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[EROTICA]. [BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890)]. The P...

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[EROTICA]. [BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890)]. The Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui. Cosmopoli: for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1886. 8vo. With 12 special etchings inserted throughout. Bound in twentieth-century half blue morocco over blue cloth boards, spine ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, 5 raised bands, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt (very minor rubbing to binding). LIMITED EDITION, number 11 of 100 copies with these special etchings. This rare edition is apparently a piracy printed in Alen?on of Burton?s first English translation. A bright, attractive copy.