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59553Printed at the 101 H.L.O. Printing Group of Survey of India 1969. Extremely large colour-printed folding map of India and the adjacent countries 82 x 173 cm mounted onto linen with seven inset maps showing Density of Population Principal Industries Geology and Principal Minerals Orographical Features Average Rainfall Isothermal Lines and a small version of India and Surrounding Countries. Remnants of original paper wrappers printed in red still present to verso. Light spotting to verso only generally a very good copy of this large-scale map. First published in 1951. Printed at the 101 (H.L.O.) Printing Group of Survey of India, 1969. unknown
1860223307London.: Day & Son Lithographers to the Queen. 1860. Additional tinted lithographed title 39 tinted lithographs each with 2 pp of descriptive text contemporary half green morocco elaborately gilt decorated spine with raised bands red gilt-lettered title label pebbled green cloth boards 28.5 x 20.3 cms marbled fore edges and endpapers the binding a little scuffed and worn the prelims rather browned the first three leaves loose at the lower hinge scant spotting and to the margins of the plates occasional pencilled marginalia but a very good complete copy in a handsome binding. George Francklin Atkinson 1822–1859 was a captain in the Bengal Engineers and a skilled artist. He drew directly from his personal experiences in India and here he intended to offer a humorous satirical look at the lives of British colonials in India especially in the wake of the Sepoy Rebellion set in the fictional village of "Kabob" . The author's dedication is to the Victorian novelist and man of letters William Thackeray himself born in India and begs him to "accept this salute of my little craft as a trifling token of congeniality admiration and esteem". . Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen. hardcover
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190621207831906. Gale & Polden Ltd. London Offices and Warehouse Aldershot Stores Bombay. 1906. Royal 8vo. Colour-printed card wrappers; pp. xiv 31 four colour illustrations after paintings on 2 leaves of plates highly illustrated after photographs in the text; spotting to wrappers inside of lower wrapper with small abrasure internally very good.This extremely rare publication by the military printers and publisher Gale and Polden in Aldershot opens with the detailed schedule of the Royal visit from their landing in Chennai on the 24th of January until their departure from Hyderabad on the 10th of February and a visit to Ellora Caves on Friday the 16th. This publication covers only a small part of the Royal tour which in total lasted from November 1905 to March 1906 and we assume this sovenir was published for the members of tf the Army and Navy who where engaged in safeguarding and as entourage. The bulk of this souvenir describes life work and pastimes in Army and Navy.We were not able to trace any copy institutionally or commercially nor is this publication referred to in any text known to the internet. unknown
23438Simla 12 July 1917. One page 8vo small closed tear. fold mark ow good condition. With pencilled notes above the signatures and on verso identifying signatories. See image. Simla 12 July 1917 unknown
1913185139Lahore: Printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press 1913. The 1913 edition of this handbook with guidance on camping fishing shooting and other matters. Readers are also warned against felling trees for firewood and against gifting or selling guns to any subject of the maharaja not licensed to carry firearms. The Kashmir visitor rules were first issued in 1806. Institutional searches show small holdings of a range of editions but no copies of this 1913 publication. Small octavo. Original green hexagonally grain cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Spine sunned light wear a few pages dog-eared: near-fine. hardcover
190343874London: Adam and Charles Black 1903. First edition Copy Number 173 of 1000 signed by Mortimer Menpes. 100 Plates. The illustrations have been engraved and printed at the Menpes Press under Mr. Menpes's direction. 210 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Cream cloth some wear at bottom front joint inner hinges started. First edition Copy Number 173 of 1000 signed by Mortimer Menpes. 100 Plates. The illustrations have been engraved and printed at the Menpes Press under Mr. Menpes's direction. 210 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The first Durbar was held in 1877 to proclaim Queen Victoria as Empress of India. This is the second Durbar to proclaim Edward VII as king in 1902 but was not attended by the King either. It was not until the 1911 Durbar when George V and Queen Mary went to India was the Emperor and his Empress proclaimed in person to the people of India. Our authors stayed in Camp Number One called "The Millionaires' Camp." in Delhi. <br /> <br /> With an ALS from Menpes tipped in at the back. Inman #18 Adam and Charles Black unknown
