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 14 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Story of the Telegraph in India
By Charles C. Adley
Published by E. & F.N. Spon, London - 1866

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 13 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
India through the Stereoscope : A journey through Hindustan
By James Ricalton
Published by Underwood & Underwood, London - 1907

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When our ancestors were yet savages, a Greek historian said that Egypt had more wonders than all the rest of the world. It is true that the ... Read More
 7 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A contribution to the history of India
By Robert Sewell

Translation of the "Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga" written by Domingos Paes and Fernão Nunes about 1520 and 1535, respectively, with historical introduction.

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 7 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga
By Fernão Nunes and Domingos Paes
Translated by David de Melo Lopes
Published by Imprensa Nacional, Lisboa - 1897
In Portuguese

The Chronica dos Reis Bisnaga or, Castilian, Chronicle of the Kings of Bisnaga, is a sixteenth century original compilat... Read More
 5 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Chaitanya's Life and Teachings : From his contemporary Bengali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita
Translated into English by Jadunath Sarkar
Published by M.C.Sarkar & Sons, Calcutta - 1922


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 4 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A History of the Holy Shrine of Sri Venkatesa in Tirupati
By S. Krishnasvami Aiyangar
Printed at Ananda Press, Madras - 1939


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 3 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
India Illustrated with Pen and Pencil
By William Urwick and Edward Payson Thwing
Published by Hurst & Company, New York - 1891

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 1 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs & Sayings - Explained and illustrated from the rich and interesting folklore of the Valley
By Rev. J. Hinton Knowles.
Published by Education Society's Press, Bombay - 1885

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 1 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
KASHMIR
Described by Francis Younghusband
Painted by Edward Molyneux
Published by Adam & Charles Black,, London - 1911


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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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 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 1


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 29 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Among the Himalayas
By Laurence Austine Waddell
Published by Archibald Constable & Co., London - 1899

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The grandest part of the grandest mountains on the globe has, strange to say, no book devoted to it, except one that was written about half a century ago. Since that... Read More
 26 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Climbing on the Himalaya and other mountain ranges
By J.Norman Collie
Published by David Douglas, Edinburgh - 1902

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' Let him spend his time no more at home, Which would be great impeachment to his age In having known no travel in his youth.' - Shakespeare.

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 25 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
An Account of the Ganges and Burrampooter Rivers
By James Rennell, Esq. F. R. S.
Communicated by Joseph Banks, Esq. P. R. S.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - 1781


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 24 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Hindus of the Himalayas
By Gerald D. Berreman
Published by University of California Press - 1963


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 24 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Journal of a tour through part of the snowy range of the Himala Mountains, and to the sources of the rivers Jumna and Ganges
By James Baillie Fraser
Printed for Rodwell and Martin, London - 1820


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 23 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The web of Indian life
By Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble)
Published by William Heinemann, London - 1906


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The woman pausing in the dying light to salute the river brings us to another such instance. There is nothing occult in the passion of Hindus for the Ga... Read More
 23 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Holy Himalaya - The religion, traditions, and scenery of Himalayan province (Kumaon and Garwhal)
By E. Sherman Oakley
Published Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, London - 1905


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 22 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
On the Edge of the World
By Edmund Candler
Published by Cassell and Company, London - 1919

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AMARNATH and Gangabal lie in the mountains at the back of Kashmir. Amarnath, the sacred cave, is twenty-three marches from Rawalpindi in the plains, and Gangabal, the sacr... Read More
 21 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Languages of the northern Himalayas, being studies in the grammar of twenty-six Himalayan dialects.
By Thomas Grahame Bailey
Published by Royal Asiatic Society, London - 1908


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 21 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Kulu and Lahoul
By Charles Granville Bruce
Published by Edward Arnold, London - 1914


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