Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1963. Map, colour and black and white plates, black and white text figures, one folding, xv + 189pp, bibliography, index, small label laid down front pastedown, very good clean copy bound in cloth with gilt lettering spine, large octavo. Exploration of the history of the ashmounds..... More
Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1963. 189pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket little browned at edges, neat details of a prior owner front free endpaper, very good copy. Dr Allchin's excavations and explorations of the mounds of cow-dung ash in the Bellary and neighbouring districts of South India led him to interesting thoughts..... More
Bombay. Numismatic Society of India. 1954. 50 black and white plates, 34 + [1] + clviii + 363pp. Hinges split, edges marked, last plate a little insect damaged. Bound in paper covered boards, cloth spine. Boards worn at corners, marked, a little insect damaged and spine a little faded. Text..... More
London. Sidgwick & Jackson. 1961. Maps, colour frontispiece, black and white plates and text illustrations, xxi + 568pp, neat name front free endpaper, fore edge little marked in one place. Overall a sound and generally clean copy of this classic work. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176898..... More
Moscow. Progress. 1984. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, index, bibliography, prior owner's name stamped on front free endpaper, minor wear dustjacket, corners bumped, otherwise a good copy. The history of the study of ancient India and its culture in the USSR from early times. When referring..... More
Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 1977. Reprint. 315pp, prior owners details and stamp front free endpaper, dustjacket a little worn and chipped but overall a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176027. More
Calcutta. Mukhopadhyay. 1960. Maps, black and white line illustrations, xii + 248pp (+ 64pp), endpapers little foxed, bookseller's stamp front free endpaper, cloth marked and stained, dustjacket torn with loss, now protected, small quarto. When referring to this item please quote stockid 4231. More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1962. Map, xii + 369pp, appendix, chronology, notes, bibliography, index, name of prior owner front free endpaper, very good in cloth covered boards. Contents: Part One - The Study of Indian Polity; Vedic Civilization; Part Two - The Decline of Tribal Culture and the Emergence of..... More
London. Curzon Press. 1989. Plans, black and white line and photographic illustrations, 496pp, quarto. Very good copy in laminated boards. The 47 essays in this volume are collected together under the following sections: Arabian archaeology, Shahr-I Sokhta and Tepe Yahya; Mehrgarh; The Indus Civilization; Rajasthan; Pre- and Proto-Historic, Early Historic..... More
London. Allen & Unwin. 1935. 237pp, bibliography, index, one corner bumped, ex-library with stamp one prelim, occasional light foxing, otherwise good. When referring to this item please quote stockid 6519. More
Hyderabad. Government of Andhra Pradesh. No date. (circa 1965). xxvi full page black and white plates, 128pp + iipp. Inscribed by the author to Dr A.L. Basham. Light even browning throughout, original wrappers with plain brown tape spine lettered by Professor A.L. Basham in ink. Tape spine torn and chipped..... More
n.p. (Kabeer Printing Works, Madras), 1970. xvi + 315pp, appendices, biblio, index, dustjacket worn and adhered to pastedowns, author's inscription to Professor A.L. Basham front free endpaper, contents clean and sound. When referring to this item please quote stockid 9633. More
Calcutta. Indian Geographical Society. 1967. Translated by Dr S. P. Chatterjee. iv + 80pp, index, a few minor tears original wrappers, spine faded. A very good copy. Wang Hiuen-Ts'e was a Chinese official and Buddhist pilgrim who travelled to India four times during the 7th century. When referring to this..... More
Paris. Librairie d'amerique et d'orient and Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. 1985& 2000. Reprint. 2 volumes. Mixed editions, not uniform in size, both in paperback. Volume I: Maps, 1 folding at rear, black and white illustration, 669pp. 22.5cm x 14cm. Volume II: Chart, xix + 749pp. 24 x 16cm. A little light..... More
Bangalore. Government Press. 1971. Full page black and white map of South India showing principal sites mentioned in the report, plan of the excavations, 58 black and white illustrations from photographs and drawings of the excavations and finds, 6pp + 173pp, appendices, soiled and worn wrappers, paper on spine torn..... More
Bombay. Manaktalas. 1966. ix + 168pp, bibliography, index, inscribed to Professor Basham from author, light browning and few marks endpapers and edges, marked dustjacket, corners bumped, contents sound and clean. "The book contains important essays on the social and economic history of India down to c. AD 1200. It appraises..... More
Patna. Motilal Banarsidass. 1954. Folding chart, illustrations, xxvii + 481pp, index, select bibliography, abbreviations, dustjacket, tape remnants on endpapers, dustjacket worn and torn, edges a little bumped, internally sound and clean hardback copy. Inscribed copy to Professor AL Basham from the author and dated just after publication. Letter from author..... More
Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 1971. vi + 292pp, appendices, index. Upper edge somewhat foxed, few gatherings beginning to split, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175534. More
Calcutta. Mukhopadhyay. 1967. 321pp, index, small bookseller's label front pastedown, spine faded, few minor marks on cloth. Chapters: Aryanism in Bengal, DDravidians in South India, Foreigners and Nonaryans, Yavana and Parasika, Tajika, Licchavi and Ambastha, Andhra and Karnata, Trivedin and Caturvedin, Kayastha and Kartanika, Pancangula and Suravadhu-varana, Amra-pipilika and Avaktavya-nama..... More
Tokyo: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 1985. Black and white map, black and white as well as coloured photographic illustrations, xiii + 159pp + coloured plates, bibliography, good paperback copy with lightly faded spine. 17.5 x 25.5 cm. Erratum loosely inserted. "This publication, the third in the..... More
New Delhi. Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 1156pp, cloth covered boards, a very good copy in spine sunned dustwrapper. 21.5 x 14cm. A collection of papers and lectures pertaining to early Indian history, written over the last thirty years and published in various journals. When referring to this item..... More
Thanjavur. Tanjore Maharaja Serfoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library. 1975. Text predominantly in Sanskrit, with notes, preface, and introduction in English. iv + [118]pp. Rear endpapers beginning to split, endpapers patchily browned, boards little worn, overall a good copy. Tanjore Sarasvati Mahal Series, Vol. 155. When referring to this item please quote..... More