1915231261915. Very good condition. A photograph album memorializing two trips made by an English woman Mrs. K. Haig throughout Europe then to India to visit her son Major W. de W. Haig a British officer and his wife. It concludes with "Pictures taken during the War at 'Louviciennes'" including an image of the Chateau des Voisins now the BNP Paribas campus. <br /> <br /> The first half of the album begins in 1909 with the departure of the ship "Yale" based in Bath with an American flag to the European continent. Another ship listed is possibly the "Bleucher". Places visited include Berlin Potsdam Sans Souci Dresden the Royal Gardens at Nieder-Siedlitz Munich Lucerne Pilatus Berne Murren Zermatt Geneva Lyons Avignon Arles Nimes Montpelier Tours Chenenceaux Chateau de Lude Aise le Rideau Villandry Fontainebleau St. Cloud Chantilly & Versailles. <br /> <br /> The second half of the album is entitled " 'India' From Pictures By Major W. de W. Haig". These include Kashmir Naini Tal Muktesar Srinagar Dehra Dun and the Khyber Pass. Major Haig took some lovely and at times atmospheric images of the people of India including a papier mache worker women grinding corn men sewing with a sewing machine on the curbside; candy shop in the bazaar Mrs. K. Haig "travelling in a 'Dandy' on men's heads" on the way to Muktesar wood gatherers a pair of men using a long bowed saw Indians in small boats at the shore of a lake surrounded by mountains. There are also extensive images of their bungalow at Lucknow and "Beaucaire" the home of Major and Mrs. Haig 31 Rajpur Rd Dehra Dun. looking very grand residences!. The sign at the Khyber Pass taken with their automobile states "It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghan Territory."<br /> <br /> The last 4 pages are photographs taken at Louviciennes outside of Paris the first a group of 8 with 5 identified as Mons. Fournier Major Haig and his wife Mdme & Mons. Gelis-Didot. Gelis-Didot may be Pierre Gelis-Didot author of "Hotels et Maisons de Paris/ Facadea et Details" published in 1893. He was celebrated for his architectural drawings. There is a picture of the "Chateau des Voisins" now the BNP Paribas campus. and then a series of images of tea at the Fornier's where the visitors pose with a massive bomb shell presumably to emphasize the fire power of the French. They appear content with little recognition of the pain and suffering soon to be rained down on them all. <br /> <br /> Albumen and silver gelatin prints 112 images of Europe generally 3 3/4" square and 4 1/2 x 3 1/2". 54 images of India varying from 4 5/8 x 3 1/2" to 6 x 8 5/8" with most 4 1/2 x 6". 14 images of Louviciennes 11 quite small 2 x 2 1/2" the 1/4 x 3 1/2". Captioned below and sometimes within the margin of images. Album 8 1/4 x 10 1/4" black original cloth gilt "Photographs" on the front board spine slightly faded. 50 leaves photographs on both sides of the pages. unknown
1945819981945. Varying sizes and formats the majority being 8cm x 5.5cm with some larger format images being no larger than 12cm x 8.5cm. The majority in Very Good condition or better with a couple of images having some abrasions to verso some marginal creasing and in one instance a triangle of loss to the border. A compact and informative group of images the majority with detailed verso captions from an American serviceman a long way from home.<br /> <br /> One of the most strategically important but now somewhat marginalized initiatives of the later stages of WW2 was the vitally important China-Burma-India resupply route. A phenomenal effort was made to ensure seamless movement of troops and materials in defiance of the ebb and flow of Japanese occupations and blockades throughout the theater of war between 1943 and 1945. <br /> <br /> Originally allied forces held control of what came to be called "Stilwell Road" running from Ledo through to Kunming in China via Burma this ground route proved subject to a number of issues not least of which was Japanese aggression so an initiative was developed to allow the air transport of vital resources between the rapidly constructed Dinjan airfield in Assam where our G.I. is stationed and the distribution points in China and Burma. <br /> <br /> This important piece of military and indeed civilian co-ordination was carried out by a number of units; initially the India Air Task Force the majority of which became the U.S. Tenth Air Force with additional allied units ranging from British RAF to the legendary China National Aviation Corporation CNAC. <br /> <br /> This collection includes an image of Captain Enos Claire Kirkpatrick of the CNAC captioned "One swell fellow" which is notable mainly for his participation in the gradual evolution of the CNAC into the Civil Air Transport and