Bombay: The Bombay Natural History Society [1948]. Octavo (9.75" x 6.5"); ix, 306pp. Four color plates, with black and white plates and illustrations throughout. Green cloth-covered limp boards with white lettering and illustration. Boards rubbed and scuffed along edges and joints, with bumping to corners and spine ends, patches of..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. Volume II only. Octavo; 437pp +2 ads. Photogravure frontis with tissue guard, plus eight illustrations and one fold-out map, all present.. Brick cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn with bumping and rubbing to corners and chipping to cloth at head and tail..... More
Aldershot, UK: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1957. First Edition. Octavo. 470 pp. Black and white photographs, illustrations, and maps, complete. Illustrated dust jacket. Navy boards lettered in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows light chipping with some minor creasing along edges. Boards show very mild shelfwear with some nudging..... More
![Item #28927 The Library of Chester Beatty: A Catalog of the Indian Miniatures [Three volume set]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28927.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709303236)
London: Privately Printed by John Johnson at The Oxford University Press and Published by Emery Walker, Limited, 1936. First Edition. Three folio volumes. Nineteen color plates and eighty-four in monochrome with tissue guards, collated and complete. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library though with minimal institutional markings..... More
New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, [1929]. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Irving Polizer; 310pp. Jacket margins rather rubbed and worn with a few small losses and closed gears, corners bumped, textblock lightly toned, else Very Good and sound. Romance novel set in British India..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Second Edition. Two octavo volumes. 336 pp. 326 pp. + 10 pp. publisher's advertisements. Two hand-colored frontispieces, plate of Tauk Kisra, eight in-text woodcuts, and folding map of the author's route from Bussorah to Kizliar on the Borders of the Desert of Astrakhan with route in..... More
Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1815. Fifth Edition. 32mo (14cm.); full contemporary sheep, red gilt spine label; viii,[9]-228pp.; steel-engraved portrait frontispiece of Harriet Newell. Moderate rubbing to extremities, front joint starting, textblock toned, else a Very Good, still quite attractive copy. Publisher's advertisements printed on pp. [iii]-iv, stating that..... More
Kasauli, India: [s.i.], 1956-57. Oblong quarto; original string-tied decorated silver boards filled nearly to completion with one hundred seventeen (117) black and white photographs with captions to most written in manuscript. Boards rather soiled with light edgewear. Binding sound. A few photographs missing; some marginal chipping; tape repair to every..... More
Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, Museum Rietberg, 1999. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24x3cm); 344pp, including appendices, bibliography, glossary, and index. Illustrated with 222 photographic images in color and B&W. Note that this is the true first edition, in hardcover, not the 2008 reprint from Paul Holberton Publishing, which bears the same ISBN..... More
Hyderabad: Institute of Human Study, 1981. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream wrappers printed in red; xii,213pp. Light shelf wear, spine a bit creased, else Very Good. Quite uncommon collection of essays, most of which were first published in the monthly cultural review "Mother India." No copies in retail and..... More
![Item #13738 "Reminiscences" [Inscribed and Signed]. Krishnanand](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13738.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659703984)
Bhadran, Gujarat, India: Shanti Ashram, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth lettered in black; [2],xv,[1],215pp.; two color plates. Spine faded to tan, corners bumped, else Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper without dedication: "With Best Wishes / Krishnanand." More
Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo. 268, [1] pp. Color photographs. Photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Light rubbing and mild lean to boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy Volume 25 in the publisher's Studies in Asian Thought..... More
![Item #5547 Bharatendu Harishchandra [Makers of Indian Literature series]. Madan Gopal](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5547.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1570725618)
New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1971. First Edition Octavo; 43pp including bibliography. Endpapers reproduce the earliest known sculptural depiction of writing in India, c. 2nd century CE. An introductory study of Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885), prominent social reformer and leading early essayist, poet, and dramatist in the Hindi language: "the Father..... More
![Item #7704 Pieces of My Mind [Inscribed and Signed]. Mathew T. Kottiath](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7704.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604079696)
Stuart, FL: Kottiath Publications, [1990]. First Edition. Thick octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in green photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxi,[1],594pp.; illus. Some shallow chips to jacket extremities and light dampstaining to jacket interior at head and tail not affecting book, boards nudged at corners and spine ends, else Near Fine in Very..... More
Ahmedabad, IN: Navajivan Publishing House, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 311 pages. Printed dust jacket. Green and gray boards stamped in black. Dust jacket with original "Rupees Two" price present. Moderately chipped along edges with some toning. Boards are toned with some light rubbing along edges. Binding is sound..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [8],241pp. Jacket heavily restored with verso fully backed with wallpaper-like card stock and color touch-ups along extremities, spine panel toned and darkened with a few waterspots and..... More
Bombay: P.C. Manaktala and Sons Private Ltd, 1967. Second Impression. Octavo; xii + 400pp, including appendices, bibliography, and index. Orange dust jacket over gray cloth-covered boards with gold stamped spine. Dust jacket shows minor soiling and spine chipping, unclipped with price of 32 rupees intact. Binding tight and square, but..... More
Kathmandu, Nepal: Shiva Stan Publishing, 2002. Second Edition, #267 from a total print run of 324. Octavo. 107 pp. Illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better. Originally published by New Directions in 1982, the selections here include chapters of..... More
Madras: Udhaya Printers for the Director of Museums, 1992. Third printing (initially published 1954; reprinted 1965, 1992). Quarto (28x22.5x1.5cm); xi + 152pp + unpaginated appended portfolio of 30 B&W plates on coated paper. Card wrapper with cover photo and green lettering around sewn textblock. Wrapper shows moisture staining to..... More
![Item #27354 East and West [alt. title: Diamonds See in the Dark]. Talbot Mundy, pseud. William...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27354.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694739393)
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's goldenrod pictorial cloth stamped in red and black, in illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 310pp. Creasing, wear, and chipping to the top and bottom edges and corners of jacket, shallow losses to spine ends, cloth a bit dust-soiled..... More
![Item #29788 God's Guiding Hand: A History of the Central India Mission, 1868-1967 [Signed]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29788.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717448704)
Harrisburg, PA: United Church Board for World Ministries of the United Church of Christ / Evangelical Press, [1967]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in olive green pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.50); [8],179pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate wear and toning to jacket margins, spine a bit cocked, else Very Good..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 227 pages. Printed dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in black and gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed at edges. Very light, uneven discoloring of cloth boards. Small crack at bottom of front joint and some bowing to..... More
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1886. Second [revised and authoritative] Edition. Octavo (20x15x4cm); vi + 638pp, including appendix and index + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses. Publisher's burgundy cloth boards with blind-stamped borders, medallions, and frames on front and rear panels. Gilt spine lettering. Raw umber coated endpapers. Spine..... More
London: John Rodwell, 1827. First Edition. Large quarto; later half brown morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers; vi,[2],213pp. Moderate scuffing along leather spine margins, textblock a bit brittle and toned, fairly extensive and erudite marginalia to first half of text in a 20th-century hand, lacking all six plates. A...... More