India

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

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

    # 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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  • My diary in India, in the year 1858-9

    # 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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  • The Naojote ceremony of the Parsees

    # 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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  • The Bostan of Shaikh Sadi

    # 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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  • The Cyclopedia of India. Biographical - Historical - Administrative - Commercial.

    # 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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  • The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India.

    # 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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  • Le istorie delle Indie orientali

    # 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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  • Historia y anal relacion de las cosas que hizieron los Padres de la Compañia de Jesus, por las partes de Oriente y otras, en la propagacion del Santo Evangelio, los años passados de 607. y 608

    # 48659

    SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal

    Historia y anal relacion de las cosas que hizieron los Padres de la Compañia de Jesus, por las partes de Oriente y otras, en la propagacion del Santo Evangelio, los años passados de 607. y 608

    Sacada, limada, y compuesta de Portugues en Castellano por el Doctor Christoval Suarez de Figueroa. En Madrid : Juan Hasrey, 1614. Small quarto, later vellum over black cloth, spine with gilt decoration and morocco title label lettered in gilt; title set within decorative border, with woodcut Jesuit device and an easy ownership inscription; pp. [16], …

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  • 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

    # 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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  • Lettere dell' India Orientale,

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

    # 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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  • Relatione del Novo Scoprimento del Gran Cataio, overo Regno di Tibet. Fattodal P. Antonio di Andrade Portoghese della Compagnia di Gesù l'anno 1624

    # 48557

    ANDRADE, Padre Antonio

    Relatione del Novo Scoprimento del Gran Cataio, overo Regno di Tibet. Fattodal P. Antonio di Andrade Portoghese della Compagnia di Gesù l’anno 1624

    Rome : F. Corbelletti, 1627. Duodecimo, early vellum, lettered in manuscript on spine, ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to from pastedown, pp. 40, a fine copy. Antonio de Andrade, Portuguese member of the Society of Jesus, was dispatched to India in 1600 where he would spend over twenty years in sevice, including as …

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

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

    # 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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  • Relatorio sobre o projecto de regulamento para a Administracão Geral da Praganã Nagar-Avely :

    # 49593

    LAPA, Elesbão José de Bettencourt, Visconde Vila Nova de Ourém (1830-1899)

    Relatorio sobre o projecto de regulamento para a Administracão Geral da Praganã Nagar-Avely :

    confeccionado em cumprimento ás ordens da Exm.a Junta da Fazenda pela Portaria no. 39 de 1875, pelo Adjunto da Fazena Publica em Damão. Nova Goa : Imprensa Nacional, 1876. Large octavo, contemporary half green morocco over marbled papered boards (corners bumped), spine with gilt decoration and lettering; front pastedown with binder’s ticket of Viúva Caldeira, …

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