subsequently into the CIA backed Air America for whom Kirkpatrick flew support missions to Dien Bien Phu and a number of other conflict torn South East Asian destinations before his retirement in 1966. Very much a 'cowboy' operation during WW2 with a number of the CNAC pilots being ex- Flying Tigers it later became a more streamlined and well supplied arm of U.S. military intelligence. CNAC was also distinctive for being made up of U.S. and Chinese pilots and crew flying together performing 38000 missions between 1942-1945. <br /> <br /> A number of other units operated out of Assam during this period including the 443rd Troop Carrier Group the 44th Service group represented in this collection the 3rd Combat Cargo Group and the 1080th QM Quartermaster Company. Which unit our GI belonged to or was seconded to is unclear the situation at Dinjan seems to have been fairly fluid and informal with the risky and rather impetuous nature of running missions "Over The Hump" as the Himalaya crossing was referred to lending itself to some fairly esoteric variations on traditional military roles and conventions. <br /> <br /> An unofficial grouping of images with many of the photos seeming to have been sent to a sweetheart back home with brief explanations of the content. There are numerous depictions of things that would naturally fascinate a U.S. serviceman positioned in Northern India: the Nimtollah burning ghats temples the Calcutta racetrack street scenes in Assam and Calcutta snake charmers beggars small reminders of home like the Red Cross "Donut Bebe" who ran a truck offering donuts and coffee every other day on base the building of a company bar and rec room the eccentric 1st Lieutenant various Fakirs C-47 transport planes flying low over the river and the day-to-day of base life. <br /> Also present in the captions are some observations on Indian culture ranging from the complimentary to the mystified; our PFC clearly and unsurprisingly had no grasp of India's caste system and few reference points for the complex social structures through which he wandered looking for excitement and distraction. An additional point on this largely forgotten wartime effort is that it inadvertently assured U.S. domination of the post-war international airline industry with a large number of the decommissioned transports subsequently being sold off and refitted for civilian air use. unknown
18932305250019Roorkee: Thomason College Press 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Plate book of Indian Archeology Bound in publisher's blue cloth-backed boards. Scattered foxing. 47 pp. folding lithographic plan of Fatehpur Sikri 6 large albumen print photographs 24 x 17 cm mounted 3 folding lithographic plates of frescoes. Roorkee: Thomason College Press hardcover
1943234951943. Indian famine crisis press archive depicting hunger relief work and public unrest from Bengal famine conditions through later food riots in independent India. The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated three million people and food scarcity remained politically volatile in India for decades afterward. Street demonstrations over grain rationing and hunger drew police deployments in multiple cities turning food access into a public order crisis as well as a humanitarian emergency.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 7 silver gelatin press photographs mostly measuring 8" x 10" India 1943-1964. Crowds gather outside food distribution points children sit with metal bowls during feeding mounted police face demonstrators and uniformed officers move through dense street scenes. Press captions identify Calcutta famine conditions food rioters dispersed by police in Kerala fighting and fire in Lucknow and relief activity for famine victims. Typed captions identify "food rioters" being dispersed outside the Travancore state government house in Trivandrum Kerala where police and mounted officers filled the street after looting over food. Another caption describes Lucknow fighting in which "rioters set fire to about a six-block square" with crowds massed near burning buildings and shopfront signs. Calcutta scenes show famine victims clustered around relief vessels and feeding bowls with one caption stating that people had been "reduced to skin and bone" after food shortages. A street-side feeding scene shows children and adults crouched in rows with metal dishes receiving food from a man holding a large bucket.Verso stamps include Acme Newspictures NEA reference markings New York Bureau labels editor crop marks typed captions and publication dates.<br /> <br /> The group connects famine mortality postwar scarcity and street protest in India across a period when food distribution became a central test of colonial and postcolonial government authority. Press handling wear caption remnants crop marks corner creasing and scattered surface marks; overall in very good condition. A strong press group linking famine relief imagery with the public unrest that followed hunger into India's mid-century political life. unknown
