Sixteen volumes on India, including history, travel and topo...

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Sixteen volumes on India, including history, travel and topography, art, politics, literature etc, including Mahatma Gandhi: 'Stonewalls Do Not a Prison Make', Ahmedabad, Navajivan Publishing House, 1964, 1st edition, one of 3,000 copies, xv,231pp, original printed wraps, Pyarelal: 'Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase. Volume I', Ahmedabad, Navajivan Publishing House, 1956, 1st edition, one of 8,000 copies, portrait frontispiece + numerous ills. from photographs as called for, original pictorial cloth, dust wrapper, M.R. Imrany: 'Paradise Under the Shadow of Hell: India's War on Kashmir. As Seen by Non-Muslims and Neutral Observers. In Five Parts', Lahore, September 1948, xxiii,193pp, original printed wraps, Lieut. Gen. Sir George MacMunn: 'The Underworld of India', L, Jarrolds, 1933, 1st edition, 16 b/w plates from photos as called for, orig. cloth gilt, Bal Krishna: 'Shivaji the Great', Bombay, D.B. Taraporevala, 1932, signed & inscribed by the author on FFEP, volume I, viii,589pp, colour frontis + colour plates as called for, original cloth gilt, Vera Anstey: 'The Economic Development of India', L, Longmans, 1936, 3rd edition revised and enlarged, 10 maps, plates, diagrams as called for (some folding), original cloth gilt, m/s pen & ink ownership signature of the author Vera Anstey (1889-1976), British economist and noted expert on the economy of India, on front pastedown, together with a Tamil translation of the same work, Madras, Bureau of Tamil Publications by arrangement with Longmans, 1965, 1st Tamil language edition, Vera Anstey's own copy with 3 contemporary typed letters signed from the publisher to her, plus a contemporary autograph letter signed to her from D. Velappan, Lecturer in Economics, St Hindu College, Nagercoil, loosely inserted, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, plus a Japanese translation copy of the same work, orig. cloth (worn), 'Notes for the Guidance of Visitors to Kashmir', Lahore, Lion Press for the Jammu & Kashmir Government, [nd], c.1935, 2 folding maps at end + folding table and numerous illustrations throughout as called for, original pictorial wraps; plus 7 others similar (16)

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