Search Results: Indology from Ancient World Books

Motilal Banarsidass. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1987. Softcover. 8120802829 . Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Chipping and small tears to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. ; 619 pages .

Leuven University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 9061860377 . Spine is faded. Slight discoloration to boards. ; Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 3; 233 pages .

Seeley, Service & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1914. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 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 .

Harvard University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. 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: General Considerations and Plates (1947). Vol. 2: The District of Chiu-Chên during the Han Dynasty: Description and Comparative Study of the Finds (1951). Vol. 3: The Ancient Dwelling Site of Dông-So'n (Thanh-Hoá, Annam) : General Description and Plates (1957) (vol. 3 Published at St-Catherine Press at… Read More

William Blackwood and Sons. Very Good-. 1903. Hardcover. Former owner's name in ink to half-title. Endpapers browned. Foxing to endpapers. Chipping to head of spine. ; 320 pages .

Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1964. Softcover. 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 .

Pimlico. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0712669426 . 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; Chinese engineers developed more efficient harnesses, permitting heavier cars. The author's comparative approach broadens the appeal of what would otherwise seem a narrow topic, but this account nevertheless behaves as a detailed military history. Particularly interesting for such scholarship, the author also discusses the chariot… Read More

Asia Publishing House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1989. Softcover. 0948724013 . Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Edgewear to wraps with a bit of Chipping. Ffep creased. ; 411 pages .

People's Publishing House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. Corners bumped. Some shelfwear. DJ has tear to front panel and some edgewear. ; Isbn: 8170070031; Vol. 11; 960 pages .

Drukkerij Storm. Very Good+. 1958. Softcover. 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. .

University of Chicago Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0226169758 . 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 comparative oral literature, historical linguistics, comparative mythology, and history of religions. The Destiny of a King examines one of the "little" epics within the Mahabharata—the legend of King Yayati, a distant ancestor of the Pandavas, the heroes of the larger epic.… Read More

J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck). Very Good+. 1934. Softcover. Some Pages unopened. Minor shelfwear to wraps. ; Sammlung Gemeinverständlicher Vorträge Und Schriften Aus Dem Gebiet Der Theologie Und Religionsgeschichte, Heft 176; 45 pages .

University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0226144658 . 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 and the Greek colonization in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea areas. Besides discussing features of Soviet historical scholarship of the ancient world, the essays treat the history of early Mesopotamia and the course of Pharaonic Egyptian civilization and developments in ancient India and China from… Read More

Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. 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. .

Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Pages tanned. Foxing to top of textblock. Light foxing passim. Minor shelfwear. ; 1959: 492 pp ; Indogermanische Bibliothek. ; Vol. 1.2; 492 pages .

Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Second Edition. Hardcover. 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 .

Haskell House Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Ix, 472 pp. Unchanged Reprint of 1900 ed. ; 472 pages .

I. B. Tauris. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 1850438315 . 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 includes a long critical exposition of the discipline of comparative mythology from its 18th-century origins to the revival of the discipline by Dumezil and his followers from 1938 to the present. It also reassesses the profound critique of Dumezil which… Read More

Pennsylvania State University Press. Near Fine. 1994. Softcover. 0271013206 . 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... .

Longmans Canada. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Canadian woman's travel memoirs on a trip to Indian cities. ; 202 pages; Signed by Author .