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SUNY Press. Very Good. 1980. Softcover. Minor browning to spine and rear wrap. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). Small pen mark written to front wrap '6' ; [135]-313 pp. ; Arethusa. Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 1980; Vol. 13.2; 178 pages; Introduction (p. 135) Konstan, David; The Problem that was Greece: Some Observations on the Greek Tradition from the Standpoint of the New Comparative Mythology (p. 141) Littleton, C. Scott; Patroklos, Concepts of Afterlife, and the Indic Triple Fire (p. 161) Nagy, Gregory; Indo-European Dimension of Herakles in "Iliad" 19.95-133 (p. 197) Davidson, Olga Merck; "Skeptouchoi basileis" [Greek]: An Argument for Divine Kingship in Early Greece (p. 203) Mondi, Robert; Ares: A Reflex on the Indo-European War God? (p. 217) Strutynski, Udo; L'Utilisation de la trifonctionnalité d'origine indo-européenne chez les auteurs grecs classiques (p. 233) Sergent, Bernard; An Enigmatic Indo-European… Leer más

T. Fisher Unwin. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Additional gift inscription to ffep. Foxing to endpapers. 2 corners bumped. Edgewear to corners. Chiping to spine ends. ; The Library of Literary History; 470 pages .

Oxford University Press. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 0199699739 . Book is fine. DJ has hard crease along upper rear edge. ; Classical Presences; 304 pages .

Writers Workshop. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 8171891764 . Minor shelfwear. Boards in plastic sleeve. ; 83 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 0521858348 . Book is fine. Front DJ flap creased. 1 very tiny chip to DJ. ; Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a wealth of references to 'India'. Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts, read against a wide range of other sources, both archaeological and documentary. He emphasises the social processes whereby the notion of India gained its exotic features, including the role of the Persian empire and of Alexander's expedition. Three kinds of social context receive special attention: the trade in luxury commodities; the political discourse of empire and its limits; and India's status as a place of special knowledge, embodied in 'naked philosophers'. Roman ideas about India ranged from the specific and concrete to the wildly fantastic and the book attempts to account for such variety. It ends by considering the afterlife of such ideas into late antiquity… Leer más

State University of New York Press SUNY. Fine. 1988. Hardcover. 0887065716 . Still wrapped in plastic. ; 340 pages; Part I: Responses from Within HInduism: 1. Gandhi and Religious Pluralism; 2. The Responses of the Brahmo Samaj; 3. The Response of the Arya Samaj; 4. The Response of the Ramakrishna Mission; 5. The Response of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; 6. The Response of Swami Bhaktivedanta; 7. The Response of Modern Vaisnavism; 8. Saiva Siddhanta and Religious Pluralsm; 9. India's Philosophical Response to Religious Pluralism; Part II: Responses from Other Religious Within India: 10. Parsi Attitudes to Religious Pluralism; 11. Modern Indian Muslim Responses; 12. The Sikh Response; 13. A Modern Indian Christian Response; 14. The Response of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Community in the Indian Exile; .

State University of New York Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0791407993 . Contents: Introduction; Vedic Antecedent to the Avataric Nature of Visnu; Brahmanic Antecedents to the Avataric Nature of Visnu; The Blink of an Unblinking Eye; Myths of the Narasimhavatara: Motif Analysis & Discussion; Myths of the Vamanavatara: Motif Analysis & Discussion; Conclusions ; SUNY Series in Hindu Studies; 321 pages .

Sapienza". Near Fine. 1987. Softcover. Light Discoloration to spine and section of wraps. Very minor shelfwear. ; A combination of two stories whose content focuses predominately on Iranian linguistics, particularly during prehistoric times when a mixture of Indo European, Semitic, and various other linguistic influences were present in Iran in Italian, Old Persian, Avestan, Latin. ; Biblioteca Di Ricerche Linguistiche E Filologiche, 20; 98 pages .

E. J. Brill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Softcover has been rebound in cloth. ; Handbuch der Orientalistik. 2. Abt.: Indien; Vol. 1.1; 230 pages .

Ares Publishers Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0890050368 . Light Foxing to textblock. Boards show slight water damage. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1929. Account of the intrepid adventures and amazing discoveries of the great explorer and archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who traveled in the footsteps of Alexander the Great; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 182 pages .

Verlag Anton Hain. Near Fine. 1967. Softcover. Scholars name on ffep (Kenneth Snipes) else fine. ; Text in Greek, notes and introduction in German. De gentibus Indiae et Bragmanibus by Palladius (V century) describes the voyage to India of a scholasticus from Egyptian Thebes, who ends up on the mythical island of Taprobane (Sri Lanka). This island presents analogies with other utopian islands of the Hellenistic tradition; for instance, the inhabitants live happy and extremely long lives. ; Beiträge Zur Klassischen Philologie Heft 24; 86 pages .

Quaid-i-Azam Academy. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 9694130581 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Minor shelfwear to book. DJ flaps pasted down to inner covers. ; Revised edition of Jinnah's life chronology. ; 341 pages .

Munshiram Manoharlal. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. DJ is sliced along front panel. ; 134 pages; Traces the origins of the different tribes inhabiting North India. .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 0521074002 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Book descriptions are pasted to front feps of both volumes leaving adhesive stains. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2024; 1360 pages; These volumes survey the three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their relationship with each other, in concord and conflict during the last hundred years. Since Islam is the dominant faith, the term 'Middle East' denotes the social and cultural faiths as well as western civilization and communism, rather than a precise geographical area. Thus central Asia, and India, Pakistan and parts of Africa are included. .

Columbia University Press. Fair. 1932. Hardcover. The front cover is badly stained/water damaged. The front free endpaper is missing, and there is a bit of foxing to the front pastedown. Pages are clean of marks. ; Rare work on the ancient Gnostic religion, once a rival of Christianity. This book, besides including an introductory sketch of Manichaeism, contains also several critical translations from original Manichaean documents in Turfan Pahlavi or Middle Persian, which were discovered in central Asia during the first decade of the 20th century. ; Columbia University Indo-Iranian series; 393 pages .

Penguin Books. Very Good. 1984. Softcover. 0140444025 . Some wear to wraps. Pages browned. ; 137 X 17 X 199 millimeters; 352 pages .

Motilal Banarsidass. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 8120804848 . Light bump to 1 corner. DJ has light shelfwear. ; 250 pages .

Motilal Banarsidass. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 8120804821 . Inner hinges cracked. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). A few tears to DJ with some minor rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. ; 402 pages .

American Oriental Society. Fair. 1946. Softcover. Wraps are torn along spine (repaired on the reverse with masking tape). Textblock is detached from wraps but complete. Wraps are creased with chipping. Former owner's names to front wrap. Else good. ; Appeared as a supplement to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 66, no. 1 (1946) ; Publications of the American Oriental Society. Offprint Series No. 19; 31 pages .

Brill Academic Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 9004071296 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. There is no other damage to the book. ; Looks at Vedic and Buddhist rituals. ; Numen Book Series XLV; 208 pages .