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1877013743London: Spottiswoode and Co Ltd 1877. Book measures 22x14.5.cm. 675pp 2 folding plates12 folding plans. Bound in original publishers blue cloth with gilt title lettering on top board. Cloth lightly rubbed some abrasion wear on head and tail of spine. Binding in good clean condition. Internally pages and plates clean. A nice copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Spottiswoode and Co Ltd Hardcover
1892012276London: Printed for the Indian Government By Eyre and Spottiswoode 1892. Book measures 34.5x22.cm. xii522pp. Bound in period or early blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed dust/dirt marked library label on top board. Binding in good condition. Internally occasional library stamp cancellation stamp age tanning. Pages in good condition. . Cloth. Good Plus. Quarto. Printed for the Indian Government By Eyre and Spottiswoode Hardcover
1844INDIA014500John Murray London. 1844. New edition of a book originally published in 1828. Small octavo. Two volumes: pp viii 311 1 adverts; iv 304. Double-column text. Period binding of quarter tan calf with raised bands gilt rules green morocco title labels marbled boards.Contemporary 1845 ownership signature on each title-page. Covers rubbed at the edges. Spines rubbed and faded. A very good set. John Murray, London. hardcover
1898011601India: India 1898. 10 budget estimates of the Irrigation Branch for 1897-98. Rajputana. Baluchistan. Upper Burma. Lower Burma. Bengal. North-Western Province and Oudh. Punjab. Madras. Bombay. Bombay-Sind. Each section has a separate title page. 318pp in all. Bound in cloth backed printed boards. Spine sellotaped boards rubbed library stamp and number cancellation stamp. Although worn binding in good condition. Internally some tanning pages in good clean condition throughout. A good clean copy. Hardcover. Good Plus. Quarto. India Hardcover
181215101AB1812. 12thyear second part off 2. Leipzig Fleischer 1812. 13 : 9 cm. XVII 306 pages with engraved title-page 9 7 folded engraved plates. Contemporary boards slipcase. This volume treats extensive with India culturell economicly historical etc. The plates show landscape temples plants people etc. - Binding a bit rubbed. - Text in German. hardcover
1846007190London: Richard Bentley 1846 First edition. Decorative cloth gilt titles frontispiece engraving inside front board protective tissue. 527 pp. last page inside rear board. Two engraved portraits in total. Light foxing to prelims spine cloth separating at several points needs rebacking. Good condition. Richard Bentley hardcover
1889SZEPEBKS007501ILondon: Harrison & Sons 1889. First edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. - xi52111 pp. plus plates. - Contemporary dark brown 3/4- leather title on leather label on spine green boards marbled endpapers. - Small amount of foxing on some pages else fine - back of plates slightly browned else fine. - With 25 full-page illustrations by Baden- Powell on plates. - Considered to be the first book dedicated to wild boar hunting in India by the founder of the Boy Scouts Movement. - The first sentence of the Preface reads: "Pigsticking a sport second to none and invaluable to our prestige and supremacy in India deserves what it has not had for years a book to itself." - An excellent copy. Very Rare 1 Copy at the British Library 11/18 <br/> <br/> Harrison & Sons hardcover
189759126London Calcutta & Madras: W. Thacker & Co. 2 Creed Lane; Higginbotham & Co. 1897. Thick 8vo. xxvii 1 435 1 pp. plus xii 4 pp. publisher’s ads. With numerous plates text illustrations diagrams. Burgundy-coloured cloth gilt inset panel on front cover from original binding w/ original spine laid back down on spine renewed endpapers minor edgewear rubbing occasional toning still a VG- copy w/ bookplate of Albert Sayman on front pastedown. Third edition and considered the “best†edition of this fishing classic for South Asia detailing the angler’s pursuit of the “Mahseer†the chief of the Indian game fishes. Included are expanded and substantially revised chapters on flyfishing live bait fishing bottom fishing for Labeo freshwater sharks and much more all augmented with expanded illustrations. W. Thacker & Co., 2, Creed Lane; Higginbotham & Co., hardcover
1853911681853. House of Commons London. 1853. Tall sl. narrow hardback bound in plain dark moss green cloth. xviii 275 pages; vi 141 pages. hardcover
