Collection Items

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    Book/Printed Material
    Nei paesi d'Islam, in Barberia, in Egitto, il pellegrino d'Islam, El Yemen; impressioni e ricordi;
    • Contributor: Rossi, Giovanni Battista
    • Date: 1897-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 270

  • Book/Printed Material
    The shores of Lake Aral.

  • Book/Printed Material
    De Kalmukken; beschrijving hunner zeden, gewoonteen, gebruiken, enz. Nieuwe uitgave.
    • Contributor: Bergmann, Benjamin Von
    • Date: 1820-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 442

  • Book/Printed Material
    Du Caucase aux Monts Alaï; Transcaspie, Boukharie, Ferganah.
    • Contributor: Leclercq, Jules Joseph
    • Date: 1890-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 295

  • Book/Printed Material
    Kaukázusi és Középázsiai utazásai. Voyages au Caucase et en Asie Centrale.
    • Contributor: Zichy, Jen
    • Date: 1897-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Journal of a march from Delhi to Peshâwur and from thence to Câbul, Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshâwur and from Thence to Câbul is a firsthand account by a British officer, Lieutenant William Barr, of an operation led by Lieutenant Colonel Claude Martine Wade during the first year of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). The war began when the main Anglo-Indian force, the Army of the Indus, advanced toward Kabul through the Bolan Pass…

  • Book/Printed Material
    Ėnt︠s︡iklopedicheskīĭ slovarʹ
    Энциклопедическій словарь /     The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary was published in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1890-1907 by Brockhaus-Efron, a joint venture of the Saint Petersburg printer I.A. Efron and the F.A. Brockhaus publishing company of Leipzig, Germany. In 86 volumes, the work contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. The encyclopedia was patterned on the famous Brockhaus Enzyklopädie that was published by Brockhaus in Germany…
    • Contributor: Andreevskīĭ, I. E. - Petrushevskīĭ, Ḟ. Ḟ. (Ḟedor Ḟomich) - Arsenʹev, K. K. (Konstantin Konstantinovich) - Brockhaus, F. A. (Friedrich Arnold) - Bachinskīĭ, Vasilīĭ Filaretovich - Yudin Collection (Library of Congress) - Ėfron, I. A. - Shevi︠a︡kov, V. T. (Vladimir Timofeevich)
    • Date: 1890-01-01
  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 1861; title from cover. Latest issue consulted: 1868.

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Almanac for Hindu year 1871-1872] Title devised by cataloger. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Sanskrit. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1871
    • Resource: PDF - 2

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ ew gushakutʻiwn ōdotsʻ
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ     Annual Description based on: 1848. Latest issue consulted: 1869.

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 6. tari (1884). Latest issue consulted: 7. tari (1885).

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 14. tari (1873).

  • Periodical
    Haykazean ōratsʻoytsʻ ew lusnatsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 1866.

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Afghanistan, 1879-80 Afghanistan, 1879-80 is an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The war began in November 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India. The first phase of the war ended in May 1879 with the Treaty of Gandamak, which permitted the…
    • Contributor: Baker, William - Burke, John
    • Date: 1879
    • Resource: PDF - 86

  • Book/Printed Material
    Kratkoe politīcheskoe zemleopisanīe za obūchenīe na bolgarskoto mladenchestvo
    Kratkoe politicheskoe zemleopisanie za obuchenie na bolgarskoto mladenchestvo     The Brief Political Geography for the Instruction of Bulgarian Youth is the first general geography in Bulgarian. It was published in Kragujevac, Serbia, with the financial backing of the Serbian prince Miloš Obrenović. World Digital Library.
    • Contributor: Early Bulgarian Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Miloš Obrenovi - Plochev, Todor D. - Peter - Neofit
    • Date: 1835

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Śrīmadbhāgavatamahāpurāṇaṃ] Wrapped in cloth; encased in box (11 x 40 x 18 cm). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Sanskrit. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1884
    • Resource: PDF - 47

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Om he āryajanaho! Gorakshaṇa karo, yā peṭakā rakshaṇa karo, kyoṅki (Gāvaḥ pratiṣṭhā bhūtānām) Call for protection of Cows.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1890
    • Resource: PDF
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Athapustakapūjaprārambhaḥ On book worship in Hinduism.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 18??
    • Resource: PDF - 7

  • Book/Printed Material
    Reste arabischen heidentums,
    • Contributor: Wellhausen, Julius
    • Date: 1897-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 270

  • Book/Printed Material
    Über die Religion der vorislamischen Araber. "Beilagen" (Extracts in Arabic character from Yāk̇ūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh's Muʻjam al-buldān): p. [81]-92.
    • Contributor: Krehl, Ludolf - Yāk̇ūt Ibn ʻabd Allāb, Al-Ḣamawī
    • Date: 1863-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 108

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Qurʼān]
    [قرأن]     This 19th-century manuscript Qurʼan is in a Nashki script with diacritical marks in black. Nashki was the calligraphic style used for the most beautiful Qurʼans of the period, because of its small size and great delicacy. The first two pages are elaborately illuminated in green, blue, and red on a gold background. The titles of the surahs (chapters) are in gold. The borders are…
    • Contributor: McVicker, Charles C. - Ṣāfī, Aḥmad Rashīd - Balawī, Ibrāhīm Adʹham Gharbaldah
    • Date: 18??

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Lillāh al-ḥamd va-al-minnah kih nuskhah-ʼi mutabarrikah al-mawsūm bi-Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ
    لله الحمد والمنه که نسخۀ متبرکه الموسوم بتحفة العلماء / | /     Tuḥfat al-ʻulamā' (An offering for religious scholars) is ostensibly a tract addressed to the ʻulamā' (religious scholars) of Afghanistan, asking them to actively discourage the suspicion held by their followers toward things foreign. It was written by order of the Afghan ruler Sher Ali Khan (reigned 1863-66 and 1868-79). Little is known of the author, ʻAbd al-Qadir Khan, although he is identified as a…
    • Contributor: Khān, ʻabd Al-Qādir
    • Date: 1875-01-01

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Ghāyat al-shuʻūr bi-ḥujaj al-Ḥajj al-mabrūr
    / | ujaj al-Ḥajj | غاية الشعور بحجج الحج المبرور / | Ḥujaj al-Ḥajj     Written in India by an unknown author in the final decades of the 19th century, Ghāyat al-shuʻūr bi-ḥujaj al-ḥajj al-mabrūr (The utmost knowledge of the arguments for the blessed Hajj) describes the various observances associated with the Hajj pilgrimage. The introduction and the text are written in Arabic, but the main text is in Persian, as are two appended texts (by a different author),…
    • Contributor: Muntaẓir, Munavvar Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1873-01-01

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Hāz̲ā duʻā-yi ṣanamay-i Quraysh az Mawlānā Amīr al-Muʼminīn
    هاذا دعاى صنمي قريش از امير المؤمنين | Hādhaʼ duʻā-yi ṣanamay-i Quraysh az Mawlānā Amīr al-Muʼminīn     Text of the Shīʻah prayer of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib titled Duʻa-yi ṣanam-i Quraysh together with an interlinear Persian translation.
    • Contributor: Shīrāzī, Abū Al-Qāsim - ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
    • Date: 1808

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Monograph on Buddha Sakyamuni's birth-place in the Nepalese tarai In the 1870s, the Archaeological Survey of India undertook a series of expeditions to increase understanding of the early history of India and to further the preservation of important monuments and ruins. In 1896 German archaeologist Alois Anton Führer (1853-1930) received permission from the government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh and the government of India to carry out an expedition to Nepal. Führer…