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1973rif. B14882Wesleyan 1973-08-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Number 70 of a limited 435 copies bound specially for members of India House. Maroon boars with gilt lettering and slipcase. Book is in excellent condition text is unmarked and pages are tight. Slipcase has slight shelf wear. Wesleyan hardcover
1973rif. 316514Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1973. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated with twelve color plates and thirty-nine monochrome plates including the frontispiece. 4to maroon cloth top edge gilt board slipcase. 1 page creased. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1973. Second edition. Revised from the original 1935 edition. Near fine. Number 143 of four hundred thirty-five copies prepared for subscribing members of India House. Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1973rif. 1373067Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1973. Second Edition Limited Edition: 286/435. Hardcover. Quarto xliv 144 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus Slipcase. Slip case is burgundy and book spine is burgundy with gilt lettering. Slipcase has minor staining and some rubbing. Boards have some rubbing and a library identification on the spine. Ex-Library. NOTE: Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1373067. Special Collections. Wesleyan University Press hardcover books
1845rif. 24004London: Samuel Clarke 1845. First printing. pamphlet. Good overall. 8vo 118pp. Disbound but complete. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library with their stamp on the title page. An Indian murder tried under British law in which Parsi defendants were accused of murdering another Parsi adherents of Zoroastrianism in Bombay with a rapid and harsh sentence meant to instill fear of British law and punishment in the local people. The trial was held at the Supreme Court before the British Chief Justice of Bombay Sir Henry Roper. The all European jury produced a guilty verdict against ten of the eighteen with 8 acquitted. The Chief Justice sentenced 6 of the 10 to transportation for life to Singapore due to a mercy appeal from the jury but sentenced the remaining four to be hanged. OCLC: 563643483 2 copies British Library. Samuel Clarke unknown
rif. 0266768253.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. B9781016068222Hardback. New. hardcover
rif. 45417472-nnew. unknown
Thick 8vo, iv, [2], 589, 19, [1]pp., printed in double columns, text in English and Hindustani, cont. half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, spine chipped.
rif. 1020566817.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1905pp. iii, 421 +Plus 3 plates of B/W illustrations. 12mo. 210mm. Publisher's maroon cloth binding with cover stamped with white, gilt, black and blue. Cover illustration depicts the bust of a woman draped in white set inside of a gilt crescent moon with a blue floral motif with the head of an elephant. Cover designed by Amy Richards with her monogram. Spine lettered and decorated similarly. Colors on boards bright. Front board clean, rear board rubbed with moderate soiling. Spine rubbed and damp stained. Corners sharp. Front and rear hinges cracked but contents tight. Hardbound. Very Good. NW60
1908pp. 245, (4)[Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis. Top edge gold. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding embossed in gold. Very nice copy. OCC 9.
192925,9x18,7 cm; 73 (1) pp. Tre carte fuori numerazione. Brossura editoriale con titolo al piatto anteriore. Il volume parla delle avventure di Vasco da Gama così come descritte nel poema epico di Luis Vaz de Camões e delle obiezioni in merito da parte dell' Amm. della Marina Portoghese Gago Coutinho. Buono stato di conservazione.
1988rif. 75682new world press beijing 1988 111 pages poche. 1988. Broché. 111 pages.
rif. 119320Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1964, 220x145mm, XIV - 172pages, editor's binding with jacket.
1813In-8 p. (211x128), pieno vitellino coevo, decorazione con titolo oro su tassello al dorso (piatti staccati, boards detached), pp. VIII,508, con 2 carte geografiche. Viaggi di: John Eldred, Benjamin Wood, James Lancaster, Henry Middleton, Anthony Hippon. Con lievi fioriture, peraltro ben conservato (slightly foxed, otherwise good condition).
1992Light wear to DJ; Simultaneously lamenting and celebrating modern India's drive toward industrialization and the hoped-for prosperity, author Lewis turns his adept pen to the subcontinent ; 8vo; 322 pages
VG/VG near fine save for slight edge-rounding to dj on spine. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. clean attractive copy. well bound. 1st edition. Norman Lewis has already written two great travel books on South-east Asia: A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth, and now he completes his trilogy with A Goddess in the Stones. It was Lewis's belief that the old India described by early travellers remained to be re-descovered off the beaten track, and so he undertook a journey of 2,500 miles in search of this, starting in Bihar
First and only edition, small folio (305 x 190 mm), [12], xix, [1], 705, [1]pp., woodcut title page vignette in Arabic, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, several leaves folding, a couple of minor repairs to inner margin of title, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a handsome copy with text clean and fresh. This volume 'forms a complete treatise in itself, since the it exhausts the Science of Arabic Inflexion'?Preface. All published, the intended second volume of Arabic "syntax" never made it to print.
8vo, xv, [1], 232 pp., 4 engraved plates (1 of the Bengali Alphabet, 3 of Compound Consonants), original cloth, head and tail of spine worn, ink blot on upper cover.
2 Vols., small folio (305 x 190 mm), xxxiii, [3], 49-458; [4], 582, [2]pp., text in English and Persian, occasional marginal pencil notes, title page and terminal leaf to both volumes browned, staining to inner upper corner of leaves to start and end of volume two, later vellum-backed marbled boards, title in manuscript to spines. One of the most extensive Persian grammars written in English. "Matthew Lumsden (1777?1835), orientalist, was fifth son of John Lumsden of Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, and a cousin of Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden (1821?1896), army general. After education at King's College, Aberdeen, he went to India as assistant professor of Persian and Arabic in the College of Fort William, and in 1808 succeeded to the professorship. In 1812 he was appointed secretary to the Calcutta Madrasa, and superintended various translations of English works into Persian then in progress. From 1814 until 1817 he had charge of the East India Company's press at Calcutta, and in 1818 he became secretary to the stationery committee."?(Oxford DNB). Provenance: John L. Platts? signature in pencil to title page.
First edition, 8vo (230 x 145 mm), vii, [2], vi-xxviii, 427, [1]pp., some light spotting, rebound in half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, morocco title label. William Yates (15 November 1792 - 3 July 1845) was an English Baptist missionary and orientalist. After joining the Baptist Missionary Society he sailed for India and arrived in Calcutta in 1815. From there "He continued to Serampore to join William Carey (1761?1834), who had been sent out by the same society in 1792, and under his direction began to study Sanskrit and Bengali. Almost immediately he began to help with the mission's publications."?(Oxford DNB.)
rif. 86940Plate sizes are 100 × 150 mm three and 75 × 105 mm or the reverse eight; all are captioned in ink eight on the verso of the mount three on the photograph itself. All depict scenes of rural life most of them identifying Serajgunge in East Bengal. Images include 'Native fisherman' 'Native cobbler at work' 'Hindu holy man with his disciple' 'Wayside umbrella mender' scenes of boat-building and jute preparation and one captioned 'The creature making his creator! Idol making'. Apart from a small light stain to one mount they are all in fine condition. 11 items. unknown
rif. 1332301991.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 8185832013.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback