Rare Books
 19 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Mr. Burke's speech, on the 1st December 1783 : Upon the question of the speaker's leaving the chair, in order for the House to resolve itself into a committee on Mr. Fox's East India Bill.
Printed for J.Dodsley, London - 1784

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Detail of a portrait of Edmund Burke... Read More
 17 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Atheism And Arithmetic, Or, Mathematical Law In Nature: Arithmetic In Plants And Planets, Mathematics In Musical Science, Number In Vital Action
By Horace Lorenzo Hastings
Published by Bagster & Sons, London - 1889 Read More
 17 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Sarva Darsana Samgraha
or Review of Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy
By Madhava Acharya
Translated by E.B. Cowell and A.E. Gough
Published by Trubner & co., London - 1882

Carvaka’s philosophy developed at a time when religious dogma concerning our knowledge of re... Read More
 17 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Origin of Species
By Charles Darwin
Published by P.F. Collier & Son, New York - 1909

Book description :
The publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years... Read More
 17 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Necessity of Atheism
By David Marshall Brooks
Published by Freethought Press Association, New York - 1933

Book description :
Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox ... Read More
 17 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Theism or Atheism : Which is more reasonable?
A Public Debate between Mr.W.T. Lee and Mr.G.W. Foote held in Temperance Hall, Derby May, 1895
Published by R. Ford, London - 1896 Read More
 17 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Natural History of Atheism
By Professor John Stuart Blackie
Published by Scribner, Armstrong & Co., New York - 1878 Read More
 16 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Romance of an Eastern Capital
By Francis B. Bradley-Birt
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London -1906 Read More
 16 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
DACCA
By Basil Copleston Allen
Published by The Pioneer Press, Allahabad - 1912

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The City of Dacca viewed from the River Buriganga - 1861
By De Fabeck, Frederick William Alexander
Source : V&A, London Read More
 15 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Majma-ul Bahrain or The Mingling of Two Oceans
By Prince Muhammad Dara Shikuh
Edited and translated from Persian by Mahfuz-ul-Haq
Published by The Asiatic Society, Calcutta - 1929

Dara Shikoh is widely renowned as an enlightened paragon of the harmonious coexistence of hetero... Read More
 15 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Life and Letters under the Mughals
By Dr.P.N. Chopra
Published by Ashajanak Publications, New Delhi - 1975

Introduction :
"India inherits an ancient civilization which is the result of diverse forces operating for many millenniums. Many races Greeks, Sakas, Pallavas, Ku... Read More
 13 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Later Mughals
By William Irvine
Edited by Jadunath Sarkar
Published by M.C.Sarkar & Sons, Calcutta - 1922
Volume 1 : 1707 - 1720
Volume 2 : 1719 - 1739

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Painting; Watercolour on ivory, Farrukhsiyar (1713-19), Delhi, ca.1850
V&A, London Read More
 12 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Handbook for Visitors to Dehli and Its Neighborhood
By Henry George Keene
Published by Thacker, Spink & Co., Bombay - 1882 Read More
 12 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Narrative of the visit to India of their majesties, King George V. and Queen Mary, and of the coronation durbar held at Delhi - 12th December, 1911
By Sir John Fortescue
Published by Macmillan & Co., London - 1912

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King George V (1865 - 1936) and Queen Mary (1867 - 195... Read More
 11 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The King Emperor and his Dominions.
Souvenir of the Coronation Durbar of H.I.M. George V, Delhi, December 1911.
With the compliments of Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London - 1911

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Portrait of H.M. King George V at Delhi
Original watercolor signed and dated by Cla... Read More
 11 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Coronation Durbar - Delhi 1911
Official Directory with Maps
Printed by The Superintendent Government Printing India, Calcutta - 1911 Read More
 10 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Brief History of the Rocket
By Bernard Lubarsky

Paper outlining the history of the rocket from its introduction by the Chinese, over 1000 years ago, through its employment as a weapon of war in India, to experiments with the rocket as a method of inter-planetary travel. Thi... Read More
 9 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Peter Parley's Tales about Great Britain
By Peter Parley (pseudonym)
Printed for Thomas Tegg, London - 1845

Samuel Griswold Goodrich (August 19, 1793 – May 9, 1860) was an American author, better known under the pseudonym Peter Parley. His series, beginning in 1827 under the... Read More
 8 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Official documenst relative to the negotiations carried on by Tippoo Sultaun with the French Nation and other Foreign States, for the purposes hostile to the British Nation; to which is added, Proceedings of a Jacobin Club formed at Seringapatam, by the French soldiers in the ... Read More
 8 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Narrative sketches of the Conquest of the Mysore : Effected by the British Troops and their allies, in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory. Collected from authentic materials.
Printed by W. Justins... Read More
 7 Dec 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Symbolism of the East and West
By Murray-Aynsley
Introduction by Sir George Birdwood
Published by George Redway, London - 1900 Read More