Hermeneutics, Studies in the History of Religions; 0.75 x 9 x 6 Inches; 207 pages; Analyses the two classic narratives and how they mystify the social, cultural and existential dangers of failed persuastion... View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Book descriptions are pasted to front feps of both volumes leaving adhesive stains. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2023; 1360 pages; These volumes survey the three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their relationship with each other, in concord and conflict during the last hundred years. Since Islam is the dominant faith, the term 'Middle East' denotes the social and cultural faiths as well as western civilization and communism, rather than a precise geographical area. Thus central Asia, and India, Pa... View More...
Pages uncut. Very light browning to wraps. ; The inscription came to light during digging work in April 1957, a few miles west of present-day Kandahar. The bilingual inscription is the most westerly proof of Buddhism yet found, and the most easterly of Greek inscriptions, and the first complete Aramaic inscription discovered in the area reaching to the Indus. ; Serie Orientale Roma XXIX; 62 pages View More...
Former owner's name in pencil and blindstamp to ffep. Else very minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; This study in comparative mythology interprets the Greek myths in the light of the mythologies of other Indo-European cultures - Indian, Celtic, Scandinavian, Roman, Greek, Iranian and Ossetian. The author uses a modified version of the schema proposed by the French theorist Dumezil to consider the profound connections between such works as the "Iliad", the "Odyssey", the Indian epics - the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata" - the Iranian "Book of Kings" and the Scandinavian "Yaglingasaga". The book... View More...
Minor shelfwear. Old prices to front and rear wraps deleted with black permanent marker. Some rubbing and yellowing to wraps. Creasing to spine. ; Evergreen Encyclopedia Volume 1 E-145; 568 pages View More...
2 Small tears to DJ at spine (1cm) (repaired with cellotape). Former bookseller's plate on inner cover. ; 0.54 x 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; 218 pages; In this study, Bosworth looks at Alexander the Great's activities in Central Asia and Pakistan, drawing a bleak picture of massacre and repression comparable to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. He investigates the evolution of Alexander's views of empire and concept of universal monarch, and documents the representation of Alexander by historians of antiquity. The book is directed to specialists and general readers alike. View More...
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. DJ is sliced along front panel. ; 134 pages; Traces the origins of the different tribes inhabiting North India. View More...
Narrating the development and disappearance of the world's first war machine, this book reminds readers that much of the power of ancient empires was two-wheeled and horse-driven. Harnessed to other historians' broad-spectrum research on the causes of the end of the Bronze Age, Cotterell argues that, much like the later introduction of the stirrup, chariot technology dramatically recast battlefield strategy across the ancient world. Egyptians employed chariots as all-purpose fighting machines, while Roman chariots were more ceremonial, and Indian troops used theirs as archery platforms; Chines... View More...
Still wrapped in plastic. ; 340 pages; Part I: Responses from Within HInduism: 1. Gandhi and Religious Pluralism; 2. The Responses of the Brahmo Samaj; 3. The Response of the Arya Samaj; 4. The Response of the Ramakrishna Mission; 5. The Response of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; 6. The Response of Swami Bhaktivedanta; 7. The Response of Modern Vaisnavism; 8. Saiva Siddhanta and Religious Pluralsm; 9. India's Philosophical Response to Religious Pluralism; Part II: Responses from Other Religious Within India: 10. Parsi Attitudes to Religious Pluralism; 11. Modern Indian Muslim Responses; 12. The... View More...
Light shelfwear to book. Very light foxing to top of textblock. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 1.36 x 9.26 x 6.38 Inches; 486 pages; The internationally renowned Assyriologist and linguist I. M. Diakonoff has gathered the work of Soviet historians in this survey of the earliest history of the ancient Near East, Central Asia, India, and China. Diakonoff and his colleagues, nearly all working within the general Marxist historiographic tradition, offer a comprehensive, accessible synthesis of historical knowledge from the beginnings of agriculture through the advent of the Iron Age... View More...
