India

  • 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 East India gazetteer;

    # 45819

    HAMILTON, Walter

    The East India gazetteer;

    containing particular descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts, fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries, India beyond the Ganges, and the Eastern archipelago; together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history, &c. of their various inhabitants. London : Printed …

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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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