Rare Books
 7 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Observations on the Neilgherries - Including an account of their topography, climate, soil, & productions, and of the effects of the climate on the European constitution. ILLUSTRATED.
By William Hunter Smoult and Robert Baikie
Printed at The Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta - 1... Read More
 6 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
An extremely scarce book...

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Spicilegium Neilgherrense or a selection of NEILGHERRY PLANTS - Drawn and coloured from nature, with brief descriptions of each ; some general remarks on the geography and affinities of natural families of plants, and occasional notices of their eco... Read More
 5 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis or FIGURES OF INDIAN PLANTS
By Robert Wight
Published by J.B.Pharoah, Madras - 1840
In Six Volumes. Richly Illustrated.

Robert Wight went to India in 1819 as the first assistant surgeon and later full surgeon of the 33rd Regiment of Native In... Read More
 4 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Another important milestone for RBSI as its membership touches 20,000 today!

It is an interesting coincidence to note that we touched 10,000 almost the same time last year.

Thank you all for your continued interest and enriching participation.

And it is indeed gratifying to discover that there... Read More
 4 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History Of The Rashtrakutas (Rathodas)
By Pandit Bisheshwar Nath Reu
Published by The Archaeological Department, Jodhpur - 1933

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Dherwada Cave Temple, Ellora - 1895

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 4 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
On the Bakhshali Manuscript
By August Frederich Rudolf Hoernle
Published by Alfred Holder, Vienna - 1887

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Review: G. R. Kaye, The Bakhshâlî Manuscript— A Study in Mediaeval Mathematics
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 3 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
THE INDIAN CALENDAR - With tables for the conversion of Hindu and Muhammadan into A.D. dates, and vice versa
By Robert Sewell and Sankara Bâlkrishna Dîkshit
With tables of eclipses visible in India, by Dr. Robert Schram.
Published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., London -... Read More
 2 Aug 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, from the Sanscrit of Brahmegupta and Bháscara.
Translated by Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Published by John Murray, London - 1817

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 31 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Where No Fear Was - A book about fear
By Arthur Christopher Benson
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London - 1914

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 31 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage - An account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement.
By Walter B. Cannon
Published by D.Appleton & Co., New York - 1915

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 30 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Tamil Studies, or Essays on the History of the Tamil people, language, religion and literature
By Muttusvami Srinivasa Aiyangar
Printed at The Guardian Press, Madras - 1914

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 26 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Mathematicians Miscellany
By John Edensor Littlewood
Published by Methuen & Co., London - 1953

I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I... Read More
 26 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Mathematicians Apology
By G.H.Hardy
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge - 1967

I have never done anything useful. No discovery of mine has made or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or for ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.... Read More
 25 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Booklover and his Books
By Harry Lyman Koopman
Published by The Boston Book Company, Boston - 1917

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 24 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Tracts, historical and statistical, on India: With Journals of several tours through various parts of the Peninsula
By Benjamin Heyne
Published by Robert Baldwin, London - 1814

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 24 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Catalogue of Plants in the Botanical Garden (Lalbagh) in Bangalore, and its vicinity.
By John Cameron
Published by Mysore Government Central Press, Bangalore -1891

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 22 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Mughal Empire From Babar To Aurangzeb
By S.M. Jaffar
Published by S. Muhammad Sadiq Khan, Peshawar - 1936

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ONE should not raise one's pen to write history unless one is equipped wi... Read More
 22 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Book:
NEEM: A tree for solving global problems
Report of an ad hoc panel of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council
Published National Academy Press, Washington - 1992

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 21 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Medicinal Plants
By Lieut.Col. K.R.Kirtikar and Major B.D. Basu
Published by Surendranath Basu, Panini Office, Allahabad - 1918

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 21 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs: With their names in the Hindustani and Sanscrit languages
By John Fleming
Published by A.H.Hubbard, Calcutta - 1810

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 20 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Book:
Depiction of Middle Classes in Mughal Miniatures
By Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi

A study of the Mughal society with the help of the Mughal miniatures. The paper tries to analyse the various elements of Mughal society which can be nomenclated as comprising the middle classes like the phys... Read More