Rare Books

The Indian Culture portal hosts a repository of rare books from various national and state libraries under the Ministry of Culture, India. It has a large collection of antiquarian or rarebooks in the form of digital books. The visitors can browse through a large number of vintage and ancient books from national and state libraries to read online. The book search engine in the.Indian Culture portal allows readers to search and look for the oldest books in India in multiple digital formats that are easy to open and read. These rare-books can be found in digital formats such as pdf and flip books which makes the reading experience a delight for the readers. Many of the rare books also have a feature to search through the text.
There are numerous answers to the question, what is a rare book? The traditional definition of a rare book is any book which has an enhanced value because its demand exceeds the supply, usually because of its importance, scarcity, age, condition, physical, and aesthetic properties, association, or subject matter. However, there is no clear-cut definition of what makes a book a rare book. Different libraries and booksellers employ different criteria to define a rarebook. The terms 'rare', 'antiquarian', and 'old' are not clearly defined or indeed distinguished and are used interchangeably to refer to such books.


"Autobiography: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, V. VII

Author: Robinson, Mary Charlotte, Charke

Publisher:Printed for Hunt and Clarke, London

Copyright: N/A

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42 Rebellian: an authentic review of great upheaval of 1942

Author: Sahai, Govind

Publisher:Rajkamal Publications, Delhi

Copyright:1947

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5000 Indian designs and motifs

Author: Mookerjee, Ajit

Publisher:Indian Institute of Art in Industry, Calcutta

Copyright:1965

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5000 years of glass-making: The history of glass

Author: Vavra, Jaroslav R.

Publisher:Artia, Prague

Copyright:1954

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A bibliography of the architecture, arts and crafts of Islam to 1st Jan 1960

Author: Creswell, K. A. C.

Publisher:The American University at Cairo Press, London

Copyright:1961

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A book of South India

Author: Chartres Molony, J.

Publisher:Methuen, London

Copyright:1926

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A brief history of the Aga Khan, with an account of his predecessors, the Ismailian Princes of Benefatimite Caliphs of Egypt

Author: Dumasia, Naoroji M.

Publisher:Times of India Press, Bombay

Copyright:1903

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A brief history of the Indian people

Author: Hunter, W. W.

Publisher:Morrison and Gibe,Edinburgh

Copyright:1881

64

A Brief sketch of the land systems of Bengal and Behar

Author: Atul Chandra Guha

Publisher:Calcutta, Thacker Spink and Co.

Issued:1915

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A brief sketch of the Zoroastrian religion and customs : an essay written for the Rahnumai Mazdayasnan Sabha of Bombay

Author: Bharucha, Ervad Sheriarji Dadabhai

Publisher:D.B. Taraporevala Sons, Bombay

Copyright:1928

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A calendar of the court minutes etc. of the east india company 1660-1663

Author: Sainsbury, Ethel Bruce

Publisher:Clarendon Press, Oxford

Copyright:1922

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A catalogue of a collection of Persian manuscripts : including also some Turkish and Arabic presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

Author: Cochran, Alexander Smith

Publisher:Columbia University Press, New York

Copyright:1914

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A catalogue of sanskrit manuscripts existing in Oudh for the year 1881

Author: Devi Prasada

Publisher:Allahabad, N.W.P. and Oudh Government Press

Issued:1882

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A catalogue of sanskrit manuscripts in Oudh

Author: Devi Prasada

Publisher:Allahabad, N.W.P. and Oudh Government Press

Issued:1880

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