Translated by E Ross (12 results)

HC. 256pp "A delightful mixture of reminiscence, detailed anthropology, history and philosophical reflection, with conclusions boldly drawn." good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W ill. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Octavo hardback 172 pp, illustrated. Very Good condition (inscription by previous owner on front free end paper) in Good+ dust jacket (two small closed edge tears on top of jacket). Ross, Michael (illustrator).

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/G. New York, NY: Grossman Publishers. VG/G. 1971. . Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 256 pp., DJ price-clipped, rubbed, yellowed . Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Covers clean, colors bright, no reading creases at spine, minor edge and handling wear. Pages [260] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. The frontispiece is a B&W portrait [engraving] of E.H. Weber. Appears to be the first edition of the Erlbaum publishers. Included is a preface to the first [1978] edition "E.H. Weber: The Sense of Touch" by the Academic Press and a preface to the second edition by the Erlbaum [UK] Taylor & Francis publishers. The later edition contains "De Tactu" [Der Tastsinn} translated by H.E. Ross and "Der Tastsinn" [Das Gemeingefühl] translated by D. J. Murray. All books are in my smoke free & climate controlled shop and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Domestic & international shipping includes tracking information. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. First published in English in 1929. ix, 256pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good+/Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Good+/Good. 1936. . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 8vo., 159 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, toned, endpapers toning . Woodcuts (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. About The Book : The present work in two volumes is the English translation of Tarikh-i-Rashidi, written by Mirza Muhammad Haidar, Dughlat. The book is an absorbing and informative history of Central Asia. The object of the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, is to preserve the memory of Moghuls and their Khans. About The Translator : Sir Edward Denison Ross (1871 1940) was an orientalist and linguist, specializing in languages of the Far East. He was the first director of the University of London's School of Oriental Studies (now SOAS, University of London) from 1916 to 1937. Ross read in 49 languages, and spoke in 30. He was director of the British Information Bureau for the Near East. Sometime after 1877, Ross wrote an Introduction a reprint of George Sale's translation. Along with Eileen Power, he wrote and edited a 26-volume series published by George Routledge & Sons, The Broadway Travellers. The series included the diary of the 17th-century naval chaplain Henry Teonge. Ross joined the staff of the British Museum in 1914, appointed to catalogue the collections of Sir Aurel Stein. He was an original trustee of the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series. In 1934 Edward Denison Ross attended Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration in Tehran. The Title 'A History Of The Moghuls Of Central Asia :The Tarikh-I-Rashidi Of Mirza Muhammad Haidar, Dughlat written/authored/edited by Translated by E. Denison Ross', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121266154 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 697 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol: 697.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Unread. Previous owner name stamped on front free page. Previous owner was Burton Benedict (1923-2010), a professor emeritus of social anthropology at University of California, Berkeley and former director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Benedict conducted his early anthropological fieldwork in the Indian Ocean island territories of Mauritius and Seychelles. No other markings in book. Binding is tight. Sunning to covers. 220pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Language: English. About The Book : The present work in two volumes is the English translation of Tarikh-i-Rashidi, written by Mirza Muhammad Haidar, Dughlat. The book is an absorbing and informative history of Central Asia. The object of the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, is to preserve the memory of Moghuls and their Khans. About The Translator : Sir Edward Denison Ross (1871 1940) was an orientalist and linguist, specializing in languages of the Far East. He was the first director of the University of London's School of Oriental Studies (now SOAS, University of London) from 1916 to 1937. Ross read in 49 languages, and spoke in 30. He was director of the British Information Bureau for the Near East. Sometime after 1877, Ross wrote an Introduction a reprint of George Sale's translation. Along with Eileen Power, he wrote and edited a 26-volume series published by George Routledge & Sons, The Broadway Travellers. The series included the diary of the 17th-century naval chaplain Henry Teonge. Ross joined the staff of the British Museum in 1914, appointed to catalogue the collections of Sir Aurel Stein. He was an original trustee of the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series. In 1934 Edward Denison Ross attended Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration in Tehran. The Title 'A History Of The Moghuls Of Central Asia :The Tarikh-I-Rashidi Of Mirza Muhammad Haidar, Dughlat written/authored/edited by Translated by E. Denison Ross', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121266161 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 697 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: 697.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. 6 x 9.25in. x. 278pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE. Shows a former owner name stamp at the front endpaper, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. English translation by T.E Lawrence (writing as J.H Ross) of the French novel Le Gigantesque by Adrien Le Corbeau. The story describes the lifespan of a Californian giant Sequoia tree. This 1935 illustrated edition contains beautiful woodcut prints by Scottish artist Agnes Miller Parker. Light green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Rough cut fore edge to pages (some appear to have been trimmed) and very tiny original booksellers label to front bottom of pastedown. D/j : unclipped, small portions missing to head and tail of spine and top of back, which also has a small stain. Toning commensurate with age. A good to v.good copy of an attractive early example of ecofiction. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator).…

Second English Edition and New Illustrated Edition, type reset of the book first published in 1924. Publisher's leaf green linen with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to the dust-jacket illustrated with a wood engraving by Agnes Miller Parker, who illustrates the text with a further eight engravings. Small Octavo. 19 x 13.5 cm: [A]8 B-K8, 80 leaves, pp. [1-4] 5-160. Contains a new Publisher's Note and dedication omitted from the first edition. Translated from the French by T.E. Lawrence writing as J.H. Ross A book in Very Good condition with offsetting to endpapers, spotting to the prelims and untrimmed fore-edge, with a Very Good dust-jacket with a few short tears and slight dust-soiling, but which is not price-clipped (showing '5s net'). [O'Brien A095].…