Digital Rare Book:
The Chronology of Ancient Nations - An English version of the Arabic text of the Athâr-ul-Bâkiya of Albiruni, or "Vestiges of the Past"
By Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biruni (973?-1048)
Translated by Dr.C.Eduard Sachau (1845-1930)
Published by W.H.Allen & Co., London - 1879
Tom Harper tells the story of the Klencke Atlas, one of the largest atlases in the world presented to Charles II by the Dutch merchant and scholar Johannes Klencke in 1660.
Out of British Library’s ‘banquet of maps’ the Klencke atlas of 1660 is surely the m...
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Digital Rare Book:
Eastman's Treatise on Counterfeit, Altered and Spurious Bank Notes
By H.G. Eastman
Printed by M.Niedner, Missouri - 1859
The extended title reads: "With unerring rules for the detection of frauds in the same, together with a history of ancient money, continental currency, ban...
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New Book:
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
By Peter Hopkirk
Published by Oxford University Press - 2001
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those e...
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Digital Rare Book:
MACHIAVELLI
Introduction by Henry John Cust (1861-1917)
The Art of War - Translated by Peter Whitehorne
The Prince - Translated by Edward Dacres
Published by David Nutt, London - 1905
Volume 1
Digital Rare Book :
The Art of War : The oldest military treatise in the world
By Sun Tzu ( 6th Century B.C. )
Translated from the Chinese with introduction and critical notes by Lionel Giles.
Published by Luzac & Co., London - 1910