List of Rare Books (https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.

org)

Year of
S. No. Author Title of Book Publisher
Pub.

Travels in India During the

Sold by J. Edwards,
1 William Hodges Years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1794
London
1783.

The Royal Asiatic

Essay on the Architecture of Society by John
2 Ram Raz 1834
the Hindi William Parker,
London

An Essay on the antiquity of

Hindoo Medicine, including
John Forbes
an introductory lecture to W.H.Allen & Co.,
3 Royle (1798- 1837
the course of materia medica London
1858)
and therapeutics, delivered
at King's College

Kavindra Bharat Itihas

4 Parmanand Shri Shivbharat Shamshodak 1849
Govind Newaskar Mandal, Pune

Colonization, Defence, and

John Weale,
5 Hyde Clarke Railways in our Indian 1857
London
Empire

Early Roman-Catholic
Missions to India : with
sketches of Jesuitism, Hindu
James Forbes S.W.Partridge &
6 philosophy, and the 1871
Bisset Tinling Co., London
Christianity of the ancient
Indo-Syrian Church of
Malabar
 Henry James The Life And Letters Of St. Burns and Oates,
7 1872
Coleridge Francis Xavier London

The Asiatic Society

8 Abul Fazl Allami The AIN I AKBARI 1873
of Bengal, Calcutta

Charles Henry Thacker, Spink &

9 Two centuries of Bhartrihari 1877
Tawney Co., Calcutta

The Chronology of Ancient

Muhammad ibn Nations - An English version
W.H.Allen & Co.,
10 Ahmad Biruni of the Arabic text of the 1879
London
(973?-1048) Ath?r-ul-B?kiya of Albiruni,
or "Vestiges of the Past"

The Sermon on the Mount

Henry James Burns and Oates,
11 (from the end of the Lord's 1882
Coleridge London
prayer)

Indian Railways as
William Patrick W. H. Allen & Co.,
12 Connected with British 1884
Andrew London
Empire in the East

Jagannath
The life and exploits of Bombay Nirnaya
13 Lakshuman 1886
Shivaji Sagar Press
Mankar

The Asiatic Society

14 Abul Fazl Allami The AIN I AKBARI 1891
of Bengal, Calcutta

Pandit
Durgaprasad and The Dasavataracharita of The Nirnaya-Sagara
15 1891
Kasinath Kshemendra Press, Bombay
Pandurang Parab

RAMAVIJAYA - The Dubashi & Co.,

16 1891
mythological history of Rama Bombay

William Blackwood
17 George Milne Rae The Syrian Church in India 1892
and Sons, London
 Edward Byles The Buddha-karita of The Clarendon
18 1893
Cowell Asvaghosha Press, Oxford

John Murray,
19 George Smith The Conversion of India 1893
London

Nobin Chandra Legends and Miracles of Jadu Nath Seal,

20 1895
Dasa Buddha, Sakya Sinha Calcutta

Demetrius C. The Clarendon

21 Lord William Bentinck 1897
Boulger Press, Oxford

The First Christian Mission

to the Great Mogul or The
story of Blessed Rudolf M.H. Gill & Son,
22 Francis Goldie 1897
Acquaviva : And of his four Dublin
companions in martyrdom of
the Society of Jesus

George Routledge
23 W.S. Caine Picturesque India and Sons Ltd, 1898
London

Open letters to Lord Curzon Kegan Paul,

Romesh Chunder
24 on famines and land Trench, Trbner & 1900
Dutt (1848-1909)
assessments in India Co., London

The Founder of the Ahmadiyya

Maulana
25 Ahmadiyya Movement : A Anjuman Isha'at-i- 1900
Muhammad Ali
Short Study Islam

Romesh Chunder Indian Famines, their P.S.king & Son,

26 1901
Dutt Causes and Prevention London

Rev. Dr. A Grammar of the Kannada Basel Mission Book

27 1903
Ferdinand Kittel Language in English & Tract, Mangalore

Sven Anders Hurst and Blackett

28 Adventures in Tibet 1904
Hedin Ltd., London
 India in the Victorian Age - Kegan Paul,
Romesh Chunder
29 An economic history of the Trench, Turner & 1904
Dutt (1848-1909)
people Co., London

