A Sanskrit reader : text and vocabulary and notes. (Lanman’s copy)

A$600 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1920. Seventh issue. Large octavo (260 x 180 mm), publisher s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards; front free-endpaper with the dated ownership wet stamp of Charles R. Lanman, 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts OCT 3 1921 and fully contemporary inscription in ink: C. R. Lanman s copy / for use in Widener A ; pp. xx, [2], folding inset with tipped-in typed note (by Lanman?) re. its correct use, 405, 16 (publisher s ads.); the front endpaper has a chipped fore-edge and a discreet repair to verso, otherwise a fine copy in every respect; a wonderful find for the devoted Sanskritist. The great American Sanskrit scholar Charles Rockwell Lanman (1850-1941) was appointed the first head of Indo-Iranian Languages at Harvard in 1880, and taught there until his retirement in 1926. (The department was re-named the Department of Indic Philology in 1902; much later on it would become known as the Department Sanskrit and Indian Studies). The fact that Lanman s Sanskrit reader is still in print (and still published by Harvard University Press) is testament to its usefulness as a textbook a legacy of Lanman s rigorous scholarship and carefully considered methodology.

• Binding: Hardcover

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