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Paris: Libraire de H. Fournier, 1835 Paris: Libraire de H. Fournier, 1835 Two volumes quarter-bound in calf with mottled paper.boards Text is clean,and unmarked. Volume II front gutter cracked.but holding. Closed tear on title page of volume I. Gold-stamped titles along spine are somewhat dulled. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. 2nd Edition.. Hardcover. Good.

University Press of New England, 1986 347 pp with 24 B&W illustrations and two maps. The letters fron four young British lieutenants tell eyewitness accounts of the Sepoy Uprising of 1857, excerpts from the letters are intertwined witth essential historical background and some later accounts to create a fluid, gripping narrative. text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJis intact, slightly rippled.and yellowed.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Chicago: Moody Press, 1973 352 pp with B&W photos in text. Dr Olsen's surgical/diplomatic wartime adventures and the bloody birth of Bangladesh. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dedication by author on flyleaf. DJ is rubbed with chips missing.. Dedication By Author. Hard Cover. Good/Fair.

New York: Anthemeum, 1987 286 pp with B&W illustrations in text. This book is a collection of essays and extracts, a topographical anthology of writing on Delhi and Agra, from Tamerlane's sack of Delhi in 1398 to the Indian Mutiny of the nineteenth century and the bloody aftermath of Partition in 1949. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are clean, bright, undamaged.. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1818 xxiv,25- 390, English translation of the French original .first published by the East India Company in 1816 Text is clean and unmarked, with considerable foxing. Front and back gutters cracked but holding. Several contemporary owners' names on front endpapers. Boards are covered in much-rubbed brown calf.. First American Edition.. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Delhi, India: B. Jain Publishers, 1996 16, 951 pps. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Glossy, pale turquoise patterned paper-covered boards are clean and biright with minimum wear. Matching DJ with black and blue titles clean, tiight and bright with some minor wear on upper edge. This is Volume 1 of a 3 Volume set regarding Indian homepathy published in English "with additons." In protective mylar.. Export/reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.75" x 8.75".

Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer GmbH, 1965 354n pp with two maps frontis. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.. Grey cloth boards are clean and intact. DJ is intact but has considerable edgewear and staining, now in protective mylar.. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Harper & Bros., 1958 xv, 584 pp Text is clean and unmarked. Maps on endpapers. Book is shaken, front hinge cracked. Red cloth boards are rubbed.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library (.

Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House, 2005 236 pps. B/W spot illustrations throughout.Text clean, tight, bright ans unmarked. Green and orange cover with graphic treatment is clean, tight and undamaged. A handy pocket-sized book meant for travelers in need of conversational Hindi,. 9th Printing. Softcover. Near Fine. Illus. by Mario. 4" x 11".

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981 Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Both color and B&W illustrations. Soft cover is double-folded with a cut-out to reveal a color picture of an elephant. with loss of color where a sticker was removed, and some rubbing. First Edition.. Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1936 London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1936 ix, 243 pp with 16 B&W illustrations and 4 maps in text plus maps on endpapers. Bound -in slip states that this is "Second edition with a special account of the 1936 expedition. Sir Francis Younghusband has writen for this edition an entirely new account of the1936 attempt on Evest, with a detailed discussion of the problems which the expedition had to face." Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Geen cloth boards with gold-stamped titles are scufedf and dulled but binding is sound. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Second Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New Delhi: Indus Publications, 2002 New Delhi: Indus Publications, 2002 304 pp with color and B&W illustrations and maps throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged. Revised Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.. Revised Second Edition.. Paperback. Near Fine.

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1955 Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1955 176 pp with B&W line drawings in text. Fables from The Panchatantra, The Hitopadesa, and the Jatakas (The book of Buddha's birth stories) With a dedication from the author to screenwriter, Nunnally Johnson.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Cloth boards are sun-faded. Dedication By Author. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Macmillan, 1950 Macmillan, 1950 239 pp with 12 B&W plates. The author traveled through India, Tibet and the Far East shortly after WWII. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. grey cloth boards are clean, bumped at extremities,.DJ Is intact with some edgewear. Now in protective mylar. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1961 Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1961 Two volumes. Vol I xxx,pp 1- 482 , Vol II xxxi - xxxv, pp. 483 - 884. with a large folding map bound in after text volume II. Texts are clean, tight, unmarked save for previous owner's blindstamps on title pages, yellowed. Map in clean and intact. Dark red cloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine. show some rubbing to extremities. These volumes are continuations published by the government of India of the magnum opus 'The Fauna of India' published originally in 1888 and are bound to match the second edition of the 1920's. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

The Fiji Times The Fiji Times No date. A large map of the two islands with smaller maps of the towns. Folded Map. Very Good.. Paperback. Very Good.

Hanover, Germany: Helwingsche Verlagebuchbandlung, 1935 Hanover, Germany: Helwingsche Verlagebuchbandlung, 1935 143 pp ith a color-tinted illustration frontis and 56 B&W plates with photography from the climb plus a separate pamphlet key to the photography, a unattached map of Nanga Parbat detailing its glaciers, and a second map of the mountain with a glasine overlay. Text in German. In 1934 Willy Merkl led a well financed German expedition to Nanga Parbat, with the full backing of the new Nazi government. Early in the expedition Alfred Drexel died, probably of high altitude pulmonary edema.The Tyrolean climbers Peter Aschenbrenner and Erwin Schneider reached an estimated height of 25,900 ft on July 6, but were forced to return because of worsening weather. On July 7 they and 14 others were trapped by a ferocious storm at 24,540 ft. During the desperate retreat that followed, three famous German mountaineers, Uli Wieland, Willi Welzenbach and Merkl himself, and six Sherpas died of exhaustion,… Leer más

Four Winds Press, 1974 "I begin this book by saying that the Ganges is the only river in the world to drop from heaven upon the earth below." An account of the profound inner, sacred, mystical nature of the river and the people who live along her banks and pass their lives in devotion to her. Text is clean , tight, unmarked. DJ in bright and intact but scuffed with a small moisture stain to back.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4 to. 9 3/4 - 12" Tall.

Selangor, Malaysia: Star Publications, 2002 141, 8 pps. with numerous sepia-toned photographs throughout. Endpapers feature a ghosted pale brown map. Text is clean, tight, bright, and unmarked. Brown paper-bound boards with sepia-toned photograph and gold staped title shows some edge-bumping and a tiny printing flaw on front cover but is clean, bright and structurally sound.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 11.25" X 10.25".

Viking, 1980 Viking, 1980 217 pp. with color illustrations throughout. Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and her father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe. Test is clean, tight and unmarked., there is a small moisture stain along the edge of the first three pages. Red leatherette boartds with gold-stamped titles are undamaged. Dust jacket is bright and whole. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.