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In-8 p. (mm. 203x132), tela edit., pp. VI,334 + 32 (di pubblicita'), con 1 bella veduta inc. su legno al frontespizio e 1 pianta del Forte Agra, più volte ripieg. e f.t. Storia della rivolta indiana del 1857-58. Ben conservato.
22x14 cm. 22+521 pages. Gilt hardcover. Contains folded map and black-and-white plates. Cover is slightly dirty. Edges of book are stained. Small stamp on front white page and cover page. Pages are slightly yellowing. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boardsvery slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 206pp. The author explains the highest standard for human beings, the practice of the science of self-realisation, bhakti-yoga.
8vo., First Edition thus; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightl creased and frayed at edges. The memoirs of John Shipp, lieutenant in His Majesty's 87th Regiment, and a classic account of military life in India.
In 4° (32x25), p. 245. Numerose fotografie a colori e in b. e n. nel testo. Legatura editoriale. Sovracoperta. Ottimo esemplare.
in inglese in 16°, tela edit. con impressione oro al piatto ant., fregi e titoli oro al dorso, lievi tracce d'uso in cop., debolezza alle cerniere
Government of Karnataka 1976, In-4 relié pleine toile brique éditeur, 128 pages. Illustrations de Mario Miranda. Bon état.
Edizione del 1769 di questa celebre opera che conobbe diversi edizioni in tutto il XVIII secolo. Si tratta di una raccolta di aforismi morali raccolti dal libraio Robert Dodsley (1703-1764) sulla base di un antico manoscritto indiano di un bramino. In discrete condizioni ma completo. Copertina in piena pelle coeva con titolo e decorazioni in oro al dorso in discrete condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Rotture alle cerniere: piatto anteriore quasi staccato, posteriore restaurato. Legatura in buone condizioni. Pagine in buone condizioni con fioriture. In 24. Dim. 13,5x8,5 cm. Pp. XV+(1)+54+(6)+92Edition of 1769 of this famous work which was edited different times during the whole 18th century. It is a colelction of moral aphorisms collected by the librarian Robert Dodsley (1703-1764) based on an antique indian manuscript by a bramin. In fair conditions but complete. Full leather coeval cover with golden title and decorations in the spine slightly worn in the edges and spine. Cracks in the hidges: front plate almost detached, back plate restores. Binding in good conditions. Pages in good conditions with foxings. In 24. Dim. 13,5x8,5 cm. Pp. XV+(1)+54+(6)+92
xxiv, 315 pp. Complete with all five fold-out maps. VII black and white plates of numismatic coins and their monograms. "I am very glad that yet another Indian scholar has taken up the subject of the Indo-Greeks. Dr. Mohan's analysis brings to bear upon it a fresh approach and new interpretations. I commend his study to all students of the subject." - Foreword. Chapters include: North-West India or the Uttarapatha; The Peoples; Introduction to the Greco-Sunga Period; The Bactrian Greeks; Demetrius; Rise of the Sungas; Eukratides and his Successors; Menander; Menander's Successors. Unmarked with average wear to publisher's brown cloth. New pastedowns appear to have been applied inside each board, extending almost an inch onto free endpapers thus bolstering the hinges. A sound copy of this valuable reference. Book
8vo., Fourth Impression, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, top lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Patrick Gierth. Bright copy of the the author's first book, the first of his novels set in nineteenth-century India and first published in 1951. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
48 pages. Features: What's the Mainstream? - Who is in It?; Why the French Mistrust Us?; Not Enough Food for Too Many People in India; The Farmer - Key Man of India - photos; Two-Year-Olds are Very Smart; Fantastic color-photo ad for Collins & Aikman features model in field with pipers in background; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of William C. Bettendorf, Jr, Ann Foreman and M. Fillmore Harty, Jr.; Shaggy Englishman Story - British long-hairs are proud of setting a new tonsorial style - but the barbers are crying - with photos of Brian Jones, John Lennon, and others; Photos of Eight Riddles of Mankind; Of Youth and Health; Photos of fashions by Norman Norell and James Galanos; Sexy Marilynesque ad for the Downingtown Inn of Downington, PA; and more. Average wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
