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[003231] . SCIENCE, November 6, 1885. Volume VI. No. 144. ill. Foldout Map and Map Illustration. New York: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good+ With Science Supplement. Articles by Famous Americans: C. C. ABBOTT "Aestivation of mammals, what is it?" and in Science Supplement: H. M. PAUL "Temperature of the moon's surface". Other articles: "The Burman Dispute" with map illustration and laid in map of "FURTHER INDIA, Showing Regions involved by the Trouble in Upper Burma". Map is approximately 15"x20". Also "The Life of Gen. Emory Upton"," Doolittle's Practical Astronomy"; "Mexican ethnology", and Astronomical Notes. Covers slightly soiled. ex.mus. stamp on front. vertical crease, mildly seen throughout publication, very minor. Slight chipping at bottom edge, very slightly at top. Overall covers are Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Supplement's bottom edge mildly chipped otherwise in VG condition. Map in 2 parts,clean tear down middle otherwise VG. $45.00

[003166] . SCIENCE, May 1, 1885. Volume V. No. 117. ill. Foldout Map, Engravings, Drawings. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good Articles include: " The Russian base of operations against India" by Gardiner G. Hubbard with full page map and laid in foldout map, 25"x25", of "Central Asia on the basis of the Surveys made by British and Russian Officers up to 1881"; "Roads from India to Central Asia"; and "The Races of Central Asia" by Edward Channing (in1926 won the Pulitzer Prize for History); " Hauling a Steamer Through Africa" with an illustration of the "boiler section"; under Meteorological Notes, an illustration of rain clouds seen in Meurthe-et-Moselle; Paper covers lightly soiled with chipping around edges. ex-mus. stamp on front cover. Top right corner of front cover missing, 1"x3/4"-uneven tear-chewed? tiny tips of right corner through publication chewed? very minor -not near any text. Mildly torn at spine. Covers still intact. Overall covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Map is VG. 2 small tears at fold creases and one small tear outside border of map.ex. mus. stamp on back side of map. $50.00

[001958] . Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum: THE LITTORAL FAUNA OF KRUSADAI ISLAND IN THE GULF OF MANAAR. 1927. Paper Wraps. Good With appendices on the Vertebrates and Plants. By various authors. New Series-Natural History Section, Vol. I, No. I. ex-mus. $22.50

[001952] Fischer, Louis. THE LIFE OF MAHATMA GANDHI, Volumes I and II. 1953. Tauchnitz Edition. Paper Back. $7.50

[000136] Kipling, Rudyard. The City of Dreadful Night. ill. Charles D. Farrand. New York: Alex.Grosset & Co. New York, 1899. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 1/2". Decorative Cloth. Good Written during his years in India, describing the city of Calcutta including sections on the Police, The Railway Folk, and an Opium Factory. 92 pp. Decorative front cover.Covers/spine soiled, corner bumps, side/bottom edges rubbed. Spine faded and lettering illegible. spine edges rubbed and bottom lightly fraying. Exterior is Good. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Owner's signature on front and back endpapers. Slightly soiled at side page edge up to pp. 7. Hinge broken on pp. 49 and barely attached on pp.55-58. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. An uncommon Kipling. $35.00

[004512] Lanman, Charles Rockwell. Sanskirt Reader Text and Vocabulary . Cambridge, MA,: Harvard University Press, 1952. Thirteenth Printing. Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4". Blue Cloth. Language. Good to Good+ "The results of comparative philology are now so generally incorporated into our modern classical grammars, lexicons, and text-books, that even a slight knowledge of Sanskrit...is of great service to the classical teacher in making his instruction interesting and effective. As independent disciplines, Sanskrit and comparative philology, and the literatures and religions of India, are constantly gaining in importance, so that, for example, Sanskrit is now taught at all but one of the twenty universities of the German Empire." Sections: From the Maha-bharata; From the Hitopadeca; From the Katha-sarit-sagara; From the Manava-dharmacastra; From the Rigveda; From the Maitrayani; Other Brahmana-pieces; and From the Grihya-sutras. 405 pp. Blue cloth mildly rubbed/scuffed. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine darkened. Spine ends and covers' corners rubbed. Overall covers are Good to Good+. Guerard Piffard's name written on front endpaper. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Charles Rockwell Lanman (July 8, 1850-February 20, 1941) was an American scholar of the Sanskrit language. He was professor of Sanskrit at Johns Hopkins University from 1876 to 1880 and subsequently at Harvard University. In 1889 he travelled in India and bought for Harvard University Sanskrit and Prakrit books and manuscripts, which, with those subsequently bequeathed to the university by Fitzedward Hall, make the most valuable collection of its kind in America". $80.00

[004653] Tenri Museum. ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS. ill. Photographs. Japan: Tenri University Press, 1958. Size: Approx. 6 " x 8 1/2". Soft Cover. Ethnology. Good+ "With the establishment of the Foreign Language School in 1925, the Predecessor of the present Tenri University, which aimed to educate and train young Tenri followers for overseas missionary work, the Rev. S. Nakayama, the Shimbashira had planned to collect various ethnographical objects relating to social life and religious customs in the Near Asian countries to study their life and customs. At first he started collecting many instruments and utensils used by the natives in their daily living during his travel through Korea and China. When the Tenri Missionary Centers in Korea, Formosa and China, and others had co-operated with his planning and dedicated various articles from those areas, they accumulated the nucleus of the collection....In no time a museum was born and called Tenri Sankokan for the purpose of study of foreign culture and customs." unpaginated (24 pp.) Each page filled with photographs of the "objects" used by the different tribes and groups. Countries covered: African Continent; American Continent; South Pacific Islands; South Asia-India; China; Central Asia; Korea; North Asia; and Japan. Glossy covers. Faded? strip on front cover. ex.mus. stamp. Mildly soiled/creased side edge area. Overall covers are Good+. Title page and one other page with ex.-mus. stamp. Doesn't interfer with text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $45.00