18161007220027Black Parbury & Allen 1816. Hardcover. Good. Black Parbury & Allen 1816 printing. 8vo. 1/2 leather marbled boards. 663 pp. Clean unmarked pages. Binding solid boards professionally reattached. Readable can be safely opened and used without fear of damaging book. Spine rebacked and missing part of the original leather. See pictures for appreciation. <br> <br> Sponsored by the East India Company the Asiatic Journal covered 1. Original Communications 2. Memoirs of Eminent Persons 3. History Antiquities Poetry 4. Natural History Geography 5. Review of New Publications 6. Debates at the East-India House 7. Proceedings at the East-India Colleges of Hertford and For William and Military Seminary 8. Appointments Promotions Resignations 9. Births Marriages and Deaths 10. East India Shipping Intelligence Arrivals and Departures 11. Lists of Passengers to and from India 12. Ship Letter-Mails 13. London Markets Prices Stocks etc. <br> The series provides a fascinating window into an earlier world of discovery imperialism and exploration. While primarily focused on British India the Journal connects seemingly disparate places and events from Cape Good Hope to Nagasaki and beyond and presents it for a contemporary British audience. The growth of American commerce in China in 1827 the news of the day from Bombay in 1829 Chinese musical instruments debates of the day dealing with the East India company a mission to Siam in 1822 an essay on the relative value of East and West Indies possessions early translations of Persian and Sanskrit poetry are but a few of the events chronicled. A must for all historians of 19th century Asia. Black, Parbury, & Allen hardcover
189619986Philadelphia: Pearl Publishing Co. . 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Hinges professionally repaired ; Dark cloth boards with gilt pictorial design and gilt lettering. Nicely INSCRIBED 1989 by the grandson of the author. Detailed color map of Punjab in front. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs and sketches. The observations in this book go far beyond the work at the missionary. Chapters include topics on the Indian Postal System Theft and Murder Educational and Medical work native life etc. Extensive index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 413 pages . Pearl Publishing Co. hardcover
1866MDIanIND15<p>Simla: Printed At The Simla Advertiser Press; Wallace Cotton & Co. 1866. 1866. 8vo. pp. 3 p.l. 70 1 leafads on orange paper. tipped-in notice at p. 73. contemporary half roan leather label on upper cover binding worn & rubbed label chipped lacking rear flyleaf. several contemporary ms. notes. Hardcover.</p> Simla: Printed At The Simla Advertiser Press; Wallace, Cotton, & Co., 1866. hardcover
184524004London: Samuel Clarke 1845. First printing. pamphlet. Good overall. 8vo 118pp. Disbound but complete. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library with their stamp on the title page.<br /> <br /> An Indian murder tried under British law in which Parsi defendants were accused of murdering another Parsi adherents of Zoroastrianism in Bombay with a rapid and harsh sentence meant to instill fear of British law and punishment in the local people. <br /> <br /> The trial was held at the Supreme Court before the British Chief Justice of Bombay Sir Henry Roper. The all European jury produced a guilty verdict against ten of the eighteen with 8 acquitted. The Chief Justice sentenced 6 of the 10 to transportation for life to Singapore due to a mercy appeal from the jury but sentenced the remaining four to be hanged. <br /> OCLC: 563643483 2 copies British Library. Samuel Clarke unknown
187724159Bangalore India 1877. Very good condition. Four large albumen photographs with pen and ink decoration surrounding them of the famed Victorian light cavalry regiment known as the Hussars in India. <br /> <br /> The albumen photographs on the front are: a portrait of three relaxed officers lounging in uniform on the terrace of a colonial building in India captioned in ink in a period hand "McBurn Capt. Malone and Hon.ble H. G. Gough". The two men at the left wear small round caps; the man at the right sits with one leg flung over the arm of his chair. <br /> <br /> The second image is a large group portrait of the regiment in civilian dress including wives and Indian servants at the colonnaded facade of an imposing building captioned "XIV Hussars Group Mess House Bangalore 1877". Below this image an unidentified member of the regiment and his wife are portrayed in a charming pen and ink cartoon of the couple in a row boat with a clipped photo of their faces pasted in.