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1930633031930. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. Palaeontologia Indica being Figures and Descriptions of the Organic Remains Procured During the Progress of the Geological Survey of India. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1930. New Series. Vol. XV: The Fossil Fauna of the Samana Range and Some Neighbouring Areas: Part VII. The Lower Eocene Corals. Plates XI to XVI. By J.W. Gregory. 4to. wrappers. Slight sun soil and light edgewear to wraps. Fine internally. Inscribed by the author at front wrap. unknown books
1930634011930. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. Palaeontologia Indica being Figures and Descriptions of the Organic Remains Procured During the Progress of the Geological Survey of India. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1930. New Series. Vol. XV: The Fossil Fauna of the Samana Range and Some Neighbouring Areas: Part I. An Introductory Note. Plates I to IV. By Lieut.-Colonle L.M. Davies. 4to. wrappers. Sun soil and light edgewear to wraps. Internally shallow creasing. Very good overall. Inscribed by the author at the front wrap. unknown books
1930634031930. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. Palaeontologia Indica being Figures and Descriptions of the Organic Remains Procured During the Progress of the Geological Survey of India. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1930. New Series. Vol. XV: The Fossil Fauna of the Samana Range and Some Neighbouring Areas: Part III. The Brachipoda. Plates V to VI. By Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood. 4to. wrappers. Touch of sun soil and wear to wrps. Internally fine. unknown books
1936634061936. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. Palaeontologia Indica being Figures and Descriptions of the Organic Remains Procured During the Progress of the Geological Survey of India. Calcutta: Government of India 1936. New Series. Vol. XXII No. 6. Plates I to V. A Permo-Carboniferous Fauna from South-West Persia Iran. By J.A. Douglas. 4to. wrappers. Mild soil sun and light wear to wraps which have separated from the text. Inscribed by the author at front wrap. unknown books
1937634081937. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. Palaeontologia Indica being Figures and Descriptions of the Organic Remains Procured During the Progress of the Geological Survey of India. Calcutta: Government of India 1937. New Series. Vol. XX No. 6. Plate I. The Mesozoic Brachiopoda of the Attock District by Helen M. Muir-Wood. 4to. wrappers. Sun soil slight wear to wraps; very good internally with shallow creasing. unknown books
16500Mary Pauline Jeffrey. Dr. Ida: India The Life Story of Ida S. Scudder. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company 1938. 212 pages. 8 x 6 in. Original blue cloth boards. Signed and inscribed by author on front end page. Frontispiece portrait of author and 18 other images throughout.<br/><br/>Biography of Ida Scudder pioneering woman physician who founded clinics and medical schools for women in India. Scudder was born in India to American missionaries and dedicated her life to the health of Indian women many of whom were reluctant to see male physicians. In 1899 she was one of the first women graduates from Cornell Medical College; and shortly after Scudder returned to India where she started a rural medical clinic for women only. Within two years she was treating thousands of patients. Few pages have corrections or annotations in ink. Very good. unknown books
197030482Bombay: Produced by the Directorate of Tourism Govt. of Maharashtra through Marg Publications 1970. n.ed. Loose plates in portfolio. Very good plates in a torn and worn portfolio. Unpaged 4 pp. 12 lvs. Illus. with 12 tipped-in color plates. 4to. Wonderful color photographs of the caves and architecture of Ellora. Produced by the Directorate of Tourism, Govt. of Maharashtra through Marg Publications unknown books
2010UKNICOM00FPPenguin Books 2010. Very Good. Knight India. Comfort and Joy. New York NY: Penguin Books 2010. 229pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Penguin Books paperback books
19831308928Delhi: Mittal Publications 1983. Hardcover. First Indian Reprint Octavo; VG/VG Hardcover; Cream spine with red text; Moderate shelf wear to covers fraying at head and tail edges of jacket chipping to corners dj price clipped at rear flap; Heavy wear to boards rubbing and blemishes along exterior surfaces bumping to corners; Binding slightly cocked; Toning to text block exterior and within pages text block clean map insert; 591 pp. 1308928. FP New Rockville Stock. Mittal Publications hardcover books
