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1841058768London: J. Hatchard and Son 187 Piccadilly. 1841. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1841. A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. John Calcutta at an ordination holden on Sunday May 2 1841. Paper-covered spine. Printed title-page. No owner name or internal markings. Bright tight and clean. VERY GOOD INDEED. iii 108 pages. Includes bibliographical references. . 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly. paperback
1841059118London: J. Hatchard and Son 187 Piccadilly. 1841. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1841. A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. John Calcutta at an ordination holden on Sunday May 2 1841. Paper-covered spine. Printed title-page. No owner name or internal markings. Bright tight and clean. VERY GOOD INDEED. iii 108 pages. Includes bibliographical references. . 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. London: J. Hatchard and Son 187 Piccadilly. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly. paperback
1900001070NEW YORK: STREET & SMITH 1900 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER SOLDIER ON FRONT WITH GUN ORANGE AND BLACK DESIGN GOLD PRINT SPINE. FRONT LOWER RIGHT CORNER SLIGHTLY BUMPED. FORMER OWNERS LABEL IN FRONT JC PENNEY STICKER FRONT. NO OTHER MARKINGS TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE. RARE BOOK. The Siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian rebellion of 1857. The besieged British in Cawnpore now Kanpur were unprepared for an extended siege and surrendered to rebel Indian forces under Nana Sahib in return for a safe passage to Allahabad. However under ambiguous circumstances their evacuation from Cawnpore turned into a massacre and most of them were killed. WILLIAM MURRAY GRAYDON- 1864¿1946 published fourteen books for boys from 1897 including The Fighting Lads of Devon or In the Days of the Armada 1900 The Jungle Trappers: A Tale of the Indian Jungle 1905 Lost in the Slave Land or The Mystery of the Sacred Lamp Rock 1902 On Winding Waters: A Tale of Adventure and Peril 1902 With Cossack and Convict: A Realistic Story 1903 and With Musketeer and Redskin: A Tale of New Plymouth 1904. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN WHERE HISTORY LIVES. STREET & SMITH hardcover
189221075Cincinnati: Cranston & Curts. 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Small white stain on front board. Front hinge has a bit of play. Light spotting to edges. ; Frontispiece of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in India. A detailed account of a long time missionary to India. The first part of the book discusses many religions in the countries and the second part is dedicated to the different provinces of India ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 562 pages . Cranston & Curts hardcover
1874949F34Bombay: The Times of India Offive 1874 . First edition. Leather. Good Only. 8.5" by 6". Not Stated. The vanishingly scarce 1874 edition of the Times of India's illustrated calendar and directory to Bombay. A very scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and two further plates. Collated complete.A fascinating and informative alphabetically arranged guide to the businesses buildings statistics army and economy of Bombay and India at large in India in 1874 issued by the Times of India.Also included are army lists marine lists and civil lists. With a calendar of important events taking place throughout the year also present and tables of weights and measurements. With sixty-four pages of contemporary advertisements to the rear.With the stamp of the United Kingdom Law Society to the title page and one or two further leaves and with their name to the back strip tail.An impressively detailed reference work offering insight into life in Bombay in the 1870s. In a half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Major rubbing to calf of back strip and boards. Front board detached but present. Rear joint starting with board firmly held. Lacking front free endpaper. Frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with the odd light handling mark. Library stamp to title page head and one or two further leaves. Good Only The Times of India Offive hardcover
189619986Philadelphia: Pearl Publishing Co. . 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Hinges professionally repaired ; Dark cloth boards with gilt pictorial design and gilt lettering. Nicely INSCRIBED 1989 by the grandson of the author. Detailed color map of Punjab in front. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs and sketches. The observations in this book go far beyond the work at the missionary. Chapters include topics on the Indian Postal System Theft and Murder Educational and Medical work native life etc. Extensive index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 413 pages . Pearl Publishing Co. hardcover
1845biblio308<p><i>Fisher Son & Co. The Caxton Press Angel Street St. Martin's-Le-Grand London. 1845-47 Two volumes. Quarto. First editions. 128pp. Engraved half title engraved frontispiece plate 50 further engraved plates; Engraved half title e</i><i>ngraved frontispiece plate 47 further engraved plates 104pp. The 99 plates </i><i>are by Turner Stanfield Prout Cattermole Roberts and Allom. Contemporary half maroon morocco spines in six compartments with raised bands gilt double rule emphasis and gilt lettering. Marbled boards. Top edges gilt other edges untrimmed. Silk bookmarks. Some variable spotting/foxing. A very attractive set.</i></p><p><i><b>Provenance</b>: Armorial book plate of Fothergill to fep of each volume.</i></p> Fisher, Son & Co., The Caxton Press, Angel Street, St. Martin’s-Le-Grand hardcover
