[LIS-Forum] Rare Books Exhibition

[nirmala reddy]

‘Jewels of India’, The VIIth Rare Books Exhibition
The Bombay Natural History Society and Rotary Club of Bombay Seacoast are holding a Rare Book exhibition from 17th - 23rd December 2008 at Hornbill house, Opp. Lion gate, Dr. Salim Ali Chowk, Shaheed Bhagat Singh road, Mumbai-400 001. The Exhibition will remain open from 11.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. on all days except on 23rd December, 2008 (11.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.)
Exhibition is a part of the society’s 125th year celebration. It is a unique opportunity to see the rarest and finest books published in the last 200 years containing lithographs, paintings and old maps from the century old collection of the BNHS Library. The Highlights of the exhibition are Jonh Gould’s The Birds of Asia, Oriental Memoirs by James Forbes (1913), Memories of a Map of Hindoostan, published in 1798 and Indian Serpents by Patrick Russell, published in 1801. Most of the books were donated by Mr. Evans Fraser in 1925.


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