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1934275256India: Survey of India 1934. Colored offset Lithograph. Sheet maps 22" x 29.5".<br/> <br/> This 1934 pocket map depicts the plan of the Gulbarga Fort and vicinity located in the northern part of the state of Karnataka at the time Hyderabad State in southern India. Beautifully detailed the map notes the fort important roads lakes wells vegetation and a host of other topographic elements.<br> <br> Originally built by Raja Gulchand a feudatory of the Warangal Kakatiyas it was further fortified and enlarged in 1327 by Sultan Al-ud-din Bahmani of Bahmani Sultanate in 1327 and Adil Shah. Various monuments such as mosques palaces tombs and other structures were also built. Most notable of these is the Jami Masjid built on the lines of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain is one of the first mosques in southern India. The fort remained the capital of the Bahmani Kingdom until 1424. Later the fort would be razed by the Vijaynagar Emperor and subsequently rebuilt by Yusuf Adil Shah the founder of the Bujapur Sultanate.<br> <br> This map was published under the authority of Brigadier H. J. Couchman Surveyor General of India. It is in good condition with minor wear along the original folds and some offsetting. The map is lined with silk.<br/> <br/> Survey of India unknown
19748481New Delhi, National Museum,, 1974. 1. edition 417 pages, with many plates. Folio Orig-Cloth, very nice copy.
19083165Freiburg IM Breisgau: Herdersche Verlagshandlung. 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Extremely light rubbing to outer spine hinges and to top and bottom spine. Else NF; An outstandingly beautiful set. Decorative sandy boards with gilt lettering and pictorial design in color. Marbled edges. Handsome endpapers with green design. Numerous plates from photographs. Index. Both volumes with rear fold-out map in color; 8vo; 456 403 pages . Herdersche Verlagshandlung hardcover
1929151011929. This 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. At the time that this description was written there are no copies of this work in American institutions and OCLC search results are at best an estimate that can vary over time.<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
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. Printed at the Photo-Litho. Office, Survey of India paperback
192550625Berlin, Leonhard Prais, (1925). 104 TextS. mt 34 Textabb. sowie 176 s/w FotoTaf. Folio. Weinrotes OLn. m. goldgeprägt. Titel.
1967510373Oxford University Press 1967. Leather. NEAR FINE. Large 8vo 10.5x8.1.25' India Paper Smyth-sewn and bound in brown GENUINE COWHIDE leather gilt edges gilt-tooled turn-ins place ribbon thumb indexed dual column with center-column references and footer notes. Large print with generous spacing and wide margins for notes. Owner's name imprinted to front cover pristine otherwise dedication blank entirely clean and sharp with no markings and crisp unused pages. A very uncommon setting. Oxford University Press unknown
191121630London: A & C Black. 1911. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Minute tears to spine ends. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Mild occasional foxing.; Dark red boards with ornate design in blue light red and yellow. Gilt lettering and top edge gilt. 70 color illustrations from watercolors by Major E. Molyneux. Folding map of Kashmir Valley at rear. 20 Shilling Series. Inman 49.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xv 283 map 4 pages . A & C Black hardcover
1906181023Mumbai. Circa 1906. Four silver albumen prints with pencilled captions on the verso approx. 7.4 x 10 cm fading and edge wear one minor tear but in good condition.<P> Group of private tourist photos taken around 1906 as captioned a street scene and one looking towards Dadabhai Naoroji Road with impressive architectural skyline and two of well-dressed European passengers on board a tug heading towards a "British India Steamer". <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker.<P> <b>When referring to this item please quote stockid 181023</b> . unknown
1929188537Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1929. Fifth iteration of this important collection of treaties and deeds sanads granted to the rulers of Hyderabad and Mysore collated by an "extremely industrious and thorough" civil servant who would later become governor-general of the Punjab. Only 650 copies were printed and 6 are held in UK institutions. Large octavo 256 x 180 mm. Tables in text. Contemporary khaki half cloth spine lettered in gilt low bands ruled in gilt brown cloth boards endpapers renewed. Marginal pencil and ink sidelining deaccession stamp on front free endpaper recto inscribed "Solicitor India Office S.W.!" on front pastedown. Spine toned short splits along joints at ends but stable boards marked and lightly refurbished at corners occasional finger-soiling in margins: a very good copy. hardcover
19101225E066Rawalpindi Pakistan: 1st Battalion 5th Fusiliers 1910. 1st Edition . Hardback. Good. 10.75 x 8.75 inches 27.5 x 22 cm. Red cloth binding. Wear to head of spine fading to boards page block is loose within the binding but fully attached. A little light foxing to tissue guards and plates. A few small marks to rear endpaper. Previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper. A collection of 21 photographs of the 1st Battalion of the 5th Fusiliers Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Includes group photos of officers and the various Companies including the Machine Gun Section. A very rare title. WorldCat lists only one copy at the British Library. Overall condition is Good. Size: 10.75 x 8.75 inches 27.5 x 22 cm. 1st Battalion 5th Fusiliers hardcover
193418613Macmillan 1934. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece 7 plates and folding coloured map; blue buckram Elliot family crest blocked in gilt on upper board gilt back blue top backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good bright clean copy. A PRESENTATION CPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. 'With affectionate and heartfelt gratitude to Eva Bell whose expert knowledge so ungrudgingly given has been of invaluable assistance in compiling this record of five eventful years of Indian history'. A scarce and important presentation copy. Macmillan, hardcover
