Search Results: India & South Asia from Catron Grant Books

Rambir Government Press, 1941 Rambir Government Press, 1941 Annual administrative report handsomely rebound in tan calf. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Title page has liquid splash marks. Interesting for the details of how the state was managed under the British. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Rambir Government Press, 1945 Rambir Government Press, 1945 Annual administrative report handsomely rebound in tan calf. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Charming child's drawing of a horseman and the Buddha on final free page. Title page is missing. Interesting for the details of how the state was managed under the British. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1900 London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1900 vi, 452 pp with myriad B&W drawings and photos in text and large folding map bound-in at rear. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Map is undamaged save for a closed tear near spine. Endpapers have light glue staining, front hinge is tender, there is a contemporary booksellers sticker (Van Siclen Bibliopole, New York City) Red buckram boards with gold-stamped titles on spine have a little bumping to tail of spine which has caused the start of a split in fabric, else clean and undamaged. Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell, (1854-1938) was a British explorer, Professor of Tibetan, Professor of Chemistry and Pathology, British army surgeon, collector in Tibet, philologist, linguist, amateur archeologist, Doctor of Laws, and author. He traveled extensively in India throughout the 1890s (including Sikkim and areas on the borders of Nepal and Tibet) and wrote about the Tibetan Buddhist religious practices he observed there.… Read More

Calcutta: Indian Sudies Past and Present, 1960 Calcutta: Indian Sudies Past and Present, 1960 62 pp. Text translated from French by Chitrabhanu Sen.from the original book published in 1924. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket has a chip missing and two closed tears. Now in mylar wrapper. Professor Jean Przyluski (1885-1944) was a noted linguist and premiere authority on the languages of South Eastern Asia. Size: Slender 8vo. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1957 London: Thames and Hudson, 1957 230 pp with 112 B&W photo illustrations and 6 tipped-in color plates.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Green cloth boards are rubbed at extremities, faded along spine. Extraordinarily handsome photography. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London 1904: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962 London 1904: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962 An account of a primative civilization of the Eastern Himalayas. Part of the Societies of the World series. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is scuffed with a small tear. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991 397 pp with B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmrked. Slight soil to lbottom page edges. Covers are bright and undamaged. With aprofusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under british rule, Farwell offers a survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

Los Angeles: UCLA Art Council, 1968 Los Angeles: UCLA Art Council, 1968 Catalogue of the exhibition at the UCLA Art Gallery in March 1968. 128 pages. B&W and color illustrations. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, slightly yellowed at edges. Illustrated cover is bumped and lightly soiled. Soft Cover. Good +/No Jacket.. Paperback. Good +/No Jacket.

New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1999 270 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket is bright, intact except for a short closed split at top of spine. Essays on the early history of the Aryans, their religion, language and their spread through the Indian penninsula.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

G.p. Putnam's Sons1910 404 pp . Text is clean, unmarked, shaken but holding. Front hinge cracked. Red cloth boards are rubbed at extremities... Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red cloth boards with a gold cartouche and gold stamped titles, some fading to spine. No date given, probably circa 1930. Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1924 Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1924 viii, 161 pp with thirty color plates and two B&W plates of bird eggs after text.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Contemporary previous owner's name on back of first free page. Another owner's blind stamp on title page. Green cloth boards with gold-stamped drawing of a bird on front board are clean, lightly rubbed at extremities wwith no loss of material. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Chicago: Moody Press, 1945 Chicago: Moody Press, 1945 140 pp with B&W photo illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Some foxing to first and last few pages. Red cloth boards are clean and intact with some dimming to gold-stamped titles. An account of early tentieth-century missionary work among the Katu with an interesting list of tribes and sub-tribes in south and central Indo-China. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. Slender Octavo.. Third Printing.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published.

Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1966 Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1966 364 pp with one fold-out map. The ethic origins of the Pathans and Pindaris and their relation to the Marathas. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Indian bookseller's stamp on front endpapers. Dust jacket has some shelfwear, now in mylar wrapper. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.. Stated First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1935 Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Original paper boards of the Publications de la Commission d'Enquete Linguistique have been handsomely rebound in oxblood quarter-bound leather with raised bands and gold-stamped titles on spine.. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Great Britain: Camebridge University Press, 1953 Great Britain: Camebridge University Press, 1953 96 pp with twenty-four B&W plates and one fold-out plan of Harappa. Line drawings and site plans in text. The archeology of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. The Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Previous owner's name on front endpapers and library pocket on back endpapers. Dark green cloth boards show light fading near spine. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1866 London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1866 305 pp with a color engraving of the shrine to the fallen at Cownpore and an illustration of "the well" in B&W frontis. An account drawn from the depositions of the survivors of the massacre and the government's official narratives of the Mutiny.The binding is a very handsome contemporary library binding with quarter-bound brown buckram and marbled papers. Endpapers are a floral pattern with the library's "extract from rules" on the front endpaper. There is a library pocket on the back inside and a stamp on the title page. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, tanned with speckled page edges, darkened along top edge. Boards show some light rubbing and have library I.D. on spine. Title stamped in gold. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. Ex-Library.. Third Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published.

1991 The Music of Baba Allauddin Gharana as Taught by Ali Akbar Khan at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music.text is clean, tight and unmarked Covers are bright and intact but the comb binding has some teeth missing.. Spiral-bound Softcover. Very Good. 9.5" x 12".

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947 Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947 467 pp. Maps on endpapers. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Decorative cloth boards are intact with light rubbing. Enclosed is a publisher's pamphlet for the book 'The Asian Stepchild Revealed at Last,' with a brief note from Kendall on front cover, plusa handwritten letter and an additional pamphlet to a friend thanking her for a visit.And if that wasn't enough, book is also signed with a dedication on the second free page. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover. Good Plus/No Jacket.

Crown, 1977 A description of ehnic craftsmen at work with how-to instructions for adapting their crafts. With 800 photo and 26 color plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. A faded square where a bookplate was is on title page.DJ is in VG+ shape with the slightest of bumping on the ends of the spine, otherwise clean and bright. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.