1940232161940. British India photo archive following an unidentified man likely a serviceman in Mhow and Mandu during World War II 1942-1943 preserving a localized record of colonial wartime life through mess scenes sport staff bungalows named companions imposed colonial social frameworks and visits to the major Islamic monuments of Mandu. The captions place the central figure in the company of "Carroll Sahib" Ken Davis and other men in uniform-style dress while repeated references to the "mess" weapon training staff and cantonment-like grounds situate the photographs within a British colonial wartime environment in central India. The group shows one participant moving between military or officer-adjacent daily life and the monumental landscape of Mandu at a moment when India remained a crucial base of Allied wartime activity.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 43 silver gelatin photographs ranging from 2 x 3.5 to 2.5 x 2.5 inches Mhow and Mandu India 1942-1943. Most photographs bear substantial contemporary handwritten inscriptions on the versos often dated. Identifiable scenes include two men with tennis rackets outside a bungalow captioned as taken after tennis; a portrait inscribed "Me the Carroll Sahib & Ken Davis outside the Mess 25/12/42"; a group of eight men captioned "two scotsmen our four weapon training instructors the Carroll Sahib me outside the W/T staff bungalow 25/12/42"; men wearing garlands outside the mess; a sports or gymkhana ground with riders or runners in formation; tented grounds beside a large building; and a portrait of a man identified as "Machdo our bearer." The architectural and landscape views are closely tied to Mandu with captions naming the Jami Masjid Jahaz Mahal Rupmati's Pavilion Baz Bahadur's Palace mosque interiors courtyards pools lake views ravines and elevated plateaus. Several photographs show men posed on open parade or sports grounds in light uniform-style dress including group portraits outside the mess and the W/T staff bungalow with tennis rackets bicycles garlands and temporary tent lines indicating a social world organized around exercise communal dining and station routine. Other images turn to Mandu's built landscape in much greater detail with framed views of domed pavilions arcaded courtyards carved entrances long interior corridors water tanks and palace ruins seen from terraces lakesides and elevated lookouts. The landscape scenes broaden that record further including steep ravines river and waterfall views and plateau panoramas that place the serviceman's movements within the wider terrain of central India.<br /> <br /> During World War II Mhow remained an important cantonment in British India and these photographs place one serviceman within the daily social world of that station where tennis communal dining staff housing local attendants and holiday gatherings existed alongside travel to nearby historic sites. The Mandu views record the same hand moving through one of central India's best-known Sultanate monument complexes with captions naming the Jami Masjid Jahaz Mahal Rupmati's Pavilion Baz Bahadur's Palace and associated interiors courtyards pools and landscape features. Light general wear occasional silvering and minor handling marks; inscriptions strong and legible on most versos. The dense captioning and photographic record show British colonial India during World War II through the the personal lens colonial rank and language staff organization sport and leisure during wartime Indian attendants and movement through one of central India's historic architectural landscapes. unknown
18790009094London: John Murray 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo; cxxvii 444 12 pages blue cloth <br/><br/>Burton's contributions occupy the first 190 pages. Also Prof. George Rolleston's lecture to the RGS an early ecology talk "The Modifications of the External Aspects of Organic Nature produced by Man's Interference". " I propose . to notice a few of the many alterations produced by disforesting in our own and other countries". John Murray hardcover
