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India srge Stoneman, Richard The Greek experience of India: from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2019, 525 pages, bib, index. Fine in fine dust jacket. $30.00 Box B50 Contents: Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Conventions; Prologue: The Moon at Noon; Part I. First impressions;… Read more about this item

India rlsr Rudolph, Lloyd I. and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. In pursuit of Lakshmi: the political economy of the Indian state. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987, xvii, 529 pages, notes, indexes. Paperbound, which has been bound in red library buckram with gilt lettering on spine. From the library of a librarian/bibliophile who had all his paperbacks bound in cloth.… Read more about this item

India zmdp Zebrowski, Mark. Deccani painting. Berkeley: Sotheby Publications/ University of California Press, 1983, 296 pages: illustrations (some color), bib, index. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Neat signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. A large and heavy volume, $50.00 In front hall closet.

Middle East fhal Ferrier, J. P. The History of the Afghans. Lahore, Pakistan: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2002. xxi, 491pp, folding map, map, tables. A nice reissue of the original 1858 edition. Nice copy. interesting photo in color of a Middle Eastern suq on front cover. Ferrier dedicates the book to his old comrades in arms in… Read more about this item

Persia mjjo Mandelslo, Johann Albrecht von, 1616-1644. Journal und observation: 1637-1640. Herausgegeben von Margrete Refslund-Klemann. Kobenhavn: Andr. Fred. Host, 1942, xx, 233 p. : ill., facsim., map, port, bib, index. Like new condition, originally issued in paperback, rebound in brown library buckram cloth with black letterin. Wrappers bound in. Attractive copy of an uncommon edition. From the personal library of… Read more about this item

India srfe Sewell, Robert. A Forgotten Empire (VijayanSewell, Robert. agar) - A Contribution to the History of India. Shannon, Ireland / New York: Irish University Press /Barnes & Noble,1973, xxii, 427 pages, maps, illus, appendices, index. This Irish University press issue is of the first edition published in London by Sonnenschein in 1900. Hardbound copy with mylar dust jacket, front… Read more about this item

Persia fwrf Floor, Willem M. The Rise and Fall of Nader Shah: Dutch East India Company Reports, 1730-1747. Washington, D.C., Mage Publishers, 2009, xvi, 272 pages: illustrations, bib, index. Originally issued in paperback but is now bound in mustard-color library buckram cloth with black lettering on spine. Original wrappers bound into the hardcover. Both book and binding are like new.… Read more about this item

Islam saii Schimmel, Annemarie. Islam in the Indian subcontinent. (Series: Handbuch Der Orientalistik: Zweite Abtilung: Indien: Vieter Band: Religionen; Dritter Abschnitt, 3).Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1980, 303 pages: illustrations; bib, indexes. Originally issued in paperback but book has bound in black library buckram cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Original wrappers bound into the hardcover. Book like new, the text and… Read more about this item

India 004 Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von.Tribal populations and cultures of the Indian subcontinent. (Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985, vi, 182 pages, bib, index. Originally issued in paperback but has been bound in green library buckram cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Original wrappers bound into the hardcover. Like new, the text and the binding. $40.00 Box B2… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1456b Arrian, second century A.D. Anabasis of Alexander and Indica. Translated, with a copious commentary by Edward James Chinnock. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893, xx, 452 pages, frontispiece, map. Bohn's Library book catalogue in back. Blue cloth, gilt letterings. Has small map after page xx. Nice condition. Uncommon. $40.00

Japan 017 Hincks, Marcelle A. The Japanese Dance. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1910, 32 pages, 8 photographic plates. Paperback, quarto size, 9" x 12". The cover has a number of drawbacks: the bottom right hand corner of the cover has a piece missing, same for top corner but less. All corners are dogeared and there is… Read more about this item

Central Asia 002 Lamb, Alastair. Britain And Chinese Central Asia: The Road to Lhasa 1767-1905. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960, xi, 388 pages, 5 maps, bib, index. In red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, spine is sun faded. Overall, a good to very good copy, clean, tight, no marks. $40.00 Box A 92

India 002 Viennot, Odette. Le Culte de l'Arbre dans L'Inde Ancienne. Textes et Monuments brahmaniques et bouddhiques. (Series: Annales du Musee Guimet). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1954, 283 pages, bib, index,16 black and white plates. In wrappers, good to very good except the tip of the corner is cut off and there is some darkening to… Read more about this item

India 001 Griffiths, Percival, Sir. To guard my people: the history of the Indian Police. Second corrected edition. London/ Bombay: Ernest Benn/ Allied Publishers, 1972, xii, 444 pages, appendices, bib, index,7 plates (1 fold): ill, 1map, ports. Very good in dust jacket. $35.00

English History 701 Napier, William Francis Patrick, 1785-1860. The conquest of Scinde: with some introductory passages in the life of Major-General Sir Charles James Napier. Two volumes. London: T. & W. Boone, 1845, 531p, continuous pagination, 2 folded maps, 3 folded plans. This set is ex-library with the usual ex-library treatment, stamps, bookplates, etc. Hole on front… Read more about this item

Tibet 001 McKay, Alex. Tibet and the British Raj. The Frontier Cadre, 1904-1947. (Series: London Studies on South Asia, No. 14. The Centre of South Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies). Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997, xxvi, 293 pages, two maps, nine black and white photos, notes, bib, index. Fine in like dust jacket. $42.50

Ancient world 1492 Boardman, John, 1927- The Greeks in Asia. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015, 240 pages: illustrations (some color), bib, notes, index. New in like dust jacket. $16.50 Contents: Greece and the east: beginnings. Eastern origins; Greeks going east -- Greeks and Achaemenid Persia. The confrontation; Greeks in the Persian Empire; The view from home; The view from Homeric heritage… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1366Waldmann, Helmut. Königsweg der Apostel in Edessa, Indien und Rom. 2., verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage.Tübingen: Verlag der Tübinger Gesellschaft, 1997, xxxvi, 236 p. Paperback with dust jacket in protective plastic dust jacket. Fine condition, clean, tight, no marks. N.B.: The original 1996 edition has the following bibliographical description: Waldmann, Helmut. Das Christentum in Indien und der Konigsweg der… Read more about this item

Central Asia 1015 Marvin, Charles. Reconnoitering Central Asia: Pioneering Adventures in the Region Lying between Russia And India. (NY?: Kessinger Legacy Reprints, 2007, xviii, 421 pages, bib. This is a photographic reprint of the third edition of the work published in London in 1886. The copy that Kessinger used even reproduces the notations (many) that a previous owner made. The… Read more about this item

Asia 1015 Lumsden, H. B., Major. The Mission to Kandahar, With Appendices. With supplementary report on the expedition into upper Meeranzye and Koordum in 1856. Mansfield, Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2008. v, 282 pages, illus. Folding maps in pocket at rear. This is a nicely done reprint of the Calcutta edition published by C. B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press of… Read more about this item