India
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# 50295
Anon
British Empire Exhibition 1924. Jammu and Kashmir State Handbook
[London : s.n., 1924]. Printed by Norbury, Natzio & Co., Manchester. Quarto, embossed lettered wrappers, card endpapers, pp. 62, ruled borders, a fine copy. Extremely rare and substantial handbook for Jammu and Kashmir State published for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park, London, in 1924. The Exhibition ran from 23 April to 1 November …
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# 48675
DE SOUSA, Antonio et al.
Lettere annue del Giappone, China, Goa, et Ethiopia. Scritte al M.R.P. Generale della Compagnia di Giesù. Da Padri dell’istessa Compagnia ne gli anni 1615. 1616. 1617. 1618. 1619.
Volgarizati dal P. Lorenzo delle Pozze della medesima Compagnia. In Napoli : per Lazaro Scoriggio, 1621. Small octavo, sumptuous modern binding of red calf ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering, gilt dentelles; pp. 404, [3], [1 blank]; title with woodcut Jesuit device; a fine copy. An important collection of Jesuit …
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# 13336
Hay, John, 1546-1607
De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.
A Joanne Hayo Dalgatttiensi Scoto Societatis Jesu in librum unum coacervatae. Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Martini Nutij, ad insigne duarum Ciconiarum, Anno M. DC. V. [Antwerp : Martin Nutius, 1605]. Octavo, fine Jesuit binding of full calf ruled in gilt with ornamental cornerpieces; upper board with central Jesuit device, lower board with heraldic crest; flat-panel spine tooled …
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# 49427
ACOSTA, Emanuel (1541-1604), et al.
Iesus. Cartas que los padres y hermanos de la Compañia de Iesus, que andan en los reynos de Iapon escriuieron a los de la misma Compañia,
desde el año de mil y quinientos y quare[n]ta y nueue, hasta el de mil y quinientos y setenta y uno : en las quales se da noticia de las varias costumbres y idolatrias de aquella gentilidad : y se cuenta el principio y successo y bondad de los Christianos de aquellas partes. En Alcala …
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# 13312
Encarnação, António da (Antonius ab Incarnatione), d. 1665
Breve relaçam das cousas, que nestes annos proximos, fizerão os Religiosos da Ordem dos Pregadores, e dos prodigios, que succedéraõ nes Christandades do Sul, que correm por sua conta na India Oriental.
Impressa por ordem do Padre Mestre Frey Antonio da Encarnação da mesma Ordem, & Deputado do S. Officio. Lisboa : Na Officina de Henrique Valente de Oliveira, Impressor del Rey N. S., 1665. Small quarto, superb modern binding of dark green crushed morocco, richly gilt; gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers; pp [2], 68; early foliation in manuscript; …
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# 49285
TAYLOR, W. Cooke
A popular history of British India, commercial intercourse with China, and the insular possessions of England in the Eastern Seas.
London : James Madden & Co., 1842. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine with is rubbed), remnants of gilt lettering to spine, pp. viii; 508, internally clean, many leaves remaining unopened (a few have been roughly opened), a very good copy. With a detailed contemporary account of the war with China which saw …
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# 49968
[ABSOLON, John; GRIEVE, Thomas; TELBIN, William; HERRING, J. F.]
Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent Street, Waterloo Place … A Grand Moving Diorama, Route of the Overland Mail to India, on a scale of unequalled magnitude,
accompanied by a descriptive detail of every object worthy of Notice on that highly interesting Journey ; being the first illustrated Lecture of the Series to be given by a Society having among its Members some of the first Literary and Artistic Talent … … London : printed by T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, [1850]. …
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# 49980
Various
A rare collection of menus from Chinese restaurants in India, circa 1930s.
A collection of six rare menus, early to mid twentieth century, from Chinese restaurants in Bombay, Madras, Chittagong, and Rawalpindi, servicing expatriate diners, during the 1930s and the wartime of the 1940s. Highly ephemeral and evocative of the melting post of British, Indian, Chinese and American cultures just prior to and during the Second World …
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# 49236
Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ; WOLLASTON, Arthur N.
The Anwár-i-Suhailí, or, Lights of Canopus commonly known as Kalilah and Damnah
commonly known as Kalílah and Damnah : being an adaptation by Mullá Husain bin ʼAlí al Wáiʼz-al-Káshifí of the fables of Bídpáí. Translated from the Persian by Arthur N. Wollaston, M.R.A.S. London : Wm. H. Allen & Co., publishers to the India Office, 1877. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth over bevelled boards (spine sunned, flecked), recased, hinges …
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# 49931
DUMASIA, Naoroji M.
Jamnagar. A sketch of its ruler and its administration
By Naoroji M. Dumasia, with a preface by Dr. L. F. Rushbrook-Williams. Bombay : The Times press, 1927. Quarto, elaborately gilt-decorated blue cloth, edges rubbed, pp. [xvi]; xxvii; [v]; 261, numerous photographic plates, some folding, a very good copy. A scarce history of Jamnagar while under the administration of Colonel Kumar Sri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji …
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# 49737
DA SILVA PEREIRA, Adriano Augusto
Manifesto do Governo Provisional dos Estados da India Portugueza,
em nome de Sua Magestade Fidelissima, a Rainha, Senhora D. Maria 2a. [Drophead title]. Goa : Na Typographia do Governo, [1835]. Quarto (290 x 210 mm), later gilt-ruled half calf over cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; pp. [1]-[8] (last blank), 9-38; first leaf re-margined at gutter edge and with small restoration to upper …
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# 49591
SOUZA, Caetano Francisco de
Instituições portuguezas de educação e instrucção no Oriente. Estudios historicos archeologicos.
Bombay : no English and Guzerati “Job Printing” Press, 1890. Large octavo, early 20th-century quarter mottled sheep over marbled boards, flat spine with gilt decoration and two crimson leather title-pieces lettered in gilt; top edge stained red; original printed wrappers bound in (foxed, small crude repair at top of front wrapper); pp. [2], xvi, 346; …
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# 49554
WYLD, James
Map of the countries lying between Turkey & Birmah, comprising Asia Minor, Persia, India, Egypt & Arabia, and including the Black, Caspian & Red Seas
[Cover title : Map of the countries between Turkey & Burmah, comprising Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, Bokhara and India, and particularly contract dot show the Overland Route to India]. London : James Wyld, 1839. Engraved map with original outline hand colouring, dissected and laid on linen, 78.5 x 108 cms, a few light stains, printed …
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# 49322
[PHAROAH, J. B., publisher]
The Madras New Almanac, General Directory and Register for 1841
Madras : J. B. Pharaoh, 1841. Octavo, modern half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt lettering, new endpapers, folding frontispiece map with original hand colouring titled ‘Map exhibiting the present partition of the country dependant on Fort St. George into military divisions with the several stations of troops’, engraved title page with …
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# 49243
MARSHALL, Sir John, editor
Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization
Being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927. London : Arthur Probsthain, 1931. Three volumes, quarto, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth with gilt designs to upper boards, in the rare original printed dustjackets (edges chipped and worn, a long tear with detached section …
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# 49512
CAMÖENS, Luis de; MICKLE, William Julius (editor)
The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India.
An epic poem. Translated from the original Portuguese of Luis de Camoëns. Oxford : printed by Jackson and Lister for J. New [and others], 1778. Second English edition. Quarto, half speckled calf over marbled papered boards (some paper loss), spine elaborately gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, etched frontispiece by J. Mortimer, title …