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186130491033 Norland Square Notting Hill 1861. 4pp. 12mo. Old folds. 4pp. 12mo. Born in Bombay in 1799 Duncan was the illegitimate son of the Governor of Bombay. Duncan's father's wealth enabled him to pursue a literary life and he published regularly from 1825-57. <br /> <br /> He summarises the work thus: "The object of this book is to enable those who have never studied India to acquire a knowledge of its institutions with the best possible expenditure of time." A book on India would be seemingly inevitable for a writer with his background yet the work described here was seemingly never published. unknown
186130491033 Norland Square Notting Hill 1861. 4pp. 12mo. Old folds. 4pp. 12mo. Born in Bombay in 1799 Duncan was the illegitimate son of the Governor of Bombay. Duncan's father's wealth enabled him to pursue a literary life and he published regularly from 1825-57. <br/><br/>He summarises the work thus: "The object of this book is to enable those who have never studied India to acquire a knowledge of its institutions with the best possible expenditure of time." A book on India would be seemingly inevitable for a writer with his background yet the work described here was seemingly never published. unknown books
1884223672London.: Macmillan & Co. First Edition. 1884. Two volumes 8 full -page illustrations including 4 chromolithograph plates two photographic illustrations tipped in and two black and white steel engravings xxxiii 332pp; viii 350pp the final leaf unopened original azure linen cloth-covered boards elaborately gilt with a cover vignette and highly embellished spine gilt lettered extremities a trifle rubbed and bumped scant foxing a highly attractive copy in very good condition. Foundational work on the Parsis for a Western audience by influential Indian newspaper editor and adminstrator Dosabhai Framji Karaka 1829-1902. . Macmillan & Co. hardcover
1835198166Paris.: A. Bertrand. 1835. Aquatint 27.1 x 36.3 cms; 32 x 47.6cms sheet trimmed including platemark margins outside the platemark toned and discoloured edge tears one encroaching on the platemark image unaffected small bloom of browning at the foot near caption the image a fine dark impression in very good condition. Tranquil river view by artist and draughtsman Barthelemy Lauvergne 1805-1875 from the official account of the Laplace voyage in the Favorite 1830-32. . A. Bertrand. unknown
1891173786London.: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1891. Large folding map 64.7 x 71.7cm map size 67.5 x 100cm sheet size with railway gauges highlighted in original colour three small tears without loss along the folds and two longer fold tears strengthened on the verso without loss the left margin of the sheet chipped with some overall toning but a striking map in good condition. Impressive large map from the exhaustive Survey of India with the burgeoning railway network highlighted in attractive detail. A lengthy gazetteer listing "Principal centres of traffic showing goods and passenger traffic separately and combined" is printed either side of the map. . [Her Majesty's Stationery Office]. unknown
1833LBW-1994Paris, 1833-1839. 272 x 362 mm.
1807PHO-454Paris,Le Normant et chez l'Auteur, 1807. 2 Vol. In 8° (200 x 135 mm) relié demi-veau vert,dos lisse orné , frises dorées sur les plats (ép.) 326 pp - 245 pp Bon exemplaire Description de l'Inde à la fin du XVIIIe Siècle par un ancien missionnaire refermant un plein chapitre sur les idiomes et dialogues en langue Tamoul. 2 Vol. In 8 ° 200 x 125 mm hardcover decorated vintage calf 326 pp - 245 pp Good copy Description of India at the end of the 18th Century by a former missionary closing a full chapter on idioms and dialogues in the Tamil language. Bel exemplaire dans une élégante reliure verte
1835125871835 cartonné bleu-marine éditeur (editor hard-back) à plaques spéciales pour le dos et les plats (with specials covers editor for the spine and the cover) in-octavo, toutes tranches dorées (all edges gilt), 22 illustrations d'après les dessins originaux de (22 engravings from original drawings by) William Daniell, 263 pages, 1835 London Bull and Churton Holles Street Cavendish Square,
184376121843 2 volumes (two books), demi-reliure bleu-marine à coins (half binding with corners) grand in-octavo, dos long (spine without raised band) - fers spéciaux (between the raised bands specials blocking stamps) - titre frappé or (gilt title) et tomaison (volume numbering), mors et coins à filets gras or (joints and corners with broad gilt lines), papier marbré aux plats (cover with marbled paper) - quatrième plat abîmé (back cover lightly damaged), tranches jaspées (marbled edges), pages de garde peignées à motif "coquille sur fond caillouté" (painting flyleaf), illustration : carte repliée in fine déchirée mais complète (torn but complete folding map at rear), naissances de rousseurs (beginning of the redness marks), 278+284 pages, 1843 à Bruxelles Wouters - Raspoet et Compagnie Imprimeurs-Libraires,
1817223216London.: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown. 1817. xxvii 565pp 2 publisher's advertisments; contemporary diced morocco the boards with an elaborate double-border blind-stamped and gilt-embossed rubbed at the edges re-backed mounting the original gilt-decorated and lettered backstrip 27 x 22 cms marbled fore edges marbled endpapers the title page rather spotted and stained scant foxing elsewhere with the armorial bookplate of J. E. Saunders Finsbury Square and the neat pencilled inscription of a later owner to the initial blank a good copy. Detailed account of the social cultural and religious practices of India during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Abbé Dubois a French Catholic priest and missionary was stationed in India from 1792-1823 and his manuscript was purchased by the East India Company in 1807 publishing this English translation in 1817. . Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. hardcover
1847770431847 Paris, Librairie Poussielgue-Rusand, Librairie Perisse, 1847-1854, 4 volumes in 8° reliés demi-basane verte, dos lisses ornés, XI-380, VII-416, 459 et 498 pages ; 1 carte dépliante (mutilée de sa partie supérieure par le couteau du relieur) dans le tome I, 3 lettres en fac-similé, dépliantes (2 dans le tome II et une dans le tome III) et 1 plan d'église à pleine page dans le tome IV ; quelques rousseurs ; petits frottis.
