Verlag: University of Calcutta. January & December1957., Calcutta., 1957
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
Principal Volume: Numerous black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 539pp, appendices and index; cream silk covered boards, leather label printed in gilt on the spine, some light offsetting to endpapers. Supplementary Volume: Folding map showing 'the Extent of Affiliating area of Calcutta University', black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 732pp index ;burgundy cloth covered boards, inner hinges neatly re-enforced. Both volumes: 24 x 15 cm; prior owner's name in each volume, dustjackets little chipped with loss at extremities, now protected, both are good, clean, sturdy copies. 'The establishment of Calcutta University marked the beginning of higher education in India and the century covers the period from the first indications of a new national conciousness to the attainment and consolidation of freedom.' Foreword.