1600M13168Verona: Societatis Aspirantium cura 1600. 1600. Two parts in 1. Small 4to. xxiv 118 1 pp. Printer's woodcut device 5 snakes over landscape woodcut initials and tailpiece rear errata & colophon; old ink marginalia p.36 underlining pp. 97-99. Original vellum; lacks ties. Ownership inscription on title: Hugo De Salins Belnensis Doct. Med. d.1659 and another signature obscured. Bookplate of Château de Montrevost Cuisery France. EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WORK ON GOUT & RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: : HUGUES DE SALINS' COPY. First edition of this rare work on the nature cause and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and gout. The status of gout in the late sixteenth century was such that gout was said by Turberville to be found in "horses capons and falcons." p. 64. John Gerard's Herball 1597 stated that Gout-wort or Herba Gerardi was a native herb that could be used with some benefit supported further by Culpeper. According to Copeman Thomas Sydenham 1624-1689 suffered from gout and wrote the classic description of the disease and was the first to be able to differentiate between rheumatoid arthritis and gout. The present work was written decades earlier. Francesco India cites Galen Chap. 1 Ambroise Pare Chap. 12 and Jean Fernel Chapters 5 7 8. India makes two 15-page tables of causes which he uses to organize his data. <br /><br /> PROVENANCE: Hugues de Salins: The British Library catalogue lists a "Hugues de Salins; see: Jean Baptiste de Salins Defense du vin de Bourgogne 1704." This may be a descendent. See: Societe d'Histoire d'Archeologie et de Litterature de l'arrondissement de Beaune Memoires annee 1890 Volumes 15-16 Beaune 1891 pp. 75 177. Mentions the wife of Hugues de Salins as buried in 1626 and Hugues de Salins buried in 1659. <br /><br /> Francisci Indiae an Italian philosopher and physician who is little known wrote the present work and two others: Hygiphylus: sive de febre maligna dialogus 1593. Hygiophilvs Tertivs Vel De Symptomatvm Febri Malignae Svper 1599. See: Frederic Paulhan Catalogue des legs Gide & Teissier-Rolland 1892 p. 212. Showing a copy of Strabo's Strabonis rerum geographicarum libri XVII 1571 with the same provenance inscription is this book. This inscription must date prior to 1892. <br /><br /> Copeman W.S.C. A Short History of the Gout and the Rheumatics Diseases pp. 53 64. Locations: British Library; Edinburgh University; Middle Temple Library; Wellcome Library. Societatis Aspirantium cura, 1600. hardcover books
1881511291881. Analytical Study of Punjabi Law India. Tupper Charles Lewis Editor. Wilson J. Editor of Volume IV Walker T. Gordon Editor of Volume V. Punjab Customary Law. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing 1881-1885. 5 volumes. Quarto 10" x 6-3/4". Contemporary cloth gilt titles to spines. Moderate rubbing to boards heavier rubbing to extremities with chipping to spine ends some hinges cracked internally clean. Ex-library.Shelf labels to spines markings to endleaves small stamps to title pages. $450. Only edition. A region with sophisticated systems of law and government the Punjab region was gradually colonized by Great Britain during the eighteenth century. It remained part of the British Empire until the end of British rule in 1947. At this time the region was divided between India and Pakistan. As these volumes indicates the British recognized the sophistication and value of Punjabi law and took efforts to comprehend and adapt it to English law. Contents: I. A Selection from the Records of the Punjab Government II. Statements of Customary Law in Different Districts III. Questions on Tribunal and Local Custom: a Manual for the Use of Settlement Officers IV. General Code of Tribal Custom in the Sirsa District of the Punjab V. The Customary Law of the Ludhiana District. OCLC locates 27 copies. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:778. unknown books
1854511391854. London: Printed by J.H. Cox 1854. 3 vols. London: Printed by J.H. Cox 1854. 3 vols. India. East India Company. Clarke Richard Compiler. The Regulations of the Government of Fort William in Bengal In Force at the End of 1853; To Which are Added the Acts of the Government of India in Force in that Presidency. With Lists of Titles and an Index. Prepared Under the Authority of the Hon. The Court of Directors of the East-India Company. London: Printed by J.H. Cox 1854. 3 volumes. Quarto 8-1/2" x 10-1/2". Recent cloth gilt titles to spines endpapers renewed. Brief annotations in a few places interior otherwise clean. Ex-library. Small inkstamps to title pages. $750. Only edition. With a detailed analytical digest. Established by a Royal Charter in 1600 the British East India Company was granted a 21-year monopoly on all trade in the East Indies. Based in a series of fortified manufacturing and trading centers most notably Fort William in Bengal Fort St. George in Madras and the Bombay Castle the company evolved from a commercial venture to one that virtually ruled India as it acquired governmental legal and military functions. It was dissolved in 1858. Produced as an official record these volumes are a compilation of all regulations from 1793 to 1853 in force at Fort William. OCLC locates 6 copies. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School I:395. unknown books
