India

  • [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    # 48451

    [CLIFT, Horace William]

    [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    Calcutta : printed at the Calcutta School-Book Society’s Press, and sold at their Depository, Circular Road, 1846. Sixth edition. Octavo (177 x 110 mm), original plum cloth (faded and with scattered stains); ownership inscription to front free endpaper: ‘R. Moore of the 1 Company 6 Bn. Bengal Artillery Feby. 12 the [sic] 1857 Anno Domino …

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  • Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java.

    # 48537

    "CRINGLE, Tom" [WALKER, William, 1838 - 1908]

    Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java.

    A series of letters reprinted from the “Times of India”. Bombay : printed and published at the “Times of India” Office, 1865. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered red cloth (rubbed and flecked), armorial bookplate of Francis Edward Stewart to front pastedown, wet stamp of Thomas Alexander of Melbourne, half-title, pp. vii; 273; a few finger marks and …

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  • The art of the north-east frontier of India

    # 48591

    ELWIN, Verrier

    The art of the north-east frontier of India

    Shillong : North-East Frontier Agency, 1959. First edition. Large quarto (280 x 215 mm), publisher’s decorated cloth (fine), in the pictorial dust jacket (lightly marked); map endpapers; ex libris of Lorna and Walter Lippmann to verso of front free-endpaper; pp. xvi, 211, with hundreds of photographic plates (15 colour) and line-drawn illustrations; an excellent copy. …

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  • The tribal art of Middle India : a personal record

    # 48585

    ELWIN, Verrier

    The tribal art of Middle India : a personal record

    London : OUP, 1951. First edition. Quarto (255 x 195 mm), publisher’s yellow cloth with black lettering to spine (fine),  in the pictorial dust jacket (chipped at corners and pine ends); pp. [16, last blank], 1-214; with 229 photographic plates (some in colour) and monochrome in-text illustrations; clean throughout, a very good copy. A scholarly …

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  • Large group of villagers with three European men. India, c.1880.

    # 48628

    [Photographer unknown].

    Large group of villagers with three European men. India, c.1880.

    Large form albumen print photograph, 220 x 280 mm; in good condition, with some very minor fading at edges of the print; on an early paper mount. There is no indication as to the location of the photograph. The large group comprises close to a hundred men, women and children. A picket fence on the …

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  • Cholera and its treatment on homoeopathic principles

    # 48366

    GHOSH, Radha Kanta

    Cholera and its treatment on homoeopathic principles

    (Based mainly on the results of fourteen years practice as a homoeopath.) Calcutta : published for the author by Berigny & Co, 1887. Printed by G. P. Roy & Co, Calcutta. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with blind decoration, lightly rubbed at edges, pencilled ‘Duplicate’ on front free endpaper, title leaf, pp. ii; 56; (3), a fine …

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  • The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition, and resources

    # 46524

    MARTIN, Robert Montgomery (1801 - 1868)

    The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition, and resources

    By Montgomery Martin, Esq., late Treasurer to the Queen at Hong-Kong; and member of Her Majesty’s Legislative Council in China. London and New York : The London Printing and Publishing Company [J. & F. Tallis], circa 1851. Six volumes bound in twelve (which are labelled as ‘Divisions’), quarto, publisher’s original gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth …

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  • Photograph album documenting experiences at a hydroelectric plant on the Swat River in Malakand District, Northwest Frontier Province, India, 1937-38.

    # 46820

    BESLEY, Richard Bradfield (1912-1990)

    Photograph album documenting experiences at a hydroelectric plant on the Swat River in Malakand District, Northwest Frontier Province, India, 1937-38.

    Small oblong quarto album (200 x 270 mm), original brown cloth over boards with string ties, containing 116 b/w photographs in corner mounts, 113 being in 60 x 60 mm format, with 3 in larger 115 x 160 mm format; the majority are captioned in ink below the image; very good condition throughout. This album …

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  • Kashmir. Indian State Railways.

    # 46442

    INDIAN STATE RAILWAYS

    Kashmir. Indian State Railways.

    Bombay : Times of India Press, [c.1930]. Tall narrow octavo (250 x 110 mm, folded), colour-illustrated wrappers; 16 double pages (each folds out to 250 x 220 mm); b/w photographic illustrations, large map; contents starting to detach from wrappers, otherwise very good condition. Attractive Indian tourist brochure from the late Raj. The text includes historical …

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  • Ceylon & India General Mission collection box, circa 1920.

    # 46050

    CEYLON & INDIA GENERAL MISSION

    Ceylon & India General Mission collection box, circa 1920.

    [London : CIGM, c.1920]. Wooden box, 152 x 80 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on five sides (one illustrated); surface wear commensurate with extensive use. The Ceylon and India General Mission (CIGM) was a non-denominational organisation founded in 1892. Initially its evangelical work was carried out among Ceylon’s Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus, but …

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  • Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.

    # 46034

    CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

    Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.

    [London : CMS, c.1920]. Wooden box, 140 x 70 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on one side illustrated with peoples from CMS missions around the world and worded: CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. SPHERES OF WORK: AFRICA, INDIA, CEYLON, CHINA, JAPAN, PALESTINE, EGYPT, THE SUDAN, PERSIA ETC. / METHODS: EVANGELISTIC, PASTORAL, EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL, INDUSTRIAL, ITINERATING, TRANSLATIONAL …

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  • The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.

    # 29393

    HUDDART, Joseph (1741-1816) (attrib.)

    The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.

    Also for the use of the country ships, trading in the Indian and China seas, to New Holland, &c. &c. Collected from the manuscripts, journals, memoirs, and observations, of the most experienced officers in the Hon. East India Company’s Service; and from the last edition of the French Neptune Oriental, by Mons. D’Après de Mannevillette. Being …

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  • Charles Rockwell Lanman, American Sanskritist, to Professor Max Müller, German Orientalist: a handwritten postcard, sent from Harvard to Oxford in 1896.

    # 44771

    LANMAN, Charles Rockwell (1850-1941); MÜLLER, Friedrich Max (1823-1900)

    Charles Rockwell Lanman, American Sanskritist, to Professor Max Müller, German Orientalist: a handwritten postcard, sent from Harvard to Oxford in 1896.

    United States of America two cents postcard, 90 x 140 mm, recto addressed Professor Fr. Max Müller, K.M., etc. etc., University of Oxford, England, with an Oxford arrival postmark of July 4 1896, and re-directed address of Spitalhaugh, West Linton, S. B. [i.e. Scottish Borders]; verso imprinted ‘C. R. Lanman, 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Mass. / Harvard …

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  • A Sanskrit reader : text and vocabulary and notes. (Lanman's copy)

    # 44770

    LANMAN, Charles Rockwell (1850-1941)

    A Sanskrit reader : text and vocabulary and notes. (Lanman’s copy)

    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1920. Seventh issue. Large octavo (260 x 180 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards; front free-endpaper with the dated ownership wet stamp of ‘Charles R. Lanman, 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts OCT 3 1921’ and fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘C. R. Lanman’s copy / for use in …

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  • [CIRCUS HISTORY] The Hairless Horse, Caoutchouc

    # 10829

    DAVIES, William (photographer); [SYME, Ebenezer & David (engravers), attributed]

    [CIRCUS HISTORY] The Hairless Horse, Caoutchouc

    [Circa 1872]. Albumen print photograph of an engraving, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Davies, Photo. Bourke St., Melbourne’, and printed text headed ‘The Hairless Horse, Caoutchouc’; the albumen print is in excellent condition, with a small surface mark at lower right edge; the mount is clean. We …

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