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1839022098London: Smith Elder and Co. 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Fairly unobtrusive library blindstamp on frontispiece pictorial title map and several text pages. Still an attractive clean example of a scarce title in a Fine clamshell box. Modern half polished calf with marbled boards and matching calf corners 5-1/2" x 9"; xvii 3 283 1 pages housed in a red buckram clamshell box. Lacking the printed title page but with the lithographed additional pictorial title and illustrated with a hand-colored map 8 engraved plates 7 of which are hand-colored including 1 folding and several text engravings. In 1834 the author's husband was posted to Cutch a western district of present-day Gujarat India and there she gathered the notes and made the drawings that would form the basis for this her first publication. <br/><br/> [Smith, Elder and Co.] hardcover
97688Calcutta Superintendent of Government Printing 1921. Tall 8vo. Contemporary half calf green cloth sides gold-stamped red spine labels. Size 10 x 6.5 inches In good condition. Some minor rubbing on edges two small nicks on spine labels. Corners a little bumped a few minor marks on cloth boards. Military inscription on front endpaper. Inside some foxing else generally clean & tight. X 187 Pages 1 pp. With frontispiece 31 plates 7 maps 3 in pocket on inside of back board and 8 panoramas mostly folding. First edition of the British-Indian army s official account of the 1919-20 Waziristan campaign marked "Confidential" on the title-page. The operations followed unrest that arose in the aftermath of the Third Anglo-Afghan War; they were conducted in the mountainous region of Waziristan now in Pakistan by British and Indian forces against the fiercely independent Waziri and Mahsud tribesmen that inhabited it. Since the 1870s the British government agencies were assiduous in compiling internally published histories of their military frontier operations with the intention of providing a "valuable guide" to such British commanders and policy makers as "might have future dealings with these turbulent neighbours" as the Punjab Government phrased it in 1866. Calcutta Superintendent of Government Printing 1921 hardcover
100094Calcutta Survey of India Offices May 1916 1st. Large folding map. Overall size 39.5 x 30 Inches. 32 cut sections mounted on cloth/linen. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks. A few minor spots to section section top row Baghdad. With colouring as stated. Some red colouring to linen on gaps between some sections. A couple of small splits to linen at centre fold and top fold 3rd section from left. Sections with some minor tanning. Some darkening and handling marks to title label on rear corner. In B&W with River Euphrates coloured blue. With green colouring to smaller rivers and canals and some pencil annotations around Baghdad area. Calcutta, Survey of India Offices, May 1916 1st hardcover
2024Gyan-9789371338899Gyan Publishing House 2024. 24 Books .Set. Hardcover. New. 22.59 x 28.94 x 74.02. English Gyan Publishing House hardcover
2024Gyan-9789371338899Gyan Publishing House 2024. 24 Books .Set. Hardcover. New. 22.59 x 28.94 x 74.02. English Gyan Publishing House hardcover
1920238521920. Photography. Very good condition. A wonderful large album of 127 post card size venacular photographs each captioned depicting the everyday life of people in the streets villages and country side; these are authentic images of real life in India at the time. Also includes images of Bombay and the Palace at Amber. The photographer is unidentified; probably an American couple on an Indian tour.<br /> <br /> The majority of the photographs concern life in India from people at work in a wide range of trades to women of different castes to wonderful marketplace scenes including children at play holy men wrestlers a carousel captioned "a Merry-Go-Round" and traveling artists.<br /> <br /> 40 images of rural India include: native houses village streets & centers a potter at work village shops village "bazarrs" sic showing all manner of sidewalk vendors and stalls village wells women walking to market with large baskets carried on their heads holy men sweet and bread sellers selling "pop" soft drinks from a cart burial of a distinguished person "a bride and her maids pay visits to relatives part of the 3 day wedding ceremony".<br /> <br /> 11 images titled "Women of India" show Hindu Jain and Mohammedan women women spinning women carrying goods stacked on their heads women with children and high caste women. <br /> <br /> 28 images of Indian men include an image title rather mysteriously "rural native police English Providence" porters young boys high diver gate keeper cook shoe mender snake charmer street musician clown traveler traveling artist traveling school teacher tobacco seller "by the puff" holy men of India "fakirs" wrestlers and a transvestite the image titled "an efeminate sic gentleman Indian man dressed in a sari.