Böhtlingk, Otto

Indische Spruche. Sanskrit und Deutsch

St. Petersburg, Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1870. xvi, 436p; 511p: viii, 650p. Early 20th century blue cloth over boards with titles lettered in gold on the spines. Second edition. Much improved. Otto von Böhtlingk (1815-1904) was a Russian-German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. Old signature of Paul E. More on the inside front blank. This could be the American journalist and essayist Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) who taught sanskrit at Harvard 1894-95 and at Bryn Mawr (1895-97. A few occasional marginal marks in pencil, otherwise clean. Scarce. Item #10310

Price: $250.00