Rare Books
 21 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Rare Books for Beginners

This section of the National Library of Scotland's website gives you some useful information if you have no previous experience with rare books. It tells you what kind of books are rare, how to treat them and how to buy and sell rare books.

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 20 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Promotion of learning in India by European settlers (up to about 1800 AD)
By Narendra Nath Law
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1915 Read More
 19 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
CHESS - Theory and practice : Containing the laws and history of the game.
By Howard Staunton
Published by Virtue & Co., London - 1876 Read More
 19 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Local Government in Ancient India
By Radhakumud Mookerji
Printed at The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1919 Read More
 18 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Ardha-Magadhi Dictionary
By A.C. Woolner
Published by Sardarmal Bhandari for S.S. Jaina Conference, Indore - 1927 Read More
 18 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India
By Vincent Arthur Smith
Printed at The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1920 Read More
 18 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Notes of a tour from Bangalore to Calcutta - Thence to Delhi, and, subsequently, to British Sikkim during the early part of 1867
By Major George Ernest Bulger
Printed at The Regimental Press, Secunderabad - 1869

Image : Map of India - 1867 Read More
 16 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Kautilya Arthashastra
Translated by R. Shamasastry
Published by Government Press, Bangalore - 1915
Image : The original manuscript of Arthashastra.

The Oriental Research Institute was set up in 1891, as the Mysore Oriental Library. It housed thousands of Sanskrit palm-leaf ma... Read More
 16 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Aristotle's Politics
Translated by Benjamin Jovett
Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1908 Read More
 15 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A History of the Indian Nationalist Movement
By Sir Verney Lovett
Published by John Murray, London - 1920 Read More
 15 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Nationalism in Hindu Culture
By Dr.Radhakumud Mookerji
Published by Theosophical Publishing House, London - 1921 Read More
 15 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Sedition Committee Report 1918
President - Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt
Published by The Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta - 1918

Sir Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt KC KCSI PC (20 July 1862 - 1 March 1945) was an English lawyer and judge, best remembered for his cont... Read More
 15 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Our Earliest Attempt at Independence
By Bhai Paramanand
Published by The Hindu Outlook, New Delhi - 1923 Read More
 14 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Letters from India : Describing a journey in the British dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore and Cashmeer during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831.
Undertaken by order of the French Government by Victor Jacquemont
Published by Edward Churton, London - 1835
In Two Volumes

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 14 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Louvre - Fifty plates in colour
By Paul George Konody
Published by Dodge Publishing Co., New York - 1911 Read More
 14 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Louvre
By E.E.Richards
Published by Small, Maynard & Co., Boston - 1912

Image credit :
Juan Salmoral Read More
 14 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
History of the French in India, from the founding of Pondicherry in 1674 to the capture of that place in 1761.
By George Bruce Malleson
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1868 Read More
 4 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Literary works of Leonardo da Vinci
Compiled and edited from the original manuscripts
By Jean Paul Richter
Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London - 1883 Read More
 3 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Wooden Ship-Building
By Charles Desmond
Published by The Rudder Publishing company, New York - 1919 Read More
 2 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
John James Audubon the Naturalist - A History of his life and time
By Francis Hobart Herrick
Published by D. Appleton-Century Co., London - 1938 Read More
 2 Aug 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Unique First Folio
By H.C. Folger Jr.
With photographs by George Dupont Pratt.
Published 1907 by The Outlook in New York . Read More