<br /> <br /> On the verso an impressive private residence with British women waiting in a horse drawn carriage at the portico and Indian servants is captioned in period ink "General Macintyre's House Secunderabad". Below is another image of a grand residence with a curved façade on which is painted a sign "The Deanery 1877". It is captioned in period hand "Mr. Dean's house. North Trimulgherry". Both of these large albumen photographs are decorated with hand drawn pen and ink borders.<br /> <br /> According to an autobiography by Edwin Mole entitled 'A King's Hussar: Being the Military Memoirs for Twenty-five Years of a Troop-sergeant-major of the 14th King's Hussars' the regiment's horses were being newly imported from Australia. The new hardier breed dubbed "Walers" were imported from New South Wales to replace the existing stock from England which was suffering in the harsh climate. Sgt. Mole was sent to Australia as part of a commission to supervise the breeding of the stock of "Walers".<br /> <br /> The four prints laid down on card stock 11 ½ x 18". 3 of the 4 albumen images 11 ¼ x 9; one image 5 1/2 x 4" unknown
181676421Bristol 1816. 8vo. Samtidig skinnryggbind med opphøyde ryggbånd ryggforgyllng marmorerte dekler. 158 s. 8vo. Contemporary half calf raised bands spine gilt marbled boards. 158 pp. Printed and sold by Philip Rose. Engelsk. <br/><br/><em>Ikke i Sabin. Uten portrettet.Not in Sabin. Lacking portrait. </em> hardcover
1826AA1372Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1826. First. Very Good. A very good copy of this scarce study of the origins of English words Rebound in brown cloth with gilt titles on spine Ex-library but other than the gilt accession number at the base of the spine and slight paste residue on the ffep there are no other indications of its library ownership Binding is quite tight and sound There is an ink inscription on a fly leaf from the author's son Major later Major General Thomson dated Montreal 1842 and a vintage newspaper clipping about English word usage is affixed to the same page Text is age darkened There are a few minor pencil and ink annotations throughout and on the rear fly leaf but no other marks or damage to text at all A nice copy of a very uncommon volume there were recently fewer than a dozen copies found on OCLC<br /> <br /> Major-General Francis Ringler Thomson R E 1794-1863 was the son of the author He joined the Royal Engineers in 1812 and served many assignments in France and across the Empire including Ceylon Gibraltar Canada and Malta A Major in Canada when he inscribed this book in 1842 he continued to rise through the ranks and was eventually promoted to Major General in 1856 Unpaginated but approx 200 pp. Oliver & Boyd unknown
1826L3 box764 b3v3<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 3. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 568 pp for Volume 3.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3box764 b3v4<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 4. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 583 pp for Volume 4.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3 box764 b3v5<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 5. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 624 pp for Volume 5.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3 box764 b3v7<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 7. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 566 pp for Volume 7.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3 box764 b3v8<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 8. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 640 pp for Volume 8.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3 box764 b3v9<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 9. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 575 pp for Volume 9.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1873316648New York: Nelson & Phillips 1873. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Three quarters crimson morocco and cloth sides. Fine. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Inscribed on ffep"Mr David Smith/ with trhe compliments of/ Jno. W. Butler/ Mexico/ June 22/80. Nelson & Phillips unknown
1828317758London: James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son 1828. Folding engraved map 15 engraved views. 4 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in half contemporary morocco and cloth. Very Good. Folding engraved map 15 engraved views. 4 vols. Small 8vo. James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son unknown
1900316898London: Macmillan and Co 1900. New Edition in One Volume. With 42 Illus. ii 601pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters mottled brown calf and marbled boards green leather title label. Fine. New Edition in One Volume. With 42 Illus. ii 601pp. 8vo. Macmillan and Co unknown
