rare books

 
 

A Treatise and Discourse of the Forest
John Manwood

Printed - 1598. London.
Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton



 

Ajanta Plates

The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescos based on photography with an explanatory text by G.Yazdani, M.A.
Director of Archealogy, H.E.H. The Nizam’s Dominions
Introduction by Laurence Binyon
of the British Museum
Part 1 comprising 16 colour and 24 monochrome plates of cave 1. Part 2 comprising 18 colour and 31 monochrome plates of cave 2
with an appendix on inscriptions by John Allan

Published under the special authority of His Exalted Highness The Nizam
Oxford University Press, London
format 16 x 20 inches




 

The first six books of The Elements of Euclid
Oliver Byrne
Surveyor of her Majesty’s Settlements in the Faulkland Islands and author of numerous mathematical works

Coloured diagrams and symbols used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners
London, William Pickering, 1847




 

Alziels’ Illustrated Goldsmith
H.W.Duh.Dulcken

comprising The Vicar of Wakefield
Traveller
Retaliation
The Deserted Village
Miscellaneous Poems
The Haunch of Venison
The Good Natured Man
The Captivity
She Stoops to Conquer
and A sketch of Life of Oliver Goldsmith
By H.W.Duh.Dulcken, Ph.D
With one hundred pictures
Drawn by G.J.Pinwell
Engraved by the brothers Dalziel
London, Ward and Lock.





 

The Grand Master

The adventures of Qui Hi in Hindoostan

A Hudibrastic Poem in Light Cantos by Quiz
Illustrated (colour) with engravings by Rowlandson
Printed by Thomas Fegg, London 1816





 

Treatise on the Music of Hindoostan
Augustus Willard

Comprising a detail of The Ancient Theory and Modern Practice.
The similarity of the music of Egypt and Greece to that of this country has been traced and pointed out: Harmony and Melody have been compared: and time noticed.
(Copy of Sourindro Mohan Tagore signed By - S.M. Tagore)
Calcutta 1834




 

Curry & Rice
(On Forty Plates)
The Ingredients of Social Life at
“Our” Station in India


Capt. CEO. F. Atkinson

A volume containing 40 plates of Anglo Indian life and sketches of English characters in India in the most lively and satirical style.

Second Edition
Pub: Day & Son Lithographer to the Queen, London





 

Views in India
Chiefly among the Himalayan Mountains
Lieut. George Francis White
Edited by Emma Roberts

I have beheld nearly all the celebrated scenery of Europe which poets and painters have immortalized, and of which all the tourists in the world are enamoured: but I have seen it surpassed in these unfrequented and almost unknown regions.
London & Paris, 1838
29 plates



 

The Story of Kalaka
Texts, History, Legends and Miniature Paintings of The Svetambara Jain Hagiographical Work The Kalakacaryakatha
With 15 plates

W.Norman Brown
Prof of Sanskrit in the University of Pennsylvania
Curator of India Art in the Pennsylvania Museum of Art
Pub: Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art



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