Rare Books
 22 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years, Begun 1672 and Finished 1681.
By John Fryer
Published by R. Chiswell, London - 1698

“Fryer was a surgeon in the service of the East India Company for nine years and traveled extensively on the Coroman... Read More
 22 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
India in the seventeenth century, as depicted by European travellers.
By Jagundra Nath Das Gupta
Published by The University of Calcutta - 1916

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La Ville de Suratte, dans l'Empire du Mogol

Engraving of the town of Surat by Pieter Boudewyn van der Aa (fl.1700-5... Read More
 21 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Temple Tiger and more Man-Eaters of Kumaon
By Jim Corbett
Published by Oxford University Press - 1954 Read More
 21 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
India and Tiger-Hunting
By Colonel Julius Barras
Published by Swan Sonenschein & Co., London - 1885

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Franz Ferdinand (18 December 1863-28 June 1914) was Archduke of Austria-Este, and from 1896 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Havi... Read More
 21 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Hunting Grounds of the Old World
By 'The Old Shekarry' Henry Astbury Leveson
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London - 1871 Read More
 20 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Remarks on certain dates occurring on the coins of the Hindu Kings of Kabul : Expressed in the Gupta era and in Arabic (or quasi-Arabic) numerals.
By Sir E. Cilve Bayley
Reprinted from The Numismatic Chronicle, London - 1882 Read More
 19 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Chanakya Sutram
By Ishwar Chandra Sharma Shastri
Printed at Siddeshwar Press, Calcutta - 1932
In Sanskrit Read More
 18 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan
By Arthur Crawford
With numerous illustrations by Horace Van Ruith
Published by Archibald Constable & Co., Westminster - 1897 Read More
 17 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
MADRAS IN THE OLDEN TIME : Being the History of the Presidency from the first foundation to the Governorship of Thomas Pitt, Grandfather of the Earl of Chatham, 1689-1702
Compiled from Official records by James Talboys Wheeler
Printed for J.Higginbotham, Madras - 1861
In Thre... Read More
 16 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Kathákoça or Treasury of Stories
Translated from Sanskrit by Charles Henry Tawney
Published by Royal Asiatic Society, London - 1895 Read More
 14 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Enchanted Parrot : Being a selection from the SUKA SAPTATI or The Seventy Tales of a Parrot
By B. Hale Wortham
Published by Luzac & Co., London - 1911

Śukasaptati, or Seventy tales of the parrot is a collection of stories originally written in Sanskrit. The stories are su... Read More
 14 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Rare books in city colleges to be digitised
By Deepti Khera
Hindustan Times, Mumbai, November 14, 2011

More than a century-old frayed rare books lying in some of the city’s oldest academic institutions are set to be digitally saved for posterity. In an effort to preserve some of the oldest a... Read More
 14 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Malati and Madhava or The stolen marriage - A Drama.
By Bhavabhuti - 8th Century AD
Translated from the original Sanskrit by Horace Hayman Wilson
Printed by H.C.Das, Elysium Press, Calcutta - 1901

The play is set in the city of Padmavati. The king desires that his minister's ... Read More
 13 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
With Sa'di in the Garden or The Book of Love.
Embodied in a dialogue held in the Garden of the Taj Mahal, at Agra
By Sir Edwin Arnold
Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston - 1888 Read More
 13 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Gulistan (Rose-Garden) of Shaikh Sa'di of Shiraz
By Francis Johnson
Published by Williams and Norgate, London - 1863

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Sa'di, Gulistan. This Persian text with the Ottoman commentary in the margins dates from the 15th century. It is written in prose interspersed with... Read More
 13 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry
Adapted by Captain Richard F. Burton
Published by Tylston and Edwards, London - 1883 Read More
 12 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S.
By his wife Isabel Burton
First edition of 1893 in Two Volumes.
London: Chapman and Hall

Sir Richard Francis Burton
(born March 19, 1821, Torquay, Devonshire, Eng. — died Oct. 20, 1890, Trieste, Austria-Hungary) Eng... Read More
 12 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Plain and Literal Translation of the ARABIAN NIGHTS' Entertainments - Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
By Richard Francis Burton
Published by The Burton Club, London - 1886
In Six Volumes Read More
 12 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Arabia, Egypt, India: Narrative of Travel
By Isabel Burton
Published by Willam Mullan & Son, London - 1879 Read More
 12 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
LECTURES ON THE PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATION OF THE
INDUS VALLEY
By Rao Bahadur K.N. Dikshitt, M.A., F.R.A.S.B.,
Director-General of Archaeology in India.
Published by G.S.Press, Madras - 11 November 1938 Read More
 11 Nov 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Religions of the Ancient World : Including Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome
By George Rawlinson
Published by Charles Scribners Sons, New York - 1883 Read More