Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar (2 volumes set)
by STAAL, FRITS (ed) with MACFARLAND, PAMELA
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Asian Humanities Press Berkeley 1983. 2x VOLUME SET, VERY HEAVY; tidy ex-library with minimal markings; quarto orange brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines and front, illus. endpapers (floor plan); xxxviii+716pp / xvii+832pp+2x methods for folding banana leaves in pockets to rear endpapers, illus., VG+ (no markings to exterior, just inside; aside from slight, unobtrusive soiling to edges and boards and very minor scuffing, and light tanning within, nr. FINE) in slipcases VG to VG- (light scuffing to both, with 3x fairly substantial scuffs to vol.ii's, library stickers to both, both structually sound)
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- Title
- Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar (2 volumes set)
- Author
- STAAL, FRITS (ed) with MACFARLAND, PAMELA
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Asian Humanities Press Berkeley 1983
- Keywords
- veda vedic archaeology fire ritual india india history religion religious philosophy brahman hindu hinduism spirituality books the size of which is physically intimidating
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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