1870X114143Paris, Adolphe Labitte 1870-1871 Ouvrage complet en 3 tomes, iv,624 + 608 + viii,603 pp., 25cm., reliures cart. uniformes modernes et très solides (dos en toile verte avec titre doré), qqs. cachets sur les pages de titre, texte frais et en bon état, poids: 3.2kg., X114143
1842182100London W. H. Allen & co. 1842. Third Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original plain cloth. Professionally re-cased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Scans etc. on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 773 pages; Related names: East India Company. Great Britain. Laws statutes etc. Description: xiv 773 p. 28 x 23 cm. London, W. H. Allen & co. hardcover
189521117Edinburgh And London: William Blackwood and Sons. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. Light marginal dampstaining. ; The story of a hunting adventurer in India. Including a large rear fold-out map in VG condition. Numerous illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; x 373 32 pages . William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
1881511291881. Analytical Study of Punjabi Law India. Tupper Charles Lewis Editor. Wilson J. Editor of Volume IV Walker T. Gordon Editor of Volume V. Punjab Customary Law. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing 1881-1885. 5 volumes. Quarto 10" x 6-3/4". Contemporary cloth gilt titles to spines. Moderate rubbing to boards heavier rubbing to extremities with chipping to spine ends some hinges cracked internally clean. Ex-library.Shelf labels to spines markings to endleaves small stamps to title pages. $450. Only edition. A region with sophisticated systems of law and government the Punjab region was gradually colonized by Great Britain during the eighteenth century. It remained part of the British Empire until the end of British rule in 1947. At this time the region was divided between India and Pakistan. As these volumes indicates the British recognized the sophistication and value of Punjabi law and took efforts to comprehend and adapt it to English law. Contents: I. A Selection from the Records of the Punjab Government II. Statements of Customary Law in Different Districts III. Questions on Tribunal and Local Custom: a Manual for the Use of Settlement Officers IV. General Code of Tribal Custom in the Sirsa District of the Punjab V. The Customary Law of the Ludhiana District. OCLC locates 27 copies. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:778. unknown books
1890602131 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque demi-basane marron, dos à 4 nerfs, Emile Bouillon, Paris, 1890, XVII-336 pp.
184989449Agra: The Secundra Orphan Press 1849-51. First editions. Interesting collection of technical papers relating to the government of the North Western Provinces. Includes the description of a bridge built at Seoni by Major Boileau with plan; detailed plans for the cutting of a canal from the Sutlej at Tihara with excellent maps; an account of the "Oothaeegeeras" or Sunoreahs "professional thieves of Bundelcund" including a glossary of "Bolee" their argot; a important "Report upon the Tea Plantations in the North Western Provinces" by Robert Fortune noted botanist and plant collector for the HEIC; together with some revenue surveys of the region submitted by William Muir as secretary of the revenue board to John Thomason the lieutenant-governor. Attractive group of uncommon Indian imprints. Octavo 200 x 126 mm Twentieth-century blue cloth title gilt to the spine original upper wrappers bound in. pp. ii 66-108 3 folding lithographic maps with colour; pp. ii 213-250 folding lithographic map and 3 folding letter-press table; ii 251-286pp. folding letter-press table and tables to the text. Cloth clean and sound Patent Office Library ink-stamps to the wrappers maps and occasionally to the text light toning overall very good. hardcover
1874949F34Bombay: The Times of India Offive 1874 . First edition. Leather. Good Only. 8.5" by 6". Not Stated. The vanishingly scarce 1874 edition of the Times of India's illustrated calendar and directory to Bombay. A very scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and two further plates. Collated complete.A fascinating and informative alphabetically arranged guide to the businesses buildings statistics army and economy of Bombay and India at large in India in 1874 issued by the Times of India.Also included are army lists marine lists and civil lists. With a calendar of important events taking place throughout the year also present and tables of weights and measurements. With sixty-four pages of contemporary advertisements to the rear.With the stamp of the United Kingdom Law Society to the title page and one or two further leaves and with their name to the back strip tail.An impressively detailed reference work offering insight into life in Bombay in the 1870s. In a half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Major rubbing to calf of back strip and boards. Front board detached but present. Rear joint starting with board firmly held. Lacking front free endpaper. Frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with the odd light handling mark. Library stamp to title page head and one or two further leaves. Good Only The Times of India Offive hardcover
1900LBW-5968Germany, [circa 1900]. 319 x 416 mm.
