GOOD CONDITION
This sale is for a
vintage edition entitled “The Perfumed
Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi,” translated into English by Sir Richard Burton, edited, with an
Introduction and Additional Notes by Alan Hull Walton.
It was published
by Granada Publishing Limited, of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1980 and is a
reprint of one of their “Panther” paperback publications.
The Perfumed Garden – for the Repose of the Mind also known as The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight is the classic work of
Arabian erotology. It was written by
Sheikh Nefzawi, in the fifteenth century (probably between 1410 and 1434) and
was banned and suppressed, yet it is a uniquely humorous collection of ancient
folk tales and sound advice meriting its own place in world literature.
The burning of Sir
Richard Burton’s revised version by his wife Isabel is one of the most
notorious incidents in literary history.
Shaykh or Sheikh
Nefzawi or Nefzaoui, in full, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi (or Abu Abdullah
Muhammad ben Umar Nafzawi). His work first
became widely known in the English speaking world through this 1886 translation
into English by British explorer, Sir Richard Francis Burton.
The contents
include:
·
Introduction
by Alan
o
The
Story of the Book
o
The
Matter and the Manner
o
The
Garden and Other Manuals
o
Conclusion
…and more…
·
Select
Bibliography
·
Prefatory
Note
·
Notes
of the Translator Respecting the Sheikh Nefzaqui
The
·
Introduction:
General Remarks About Coition
·
Concerning
Praiseworthy Men
·
Concerning
Women Who Deserve to be Praised
·
About
Men Who Are to be Held in Contempt
·
About
Women Who Are to be Held in Contempt
·
Concerning
Everything That is Favourable to the Act of Coition
·
The
Sundry Names Given to the Sexual Parts of Man
·
Sundry
Names Given to the Sexual Organs of Women
·
On the
Deceits and Treacheries of Women
·
Concerning
the Causes of Enjoyment in the Act of Generation
·
Concerning
the Causes of Impotence in Men
·
Prescriptions
for Increasing the Dimensions of Small Members, and for Making Them Splendid
·
Of
Things That Take Away the Bad Smell from the Armpits and Sexual Parts of Women,
and Contract the Latter
·
Instructions
with Regard to Pregnancy, and How the Gender of the Child That is to be Born
May be Known, That is to Say, Knowledge of the Sex of Foetus
…and more…
The book measures 7
inches x 4.5 inches x 0.8 inches and has 271 pages.
The book is in good,
internally neat condition for a softback of its age, with creased corner tips
to the cover and a little fading to the pages with a little light foxing inside
the covers. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings
in the book. The binding is good with a
crease along the spine and no loose or missing pages.
A good, neat copy
of this vintage edition.
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