<br /> <br /> 21 images of the stunning Amber Palace and Fort in northwest India the oldest surviving palace in India built of red sandstone and white marble whose architecture shows a blend of Muslim and Hindu influences. Images include walls and grand entrances ceremonial elephants stunning interior views of the palace and its rich alabaster carvings and views of the surrounding landscape taken from the Palace walls. The Jas Mandir is also pictured; this is the most beautiful structure at Amber divided in three parts: the Hall of the Private Audience on the ground floor the Glass Palace and the Hall of Glory on the upper floor.<br /> <br /> 15 images of Bombay with : a native policeman 2 colonial police officials the harbor Bombay city streets including shots of a large double decker tram the "red light" district Hindu Caves at Garapuri and Elephanta Island interiors of the carved caves and vultures "who devour the Parsi's dead in the Towers of silence".<br /> <br /> 12 images titled "Travel in India" include an elephant with howdah for carrying passengers ox drawn carts horse drawn carts and carriages railway carriages including one with a train door marked "Servants" a train station and a colonial postal box.<br /> <br /> A large photograph album 15 x 11 1/2". Black stiff cloth covers cord bound. Hand lettered "No. 5" at upper left corner front cover. Images measure 5 1/2 x 3 1/2" laid down 3 or 4 per page with captions hand lettered in white. The first 2 leaves detached loosely inserted. The photographs in fine condition.<br /> <br /> An album of evocative images of the life experienced by Indians living in colonial India. Images probably taken by an American traveller as soda is referred to as "pop" harbor is spelled without the "u" and the album itself is made in the USA. unknown
178015<p>First Rare edition in Italian of William Bolts Historical political and cultural treatise on Bengal</p><p>Bolts William. <em>Stato civile politico e commerciante del Regno di Bengala ovvero Storia delle conquiste e dell'amministrazione della compagnia inglese in quelle contrade</em> <em>che vengono a formare i tomi 19. e 20. in seguito della Storia filosofica e politica dell'abate Rainal. </em><em>Tomo primo -secondo.</em> sl se 1780.</p><p>8vo 180 x 120 mm modern quarter calf binding boards enriched by handcoloured paper vol 1: pp. 2 199 1 signature pigreco1 A-L8 M12. M12v blank vol 2: pp. 2 208 2 signature π¹ A-N⸠χ¹; at the end folded map "<em>Carta di Bengala . formata secondo il piano preso su i luoghi da W. Bolts</em>" signed "<em>Bart.o Nerici sc. Lucae</em>"</p><p>Big folded Map of Bengal</p><p>Rare First Edition in Italian of William Bolts most important work on denunciation of the activities of the East India Company in the Indian region of Bengal published for the First Time in 1772 under the title "<em>Considerations on India Affairs</em>" and formed by two volumes.</p><p>Vol 1 is dedicated to an excursus on history and costumes of Bengal while in the second he attacked the administration of the East India Company in Bengal; and in particular he complained of the arbitrary power exercised by the authorities and of his own deportation. The observations and experiences he records still offer a unique resource for scholars inquiring into the nature of Company rule in Bengal.</p><p>William Bolts 1738–1808 was a Dutch-born British merchant active in India. He began his career as an employee of the East India Company and subsequently became an independent merchant. He is best known today for his 1772 book <em>Considerations on India Affairs</em> translated in French in 1775 and in Italian in 1780 which detailed the administration of the East India Company in Bengal which began shortly after their victory at Plassey in 1757. Throughout his life Bolts continued to propose and execute various trading ventures on his own behalf and in conjunction with various commercial and governmental partners. The ventures of individual traders like Bolts did much to spur governments and large corporations into the expansion of their own interests.</p><p>Condition: Very good copy printed on strong paper.</p><p>Provenance: I. Ownership stamp "<em>Colonnello Oro Vincenzo S- Angelo Le Fratte Anno 1923</em>" at title page last page of each volume and on <em>verso</em> of map</p>
1921NL-02287<p><strong>Frontier warfare and colonial cartography: 1921 Survey of India "Confidential" atlas documenting the British campaign in Waziristan.</strong></p><p>This highly detailed 1921 confidential British-Indian general staff report produced by the Survey of India documents the Waziristan military operations of 19191920 along the volatile frontier of the Northwest Boundary. The publication includes a frontispiece 31 plates seven maps three of which are pocket-folded and eight folding panoramic illustrations that chronicle both the terrain and troop dispositions. The maps provide tactical clarity on routes native strongholds topographic obstacles and British positions. At the same time the accompanying text analyzes operational strategy lessons learned and the emergent use of air power in tribal warfare.