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16929Birth Control India 2 silver gelatin print photographs showing Rural Indian women learn about birth control in outdoor classroom. An Indian woman instructor from International Planned Parenthood Federation leads a demonstration on different contraceptive health devices. 2 silver gelatin print photographs. 11 x 8 in. Original press photos. Filing stamps on back dated "18 Okt 1965". Printed on the van behind speaker: "Van donated by International Planned Parenthood Federation / Imported through Church World Service". In 1952 India was the first country in the wold to implement a family planning strategy as part of national development. The same year the International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF a global offshoot fo Planned Parenthood with the broad aims of promoting sexual and reproductive health and advocating the right of individuals to make their own choices in family planning was founded in Bombay present-day Mumbai by Margaret Sanger and Lady Rama Rau. Educators would use vans such as these to travel around rural areas and teach women in makeshift classrooms-sometimes even outdoors as in this images. Crease to bottom right corner of vertical photo. Both in very good condition. unknown books
19061766London: Macmillan and Company 1906. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Octavo Ii 597pp. Blue cloth title in gilt on spine and front panel. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Light wear to covers. Lord Curzon was the Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905. Introduction by Sir Thomas Raleigh. Macmillan and Company unknown books
5114INDIA. Manuscript. 4pgs. November 12 1863. N.p. A manuscript of a poem entitled “Revelry in India†copied out by and twice signed “E. N. Liseâ€. “Revelry in India by Capt Dobney Royal Bengal Fusileers sic We meet neath the sounding rafter And the walls around us are bare As they shout to Our Peals of Laughter It seems that the dead are there But stand to your glasses steady We drink to our comrades Eyes Quaff a cup to the Dead Already And Hurrah for the next that dies…Cut off from the land that bore us Betrayed by the land We find Where the brightest have gone before us And the dullest remain behind Stand Stand to your glasses steady It is all We have left to prize A cup to the dead already And Hurah for the next that dies.†The last page also contains the ending of a letter. Lise signed the end of the letter and also signed and dated the bottom of the last page upside down. This poem was much published in under a variety of titles and authors but it was most likely written by British-Indian civil servant William Francis Thompson 1808-1842. It appeared in Bengal Annual an East India Company publication in 1835. The manuscript is in very good condition with deep folds and discoloration. unknown books
4503MAHTAB CHAND 1820-1879. Chand was the Rajah prince or noble ruler of Burdwan an estate in Bengal India. Document. 8 ¼†x 5 ¼â€. 1846. Burdwan. A dinner invitation from the Rajah of Burdwan. The partially-printed invitation is addressed to a couple and invites them to “Dinner … and an Exhibition of Fire Works†on May 11 1842. The invitation reads “The Rajah of Burdwan†on the top. Burdwan is a city in West Bengal India. It became the seat of an Indian noble leader rajah in the Seventeenth Century and remained so until the dissolution of British rule in the Twentieth Century. The Rajah of Burdwan in 1846 was Mahtab Chand. The document printed on thin pink paper is in good condition with a vertical fold. unknown books
501113INDIA EXPEDITIONARY FORCE "A". The Indian Corps and The Indian Cavalry Corps 1914-1933 First Reunion Dinner Delhi February 17 1933. Large 8vo 4 pages with 4 tipped-in photographs. Stiff cream wraps with original blue ties. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
19562222157<p>First edition so stated. Octavo. Portrait; map. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped designed by Gilbert Etheredge. Very good. 511 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Housed in a custom red morocco and matching cloth slipcase and cloth wraparound.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1974298588Delhi: Vidya Chitrprakashan 1974. unbound. Map. Offset lithograph. 40 x 29 1/2 inches.<br/><br/> Colorful map of Tamil Nadu with 3 inset data maps on power minerals and agriculture. Tamil Nadu a South Indian state is famed for its Dravidian-style Hindu temples. Railroads broad gage and narrow gage are noted. Folded as issued with some wear along the folds and booklet cover tattered around the edges. Hard to find.<br/><br/> Vidya Chitrprakashan unknown books