1941208861941. Archive of photographs and documents from the A.P. Mission City School in Ambala Punjab 1941-1942 documents girls' education within a missionary institution during the late colonial period and the Second World War. The material records classroom instruction extracurricular activity and community interaction alongside written accounts by an American missionary teacher Anita Gregson whose correspondence and annual report situate the school within wartime conditions and broader educational initiatives. The archive provides primary evidence of how girls' education was structured and experienced in northern India under British rule including literacy training vocational activity and the integration of local and missionary communities.<br /> <br /> Twenty two black and white and sepia photographs measuring approximately 2 x 3 to 3 x 5 inches many with handwritten or typed captions on verso likely by Anita Gregson; accompanied by one typed letter dated June 14 1942 and one annual report for the 1941-1942 school year. Photographs depict students in classroom settings including a "training class girl teaching a second grade nature study class" as well as scenes of recreation such as a badminton club for teachers and missionaries. Additional images show students engaged in craft work including one captioned "Achcheri. with her patch quilt" alongside views of village life in Punjab with oxen carts textile work and local architecture. Three photographs document refugees traveling toward Pakistan in the years following the Lahore Resolution. Gregson's letter references wartime uncertainty noting concerns about possible bombing in India while the annual report details financial strain fundraising efforts and adult literacy instruction for women.<br /> <br /> Created during a period of political tension and transition in British India when wartime mobilization coincided with growing nationalist movements and debates over independence the archive situates education within both imperial and local frameworks. The documentation of women's literacy and schooling aligns with broader efforts that contributed to gradual increases in female education prior to independence and the Partition of India. As a combined photographic and documentary record the material supports research into gender education colonial institutions and everyday life in wartime South Asia. Minor wear consistent with handling; manuscript and printed materials remain legible; overall very good condition. unknown
1941209861941. Gregson Anita. A.P. Mission City School archive 1941-1942 documenting girls' education missionary activity and community life in Ambala Punjab during World War II. This material records daily instruction social interaction and local conditions within a mission-run school for girls alongside written correspondence and institutional reporting that situate the school within wartime pressures and colonial India's educational landscape. The archive provides direct evidence of classroom practices gendered education and the integration of local families into school environments as well as the impact of global conflict on regional communities.<br /> <br /> Archive comprises 21 original black and white and sepia photographs one typed letter and one annual report. Photographs measuring approximately 2" x 3" to 3" x 5" frequently bear handwritten or typed captions on the verso likely by Anita Gregson identifying subjects and activities. Images show groups of schoolgirls engaged in classroom exercises and outdoor instruction including one scene of students constructing a ground map of India to illustrate agricultural production. Another photograph depicts a semicircle of young children seated outdoors during a lesson with their teacher identified as Miss Atmaran and a veiled mother observing her burkha partially drawn back. Additional images document craft instruction including girls weaving coconut palm leaves into fans and producing woven ties on frames. Musical activity is also present with students playing instruments. Beyond the school photographs depict village life in Punjab including oxen operating a water-drawing mechanism children gathered around a missionary playing a ukulele and a merchant carrying goods suspended from a yoke. The accompanying letter dated June 14 1942 from Gregson to a correspondent in New York references World War II noting international observances and local enlistment: "The young men in our Indian community are continuing to sign up for the army navy and air force." The annual report for the 1941-1942 school year details wartime financial strain fundraising efforts and instructional programs including an adult literacy course for women teaching reading writing and arithmetic.<br /> <br /> Created while India functioned as part of the British Empire during World War II these materials document the intersection of missionary education wartime mobilization and local social life. The inclusion of adult literacy instruction for women reflects ongoing efforts to expand female education under colonial conditions while the letter and report connect the school directly to global conflict and its local consequences. Light wear and minor fading to photographs; handling wear present. Letter on thin paper with tears and fragility consistent with wartime materials poor to fair condition; remaining materials overall very good condition. This archive provides a concentrated visual and textual record of girls' education and community experience in wartime Punjab. unknown