</p><p>Waziristan now in Pakistan had long been viewed by the British as a strategically critical and persistently unstable frontier region inhabited by fiercely autonomous Waziri and Mahsud tribes. The 19191920 campaign followed the Third Anglo-Afghan War during which boundary tensions and local insurrections compelled renewed military intervention. This report presents not just the operational narrative but also the institutional mindset of early 20th-century colonial warfare combining detailed cartography with doctrinal reflection.</p><p>Cartographers:</p><p>The <strong>Survey of India</strong> established in 1767 under Major James Rennell and expanded during British rule served as the paramount cartographic and geodetic agency in India. By 1921 it had become central to mapping the subcontinent for both civil administration and military planning. In this instance the Survey's maps reflect the dual imperative of geographic precision and strategic control making this report an indispensable source for scholars of South Asian military history cartography and colonial frontier dynamics.</p><p>Condition Description</p><p>Good. Some wear on cover. Fold lines and some marginal imperfections on maps views and illustrations.</p> Survey of India
1921NL-02287a<p><strong>Frontier warfare and colonial cartography: 1921 Survey of India "Confidential" atlas documenting the British campaign in Waziristan.</strong></p><p>This highly detailed 1921 confidential British-Indian general staff report produced by the Survey of India documents the Waziristan military operations of 1919–1920 along the volatile frontier of the Northwest Boundary. The publication includes a frontispiece 31 plates seven maps three of which are pocket-folded and eight folding panoramic illustrations that chronicle both the terrain and troop dispositions. The maps provide tactical clarity on routes native strongholds topographic obstacles and British positions. At the same time the accompanying text analyzes operational strategy lessons learned and the emergent use of air power in tribal warfare.</p><p>Waziristan now in Pakistan had long been viewed by the British as a strategically critical and persistently unstable frontier region inhabited by fiercely autonomous Waziri and Mahsud tribes. The 1919–1920 campaign followed the Third Anglo-Afghan War during which boundary tensions and local insurrections compelled renewed military intervention. This report presents not just the operational narrative but also the institutional mindset of early 20th-century colonial warfare combining detailed cartography with doctrinal reflection.</p><p>Cartographers:</p><p>The <strong>Survey of India</strong> established in 1767 under Major James Rennell and expanded during British rule served as the paramount cartographic and geodetic agency in India. By 1921 it had become central to mapping the subcontinent for both civil administration and military planning. In this instance the Survey's maps reflect the dual imperative of geographic precision and strategic control making this report an indispensable source for scholars of South Asian military history cartography and colonial frontier dynamics.</p><p>Condition Description</p><p>Good. Some wear on cover. Fold lines and some marginal imperfections on maps views and illustrations.</p> Survey of India
69623c.1850. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition.<br /> <br /> [c.1850]. unknown
19332588<p>No Publisher. An album of mainly pen and ink sketches of India; 4to. The sketches include portraits: of a Sikh Warrior A Daughter of Kashmir A Gurkha Family and monuments such as The Hiran Minar or Elephant Tower and Toers of Silence. The album also includes artist's notes on various subjects including Indian punishment and execution jugglers snake charmers and many more. There 31 drawings in total. The album has had some professional restoration to the spine.</p> No Publisher
2024BIBHB0365793612024. Hardcover. New. The Title 'Census of India 1871-1951: Rajputhana Rajasthan Ajmer written/authored/edited by Pandit Bhagram Lieut Col H. B. Abbott R. C. Bramley E. H. Kealy Government of India Lieut. Colonel B. L. Cole A. W. T. Webb Yamuna Lal Dashora' published in the year 2024. The ISBN 9789371338899 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 7402 Pages. The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Refrence-Census. Size of the book is 22.59 x 28.94 cms Vol: Volume 24 Books .Set hardcover
2012DADAX174196721XMurdoch Books 2012-10-10. First Edition. hardcover. New. 9.00x1.10x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Murdoch Books hardcover
1847316972New York: William H. Colyer 1847. First Edition. Frontis. 209pp. Bound in full modern mottled brown calf. Fine. First Edition. Frontis. 209pp. Huntress 166 William H. Colyer unknown