190157883Bristol: June 29 1901. Quarto bifolium mimeographed throughout; very good. A complimentary meal from the "foremen clerks and salesmen to the general manager Hon. Harry H. Shepard" consisting of "chowder clams fish fritters lobster stuffed loaf potatoes onions cucumbers tomatoes radishes bread assorted ice cream watermelon bananas coffee lemonade and beer." The inside spread details the toasts to be given to Col. Samuel Pomeroy Colt the president of the company 2 secretaries the purchase agent ex-Governor Wardwell and several others. The verso of the second leaf is illustrated with a flying beer keg and 5 ambulatory onions carrying a book beer mug hatchet and a clock. <br/><br/> June 29 unknown books
16541Stopes Marie Carmichael. On some aspects of contraception for Indian women. London: Published by the Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control 1952. Fourth edition. Original paper wrappers. 8 ½ x 5 ½ in. Staple bound. 6 pages. Collection contains her rare pamphlet "Aspects on Contraception for Indian Women" No known copy in any library or institutional collections as per OCLC Worldcat.<br/>. <br/><br/>Marie Stopes's work as a scientist and activist has aided women in gaining reproductive education in Britain and worldwide as she had campaigned to increase women's access to contraception. In this volume Stopes provides women of India with medically safe and proven options for contraception using readily accessible household items. Publishing the piece after the 1952 Indian conference that resulted in the founding of Sanger's International Planned Parenthood Federation Stopes states that "Indian women should want to know about methods by which they can safely control conception" and that "properly trained medical men and women and qualified midwives should receive technical instruction .in the art of choosing the right contraceptive and fitting it for each patient." Small closed tear on right top edge small loss to upper right corner. Very good condition. No known copy in any library or institutional collections as per OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
4109GANGA SINGH 1880-1943. Singh was the Maharajah of Bikaner an Indian Princely state. He was a politician of British India and also a highly-decorated military commander. TL. 3pgs. February 24 1922. Lallgarh Bikaner Rajputana. A lengthy typed memorandum concerning the economy of British India. It came from Maharajah Gogna Singh of Bikaner but was not signed by him. Addressed to another prince the letter deals with a number of economic issues faced by the Indian Fiscal Commission. “Your Highness In continuation of paragraph 5 of my circular letter No. 16 dated the 6th January 1922 I am forwarding to Your Highness a copy of the Memorandum which has been prepared by the Committee of Ministers appointed to deal with the fiscal question falling within the purview of the Indian Fiscal Commission from the point of view of the Indian States. 2. The consideration of the question as to what action is to be taken with regard to the Memorandum came up for discussion at the Informal Meeting held at Delhi on the 19th February 1922 when it was decided that the Chancellor should be authorised to approach the Government of India on behalf of Their Highnesses with the request that the Chamber of Princes should be consulted before any final action is taken by the Government of India on the report of the Fiscal Commission. It was further the sense of the meeting that it was not desirable that any representation be sent or any witnesses should appear before the Fiscal Commission on behalf of Their Highnesses in their united capacity; but to obviate the Fiscal Commission arriving at conclusions which may be one-sided if none of the States put forward their standpoint it was proposed by His Highness the Maharajah Scindia of Gwalior and agreed to by the Princes present that instead of forwarding the Memorandum on behalf of the Princes jointly it was preferable to ask one or two Ministers of the more senior States to offer themselves as witnesses to be examined by the Fiscal Commission and that those States which agreed in general with the views contained in the memorandum be invited if they so desired and the proposal met with their approval to authorize such witnesses to say that such States were in general agreement with the Ministers’ Memorandum. 3. In accordance with this suggestion Their Highnesses of:-- 1. Gwalior 2. Bikaner 3. Palanput 4. Wankaner and 5. Limbdi. Agreed that Mr. Mannubhai Nandshanker Mehta Chief Minister Baroda and Colonel Kailash Narain Haksar Political Member of Council Gwalior should be authorized on their behalf to express the general approval of the Rulers and Governments concerned to the views embodied in the report of the Ministers. 