Madras: Government Press, 1927. 8vo, 2 vols., pp. 3, [3], 159, [1]; 172; 7 plates (including an onlay to upper wrapper); printed green paper wrappers; volumes somewhat crudely stapled together to become a single volume; ex-Oregon State College library, with blind emboss on wrapper and inner page and stamp on..... More
London: printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1913. Folio, pp. [2], iv, 425, [1]; 3 folding maps colored in outline, 1 folding table; original printed blue front wrapper, lower wrap wanting; light chipping at extremities; accession numbers at lower corner of front wrap;..... More
Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1986. First edition, 4 volumes, large 8vo, color frontispiece in each volume, illustrated in the text throughout; a fine, bright set in original half maroon morocco, a.e.g., printed unclipped dust jackets. Text in English and Tibetan. Translation of Bhadrakalpikasūtra is a Mahāyāna sutra which discusses the names..... More
Delhi: Vivek Publishing House, 1974. Reprint of the 1890 edition; thick 8vo, pp. [6], 1102; tables in the text; fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket that shows a bit of rubbing. "Authoritative and comprehensive information about this extensive region constituting Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Baltistan, and the Gilgit Agency ....... More
N.p., n.d. [Leh: [ca. 1970s?]. 8½" x 5½", pp. 36; with a plan of the monastery, original pictorial wrappers depicting the monastery; very good, sound, and clean. Phyang Monastery, Phyang (or Phiyang) Gompa is a Buddhist monastery located in Fiang village, about 10 miles west of Leh in Ladakh, northern..... More
Dehra Dun: Survey of India, 1919. Sectional map in 4 parts, overall approx. 57" x 38", each mounted on linen, each approx. 19" x 26", each folding down into marbled wrappers, and each with a printed paper label on the upper cover; the marbled wrappers are rubbed and there are..... More
London: Pictorial Charts Unit, 1955. Large colored folding agricultural map of India and Pakistan, approx. 29" x 40', with insets detailing annual rainfall, irrigation and power, chief cereal crops, and other crops; also, with a detailed inset of Kashmir, and other elements showing 1954 imports and exports, coalfields, industrial areas..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Central Intelligence Agency, [1973]. Large folding color map approx. 23" x 30" with parallel maps concerning languages and minority religions; population; major crop areas; and manufacturing, minerals, and power. Contained in the original G.P.O. mailin g envelope. Fine. More
Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1893. 8vo, pp. 45, [1]; original printed paper wrappers with spine reinforced, in a glassine protector; shallow edge chipping to wrappers, text unopened and unmarked, near fine. With the library stamp of Prince Roland Bonaparte on inner wrapper. Includes the following papers: Wise, "The Hindus..... More
Santiniketan: Sino-Indian Studies, 1957. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 294; 5 plates; printed paper wrappers; underlining in text, largely restricted to the preliminaries, very good. Liebenthal was a scholar of Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese, and a practitioner of Buddhism. The articles included in this special issue include material on philology..... More
Baroda: Oriental Institute, 1940. 8vo, pp. 230, [2], [2], 12 (ads); text in Sanskrit and English; original tan printed paper-covered boards backed in red cloth; very good, sound and clean. Issued as no. LXXXVI in the publisher's Gaekwad's Oriental Series. More
Kowloon, Hong Kong: [publisher not identified], 1960. 4to, pp. 2 p.l., 163 leaves printed from typescript; likely original maroon cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; very good, sound, and clean. Despite the title, just a small part of the text is related to the actual border issue; most concerns..... More
N.p. published under the direction of Brigadier C. G. Lewis, Surveyor General of India, printed at the Survey of India Offices, 1945. Large folding map approx. 42" x 31" printed in blue, red, black, and gray; 2 inset maps of Burma and coastline of Arabian Sea; a very good to..... More
Delhi, Varanasi, Patna, Madras: Motilal Banarsidass, [1987]. Enlarged edition, with introduction, 8 volumes, 12mo, text and added title page in Sanskrit, prefatory matter and introduction (the whole of volume I) in English; a fine and complete set in original red cloth and dust jackets. First published 1918-38 without the foreword..... More
Varanasi: All-India Kashiraj Trust, 1963. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xiv, 257, [1]; 6 plates; orange printed paper wrappers; corner dogeared on wrapper and first couple leaves, text clean and sound, very good. "The Devi-Mahatmyam which now exists as an independent scripture originally formed part of the Markandeya Purana, chapters..... More
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[Varanasi: V. S. Agrawala, Prithivi Prakashan [distributor], 1963. First edition, 4to, pp. [6], xx, ii, 226; 27 plates (2 folding); fine copy in original gray cloth stamped in black, preserving the printed dust jacket that shows some tape repair. Text in Sanskrit; translation and commentary in English. Criticism and interpretation..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1965. 8vo, pp. ix, [3]; 204; full green cloth; spine sunned, text clean, very good, owner's signature on title page by the historian J. F. Richards. More
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; New York: Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman, 1856. 9.75 x 6 in., pp. xii, 618; engraved folding map; full brown cloth; joints and corners rubbed, spine ends worn, occasional spotting, a few light pencil annotations, ownership signature of Christian G...... More
Gangtok, [Sikkim]: Sherab Gyaltsen Lama, 1984. Facsimile of the 1912 Asiatic Society of Bengal edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 884; text in Sanskrit and Tibetan; original full maroon buckram, gilt title on cover and spine; fine. Amarasimha's Sanskrit thesaurus was originally written some time around the 6th century. More
Allahabad: Ram Narain Lal, 1948. First edition, 7" x 4¾", pp. [6], 205, [1]; in English and Sanskrit throughout; includes a 70-page glossary (English-Sanskrit, Sanskrit-English) at the back; final leaf with tear at the top with slight loss; all else very good in original tan wrappers printed in red and..... More
[Camden, S.C.]: John Culler & Sons, 1994. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 255); 8vo, pp. [12], 7-253, [5]; facsimile edition of the original edition of 1937, frontispiece and numerous reproductions of photographic illustrations; original full black leather stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g.; fine copy..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition, 8vo., pp. xviii, 387, [1]; x, 356; rubber stamp of the school district of Brooklyn, N.Y. on title page of both volumes, evidence of a vernacular dust jacket having been removed on pastedowns, with stains and wrinkles, modern bookplates on front free endpapers, and..... More
Washington DC: Army Map Service, 1944. Third edition, color map, 44 x 32 in., 50 miles to 1 in. scale; Includes roads, railroads, places of possible delay, and places with available lodging. Two insets for the eastern and western extremities; two closed tears at top edge, not reaching border, a...... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Author's edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 324, [4]; frontispiece and 31 plates; brown cloth boards; boards rubbed, owner's signature eradicated on pastedown, underlining and pencil highlighting on textblock, good. More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Small 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 244, 20; original ochre cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, prelims lightly toned, else a very good, sound, and clean copy. The most popular work by the journalist, translator, and poet, first appearing in the UK in 1879..... More