1858022106London: Richard Bentley 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Text toned. Very Good in a Fine binding and clamshell box. Two 5" x 7-1/4" volumes in modern half polished green calf with marbled boards and matching calf corners gilt-decorated spines with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels: lxxx 337; vi 424 pages. Housed in a green cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with a folding map. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover
168824522London: J. Richardson for Samuel Titmarsh 1688. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown calf marbled boards rebacked. Near fine. 6 223 1. 81 1 34 pages. 18 x 12 cm. The anonymous author of this work attempts to refute the "slanderous imputations" of the work Justification of the Directors of the Netherlands East-India Company reprinted here in full with a separate title following page 223. He proclaims that it is "such a tedious rhapsody of fictitious fallacious inferences and arguments confusedly mixt with some distorted truths spun out. that it would be tiresome to the reader to trace all the prevarication's mis-recitals and sophistry contained in it. I shall proceed to detect his willful mistakes by which he endeavours to honest many injurious and insolent violations of right done by the Dutch towards the English in India directly contrary to the Articles of Peace." KRESS 1675. WING. I90 J1259. Interior contents clean and bright. Raised bands red leather spine label printed in gilt. J. Richardson for Samuel Titmarsh hardcover
1958231781958. Bombay red light district photographs of women seated in brothel doorways gathered in interior rooms and receiving male visitors circa 1958 recording the sex trade as it operated in post independence India under the combined pressures of urban poverty migration and state regulation. Drawn from a merchant marine album and anchored by a source page marked 1958 the group preserves an outsider's view of brothel based sex work at the moment when independent India's Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act had just come into force. British rule had already concentrated prostitution into regulated urban zones in Bombay with districts such as Kamathipura shaped by segregation policing and the management of commercial sex. The 1956 law effective 1 May 1958 targeted brothel keeping procuring and related activities without removing the economic structures that kept poor women in the trade. <br /> Photo archive of 17 silver gelatin photographs each 2.75" x 4" Bombay India circa 1958. Several images show women in saris seated on stone thresholds and steps outside narrow ground floor rooms watching the street conversing with one another or facing the camera from darkened doorways. Other photographs move inside the premises where a group of young women pose on a sofa beneath patterned wallpaper one beside a Western man holding a camera while another interior view shows several women crowded before a wall mirror with the same man visible in reflection behind them. Street level exterior views record a worn multistory building with open upper windows shuttered lower bays pedestrians passing and an automobile and hand pulled or cycle traffic in front fixing the brothel within a dense commercial streetscape rather than an isolated interior world. One of the most arresting images shows a white clothed man carrying a tray as he faces several figures in a narrow passage potentially showcasing the work surrounding and upkeeping the trade.<br /> The archive belongs to a longer history in which Bombay's sex districts were formed under colonial urban governance and continued after 1947 as sites where caste class migration policing and women's labor met in highly unequal ways. These photographs show the raw historical context of such professions with women waiting at entrances living in cramped quarters and occupying semi public thresholds where domestic space commercial exchange and street visibility collapse into one another. Light surface wear small edge chips and album glue residue en verso. Overall very good condition. The album context fixed 1958 dating and repeated views of the same doorway spaces make this a concise photographic record of brothel based sex work in postcolonial Bombay. unknown
182676418Paris 1826. 8vo. Nyere lysebrunt helskinnbind med tittelfelt i rødt skinn. Bundet med begge de originale omslagene. 3 1 blank iii 1 blank 288 s. Med 2 kolorerte foldekarter og 19 kolorerte litografier. 8vo. More recent full calf tile in red leather. Bount with the original wrappers. 3 1 blank iii 1 blank 288 pp. Two coloured folding maps and 19 coloured lithographs. Imprimé par autorisation du Roi à l’Imprimerie Royale. Fransk. <br/><br/><em>Colas 2208. Lipperheide 1584. Blackmer 1204. Abbey Travel 350. Materien svakt plettet. Litografiene med kraftige farver.Louis Pantaléon de Noé 1728-1816 fransk-kreolsk offiser.Internally some staining. The lithographs being beautifully coloured.Louis Pantaléon de Noé 1728-1816 French-creole officer. </em> hardcover