4. As already made clear it is of course entirely for Your Highness to accept or reject the views contained in the Memorandum or take such other action as Your Highness may consider necessary. The object as stated in para 5 of my circular No. 16 was to offer facilities for the preparation of the case on behalf of your own State should Your Highness desire to represent your case by means of a note or to send a Minister to appear before the Commission. 5. In case Your Highness is in general agreement with the views expressed in the Memorandum and if you deem it advisable I would beg to suggest that Your Highness might also consider the advisability of authorizing Mr. Mannubhai Nandshanker Mehta or Colonel Kailash Narain Haksar by telegram in view of the shortness of time to say that they could inform the Commission that Your Highness’ Government was in general accord with the views expressed in the Ministers’ Memorandum. This would strengthen their hands in putting forward the claim of the Indian States to exemption from sea customs – a point regarding which the interests of almost all the States are identical and which needs no further comment here. 6. As Mr. Mannubhai Nandshanker Mehta and Colonel Haksar are appearing before the Commission before the 6th March I would request that the telegram conveying Your Highness’ assent should if possible reach Mr. Mannubhai or Colonel Haksar not later than the 1st of March should Your Highness be in general agreement with the proposal contained in the Memorandum. 7. The questions of salt opium and coinage which – though not directly before the Fiscal Commission – have an important bearing on the fiscal relations between the Indian States and the Government of India have also been dealt with by the Ministers. As they are however not covered by the scope of the questionnaire circulated by the Fiscal Commission it was decided at the Princes’ Informal Meeting held at Delhi on the 19th February to circulate the Note dealing with these subsidiary questions as a supplement to the Ministers’ Memorandum. Yours very sincerely GANGA SINGH Maharajah of Bikaner Chancellor Chamber of Princes.†Below the main document there is an autograph note dated March 1 1922 and signed likely by the recipient. “Mr Mannubhai N. Mehta having been authorized to state that we are in general accord with the views expressed in the Ministers’ memorandum this will be filed along with the accompaniments.†Mannubhai Nandshanker Mehta was the Dewan or Prime Minister of the Baroda State. The letter is in very good condition with several tears and holes primarily along the margins. unknown books
200851231Mumbai: The Shoestring Publisher 2008. Second edition. Limited to 5000 hand-numbered copies this no.2591. Oblong folio224pp; illus. Cloth boards; dustjacket; publisher's cloth slilpcase. With numbered signed print by Pasricha laid in. All as-new in very lightly soiled slipcase. <br/><br/>Monumental survey of the Indian subcontinent by the acclaimed Delhi photographer and author. The Shoestring Publisher unknown books
16500Mary Pauline Jeffrey. Dr. Ida: India The Life Story of Ida S. Scudder. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company 1938. 212 pages. 8 x 6 in. Original blue cloth boards. Signed and inscribed by author on front end page. Frontispiece portrait of author and 18 other images throughout.<br/><br/>Biography of Ida Scudder pioneering woman physician who founded clinics and medical schools for women in India. Scudder was born in India to American missionaries and dedicated her life to the health of Indian women many of whom were reluctant to see male physicians. In 1899 she was one of the first women graduates from Cornell Medical College; and shortly after Scudder returned to India where she started a rural medical clinic for women only. Within two years she was treating thousands of patients. Few pages have corrections or annotations in ink. Very good. unknown books
15101This rare pamphlet "Act No. XIX of 1929 Passed by the Indian Legislature.An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages" was a critical step in protecting girls. No other copies in OCLC Worldcat<br/><br/>Child marriage was historically prevalent in India where the International Center for Research on Women reported that 47% of Indian weddings in the early 20th century involved brides under the age of 18. Poverty was a driving factor in child marriage as families in financial straits could improve their economic standing by marrying their daughters to wealthier older men. Yet as other countries began making improvements for women and girls India too recognized the dangers inherent to girls' health and well-being when they were married and became mothers while still in their own childhoods. This pamphlet which is the only known copy according to OCLC Worldcat details the "punishment for male adult below twenty one years of age marrying a child punishment for male adults over twenty one years of age marrying a child and punishment for solemnizing a child marriage." While child marriage does persist in India its rates have gone down and modern India has joined the South Asian Initiative to End Violence Against Children SAIEVAC which adopted a regional action plan to enforce the marriage bans and end child marriage in and beyond its own borders. unknown books
