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New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 97 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, and director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University, is the editor of On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a multimedia CD-ROM (Columbia)." - Publisher.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Viking Press; A Studio Book, 1965. Cloth, 150 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps, plans; 26 cm. First published, 1964. Translated from the German. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Browning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New Delhi, India: Lustre Press; Roli Books, 1986. Cloth, 96 pages, colour illustrations, maps; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tail of spine lightly bumped. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates (architecture).. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1997. 166 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. "Dr. Pratapaditya Pal was born in Bangladesh, grew up in Kolkata, India and has lived in the United States since 1967. He completed his doctorate in Fine Arts and History from the University of Calcutta with a special focus on Nepal. In 1962, he received the Commonwealth Scholarship of Cambridge to do his second Ph.D. on Nepalese art. In 1967, Dr. Pal moved to the U.S. and took a curatorial position as the 'Keeper of the Indian Collection' at the renowned Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1970, he joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was there until he retired. Dr. Pal has written over 60 books on Asian art, with a sample of titles including, 'Art of the Himalayas: Treasures from Nepal and Tibet' (1992), 'The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India' (1999), and 'The Arts of Kashmir' (2008). He has written over 200 papers on Asian Art. Dr.… Leer más

Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1989. 80 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Revised edition of: The pillow book, volume 1, 1981. Tight, clean copy. Superficial scuffing (from label removal)/paste-down endpaper (inside front cover). Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. 1st thus. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Erotic art.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1986. 285 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 29 cm. Photographs by Jean-Louis Nou. Exhibition dates: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, March 13 to June 16, 1986, Asian Art Museum. August 9 to November 9, 1986; organized as part of the Festival of India. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Pictorial boards, 125 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Ganesha is the most beloved deity in the Hindu pantheon, and in India, his image is ubiquitous. This book explores the rich religious and cultural meanings of the beloved Ganesha in a volume that will appeal not only to Hindus, but all who are touched by the talismanic power of his image and the generous spirit of his attributes." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Ganesha; Ganesha's Origin; The Elephant-Headed God; Ganesha's Sacred Trunk; Ganesha's Body; Ganesha's Mouse; Ganesha's Serpent; Ganesha's Miracle; Ganesha's Revelation.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1968. xi, 205 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Clay; Metal; Wood; Painting; Fiber.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1985. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour): 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket with wear to the spine. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Published in conjunction with several exhibitions at the Festival of India in the United States (1985-1986). Profusely illustrated, with several essays by leading institutions and scholars. 223 Illustrations, including 204 plates in full color.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1985. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour): 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, lightly rubbed, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Published in conjunction with several exhibitions at the Festival of India in the United States (1985-1986). Profusely illustrated, with 223 Illustrations, including 204 plates in full color. Includes several essays by leading institutions and scholars.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xii, 434 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Calendar art appears in all manner of contexts in India: in chic elite living rooms, middle-class kitchens, urban slums, and village huts. This book examines the power that calendar art wields in Indian mass culture, arguing that its meanings derive as much from the production and circulation of the images as from their visual features." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: calendar art as an object of knowledge; Genealogy; Vernacularizing capitalism: Sivakasi and its circuits; When the gods go to market; Naturalizing the popular; Economy; The sacred icon in the age of the work of art and mechanical reproduction; The circulation of images and the embodiment of value; Efficacy; The efficacious image and the sacralization of modernity; Flexing the canon.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Viking; Penguin, 2010. xii, 402 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The amazing story of how yoga came to America-and the charming rogue who made it possible. In Jazz Age New York, there was no place hotter than the Clarkstown Country Club, where celebrities such as Leopold Stokowski mingled with Vanderbilts, Goodriches, and Great War spies. They came for the club's circuses and burlesques but especially for the lectures on the subject at the heart of the club's mission: yoga. Their guru was the notorious Pierre Bernard, who trained with an Indian master and instructed his wealthy followers in the asanas and the modern yogic lifestyle. Robert Love traces this American obsession from moonlit Tantric rituals in San Francisco to its arrival in New York, where Bernard's teachings were adopted by Wall Streeters and Gilded Age heiresses, who then bankrolled a luxurious ashram on the Hudson… Leer más

London: British Museum Press, 1992. 240 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Hinduism; The temple; Shiva; The great goddess, Devi; Regional and chronological survey.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Fullerton, CA: The Library, California State University, 1987. ii, 72 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Cover title: Hindu Art in South and Southeast Asia. A Loan Exhibit at The Library, California State University, Fullerton, April to July, 1986. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1985. 295 pages, cxxviii pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "Unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, in 1927" -- T.p. verso.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Rochester, NY: Park Street Press, 1991. 156 pages, colour plates; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: The kama sutra of Vatsyayana; The Ananga-Ranga of Kalyana Malla; The perfumed garden of Sheikh Nefzawi. "Sexual frankness without a hint of guilt or prurience is the great legacy which the Eastern, and in particular Indian, traditions have given us. As an expression of human culture, and as a pillow book for the modern boudoir, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana the most famous work on sex ever written the Ananga-Ranga of Kalyana Malla, and Sheikh Nefzai's Perfumed Garden, set forth the principles of sensual pleasure with poetry, wisdom, and humor, celebrating love as an ecstatic expression of life's beauty. Here, for the first time, Sir Richard Burton's translations of the classic Eastern love texts have been published in one volume. The first Kama Sutra to be illustrated in color with a dazzling and unique… Leer más

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. Cloth, 236 pages, illustrations, 136 colour plates, map; 36 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

New York: Harmony Books, 2012. x, 559 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Paperclip indentation/top edge, couple of leaves in the centre of the book. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Note: The stock image is incorrect. CONTENTS: A sacred geography, an imagined landscape; What is India?; Rose Apple Island: India in the lotus of the world; The Ganga and the rivers of India; Shiva's light in the land of India; Shakti, the distribution of the body of the goddess; Vishnu: endless and descending; The land and story of Krishna; Following Rama: the Ramayana on the landscape of India.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hamlyn; The Colour Library of Art, 1967. Cloth, 40 pages, frontispiece, illustrations, 48 colour plates, map, table; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Front cover/dust jacket partially sunned. Art of South Asia. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates (art, architecture).. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to.

London and New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1985. 252 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Spine lightly worn at the heel. Age toning. Another copy available. A classic exposition of Indian art.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.