Romesh Chunder Ancient India, 2000 B.C.- Longmans Green &

30 1904
Dutt 800 A.D. Co., London

Hakluytus posthumus, or
Purchas his Pilgrimes:
Samuel contayning a history of the James MacLehose
31 1905
Purchase world in sea voyages and and Sons, Glasgow
lande travells by Englishmen
and others

C.R. Sreenivasa Ramayana of Valmeeki - The MM Press,

32 1910
Ayyangar Balakhanda Madras

Ramanujapuram The Kesava Temple At Belur Indian Historical

33 1911
Narasimhachar - Volume 1 Researches

John McFarland The Satakas or Wise Sayings T.Werner Laurie

34 1913
Kennedy of Bhartrihari Ltd., London

A History of Kanarese Association Press,

35 Edward P. Rice 1915
Literature Calcutta

Rammohun Library
The last days in England of
36 Mary Carpenter and Free Reading- 1915
Rajah Rammohun Roy
Room, Calcutta

Ramanujapuram The Kesava Temple At Indian Historical

37 1916
Narasimhachar Somanathapur - Volume 2 Researches
 The Economic History of
India under early British
Kegan Paul,
Romesh Chunder Rule - From the rise of the
38 Trench, Trubner & 1916
Dutt British power in 1757 to the
Co., London -
accession of Queen Victoria
in 1837.

Gandhi
Third Class in Indian
39 M.K.Gandhi Publications 1917
Railways
League, Lahore

The Mirror of Gesture -

Ananda Kentish Harvard University
40 Being the Abhinaya Darpana 1917
Coomaraswa Press
of Nandikesvara

Prasanna Kumar E.J. Brill Ltd.,

41 Summary Of The Manasara 1918
Acharya London
George G. Harrap &
42 Edith Holland The story of the Buddha 1918
Co., London

Howard Arnold Humphrey Milford,

43 The Ahmadiya Movement 1918
Walter London

Intimate glimpses of life in

India; a narrative of
George Trumbull Richard G. Badger,
44 observations, educational, 1919
Ladd Boston
social and religious, in the
winter of 1899-1900

Surendranath The University fo

45 SIVA CHHATRAPATI 1920
Sen Calcutta

Dupleix and Clive - The Methuen & Co.,

46 Henry Dodwell 1920
beginning of Empire London
 D.B. Taraporevala
47 Otto Rothfeld Women Of India Sons & Co., 1920
Bombay

Nilakant The Life of Shivaji Maharaj -

The Manoranjan
48 Sadashiv Founder of the Maratha 1921
Press, Bombay
Takakhav Empire

Principles of Indian The Punjab

Phanindra Nath
49 Silpasastra With the Text of Sanskrit Book 1926
Bose
Mayasastra Depot, Lahore

Gajanan K. Central Library,

50 Manasollasa 1926
Shrigondekar Baroda

Kegan Paul,
Surendran Nath Foreign Biographies of
51 Trench, Trubner & 1927
Sen Shivaji
Co., London

Surendra Nath The Military System of The Orient Longmans,

52 1928
Sen Marathas Calcutta

Golconda And The Qutb The Government

53 Sha Rocco 1929
Shahs Press, Hyderabad

Golconda And The Qutb The Government

54 Sha Rocco 1929
Shahs Press, Hyderabad

V.Narayanan &
55 Vanamalai Pillai The Setu and Rameswaram Brothers, 1929
Rameswaram

Relations of Golconda in the Hakluyt Society,

56 W.H. Moreland 1930
Early Seventeenth Century London

Namdev Madhav
57 Kavi Bhushan Shivraj Bhushan 1931
Nemade, Jalgaon

The Yoga Institute,

58 Shri Yogendra Hatha Yoga Simplified 1931
Bombay
 Annamalai
59 Ramamatya Svaramelakalanidhi 1932
University, Madras

Prasanna Kumar Manasara On Architecture Oxford University

60 1933
Acharya And Sculpture Press, London

Sri. Tirumalai Svastha Yoga &

61 Yoga Makaranda - Part II 1934
Krishnamacharya Ayurveda

Hindu Conception Of The

Bharatan Luzac & Co.,
62 Deity As Culminating In 1934
Kumarappa London
Ramanuja

The
Superintendent,
63 F. H. Gravely Indian Temple Architecture 1936
Government Press,
Madras