4411CALCUTTA INDIA. ALS. 3pg. 8†x 10â€. October 1812. Calcutta. An early letter from India signed “R Burr†to his father Hudson Burr of Mount Holly New Jersey. Rowland Burr reported: “My dear Father This is the first letter I have wrote thee; From the Isle of France no opportunity presented that we thought would be before us. On our arrival here we found Several American by which I intended to rite but was fortunately or unfortunately taken ill of a Bilious Fever just before their departure which lasted ne upwards of thirty days since which I have done no business except write a few letter of business just as the Brig caravan departed. Thee was thought of but before I got through it exhausted me so much that I felt the effects of it for several. To the point we hoped to perform your voyage in Twelve months. Six rich Portuguese arrived with us & the market rose entirely out of our reach - we are waiting have heard of your expected Embargo four of those ships are done and the market is coming down. We have a very excellent prospect of getting our goods cheap after holidays which will end about the latter x 26 August. Part of this month we expect to leave here by the first to the middle of December. My prospects this voyage are justly flattering. Should goods command a high price at home it ill place me once more completely on my legs as it would enable me to payoff the half of our deficiency. My proportion; which I would most willingly do if commerce is open if I can work: In this way for a few years it would answer my desires which shall be limited to a competency. Octor. 12 1812. We returned from an excursion up the river having seen little to please or divert us on our way we stop'd at a Siccars of ours who has spent upwards of Dollars 60000 in erecting Te God Houses a Ghot or paved steps with an arch on the bank for the Accommodation of poor people to go to bath & get water from the river. Two small octagon pleasure Houses & Gardens for the cultivation of flowers used in sacrificing to the Gods & river. We found him busy in finishing his Gods for the celebration of these three succeeding days they were made of wax gandily decorated with tinsels of flowers of a great variety of colours Boorypoorja or was the principal two on each side of her their children near them in all 9 or 10 & occupy'd some 10 to 14 feet square the figures being pretty large. 14th. They worship but one God the supreme ruler of the universe who they say is everywhere & at all times of him they have no Image no man having seen him; the gods they use are representations of inferior divinities which are destroyed after the celebration is over - with the exception of such as are found in their principal Temples made of Bronze marble &c. the principals of their religion appear pretty much lost few of their priests understands much of what they pretend to teach. - I have not found to who the same a' c - & you can get little more from them than "so man say God do" - - - - 23rd Octor. Thy aft R Burrâ€. The letter is in very good condition with ink that has slightly faded and mailing folds. An early letter from India by an American. unknown books
178755010London: Printed for J. Derbett 1787. vi 1 21 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Later brown cloth. vi 1 21 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed for J. Derbett unknown books
1926D14301926. Very Good. Grey cloth over boards 9.75” x 7.5” with “Photographs” blindstamped on upper board; 23 grey heavy cardstock leaves 17 of which feature tipped-on black-and-white photographs 90 images in all most of them 3” x 4” though some are a bit larger or smaller with handwritten notations. Fine – a careful and tidy collection of photographs all neatly tipped-on labeled and dated by hand. <br/><br/>Images of Agra the Taj Mahal shrines palaces schools streets tombs Sikri Delhi Tughlagabad Lahore camel caravans Peshawar bazaars Khyber Pass Kashmir – to list everything in this far-reaching journey would be a disservice to the reader. Comprised mostly of landscapes and images of the Indian people some elements of the personal do crop up here and there: Our author is featured in only one photograph – he sits on horseback with traveling companions also on horseback and this 2” x 3” image is labeled “Self / Lottery Henry / Tommy Alice / The Wallaby” ostensibly identifying his friends and their horses; Henry will appear again tiny against a landscape labeled “The End Pavillion Chasma Shahi Henry looking for bear.” Where it is light on the candid it remains a diligent record – every image is identified and all are crisp and clear studiously photographed. A pleasing and unique volume. hardcover books
