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; Pap... View More...
Tauchnitz Edition. Collection of British and American Authors. 2 volumes. Contents: The End and the Beginning: Gandhi in India; and The Birth of Two Nations. 515 pp. includinhg Index and Bibliography. Paperback. Mildly soiled covers, overall Good to Good+. Slight foxing to endpapers but not on text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG. View More...
"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 t... View More...
Volume One. Illustrations by Edith Emerson. Stated First Edition. 431 pages with index. Missing DJ. Red cloth covers with gilt leaf design on front and text on spine. Cover corners bumped and lightly rubbed, edges lightly rubbed, spine is faded from sun exposure, spine ends bent from shelf wear. Foxing to top page edge. Map of India on endpapers. Some light foxing to interior page edges, otherwise tight and clean. Book in Good condition. View More...
Venereal Disease Among the British Troops in India. Infection rates had risen from 19% to 52% p.a. over a 20 year period. Ordered, that two medical reports to the English war office concerning the sickness of soldiers in the English army in the tropical regions to be printed. Presented to Parliament by command of Her Majesty. India Office, November 9, 1896. 55th Congress, 3d Session, Senate, Document No. 85. 33 pp. Fold out chart. Paper wrappers. Wraps corners are bent/creased, string-tied, some dirt smudges. First two interior pages are chipped and browning along edges. Otherwise d... View More...
