xxxi, 366 pages : including frontispiece (portrait) ; 23 cm

Sva / by Sir George C.M. Birdwood ... edited by F.H. Brown.

xii, 247 pages, 1 unnumbered page, XCIX plate (including mounted photos. : frontispiece, illustrations, map, double plan, facsimiles) ; 34 cm

Tree and serpent worship, or, Illustrations of mythology and art in India in the first and fourth centuries after Christ / From the sculptures of the Buddhist topes at Sanchi and Amravati. Prepared under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council ; with introductory essays and descriptions of the plates by James Fergusson.

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