Tantrik Studies / Eastern Esoterica from Richard Bishop, Bookseller

Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 2002. Revised Enlarged Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Maroon cloth with yellow lettering to front and spine. 363 pages, plus 14 black and white plates at end of volume. Light rubbing to cloth. A few tiny pinholes to upper front of jacket and onto cloth of front board. Still a very good copy in like dust jacket.… Read more about this item

Delhi: Nag Prakashan, 2018. Third Edition. Hardcover. Royal octavo. xciv + 760pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. A large and heavy volume. Some light wrinkles to cloth (common with many Indian publications), a bit of rubbing to gilt on spine but appears to be an unread copy. Issued without dust jacket. Very good.… Read more about this item

New Delhi: D.K Printworld, 2016. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 206pp. Pictorial boards with matching dust jacket. Illustrated with 60 (mosty color) photographs. A near fine copy in like dust jacket. The Yoginis are awful expressions of the divine in feminine form of which evidence is found in Tantric contexts in both the Hindu and… Read more about this item

Varanasi: Prachya Prakashan, 2007. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii + 69 (preface & introduction), followed by the text in Sanskrit with English translation (paginated in Sanskrit numerals). Red cloth spine over yellow boards. A very good copy in like dust jacket. The Kaulajñ nanir aya is an important T ntric work belonging to the N tha tradition, supposed to… Read more about this item

Delhi: D.P.B. Publications, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Small, thick quarto (7.5 x 9.5 inches). Limited to 200 copies. 868pp. Pictorial boards (issued without dust jacket). Text in English and Sanskrit, with transliterations. Some b&w illustrations. Typical Indian production values. Some edge and corner wear to boards, a couple of dings to book edges at top and bottom. A very… Read more about this item

Varanasi: Chaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover in two volumes. Octavo. xxiii + 360; xi + 363 - 706pp. Both volumes bound in shimmering red silk-like material with gilt titles to front and spine. In the original dust jackets. Red page marker ribbon in each volume. Both volumes in very good or better condition in near fine dust… Read more about this item

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2011. Reprint. Hardcovers (2 volume set). Octavo. clxi + 470, 471 - 1046pp. Bound in red boards with gilt spine titles. A very good set of books in near fine, pictorial dust jackets. Classic work of Indian folk magic. Atharva-Veda means the Veda of the Atharvan or the Knowledge of Magic Formulas. The great importance… Read more about this item