Rare Books
 29 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Si-yu-ki : Buddhist records of the Western world.
Translated from the Chinese of Hiuen Tsiang (A.D.629)
By Samuel Beal
Published by Trubner & Co. London - 1884
In Two Volumes Read More
 29 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of His Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline
By James Legge
(Published in Oxford, 1886) Read More
 28 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Valley of Kashmir
By Sir Walter Roper Lawrence
Published by Henry Frowde, London - 1895

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 27 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
An Essay on the Civilisations of India, China and Japan
By Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Published by J.M.Dent & Sons, London - 1914

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (August 6, 1862 - August 3, 1932), was a British historian and political activist. He led most of his life at Ca... Read More
 25 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Sketches of Christianity in north India
By Michael Wilkinson
Published by Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, London - 1844

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 24 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Shah Nameh of the Persian poet Firdausi
Translated by James Atkinson
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London - 1892

Image :
From a Shah Namah calligraphed in Shiraz, 1561/2
This painting, Kay Khusraw Reviews His Army—of ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on pape... Read More
 23 Dec 2011 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 Read More
 22 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Alberuni's India.
An account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of India about A.D. 1030.
By Dr. Edward C. Sachau
Published by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., London - 1910
In Two Volumes Read More
 22 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Al-Biruni
By Sayyid Hassan Barani
Published by Lucknow al-Nazir Yunus - 1915
In Urdu Read More
 22 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Thomas à Kempis : His Age and Book
By J.E.G. De Montmorency
Published by J.P.Putnam & Sons, New York - 1906 Read More
 21 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The secret rose garden of Sad ud din Mahmud Shabistari
By Florence Lederer
Published by John Murray, London - 1920

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Folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (d. 1390); recto: Sufi dance
Herat, Afghanistan

This illustration belongs to an early-sixteenth- ... Read More
 21 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Book :
Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis (South Asia)
By N. Hanif
Published by Sarup & Sons, New Delhi - 2000

Image :
Tomb of Shaikh Salim Chisti, Fatehpur Sikri - 1836
Source : V&A, London Read More
 21 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Historical sketches of the south of India, in an attempt to trace the history of MYSOOR, from the origin of the Hindoo government of that state, to the extinction of the Mohammedan dynasty in 1799
By Lieut. Colonel Mark Wilks
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, Londo... Read More
 20 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Sir Charles Napier
By Colonel Sir William F. Butler
Published by Macmillan & Co., London - 1890

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Sir Charles reviewing the Brigade at Barrackpore - May 1849
Color lithograph caricature by Black after Grant; bearded officer on horseback and with tropical helmet r... Read More
 19 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier
By Henry James Coleridge
Published by Burns & Oates, London -1881
In Two Volumes

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Tomb of St Francis Xavier in the Church of Bom Jesus, Goa - 1880 Read More
 19 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Portuguese Vocables In Asiatic Languages
By Anthony Xavier Soares
Published by Oriental Institute, Baroda - 1936

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Gama Pinto Car, Mapusa, Goa
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 19 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Portuguese in India: Being a history of the rise and decline of their Eastern Empire
By Frederick Charles Danvers
Published by W.H.Allen & Co., London -1894
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 19 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
An Historical Sketch of Goa, the Metropolis of the Portuguese Settlements in India.
By Denis Louis Cottineau de Klougen
Printed by William Twigg at The Gazette Press, Madras - 1831

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Goa Indiae Orientalis Metropolis
Pictorial map by Pieter Boudewyn van der Aa (fl. 1700-... Read More
 19 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Memoir on the affairs of the East-India Company
Printed by J.L. Cox, London - 1830

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Albumen print of a Government ceremony to witness the handing of the British Crown from the East India Company to her Majesty Queen Victoria. (1857), in Calcutta.

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 19 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A second letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, esq. : on the subject of the evidence referred to in the second report of the Select committee of the House of commons, appointed to enquire into the state of justice in the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orressa : With a... Read More
 19 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Reply to Mr. Burke's speech of the first of December, 1783, on Mr. Fox's East-India Bill.
By Major John Scott
Printed for J.Debrett, London - 1784 Read More