1928305460Berlin: Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag 1928. 1-15 taiusend. xxxvi iv 304 pp. of photographs. 4to. Burnt orange cloth. Fine in dustjacket with loss to upper front cover and a little on spine. 1-15 taiusend. xxxvi iv 304 pp. of photographs. 4to. Part of the series "Orbis Terrarum Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag unknown books
192979125Ahmedabad: All India Spinners' Association 1929. Hardcover. Good. errata slip tipped to page 19 photos 4 folding maps 100p. Later Indian 1/4 cloth binding. Original wrapper bound in. 21cm. Binding rather crude with no titling on cover. One of the maps split at fold. No jacket. Quixotic movement started by Gandhi to promote the manufacture and purchase of Indian hand-spun and woven cloth as a way to alleviate the extreme poverty of most Indians and to encourage Indians to boycott manufactured European goods. There were also 1927 and 1931 and perhaps other editions or printings of this scarce book. <br/><br/> All India Spinners' Association hardcover books
187538231Benares: Printed by E. J. Lazarus and Co. at the Medical Hall Press 1875. 1st edition. OCLC shows 4 holding institutions. Printed blue paper wrappers sewn. 1st edition. General wear & soiling. Spine paper chipping with vertical split along the entire. PO initials to rear wrapper. A Good - Good copy. 6 xi 1 blank 128 2 blank pp. Folding 'Sketch Map of Benares' 15" x 16-1/2". 12mo. <br/><br/> Printed by E. J. Lazarus and Co., at the Medical Hall Press unknown books
16181Archive includes 9 pieces from the League of Child Welfare and Maternity founded in 1919 by Frances Lady Chelmsford to ensure nationwide pre and post-natal care to women in India. In addition to 7 Typed Letters Signed by Chelmsford's assistants requesting and thanking donors for their contributions to the endowment there is an Autograph Letter Signed by Lady Chelmsford in 1920 to the royal family: "I wish to thank your Highness most warmly for your splendid contribution towards the endowment fund. Your Highness is always so generous to movements which have to their object the amelioration of the conditions of women and children." Also included is the only known copy according to OCLC of the 1919 pamphlet "Speech Delivered by her Excellency Lady Chelmsford" expressing her "desire to form an Association of all persons in India interested in matters which concerns health of the people especially of the women and children.threefold object-1Domestic sanitation 2 Education of mothers in all that concerns their own health and that of their children 3 Training of health visitors and nurses. unknown books
192385606Calcutta: Printed at the Photo-Litho. Office Survey of India 1923. Paperback. Very Good. 7 maps 1- 13-61p. Softcover in original wrapper. 34cm. Modest cover staining and wear. <br/><br/> Printed at the Photo-Litho. Office, Survey of India paperback books
1762239716London: Printed for J. Brotherton in Cornhill; and sold by R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall and T. Waller in Fleet Street 1762. First edition. 4 71 pp. Errata slip tipped to blank verso of second leaf. LACKING folding diagram. 1 vols. 4to. Removed. First two leaves detached. First edition. 4 71 pp. Errata slip tipped to blank verso of second leaf. LACKING folding diagram. 1 vols. 4to. Dunning's brilliant defence of the British East India Company against charges brought by the Dutch marked the beginning of his career as barrister and politician. " . of Dunning's great distinction as a lawyer there is no doubt. The obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine referred not purely conventionally to his 'amazing powers' . Shelburne wrote that 'all parties allowed him to be at the head of the bar . The only doubt was whether he excelled most at equity or common law. There was none as to anybody's coming up to him in either' . " ODNB. Kress 6007; Goldsmith 9776; Higgs 2737; ESTC T97097 Printed for J. Brotherton, in Cornhill; and sold by R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, and T. Waller, in Fleet Street unknown books
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. Inscribed on ffep"Mr David Smith/ with trhe compliments of/ Jno. W. Butler/ Mexico/ June 22/80. Nelson & Phillips unknown books
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 books
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 books
