Rare Books
 9 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
In the Heart of India : The beginnings of missionary work in Bundela Land, with a short chapter on the characteristics of Bundelkhand and its people, and four chapters of Jhansi history.
By James F. Holcomb and Helen H. Holcomb
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 8 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Iranian Influence on Medieval Indian Architecture
By Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi
Published by Aligarh Historians Society - 2002

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 7 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Architecture of Ancient Delhi : Especially the buildings around the Kutb Minar
By Henry Hardy Cole
Published by The Arundel Society, London - 1872

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 6 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Short History Of Muslim Rule In India
By Ishwari Prasad
Published by The Indian Press Ltd., Allahabad - 1931

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 4 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Razmnama
Volume 4 of Hendley's Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition
Published in 1883

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Karna Slays the Kaikeya Prince Vishoka

Razmnama is an abridged translation of the Mahabharata written... Read More
 1 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
On ancient Hindu astronomy and chronology
By Max Mueller
Printed at Oxford - 1862

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Portrait of the elderly Max Müller by George Frederic Watts, 1894-1895
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 1 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Translation from Sanskrit of the SURYA SIDDHANTA
by Pandit Bapu Deva Sastri
and of the SIDDHANTA SIROMANI
by Lancelot Wilkinson
Printed at The Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta - 1861

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 1 Sep 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
By Richard Anthony Proctor
Published by Longmans Green & Co., London - 1903

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 31 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Transits of Venus - A popular account of past and coming transits from the first observed by Horrocks A.D. 1639 to the transit of A.D. 2012
By Richard Anthony Proctor
Published by Longmans Green & Co., London - 1874

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 31 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Transit of Venus, Its Meaning and Use
By Thomas Hayward Budd
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1875

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 31 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde
Fait par ordre du roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus, sur le disque de soleil, le 6 juin 1761, & le 3 du même mois 1769.
By Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean Baptiste Le Gentil De La Galaisière,
Published 1779 by De l'imprimerie royale in Par... Read More
 31 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde
Fait par ordre du roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus, sur le disque de soleil, le 6 juin 1761, & le 3 du même mois 1769.
By Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean Baptiste Le Gentil De La Galaisière,
Published 1779 by De l'imprimerie royale in Par... Read More
 31 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Mémoires sur l'Indoustan, ou Empire Mogol
By Jean Baptiste Joseph Gentil
Published by Chez Petit, Paris - 1822
In French

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 30 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Catalogue of Indian Coins in the British Museum - The Mughal Emperors
Printed by the Order of The Trustees of The British Museum, London - 1892

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Gold coin
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 29 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Indian Money Market
By Krishna Kumar Sharma
Published by The Bangalore Printing & Publishing Society, Bangalore - 1934

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An interesting chapter on 'Indigenous Banking':

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 29 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Money, Banking and Exchange in India
By Herbert Stanley Jevons
Published by Superintendent, Government Central Press, Simla - 1922

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 28 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Revenue Resources of the Mughal Empire in India from A.D. 1593 to A.D. 1707
By Edward Thomas
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1871

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Attendants at an imperial durbar
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 28 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Ancient Double-Entry Bookkeeping.
Lucas Pacioli's treatise (A. D. 1494--the earliest known writer on bookkeeping) reproduced and translated with reproductions, notes and abstracts from Manzoni, Pietra, Mainardi, Ympyn, Stevin and Dafforne.
By John B. Geijsbeek
Published by the... Read More
 27 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Kautilya Arthashastra
Translated by R. Shamasastry
Printed at The Government Press, Bangalore - 1915

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 24 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Papers relating to the collection and preservation of the records of ancient Sanskṛit literature in India
By Archibald Edward Gough
Published by Office of Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta - 1878

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 21 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
CANAKYA-KATHA
With a Bengali translation by Satish Churn Law
With a prefatory note by Dr. Narendra Nath Law
Published by Baidyanath Dutt, Calcutta - 1921

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