Annihilation of Caste with a

64 B.R. Ambedkar Banasthali Press 1936
Reply to Mahatma Gandhi

Kamalabai The Author in

65 The Child in Ancient India 1936
Deshpande Poona

His Highness The Maharaja Oxford University

66 K.M. Panikkar 1937
Of Bikaner - A Biography Press, London

T.R. Srinivasa The Adyar Library,

67 The Yoga Upanishads 1938
Ayyangar Madras

Pandit S.
Samgraha Chudamani of The Adyar Library,
68 Subrahmanya 1938
Govinda Madras
Sastri

Swami University of
69 Exploration in Tibet 1939
Pranavananda Calcutta, Calcutta

Gajanan K. Manasollasa of King Oriental Institute,

70 1939
Shrigondekar Somesvara Baroda

S.S. Basawanai
and K.R. The Basel Mission
71 Musings of Basava 1940
Sreenivasa Press, Mangalore
Iyengar
 Surendra Nath Early Career of Kanhoji University of
72 1941
Sen Angria and Other Papers Calcutta, Calcutta

Sundara Kandam or The

The Universal
73 C.N.Mehta flight of Hanuman to Lanka 1941
Press, Nadiad
via Sunda Islands

Madras Law
74 A.S.P. Ayyar BHASA Journal Office, 1942
Madras

SANGITARATNAKARA The Adyar Library,

75 SARNGADEVA 1944
(Ocean of Music) Madras

SANGITARATNAKARA The Adyar Library,

76 SARNGADEVA 1944
(Ocean of Music) Madras

Calambur Epigraphical Echoes of Thompson & Co.,

77 1944
Sivaramamurti Kalidasa Madras

What Congress and Gandhi Thacker & Co.,

78 B.R.Ambedkar 1945
have done to Untouchables Bombay

Sangitaratnakara of The Adyar Library,

79 Dr. Kunhan Raja 1945
Sarngadeva Madras

Thacker & Co.,

80 B.R. Ambedkar Who Were The Shudras? 1946
Bombay

The Royal Asiatic

Col. Henry Ain-i-Akbari of Abul Fazl-i-
81 Society of Bengal, 1948
Sullivan Jarrett 'Allami
Calcutta

Swami
S.P. League Ltd.,
82 Pranavananda, Kailas-Mansarovar 1949
Calcutta
F.R.G.S.

Indian Historical
83 William Coelho The Hoysala Vamsa Research Institute, 1949
Bombay

The Art and Architecture of Bruno Cassirer,

84 Hermann Goetz 1950
Bikaner State Oxford
 SANGITARATNAKARA The Adyar Library,
85 SARNGADEVA 1951
(Ocean of Music) Madras

Chatura
86 Damodara Sangita Darpanam S. Gopalan, Tanjore 1952
Pandita

The Holy Lake of the Acts of

W. Douglas P. Rama An English Oxford University
87 1952
Hill Translation of Tulsi Das's Press
Ramacharithamanasa

Royal Conquests And

Calambur The Indian
88 Cultural Migrations in South 1955
Sivaramamurti Museum, Calcutta
India and The Deccan

Bikrama Jit Dara Shikuh - Life and Visvabharathi,

89 1955
Hasrat Works Calcutta
Swami
Sri Ramakrishna
90 Ramakrishnanan Life of Sri Ramanuja 1959
Math, Madras
da

The Chola Temples of The Director

Calambur Thanjavur, General of
91 1960
Sivaramamurti Gangaikondacholapuram Archaeology of
and Darasuram India, New Delhi

Indian Council for

Calambur
92 Indian Sculpture Cultural Relations, 1961
Sivaramamurti
New Delhi

Manmohan The NATYASASTRA ascribed Asiatic Society of

93 1961
Ghosh to Bharata Muni Bengal, Calcutta

Directorate, District
Rajasthan Distict Gazetteers Gazetteers,
94 K.K. Sehgal 1962
- Bikaner Government of
Rajasthan, Jaipur