120 pages. Features: Robert McNamara Cover Photo; Many gorgeous color-photo fashion ads; One-page ad for soundtrack to movie "I Do! I Do!", starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston; Great ad for Sony Superscope tape recorders in children's birthday party scene; The Myths That Divide India and Us; The Prevalence of Hobbits - thirty years after they were invented by a bored Oxford don, the hobbits - "a benevolent, furry-footed people" - have taken a new generation by storm - illustrated article with photo of Tolkien; Are We On the Brink of Another Arms Race? - photo-illustrated article; The Two Extremes of Avant-Garde Music - Milton Babbitt and John Cage; Sauvage of Seventh Avenue - Jacques Tiffeau Understands Today - photo-illustrated article; Judge Botein - a Judge with 'Disciplined Indignation'; Lovely color-photo centerfold of Springmaid's Miss January, Martha Branch; Great nostalgic one-page color-photo ad for General Motors features photos of eight of their station wagons; A High School Principal Reports "The young... are going for uglification and unlovableness faster and faster"; Uncommone one-page color-photo ad for Mott's Figure Control Meals which are a 'wicked way to lose weight'; and more. Above-average external wear. Faint library stamp on first page. Covers almost loose. A worthy vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Cover art by Oscar Cahen featues sleeping hobo surrounded by birds and little girl; Could the Reds Cripple Canadian Industry? - photo-illustrated article on the threat posed by Communist Canadian labour leaders; Lady Who Has Lived - the extraordinary story of pianist Maryla Jonas, who crossed hell and high water to Carnegie Hall - and sudden fame, riches, and glory; Good News for Ulcer Sufferers - relief may be two years off; Personality - Old Camper - Taylor Statten uses his top-flight Ontario summer camps to train a new school of boys' workers - and even to finance a camp for street boys in far-off India; Why Not Build a Mud House? - author describes the amazing experience of living in her Indian mud house; Tricks of the Baseball Trade - article with photos of Jim Tabor, Clint Hartung and Carden Gillenwater; In Darkest Mexico - in filming 'The Macomber Affair', Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, and Robert Preston outsuffered the original Hemingway characters; Esther Williams provides her favourite laugh; Movie Reviews - with photos. Stories: Iron Man; Silent Partner; Party Line. Condensed Book - Mr. Adam (part 2 of 2) and more. Ads: Uncommon two-colour photo-illustrated ad inside front cover recruits student nurses across the country; Polaroid Visors; Vaseline Hair Tonic for women; Colour Carling's ad inside back cover promotes conservation of the small-mouthed black bass; Great vintage colour Coke ad on back cover features young lovely beckoning readers to join her on her patio for a cool drink. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound and pleasing vintage copy. Book
New York, Toronto, London, Manila, Macmillan, 1958. Un volume de format in 8° de X, 412 pp., illustré de nombreuses photographies en hors texte. Reliure de l'éditeur en pleine toile bleu-clair, titres en blanc. Jaquette imprimée. Bel état. Texte en anglais. Publié par le gouvernement indien.
8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full mid-brown crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE 'AKBAR' SEQUENCE COMPLETE. The 'Akbar' sequence of novels has a relatively complicated history. The first two volumes, 'The Near and the Far' and 'Prince Jali', were first published in 1929 and 1931 respectively. They were then reissued, together with the third volume 'Rajah Amar', as a collected edition titled 'The Root and the Flower' (1934) by which name the trilogy thus far is generally known. This omnibus edition adds the fourth volume 'The Pool of Vishnu' (1940) presenting the sequence as a whole for the first time. 'The conversation between the Guru and Mobarek…is of the most urgent contemporary significance as well as one of the perennial debates of mankind' (Concise Camb. Hist. Eng. Lit.). VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece and 4 coloured maps (2 folding); handsomely bound in burgundy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy.
VG/VG near fine. no inscriptions. not price-clipped. detailed analysis of gandhi, the british and the raj - was he really the moral and political hero of myth. a critical view of his legend - based on research
169, [1] pp.; 22 cm. Tela edit. con sovrac. Piccoli strappi e mancanze ai margini della sovrac. Buono
184pp.with illustrations + some plates out-of-text, 2nd edition, 18cm., illustrated softcover, in the series "The heritage of India series", M82903
420 pages. Index. "A Moslem world undergoing such varied, such extensive, such profound and such momentous changes is of supreme interest and concern to all Christendom. As a matter of fact, the attention of Christians is to-day riveted on Islam as at no time since the Moslem invasion of Europe." - from Foreword. Surely an interesting contrast to the Moslem world of today. Light wear. Modest age-toning to contents. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 517 pages.
London, Tract Society, s.d. ma inizi ‘900. In 8°pp.176n.Modesta Tela editoriale sbiadita e scambiata,con 16 Illustrazz.n.t. e f.t. tagli dorati.fioriture nelle pp.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Non comune atlante vintage anni 80 per viaggiare in India. Ottime condizioni
8vo., First Edition thus; white cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
