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 8 Oct 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Cattle of Mysore
By A.Kristnasamiengar and Captain H.T.Pease
Published by The Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta - 1912

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 8 Oct 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Indigenous Breeds of Cattle in Rajputana
By Major F.S.H.Baldrey
Published by The Superintendent Government Printing, Bombay - 1911

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 7 Oct 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Breeds of Indian Cattle, Bombay Presidency
By K.Hewlett
Published by The Superintendent Government Printing, Bombay - 1912

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 21 Sep 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
GAJASIKSA
By Naradamuni
Edited by E.R.Sreekrishna Sarma
Published by The Oriental Research Institute, Tirupati - 1975
In Sanskrit

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Caparisoned Elephant with a Mahout, dated 1761
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 21 Sep 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Ivory King : A popular history of the elephant and its allies
By Charles Frederick Holder
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons - 1902

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 21 Sep 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Anatomy of the Indian elephant
By Louis Compton Miall and F. Greenwood
Published by Macmillan & Co., London - 1878

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Drawing of an Elephant, c. 1700
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 11 Aug 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in connection with medicine, botany, pharmacy, etc
By John Martin Honigberger (1795-1869)
Late Physician to The Court of Lahore
Published by H.Bail... Read More
 17 May 2014 Rare Paintings
Painting; gouache on mica, This painting depicts a Pink lotus (nymphaea), Trichinopoly, ca.1860

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 4 May 2014 Article/Essay
Article:
Vultures continue to give a miss to a temple in Tamil Nadu
Deccan Herald, May 03, 2014

Some 14 years ago, newspapers published a report stating sick vultures were being taken by an Indian Airlines flight from Jaipur to Mumbai for finding out the reason, why most of the vultures in India... Read More
 28 Apr 2014 Rare Paintings
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Beast and Man in India - A popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people
By John Lockwood Kipling, C. I. E.
Published by Macmillan and Co., London - 1904 Read More
 28 Apr 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Beast and Man in India - A popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people
By John Lockwood Kipling, C. I. E.
With illustrations
Published by Macmillan and Co., London - 1904

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 15 Mar 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Piccola Enciclopedia Indiana
By Angelo De Gubernatis
Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Literature, Florence
Published by M.Cellini, Firenze (Florence) - 1867
In Italian

Count Angelo de Gubernatis (1840–1913), Italian man of letters, was born at Turin and educated there and... Read More
 5 Mar 2014 Rare Paintings
"Papaver somniferum. Poppy-white or opium"

Coloured Print - 1853
By: M. A. Burnett after: Gilbert T. Burnett
Published: James Sangster & Co., London

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 10 Jan 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825 (with notes upon Ceylon), an account of a journey to Madras and the Southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India.
By the late Right Rev. Reginald Heber
Published by John... Read More
 10 Jan 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825 (with notes upon Ceylon), an account of a journey to Madras and the Southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India.
By the late Right Rev. Reginald Heber
Published by John... Read More
 17 Dec 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus
By Hendrik van Rheede
Published by Johann van Someren, Amsterdam: 1678-1693
In Latin

Hortus Malabaricus (meaning "Garden of Malabar") is a comprehensive treatise that deals with the medicinal properties of the flora in the Indian state of Kerala. Ori... Read More
 21 Nov 2013 Rare Paintings
Man feeding an elephant. Single-page painting mounted on detached album folio. Man feeds elephant chained to a post; sparse green-yellow background; red border outlined in gold and containing scrolling leaf design. No text.
Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper.

Mughal Style
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 10 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
The Nilgai
By George Stubbs

1769
Oil on canvas, 62.3 x 73 cm

Collection: Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow Read More
 10 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Rhinoceros
By George Stubbs

1790–1792
Oil on canvas, 70 x 92 cm

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 10 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
A Blackbuck
By George Stubbs

1770–1780
Oil on canvas, 61 x 70.8 cm

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 29 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains and of the flora of Cashmere
By J. Forbes Royle
Published by William H.Allen, London - 1839
Volume 2


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