India

# 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 …

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# 49432

HOLWELL, J. Z.

Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan.

With a seasonable hint and perswasive to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company. As also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo’s, followers of the Shastah. And a dissertation of the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorrean Doctrine. London : T. Becket and P. A. De …

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# 49231

WRIGHT, M. J.

Three years in Cachar. With a short account of the Manipur Massacre

Edited by James H. Hartley. London : S. W. Partridge & Co., [1895]. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth (lightly stained), pp. xiv, 15-188, black and white illustrations Missionary life in Assam province, on the Indian-Burmese border, written by a female writer, describing the local population and wildlife. It also contains an account of the Anglo-Manipur War, …

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# 49162

RUSSELL, William Howard

My diary in India, in the year 1858-9

London : Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1860. Two volumes, octavo, publisher’s cloth, canted, spines sunned, lettered in gilt, pp. xv; [blank]; 408; xi; [blank], 420, folding map of Lucknow, 12 tinted lithograph plates, a couple of small stains, a very good set. A readable and detailed account of the Indian Mutiny by Irish correspondent for …

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# 49153

MODI, Jivanji Jamshedji

The Naojote ceremony of the Parsees

Bombay : Jehangir B. Karani’s Sons, 1936. Third edition. Octavo, lettered flush cut cards, cloth spine (some silver fishing), pp. [vi]; 17; (1), internally fine. Loosely enclosed is an invitation to a Navjote ceremony from 1969. The Navjote ceremony is the sacred initiation for Parsi (Indian Zoroastrian) children, marking their formal entry into the faith, …

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# 48881

MUNSHI, Ziauddin Gulam Moheiddin

The Bostan of Shaikh Sadi

Translated into English by Ziauddin Gulam Moheiddin Munshi, Second English Teacher Military Norman School, Poona. Revised by Rochfort Davies, Esquire. Bombay : Messrs. Home, Sorab & Co., 1889. Tall octavo, purple cloth (edges a little sunned and rubbed), pp. [iv]; 282; (2 – adverts), preliminaries lightly foxed, a fine copy. The Bostan (Bustan, or orchard) …

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# 50089

Anon

The Cyclopedia of India. Biographical – Historical – Administrative – Commercial.

Calcutta : The Cyclopedia Publishing Company, 1907 – 1909. Three volumes, complete, quarto, publisher’s half leather over buckram, edges rubbed and a little marked, gilt emblems to upper boards, gilt lettered on spine, marbled endpapers, colour frontispieces; pp. 400; (5); 390; (5); 502; (3), extensively illustrated with black and white photographs, a very good set. …

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# 49330

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, recent half crushed burgundy morocco, spine in compartments with raised bands, ornamental gilt tooling, contrasting title label to spine, new endpapers, preliminary blank, etched frontispiece by …

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# 48773

MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro (1533 - 1603)

Le istorie delle Indie orientali

Tradotte di Latini in lingua Toscana. Florence : Filippo Giunti, 1589. First edition in Italian, translated by Francesco Serdonati. Small quarto, contemporary card wrappers (joints strengthened), shelf mark from the Sir Thomas Phillips collection inside upper wrapper, early ownership inscription to endpaper, woodcut device on title, pp. [lvii]; 930; (6), occasional light foxing, a very …

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# 48558

Joannes Rutilius Sombergius

Epistolae Indicae : de praeclaris et stupendis rebus, quas divina bonitas in India & variis insulis, per Societatē nominis Iesu operari dignata est, in tam copiosa Gentium ad fidem conversione

in tam copiosa Gentium ad fidem conversione. Apud R. Velpium, Lovanii, 1566. Second edition. Duodecimo, seventeenth century speckled calf, bookplate to front pastedown, speckled edges, early owner’s name to title page, pp. [xxiv]; 418; (20); (woodcut on final blank), woodcut initials, very pale water stain, overall clean. Important Jesuit letters dating from 1544 to 1560, …

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# 48836

CABRAL, Francisco, et al.

Lettere dell’ India Orientale,

scritte a’reverendi Padri della Compagnia di Giesù. Nelle quali si scopre la grande arte usata da gli istessi, per liberar l’anime de gli infideli Indiani dalla potesta del nimico infernale, & ridurle alla nostra sant fede. Novamente stampate, & ampliate in molti luoghi, & ricorrette con diligenza. Venice : Antonio Ferrari, 1580. Duodecimo, contemporary limp vellum; …

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# 48538

Pimenta, Nicolau (1546-1614)

Copia d’una [lettera] del P. Nicolo Pimenta visitatore della provincia d’India Orientale.

Al molto rerendo P. Claudio Acquaviva… del primo Decembre 1600. Venice : Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1602. Duodecimo, modern panelled red calf, spine in compartments with gilt decoration; edges speckled red; pp. 86; title with woodcut Jesuit device, decorated initial; scattered light foxing, a very good example. First Italian translation (from the Portuguese) of the annual …

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# 48800

SCUDDER, Henry Martyn (1822-1895)

[PROTESTANT CATECHISM IN TAMIL] Tamil series, No. III. Sweet savours of divine truth. Vetopateca parimaḷam.

Madras : printed and published by P. R. Hunt, at the American Mission Press for the American Madura Mission, 1862. Third edition. Duodecimo, original publisher’s printed silk-bound flush-cut cards (lightly marked), spine with handwritten title Telugu text (in error, as this text is in Tamil – another major Dravidian language – but indeed a catechism …

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# 49394

BECHER, A. B.

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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