Rare Books
 25 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Classified Collection of Tamil Proverbs
By Herman Jensen
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1897 Read More
 25 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Book :
The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago
By V. Kanakasabhai Pillai
Published by Asian Educational Services, Delhi Read More
 25 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific.
By Edward Balfour
Published by Bernard Quaritch, London - 1885 Read More
 22 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Secrets of the Great Mysteries now revealed for the first time.
A complete guide and reliable authority on all tricks.
Full explanation of how the various tricks are performed, with diagrams and illustrations written and published by the handcuff king, "Oudini."
Published ... Read More
 22 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Indian Conjuring
By Major L.H. Branson
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London - 1922 Read More
 22 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Masulipatam Consultation Book of 1682-83
Records of Fort St.George
Printed by The Superintendent, Government Press, Madras - 1916 Read More
 22 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Panchatantra
Volume I - V (In Sanskrit)
By Franz Kielhorn
Published by Government Central Book Depot, Bombay - 1885 Read More
 22 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Panchatantra - Text of Purnabhadra
Critical introduction and list of variants by Dr. Johannes Hertel
Published by Harvard University, Cambridge - 1912 Read More
 21 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Hand-Book of Benares
By Arthur Parker
Published by Travancore Government Press, Trivandrum - 1901

Image :
Rajrajeswuree Ghat, Benares - 1832

Plate 5 from the second part of James Prinsep's 'Benares Illustrated'. Prinsep (1799-1840), an antiquary and colonial admini... Read More
 20 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Mythology of all Races - Volume 6
Editor - Louis Herbert Gray
INDIAN Mythology by A. Berriedale Keith
Published Marshall Jones Company, London - 1916
In Thirteen Volumes Read More
 20 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
An Historical Account of the Settlement and Possession of Bombay by the East India Company and of the Rise and Progress of the War with the Mahratta Nation.
Printed by W.Richardson for J.Robson, Bookseller, London - 1781 Read More
 19 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Questions Of King Milinda
By T.W. Rhys David
Printed at The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1890

The Milinda Panha is an ancient and much venerated book of the Buddhists, indeed regarded so highly as to be included by the Burmese in the Pali Canon. In the Pali book it says... Read More
 19 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Book :
The Debate of King Milinda - an abridgement of The Milinda Panha
Edited by Bhikkhu Pesala
Previously Published by Inward Path, Penang • Malaysia Read More
 18 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
OPTIMISM - an Essay
By Helen Keller
Published by T.Y.Cromwell & Co., New York - 1903 Read More
 17 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Introduction to the study of Indian music - An attempt to reconcile modern Hindustani music with ancient musical theory and to propound an accurate and comprehensive method of treatment of the subject of Indian musical intonation.
By Sir Ernest Clements
Published by Longman... Read More
 15 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Treatise on the Epidemic Cholera as it has prevailed in India.
By Frederick Corbyn
Published by The Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta - 1832 Read More
 15 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Population
By Harold Wright
Preface by John Maynard Keynes
Published by Nisbet & Co., London - 1923 Read More
 15 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell
By Lew Wallace
Published by Harper & Brothers, London - 1893
In Two Volumes

This novel from Wallace, the writer of Ben-Hur, recounts events leading to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. The legendary wanderin... Read More
 14 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Court and Camp of Runjeet Sing
By W.G.Osborn
Published by Henry Colburn, London - 1840 Read More
 10 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Buddhist legend of Jîmûtavâhana : From the Kathâ-Sarit-Sâgara (the Ocean-river of story) dramatized in the Nâgânanda (the Joy of the world of serpents), a Buddhist drama by Srî Harsha Deva.
Translated from the Sanskrit by Rev. B. Hale Wortham
Published by George Routled... Read More
 9 Jan 2011 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
A Hand-Book of Hindu Pantheism : The Panchadasi of Sreemut Vidyaranya Swami
By Nandlal Dhole
Published by Heeralal Dhole, Calcutta - 1899

Vidyāraṇya also known as Mādhavācārya or Mādhava Vidyāranya is variously known as being a king maker, patron saint and high priest t... Read More