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
193276366Calcutta & Delhi: Central Publication Branch & Manager of Publications 1932-1938. First editions. Fifteen folio publications bound in four volumes. Each part complete as issued. All bound in library buckram with gilt spine lettering. Bookplate pockets and small stamps to the verso of every full page photographic illustration with "Withdrawn" stamp. in each volume. The marking are actually less onerous than usual and the spine call letters were on paper labels that have been peeled away. A very clean and complete copy in humdrum clothing.Contains numerous seminal publications such as 'Explorations in Sind. Being a Report of the Exploratory Survey Carried Out during the Years 1927-28 1929-30 and 1930-31" By N. C. Majumdar #48; "The Ananda Temple at Pagan by C. Duroiselle #56; "A Record of all the Quranic and Non-historical Epigraphs on the Protected Monuments in the Delhi Province" by Maulvi Muhammad Ashraf Husain #47; Central Publication Branch & Manager of Publications hardcover
193363863Edinburgh & London UK: The Moray Press 1933. Thick 8vo. xi 1 279 1 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Tipped-in colour frontisp. 7 tipped-in colour plates all mounted on thick black paper numerous photo plates. Red publisher’s cloth white lettering on spine minor shelfwear minor rubbing to lettering minor soiling slightly cocked w/ d.j. printed on thick orange paper stock edgewear creasing dustsoiling couple minor closed tears still VG-/VG- copy. First edition of this gripping memoir of how a tea planter in India became a noted hunter of man-eating tigers after being mauled and losing a right arm and left leg below the knee while managing a tea plantation for Finlay Muir & Cowas in Goombira. He lost his job with the company and subsequently became a tiger hunter and artist. See: Mr. Strachan: Tea Estates and Tiger Attacks Scottish Business Archive University of Glasgow Archive Services Working Archive June 10 2013. The Moray Press, hardcover
191362084London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1913. Thick 8vo. xvi 2 216 1 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. 23 photo plates. Pictorial green linen publisher’s cloth gilt illustration front cover of tiger attacking elephant and hunter gilt lettering front cover & spine very slight bumping to couple corners minor shelfwear slight foxing to fore-edges w/ d.j. dark gray-green paper illust. repeated on front cover in blue blue lettering VG/NF copy w/ “Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge†prize bookplate on front pastedown to F.H. Giltrap of Mountjoy School in 1914. Second edition of this informative memoir drawn from personal interviews experiences and notebooks of big game hunter and late Inspector General of Police Bombay Digby Davies as well as the author’s own sporting experiences. At the time he had been specifically requested to eliminate all personal names and references in the incidents with Davies whom Gouldsbury would specifically mention in the follow-up “Tiger Slayer by Order†1915. Gouldsbury writes of numerous encounters with tigers in his own adventures hunting from elephant back and machans as well as leopards and maruading elephants with additional references to bison ibex and others. Davies relates his time serving during the Sepoy Mutiny work as a sporting inspector and specifically hunting down tigers elephants and others endangering villagers and livestock. One chapter specifically mentions hunting a 419 lb. tiger stretching over 10 feet 7 inches from nose to end of tail and standing 3 1/2 feet which had terrorized villagers killing cattle across Bengal. Very rare in original dustjacket. Chapman & Hall, Ltd., hardcover
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
1980318087Survey of India Offices 1980. unbound. Map. Colored offset lithograph. Hyderabad Guide Map image size 31.5 x 44.5 inches Bus Routes image size 30 x 21.5 inches verso. Sheet size 35 x 46.5 inches. Both Hyderabad Guide and Bus Routes Maps both show some repairs to tears along original folds and some light staining. Guide Map is backed with sturdy paper to support Bus Routes map.<br/> <br/> Detailed key for Hyderabad Guide Map Second edition includes extensive list of places of interest including galleries cinemas offices and cultural centers among others. Bus routes supplied by Andhra Pradesh State Road Corporation up to date to June 1977.<br/> <br/> Survey of India Offices unknown
1919161811919. Maternity India Archive of 9 pieces from the League of Child Welfare and 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." <br /> <br /> Also included is "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 objec:<br /> 1Domestic sanitation <br /> 2 Education of mothers in all that concerns their own health and that of their children<br /> 3 Training of health visitors and nurses." <br /> <br /> At the time that this description is being written no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. Archive also includes 7 Letter to the donors. unknown
1908011015Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing India 1908. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measures 22.5x14.5.cm. xxxv 573pp folding coloured map xxxiv 524pp foloding coloured map. Bound in original publishers cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed nicked on head and tail of spines library label on top boards. Bindings in good condition. Internally very occasional library stamp or mark about 10 to each volumel . Pages in good clean condition. A good set. Cloth. Good Plus. 8vo. Superintendent of Government Printing India Hardcover
190117250London: Samson Low Marston and Company. 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Moderate rubbing to boards. ; Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and gilt tea leaf. All edges gilt. Profusely illustrated. A handsome copy with tight binding; 8vo; 476 pages . Samson Low, Marston and Company hardcover