1880027021Leiden 1880 E. J. Brill Hardcover
1874B7111Hyderabad India: Residency Press. 1874-5. Bindings rubbed interior generally clean. Binding: 1874 vol in printed paper wraps backed in green cloth. 1875 in publisher’s limp printed paper boards rebacked in blue cloth. Notes: Ex-library ink stamps on titles.<br>Very good example. Rare volumes on India. <br><br>1874 volume with errata slip bound in.<br> Size: 8vo. 240 x 150 mm Volume: 2 volumes. Category: Book Asia Central India & Ceylon / Sri Lanka; Residency Press. paperback
184128003112New York 1841-1848. Edge wear particularly heavy on the back strip. Binding is loose but intact. Minor water stains on the back cover. The ink blotting paper used by the owner is included in the back of the journal. Penciling on some interior pages. Missing bottom of one page. . A diary/common place book from New York in the 1840s. It belonged to a young woman named India Allen. Not much biographical information is known about India beyond the fact that she lived at 6 Washington Square New City. Based on her writing it is clear that she and her family comes from some means and moved within some very high social circles. The first half of this journal is mostly quotes from a variety of well-known authors such as Longfellow De Ponte Wilde and Pitt Palmer. The majority of these quote entries are dated between 1841 -1846. At the start of the New Year in 1846 India begins to record almost daily entries until June of the same year. These short entries detail her daily life what she did each day read sew who she called on and the events or dinners she went to. While they are short they are sometimes quite humorous. On January 3 she writes Went to a party enjoyed myself tolerably. In 1848 India goes into great detail about a wedding she attended in May of 1848 listing other guests and gifts that were received. Additionally around this time are some of Indias most emotional entries as she describes the death of her very close friend Fidelia Marshall 1826-1848. In two entries which she titled A Brief Sketch on the Last Hours of my Departed Friend and Obituary Written upon the Death of My Friend. These two entries in particular showcase Indias intelligent and reflective disposition. The rest of the journal is again filled with quotes from literature as well as a few recipes such as Cayenne Pepper Tea meant for sore throats. Measures 7 3/4" x 6 1/2". <br/><br/> unknown books
1843WRCAM45615Bombay 1843. 108pp. Later black morocco gilt. Corners heavily rubbed; library markings. Front flyleaf detached. Text clean. Good plus. An early Indian imprint printed for the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society at the American Mission Press with text in both English and Marathi. Not in Diehl. Scarce - a search of OCLC turns up only three copies at Yale Oxford and the New York Public Library though this copy is marked as a Library of Congress duplicate. unknown books
1828214811London.: John Murray Albemarle Street. First Edition. 1828. First Edition two volumes in 1: xvi 4 xvii-xlviii 632pp; full-page map coloured in outline 5 plates 21 wood engravings in text List of Subscribers etc. last blank; viii 516pp 5 plates 4 wood engravings in text contemporary calf boards scuffed sympathetically rebacked with the gilt monogram of the Church Missionary Society 27 x 20cm considerable foxing to plates & adjacent leaves with small waterstain to several plates in Volume I neat sealed tears to five leaves in the Appendix of Volume II otherwise clean with the label of the Church Missionary Society and of Kumars the Calcutta Booksellers to the front pastedown neat ownership inscription of W. R. Crocker to the front free endpaper a good copy. A seminal work describing India's geography and people with an interesting provenance. Sir Walter Russell Crocker KBE 1902 – 2002 was an Australian ambassador and he authored a well-received biography of Jawaharlal Nehru: "Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate" 1966. He was ambassador or high commissioner to eleven countries including India twice Indonesia Canada Italy Belgium Nepal the Netherlands Ethiopia Kenya and Uganda. He headed the Department of International Relations at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University 1949–1954 and was a Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia for more than nine years. . John Murray, Albemarle Street. hardcover
18442173Bruxelles, Leipzig, Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1844. 3 vol. in-12 de 324 + 319 + 327 pages, demi-maroquin noir à coins, dos lisses ornés, tranches marbrées. Bel état.
