Rare Books
 30 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
...Oh yes! Today happens to be the third anniversary of the Rare Book Society of India!

RBSI was conceived on this very page three years ago...

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 28 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
From Taj-Mahal to the Golden Gate
By Eugenie H. Schroeder
Published by Melvin & Murgotten, California - 1913


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 26 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508
Translated from the original Italian edition of 1510, with a Preface by John Winter Jones and Edited by George Percy Badger
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 25 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Itinerary of Ludovico Di Varthema of Bologna (Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema Bolognese) from 1502 to 1508

"Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna has left us an account of India and Burma from the very first decade of the sixteenth century, prior to the largescale of the Firs... Read More
 19 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Durga Puja - With Notes and Illustrations
By Pratapchandra Ghosha
Printed at The Hindu Patriot Press, Varanasi - 1871

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Goddess Durga slaying Mahishasura
Calcutta, 1860

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 18 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
On Dengue : Its History, Pathology, and Treatment
By Samuel Henry Dickson
Published by Haswell, Barrington & Haswell, Philadelphia - 1839

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 18 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Malaria, Influenza and Dengue
By Dr.Julius Mannaberg and Dr.O. Leichtenstern
Published by W.B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia - 1905

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 18 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Ancient Indian Historical Tradition
By Frederick Eden Pargiter
Published by Humphrey Milford, London - 1922

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 16 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Adventures of Akbar
By Flora Annie Webster Steel
Published by Frederick A.Stokes & Co., New York - 1913

PREFACE

This book is written for all little lads and lasses, but especially for the former, since it is the true - quite true - story of a little lad who lived to be, ... Read More
 15 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Poison Tree - A tale of Hindu life in Bengal
By Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Preface by Edwin Arnold
Published by T.Fisher Unwin, London - 1884

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 15 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Kapalakundala
By Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Published by Varanasi Hindi Prachar Pustakalaya
In Hindi

Kapalkundala (1866) is Chattopadhyay's first major publication. The heroine of this novel, named after the mendicant woman in Bhavabhuti's Malatimadhava, is modelled partl... Read More
 14 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
The BANDEMATARAM Album was published in Cawnpore (Kanpur) in 1923 by Shiva Narayan Mishra Vaidya of Prakash Pustakalaya. This extremely rare book contains rare and beautiful paintings by K. Tejendra Kumar Mitra.

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 14 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Bankim Tilak Dayananda
By Sri Aurobindo
Published by Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry - 1940

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Mother, I b... Read More
 9 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Trattati di mascalcia attribuiti ad Ippocrate
Book on Horses and Veterinary Medicine
By Moses of Palermo, 13th century
Published by Presso Gaetano Romagnoli, Bologna - 1865
In Italian

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 7 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
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 1 Oct 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Guide to Training and Horse Management in India - With a Hindustanee stable and veterinary vocabulary and the Calcutta Turf Club tables for weight for age and class
By Horace Mathew Hayes
Published by Thacker, Spink & Co., London - 1878

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 30 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Bṛihat Saṃhitâ of Varaha Mihira
By N. Chidambaram Iyer
Printed at The South Indian Press, Madura - 1884

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 29 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
More tramps abroad
By Mark Twain
Published by Chatto & Windus, London - 1897

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Portrait of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
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 28 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
DASARUPAKA - A Treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy
By Dhananjaya
Translated by George C.O.Haas
Published by Columbia University Press, New York - 1912

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 27 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Kalpa Sutra and Nava Tatva - Two works illustrative of the Jain religion and philosophy.
By John Stevenson
Published by Bernard Quaritch, London - 1848

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Mahavira Plucks Out His Hair
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 26 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Enchanted Parrot - Being a selection from the "Suka Saptati", or, The Seventy Tales of a Parrot
Translated from the Sanscrit text by B. Hale Wortham
Published by Luzac & Co., London - 1911

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