1843WRCAM45615Bombay 1843. 108pp. Later black morocco gilt. Corners heavily rubbed; library markings. Front flyleaf detached. Text clean. Good plus. An early Indian imprint printed for the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society at the American Mission Press with text in both English and Marathi. Not in Diehl. Scarce - a search of OCLC turns up only three copies at Yale Oxford and the New York Public Library though this copy is marked as a Library of Congress duplicate. unknown books
192147647Calcutta: Printed at the Photo.-Litho. Office Survey of India 1921. Hardcover. Good. 6 45p. plus 8 leaves of maps partially colored; most folding. Cloth-backed boards with cloth backstrip title-label. 34cm. <br/><br/> Printed at the Photo.-Litho. Office, Survey of India hardcover books
192247648Calcutta: Printed at the Photo.-Litho. Office Survey of India 1922. Hardcover. Good. 6 48p. plus 8 leaves of maps partially colored; most folding. Cloth-backed boards with cloth backstrip title-label. 34cm. Institutional stamp on cover. Addenda and errata slips mounted on early page list of agents. <br/><br/> Printed at the Photo.-Litho. Office, Survey of India hardcover books
19629317With refence to Family Background Bombay: Allied Pub 1962. First edn. 8vo Pp. 242 adv. VG in dj. "Based on the case histories of 350 common prostitutes and 75 mistresses in Bombay City . primarily a study of the family background . Allied Pub unknown books
195088476Delhi: Printed at the United Press 1950. Paperback. Very Good. 8 pages of photos 15p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Cover scuffed. <br/><br/> Printed at the United Press paperback books
193283057Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1932. Hardcover. Good. folding maps xxiv 752p. Original cloth-backed boards. 23cm. Some fraying and splitting along joints. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Government of India Central Publication Branch hardcover books
19049958London: Heinemann 1904. Second impression the same year as the first. 8vo pp. 301. Bookplate a good tight copy. The author was a disciple of Swami Vivekananda and brought to the study of Indian life and literature a sound knowledge of Western education and social science. Heinemann unknown books
196074434Delhi: Ministry of Education 1960. Paperback. Good. photos index v 491p. Wrapper partially pasted down jacket over plain wrapper. 25cm. Jacket worn. Former owner's name. <br/><br/> Ministry of Education paperback books
19669668New York: Vantage Press 1966. 1st edition. INSCRIBED presentation copy. Lt orange cloth binding. Dust jacket. NF/VG. 95 1 blank pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/>Story of the author's stay travels in India and stay with the Raman. Inscribed by Angelo on the ffep dated 1968. Vantage Press hardcover books
8658BOSTON HOUGHTON 1985. OVER 100 COLOR PHOTOS FIRST EDITION FINE. F. BOSTON, HOUGHTON, 1985 unknown books
193555093Ranchi: Man in India" Office 1935. First Edition. With plates folding map. Pp. 4 iii-iv 320 1 xxxviii. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth. Minor rubbing at extremities else about fine. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf "To Prof Dr. Sir Arthur Keith . with the reverential regards of Sarat Ch. Roy 6-4-35. First Edition. With plates folding map. Pp. 4 iii-iv 320 1 xxxviii. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Abundantly illustrated work on the Hill Bhuiyas of the Orissa region of south central India. Uncommon. WIth an excellent presentation to British anatomist and physical anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith. Man in India" Office unknown books
1792245340Maestricht: Roux & Compagnie 1792. First edition was London 1791. With 2 large folding maps of south and southeast Asia the first encompassing the classical references in Robertson's text the second of the region according to Ptolemy. xii 501 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf and boards new endpapers. Bookplate. Very good. First edition was London 1791. With 2 large folding maps of south and southeast Asia the first encompassing the classical references in Robertson's text the second of the region according to Ptolemy. xii 501 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A translation into French of Robertson's Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India. Robertson was also the author of The History of America 1777. Lowndes 1571 Roux & Compagnie unknown books
1900316898London: Macmillan and Co 1900. New Edition in One Volume. With 42 Illus. ii 601pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters mottled brown calf and marbled boards green leather title label. Fine. New Edition in One Volume. With 42 Illus. ii 601pp. 8vo. Macmillan and Co unknown books