Karnatak
Purandara and the Haridasa
95 M.V. Krishna Rao University, 1966
Movement
Dharwar
 George Allen &
96 B.K.S. Iyengar Light on Yoga - Yoga Dipika 1966
Unwin Ltd, London

The Srirangam
Sri Venkateswara
97 Temple - Art and Dr. V.N. Hari Rao 1967
University, Tirupati
Architecture

Chowkhamba
The Aesthetic Experience
98 Raniero Gnoli Sanskrit Series, 1968
According To Abhinavagupta
Varanasi

Pengiun Books,
99 A.K. Ramanujan Speaking of Siva 1973
England

Andhra Pradesh
Government
Komaleswarapur Enugula Veeraswamy's Oriental
100 am Srinivasa Journal ( Kasiyatra Charitra Manuscripts 1973
Pillai ) Library & Research
Institute,
Hyderabad

Studies In Indian Temple American Institute

101 Pramod Chandra 1975
Architecture of Indian Studies

Swami Yoga Publications

102 Satyananda Yoga Nidra Trust, Munger, 1976
Saraswati Bihar

Ramo Vigrahavan Dharmah :

Calambur Kanak Publications,
103 Rama Embodiment of 1980
Sivaramamurti New Delhi
Righteousness

Calambur Rishis in Indian Art and Kanak Publications,

104 1981
Sivaramamurti Literature New Delhi
 Director of
Sri Ahobila
Archaeology and
105 P. Sitapati Narasimhaswamy Temple - A 1982
Museums,
Temple Monograph
Hyderabad

Gandhi
106 M.Arunachalam The Saiva Saints Vidyalayam, 1985
Tiruchitrambalam

A Study of Abhinavabharati
on Bharata's Natyasastra Gian Publishing
107 Manjul Gupta 1987
And Avaloka on House, New Delhi
Dhananjaya's Dasarupaka

Sahitya Akademi,
108 G.T. Deshpande Abhinava Gupta 1989
New Delhi
 List of Manuscripts (https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.org)
Year of
S. No. Source Manuscripts
Pub.

Pakistan Declaration (titled Now or Never; Are We to

1 Choudhary Rahmat Ali, 1933
Live or Perish Forever?)

Gandhi's 1942 Letter to FDR, Asking For Support For

2 Rebecca Onion 1942
Indian Independence

Los Angeles County The Susruta-Samhita or Sahottara-Tantra (A Treatise 18th-19th

3
Museum of Art (LACMA) on Ayurvedic Medicine) century

4 Tipu Sultan's Qur'an

Manuscript of the Devimahatmya (Story of the Great

5 1603 ca.
Goddess)

6 Priest's Manual 15th century

7 Three Folios from a Book of Iconography 16th century

The Appearance of Shakyamuni (the Buddha) after

8 Hafiz-Abru His Death, Page from a Manuscript of the Majma' al- 1425
Tawarikh

Manuscript, Asthasahasrika Prajnaparamita, palm leaf,

9
painted, probably Nalanda monastery

The Mewar Ramayana at the British Library in

10 Asha Kasbekar
London

Hidden for 164 years, Mewar Ramayana paintings

11 Dipankar De Sarkar, IANS
dazzle London
12 Mahatma Gandhi's Last Will - September 23rd 1926 1926

Archives of the British Death Certificate of Indian freedom fighter - Bhagat

13 1931
Government in India Singh Date: 1931

Miniature of Rama, Sita, Laksmana and Hanuman

14 Wellcome Library, London
from the Rama-carita-manasa of Tulasidas

15 Wellcome Library, London Rama-carita-manasa by Tulasidasa

16 Firman of the Emperor Aurangzeb Mughal dynasty

Page of text from the Susruta Samhita, an ayurvedic

17 Wellcome Library, London textbook, on various surgical procedures and surgical
instruments.

Page from a large Qur?an in kufic script Asia, late 8th

18
century - early 9th century AD

19 Selections from the Guru Granth Sahib - 1603

Manuscript of 'Sons of the Sea', a setting of a poem by

20
Sarojini Naidu (c.1910)

Samgrahanisutra or Samgrahaniratna; Trailokya dipi

21
Rajasathan, 18th Century