History of India in Nine Volumes: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, B.C.; ...to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great; Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great; ...to the Fa…

Complete in nine volumes. Over 3300 pages total. xvii, 341; ix, 420; xiv, 281; viii, 293; xiii, 369; xxv, 325; xi, 310; xx, 510; xiv, 344. 10 1/4" x 7 1/2". Tall 8vo. Original half-leather: red morocco spines and corners, red and gold marbled boards, gilt titles and decorations, gilt top page ridge, deckled page ridge, marbled endpapers match boards. An important and scarce set, edited by a well known American specialist in Indo-Iranian languages. Written by various authors, it covers the full range of Indian history from its beginnings to the time of the set's publication in 1906-07. Throughout are engravings and period photographs. Acquired from the private collection of Dr. Daniel Sperber, a prominent nuclear theorist and physicist.