedunkelt, sonst sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar (Re09 - A)