86940Plate sizes are 100 × 150 mm three and 75 × 105 mm or the reverse eight; all are captioned in ink eight on the verso of the mount three on the photograph itself. All depict scenes of rural life most of them identifying Serajgunge in East Bengal. Images include 'Native fisherman' 'Native cobbler at work' 'Hindu holy man with his disciple' 'Wayside umbrella mender' scenes of boat-building and jute preparation and one captioned 'The creature making his creator! Idol making'. Apart from a small light stain to one mount they are all in fine condition. 11 items. unknown
2020BN129060Taylor & Francis Ltd 2020. 2020. Hardcover. A Beginner's Guide to Multilevel Image Thresholding <br/><br/>A Beginner's Guide to Multilevel Image Thresholding Venkatesan St. Joseph's College of Engineering OMR Chennai TN India Rajinikanth Nadaradjane Sri St. Joseph's College of Engineering OMR Chennai TN India Madhava Raja Nilanjan Dey Taylor & Francis Ltd hardcover
60071India 1911. . Two gelatin silver prints 360 x 245mm 352 x 258mm. From photographs of the marriage of Kumar Shri Pravinsinhji of Bansda with the Kunvari of Kumar Shri Madarsinhji the heir apparent of Sayla Gujarat Northern India. Very good rich prints in good condition.<br /> Two extraordinary group portraits of all the men from both families one with piles of folded sari's in front of the seated men possibly containing money. Both portraits showing a dazzling array of pattern and texture.<br /> India, 1911. unknown
BN106373INDES SAVANTES. Softcover. Histoire des missions de l'Inde 5 volumes <br/><br/>Histoire des missions de l'Inde 5 volumes INDES SAVANTES paperback
BN106941INDES SAVANTES. Softcover. Nationalistes et conservateurs en France 1885-1902 <br/><br/>Nationalistes et conservateurs en France 1885-1902 INDES SAVANTES paperback
15062Calcutta Superintendent Government Printing India 1921. First Edition: Confidential Serial No 1656: Original green cloth boards with light brown leather spine and corners banded spine titles in gilt against maroon background riubbed and chipped to extremities generally firm and very good uncut page edges plain endpapers hinges strengthened with black cloth tape and stitching printed stamp to front endpaper Adjutants Office 10 Mar 1922 hand written inscription in Red 'Mess 48th Pioneers. ' Pagination x 187 pages map pocket to the rear substantially illustrated with 31 plates 8 panoramas and maps. A fold-out map 'sketch Camp Wana' is adjacent to page 23 there should be six other maps these are present with the exception of No.4 'General Map of Waziristan' which should be in the pocket at the back. The two other maps that are intended to be in the pocket are present. Size 10.00 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches approx. A heavy book to post. Many students and military connoisseurs will find it fascinating to look back at this conflict its sources and consequences. . Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing , India 1921 hardcover
1835196250Paris.: A. Bertrand. 1835. Aquatint 27.1 x 36 cms; 31.6 x 47.2 cms sheet trimmed including platemark margins outside the platemark toned and discoloured edgewear with small chips mark at the foot of the caption split without loss at the lower corner of the platemark the image a fine dark impression in very good condition. Fine view of the market square at Pondicherry showing the well and the prison in the background from the official account of the Laplace voyage in the Favorite 1830-32 by voyage artist François-Edmond Pâris 1806-1893. The important French expedition encompassed India Southeast Asia and the Pacific. . A. Bertrand. unknown
1835196251Paris.: A. Bertrand. 1835. Aquatint 27.1 x 36 cm; 32.3 x 47.2 cm sheet trimmed including platemark margins outside the platemark toned and discoloured with soft crease and small split not affecting the image to an upper corner the image a fine dark impression in very good condition. Beautifully executed view of the Governor's Palace in the Pondicherry showing soldiers and officials trouping out from the official account of the Laplace voyage in the Favorite 1830-32 by voyage artist François-Edmond Pâris 1806-1893. The important French expedition encompassed India Southeast Asia and the Pacific. . A. Bertrand. unknown
73669Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown. London. 1812. 1st Ed. IV 218 PP with 8 tables a lengthy manuscript note at lower margin of pages 70 & 71 and inked correction on page 144. Leaf 91/92 dog-eared. Errata slip tipped in on page 1. Leather binding front and back covers with "tooling in blind" and gilt border lines spine with 5 raised bands gilt decorations and gilt title "Considerations on India Trade". Title page with 2 manuscript notes: name of a previous owner at top and name "by Mr. McCulloch". Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. A rare item. 21.6 x 13.5. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London. 1812. hardcover
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