AQ25280s.i.: s.n. 1929-35 I: Oblong quarto. 30 photographs mounted on 30 leaves. Contemporary light green embossed cloth paper label to upper board title in manuscript 'Lahore Cricket Teams Khyber Pass and Family Groups'. Rubbed and marked joints split. II: Oblong quarto. 21 photographs mounted on 12 leaves bound with string in contemporary reversed half-calf beige cloth boards paper label to upper board titled in manuscript 'Kangra Valley'. Rubbed and marked. Two well-presented photograph albums featuring a total of fifty-one images depicting inter-war India. The first contains nine images of Himachal Pradesh state specifically the Uhl Valley and Lamba Dag River; eight photographs of the Khyber pass including Attock Bridge and the Khyber Valley Railway; three of 'The Unbendables' cricket team; two depicting Quetta in the aftermath of the 1935 earthquake; and three photographs of crowds taken at the Lahore session of the Indian National Congress at which was passed the historic 'Purna Swaraj' total independence resolution following the breakdown of negotiations between freedom movement leaders and the British government over the question of dominion status. The second album contains idyllic photographs of the Kangra Valley Himachal Pradesh predominantly of the Uhl and Banganga rivers including one of a gentleman fly fishing and two images of the Khyber Valley Railway. . [s.n.], [1929-35] hardcover
2015ASAP-9781626991354Studium Press India Pvt. Ltd. 2015. New. Studium Press (India) Pvt. Ltd. unknown
2015ASAP-9781626991378Studium Press India Pvt. Ltd. 2015. New. Studium Press (India) Pvt. Ltd. unknown
2015ASAP-9781626991354Studium Press India Pvt. Ltd. 2015. New. Studium Press (India) Pvt. Ltd. unknown
2015ASAP-9781626991378Studium Press India Pvt. Ltd. 2015. New. Studium Press (India) Pvt. Ltd. unknown
1964BIBLIO-01781G. K. Hall & Co Boston 1964 reprint. 10 vols cloth folio 358 x 260 mm. pp. About 90000 entries. A massive catalogue of the printed books in European languages in the India Office Library including many rarities and very comprehensive coverage of material on the British Raj. The European Printed Books collection was originally part of the library set up by the Honourable East India Company in 1801 to safeguard books entrusted to it by its servants and others. The Company's Directors soon began to collect actively rather than just receiving material and from the outset made their stock available to orientalist scholars as well as maintaining and augmenting it as an official reference resource. After the demise of the Company in 1858 its responsibilities were taken over by the newly-established India Office and coverage started to concentrate on material relating to the Indian sub-continent and its affairs together with those of Burma. The European Printed Books collection holds a considerable amount of extremely rare Indian and UK material and is the primary repository for material on the history of British India. Contents : Vols 1-2: Sheaf catalogue A-Z. Vols 3 - 6: Author catalogue A-Z. Vols 7 - 9 : Subject catalogue A-Z. Vol 10: Catalogue of periodicals. Accessions until 1936 were included in an Author catalogue in sheaf form in which entries from twenty-two volumes of uncumulated printed catalogues and printed supplementary accessions lists were pasted in a single alphabetical sequence. In 1936 the cataloguing system was reorganised; all subsequent accessions were entered in two card catalogues one Author the other Subject. The present work accordingly reproduces a the whole of the Author sheaf catalogue containing accessions to 1936 in Volumes 1 and 2 and b in Volumes 3-9 the Author and Subject card catalogues containing accessions from 1936 to the end of 1963 together with some recatalogued pre-1936 accessions and c periodical publications as a separate sequence at the end of the Author card catalogue Volume 10. A Very Good ex-library set. The library markings are :stamps on top and bottom edges small spine labels and partly removed labels from the front free endpapers. Otherwise Very Good some covers a little scuffed. G. K. Hall & Co, Boston, 1964 reprint hardcover
1826222929London.: Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green. 1826. Three volumes engraved frontispieces a trifle spotted and stained folding Map of India in Vol I lacks the large folding map called for in Vol II wood engravings in the text: xxxii 571 pp final blank; xix 483 pp final blank; iii-xx lacks half title 537 pp final blank 2 Directions to the Binder; contemporary half calf over marbled boards 21.5 x 14 cms spines gilt decorated inked name of a previous owner to the front pastedown of Vol I a few neat pencilled annotations in the margins some browning and occasional staining rubbed at extremities in good condition. James Grant Duff 1789-1858 an East India Company army officer administered the princely state of Satara Bombay Presidency and he based his narrative on extensive archival access and on his own service in western India. His was a foundational colonial-era narrative and regarded as the most detailed account of Maratha political history available to English-speaking audiences. . Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. hardcover
