Category: South & Southeast Asia
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Palamau District Gazetteer (Bengal, India)
by
Price: US $19.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
The hardcover printed front is the title page of this statistical compendium, a credit to the British Raj in India that they so thoroughly documented ... Details
The Book of Indian Birds
by Ali, Salim
Price: US $50.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Handsome dark green cloth with a bird in gilt on the front and bright gilt title on the unfaded spine. Rebacked. This book is notorious for falling ... Details
A Journey Over Land to India, Partly by a route Never Gone Before by any European
by Campbell, Donald
Price: US $1150.00
Binding: 3/4 Leather
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: 3/4 Leather
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Original boards covered with well rubbed marbled paper. More recent 20th Century brown leather spine and corners in very good plus condition. Insid... Details
Abdication
by Candler, Edmund
Price: US $20.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
This is a hardback binding of the Turtle Point paperback, in terra cotta spine with very pretty terra cotta handmarbled boards and matching endpapers.... Details
Glowering Trees and Shrubs in India
by Cowen, D.V.
Price: US $19.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Original orange cloth witha brown title on the front and the spine. Very slight edgewear. This is a revised second edition, with new information add... Details
White Mughals
by Dalrymple, William
Price: US $39.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Subtitled, "Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century India". Pages xlviii, 459. The superlative British travel writer, Wm Dalrymple turns his talent... Details
India in the Seventeenth Century as Depicted By European Travellers
by Das Gupta, J.N.
Price: US $75.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
A very scarce study of the early years of the East India Co., early English voyages, and early settlements in Bengal. Pages 251. Almost very good in... Details
The International Numismata Orientalia, On the Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon
by Davids, T.W. Rhys
Price: US $250.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fair
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fair
Edition: First Edition
A SCARCE title in its original cloth binding with a gilt title on the front. The cloth is faded and stained. It is also some loose on the boards, wi... Details
India Illustrated, an Historical and Descriptive Account
by Gilbert, Linney
Price: US $240.00
Binding: 3/4 Leather
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: 3/4 Leather
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Very good contemporary 3/4 dark green morocco with all edges gilt, marbled boards and marbled endpapers. No prior owner marks and no foxing or stains... Details
Bengal: The Nationalist Movement 1876 -1940
by Gordon, Leonard A.
Price: US $18.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
The interplay of Indian nationalism and Bengali regionalism, including East Bengal which is now independent Bangladesh. Thoroughly covers Bengali a... Details
The Indian Style
by Head, Raymond
Price: US $19.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
"In a magnificent cultural tour, the author documents toe continuous influence of Indian architectural and decorative style on the European sensibilit... Details
Interesting Historical Events, Relative to the Provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan, 3 volumes
by Holwell, J.Z. (John Zephaniah
Price: US $600.00
Binding: Full-Leather
Book Condition: Very Good
Binding: Full-Leather
Book Condition: Very Good
Title continued, "With a Seasonable Hint and Perswasive to the Honorable The Court of Directors of the East India Company. As Also The Mythology and ... Details
Annals of Rural Bengal
by Hunter, W. W. (of the Bengal Civil Service)
Price: US $160.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
This is volume one of a projected two volumes, complete in itself, and subtitled, "The Ethnical Frontier of Lower Bengal with the Ancient Principaliti... Details
Delhi Agra Fatehpur Sikri
by Hurlimann, Martin
Price: US $15.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Now becoming SCARC. Translated from German by Jean Carroll and Isobel Hatton. Pages 150, and still a fine guide to Agra, and Fatehpur Sikri, must st... Details
An Historical Guide to the Agra Fort - based on Contemporary Records
by Husain, Muhammad Ashraf
Price: US $29.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Protected in Mylar
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Protected in Mylar
Edition: First Edition
Splendid copy, original hard cover boards and cloth spine. Printed title on the front cover with only a hint of edgewear. Inside is very clean and ... Details
Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture, 2 Volumes, South India, Lower Dravidadesa
by Meister, Michael (editor)
Price: US $98.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
A definitive study of South India Temple architecture. One volume is exclusively photos with text to explain them. The thicker volume is text and a... Details
The Royal Palaces of India
by Michell, George
Price: US $45.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
An exceptional copy of Indian palaces, their courtly life and architecture, and the historical and regional traditions of the buildings. Pages 232 wi... Details
Temptations of the West
by Mishra, Pankaj
Price: US $15.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Subtitled, "How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond". Judged by the N.Y. Times to be one of the ten best books of 2006. As new copy ,... Details
The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan 1947-2008
by Niaz, Ilhan
Price: US $25.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
This book , unfortunately, documents failed governmance in Pakistan, increasingly medieval and dysfunctional. The author is a professor of history at... Details
Naga Identities, Changing Local Cultures in the Northeast of India
by Oppitz, Michael, Thomas Kaiser, Alban Von Stockhausen and Marion Wetttein
Price: US $19.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
A beautiful, definitive study of the lives and art of the Naga, in northeast India. As new condition, inside and out, with no prior owner marks. P... Details