The preeminent scholar of comparative studies of Indo-European society, Georges Dumézil theorized that ancient and prehistoric Indo-European culture and literature revolved around three major functions: sovereignty, force, and fertility. This work treats these functions as they are articulated through "first king" legends found in Indian, Iranian, and Celtic epics, particularly the Mahabharata. Dumézil, drawing on an extraordinarily broad range of Indo-European sources from Scandinavia to India and offering an original and provocative analytic method, set a new agenda for studies in comparativ... View More...
Wraps are torn along spine (repaired on the reverse with masking tape). Textblock is detached from wraps but complete. Wraps are creased with chipping. Former owner's names to front wrap. Else good. ; Appeared as a supplement to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 66, no. 1 (1946) ; Publications of the American Oriental Society. Offprint Series No. 19; 31 pages View More...
Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Additional gift inscription to ffep. Foxing to endpapers. 2 corners bumped. Edgewear to corners. Chiping to spine ends. ; The Library of Literary History; 470 pages View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Softcover has been rebound in cloth. ; Handbuch der Orientalistik. 2. Abt.: Indien; Vol. 1.1; 230 pages View More...
The front cover is badly stained/water damaged. The front free endpaper is missing, and there is a bit of foxing to the front pastedown. Pages are clean of marks. ; Rare work on the ancient Gnostic religion, once a rival of Christianity. This book, besides including an introductory sketch of Manichaeism, contains also several critical translations from original Manichaean documents in Turfan Pahlavi or Middle Persian, which were discovered in central Asia during the first decade of the 20th century. ; Columbia University Indo-Iranian series; 393 pages View More...
Ex-library set with usual stamps, call numbers and pockets. Text is clean of marks. Volume I is in good condition with half inch tear to cloth at top of spine and moderate edgewear to back board top edge. Bumping to corners. Volume II is in VG- or G+ condition with stamps on textblock deleted with black marker. Minor (1cm) cut to cloth along edge of spine. Minor edgewear. Scuffing to boards. Text is clean of marks. Volume III: is in VG condition with stamps on textblock deleted with black marker. Scratches and scuffing to boards. ; Volume 1: The District of Chiu-Chên during the Han Dynasty: Ge... View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. There is no other damage to the book. ; Looks at Vedic and Buddhist rituals. ; Numen Book Series XLV; 208 pages View More...
Light Discoloration to spine and section of wraps. Very minor shelfwear. ; A combination of two stories whose content focuses predominately on Iranian linguistics, particularly during prehistoric times when a mixture of Indo European, Semitic, and various other linguistic influences were present in Iran in Italian, Old Persian, Avestan, Latin. ; Biblioteca Di Ricerche Linguistiche E Filologiche, 20; 98 pages View More...
Edgewear to spine ends with small tears. Front board is creased with a line from top to bottom. ; Study gives a true and vivid account of the life of woman in ancient India, based upon the immense masses of material imbedded in the two great Epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Those works provide us with the most valuable sources of information about the relations of the sexes, and the concepts underlying those relations, in India fifteen hundred and more years ago. ; 591 pages View More...
Some Pages unopened. Minor shelfwear to wraps. ; Sammlung Gemeinverständlicher Vorträge Und Schriften Aus Dem Gebiet Der Theologie Und Religionsgeschichte, Heft 176; 45 pages View More...
Scholars name on ffep (Kenneth Snipes) else fine. ; Text in Greek, notes and introduction in German. De gentibus Indiae et Bragmanibus by Palladius (V century) describes the voyage to India of a scholasticus from Egyptian Thebes, who ends up on the mythical island of Taprobane (Sri Lanka). This island presents analogies with other utopian islands of the Hellenistic tradition; for instance, the inhabitants live happy and extremely long lives. ; Beiträge Zur Klassischen Philologie Heft 24; 86 pages View More...
Book is fine. Front DJ flap creased. 1 very tiny chip to DJ. ; Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a wealth of references to 'India'. Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts, read against a wide range of other sources, both archaeological and documentary. He emphasises the social processes whereby the notion of India gained its exotic features, including the role of the Persian empire and of Alexander's expedition. Three kinds of social context receive special attention: the trade in luxury commodities; the political discourse of empire and its limits; and In... View More...
Light foxing to textblock and prelims. Light chipping to base of spine. Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name on ffep. ; 25 illustrations ( b/w photoplates and a map of the North-West Frontier Province) ; 324 pages View More...
Minor browning to spine and rear wrap. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). Small pen mark written to front wrap '6' ; [135]-313 pp. ; Arethusa. Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 1980; Vol. 13.2; 178 pages; Introduction (p. 135) Konstan, David; The Problem that was Greece: Some Observations on the Greek Tradition from the Standpoint of the New Comparative Mythology (p. 141) Littleton, C. Scott; Patroklos, Concepts of Afterlife, and the Indic Triple Fire (p. 161) Nagy, Gregory; Indo-European Dimension of Herakles in "Iliad" 19.95-133 (p. 197) Davidson, Olga Merck; "Skeptouchoi basi... View More...
Small tears to head of spine. DJ has chipping and a few small tears. ; Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana) with original Sanskrit verses, word translations, synonyms, translation and commentary by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srimad-Bhagavatam is the natural commentary upon Vedanta-Sutra by the same author, Srila Vyasadeva. Vedanta Sutra is a succinct but dense summary of the essence of all the Vedic literatures. In Srimad-Bhagavatam Srila Vyasadeva unpacks these aphorisms so that any sincere reader can easily relate to the highest spiritual truths and apply them practically in life.... View More...
Dustjacket has chipping along edges and a few small tears. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Samples the antiquity, vastness, variety, power and beauty of Sanskrit Literature. In English. ; Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Monographs on Indian languages; 363 pages View More...
Spine is sunned and former owner has written title in ink to spine. Small dampstaining stain to top of textblock. Light soiling with small tears to ffep. ; Systematic presentation of post-Samkara dialectics of the Advaita-Vedanta. ; 322 pages View More...
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Minor shelfwear to book. DJ flaps pasted down to inner covers. ; Revised edition of Jinnah's life chronology. ; 341 pages View More...
Contents: Introduction; Vedic Antecedent to the Avataric Nature of Visnu; Brahmanic Antecedents to the Avataric Nature of Visnu; The Blink of an Unblinking Eye; Myths of the Narasimhavatara: Motif Analysis & Discussion; Myths of the Vamanavatara: Motif Analysis & Discussion; Conclusions ; SUNY Series in Hindu Studies; 321 pages View More...
Light Foxing to textblock. Boards show slight water damage. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1929. Account of the intrepid adventures and amazing discoveries of the great explorer and archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who traveled in the footsteps of Alexander the Great; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 182 pages View More...
Light browning to spine and wraps. Pencil marginalia on one page. ; Proefschrift (Diss. ) ; 148 pages; De Bhagavadgita: Nederlandse Vertaling en Enkele Hoofdstukken Beschouwingen by J. P. K. Sukul. 1958 paperback published by Drukkerij Storm Utrecht. Text in Dutch. View More...
Upper joint is rubbed with a bit of the blue cloth abrased off. Light tanning to pages. Still in excellent condition. ; Indogermanische Bibliothek. Vol 1 Only; Vol. 1; 538 pages View More...
DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has minor edgewear and rubbing. 1 closed tear to DJ. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and pocket. ; 241pp, 57 photographs, 25 line drawings 7 maps, ; Ancient Peoples and Places; 241 pages; Begins with a discussion of the earliest vestiges of man on the subcontinent, and ends with the advent of a firm historical record at the time of the great Emperor Ashoka, in the third century B. C. View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. This was initially published as a paperback and has been rebound in library cloth. Else VG. ; Contents: Rediscovery of Tamil Classical Literature; Questions of Authenticity...; Periodisation of Tamil Literature; Relative and Absolute Chronology; Pre-history; Bardic Corpus; Post-Classical Period (AD 250-600) ; Literature of Bhakti (AD 600-900) ; Early Medieval Period (AD 900-1200) ; Late medieval Period (AD 1200-1750) Part I and II. ; Handbuch Der Orientalistik: Zweite Abt: Indien. Zweiter Bd. Erster Abs. ; 307 pages View More...