183616845Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836. Hardcover. Good. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836.<br /> <br /> FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.<br /> <br /> VOLUME II ONLY.<br /> <br /> Original cloth.<br /> 228 pages.<br /> <br /> Good. Binding somewhat shaken; cracked in front; some foxing; bookplate and name on front endpaper; scraping to spine label; some wear.<br /> <br /> Important memoirs of the author's life in India.<br /> <br /> SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.<br /> . Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard hardcover
1826L3 box764 b3v3<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 3. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 568 pp for Volume 3.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3box764 b3v4<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 4. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 583 pp for Volume 4.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3 box764 b3v5<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 5. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 624 pp for Volume 5.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3 box764 b3v7<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 7. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 566 pp for Volume 7.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3 box764 b3v8<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 8. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 640 pp for Volume 8.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
1826L3 box764 b3v9<p>Platonis et que vel Platonis esse Feruntur vel Platonica Solent Comitari Scripta Graece Omnia ad Codices Manuscriptos Volume 9. Recensuit Variasque Inde Lectiones Diligenter Enotavit Immanuel Bekker. Annotationibus Integris Stephani Heindorfii Heusdii Wyttenbachii Lindavii Boeckhiique. Adjiciuntur Modo Non Integrae Serrani Cornarii Thompsoni Fischeri Gottleberi Astii Butmanni et Stalbaumi Necnon Ex Commentariis Aliorum Curiose Excerpta. 1826 MDCCCXXVI Londini: Excudebat A. J. Valpy A. M. Sumptibus Ricardi Priestley. Blue cloth hardcover 575 pp for Volume 9.</p> A. J. Valpy hardcover
182420379First American Edition from the Second London Edition H. C. Carey & I. Lea - Chestnut Street hardcover
189916431Harper and Brothers 1899. 8vo. First Edition with laid paper endpapers neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper free endpapers lightly spotted; original boards vellum back with five raised bands second and third compartments lettered in gilt gilt top uncut a very good clean copy. Harper and Brothers, hardcover
18691236E185London: Trubner and Co. 1869. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. vi 2 184. Very Good. 6 x 9.25 inches 15.5 x 24.5 cm. First printing. Green cloth binding with blind stamped border to boards. Rubbing and a few marks to boards. Bumping and slight wear to ends of spine and corners of boards. Good solid binding. Very clean text throughout. A few pages are creased to the upper corner. An investigation into the grievances of the Nawabs of the Carnatic against the British East India Company. Very scarce. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 6 x 9.25 inches 15.5 x 24.5 cm. Trubner and Co. hardcover
18483452W. H. Allen and Co. 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable. Contents clean edges softening and ex-libris label on inside cover. Cover is intact spine is faded with corners bending in significantly. Top and bottom of spine worn and spine edge on front cover worn and beginning to separate. All that said the book is intact contents are fine and is a good reading copy. 500 pages. W. H. Allen and Co. hardcover
189620549Clarendon Press Oxford 1896. 8vo. Third Thousand with a portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present and large folding map on japon; blue cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt uncut a very good clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate and press-marks on front paste-down and small stamps on front free endpaper and half-title. With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Published in the series 'Rulers of India' edited by William Hunter. First issued in 1893. Early issues are extremely scarce. Clarendon Press, Oxford, hardcover
189514032Blackwood Edinburgh 1895. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece and 21 plates small neat period inscription on half-title half-title and facing page lightly browned; original decorative blue cloth upper board panelled and lettered in gilt and blind gilt back black endpapers backstrip faded but all lettering entirely legible a very good clean firm copy. Blackwood, Edinburgh, hardcover
1826AA1372Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1826. First. Very Good. A very good copy of this scarce study of the origins of English words Rebound in brown cloth with gilt titles on spine Ex-library but other than the gilt accession number at the base of the spine and slight paste residue on the ffep there are no other indications of its library ownership Binding is quite tight and sound There is an ink inscription on a fly leaf from the author's son Major later Major General Thomson dated Montreal 1842 and a vintage newspaper clipping about English word usage is affixed to the same page Text is age darkened There are a few minor pencil and ink annotations throughout and on the rear fly leaf but no other marks or damage to text at all A nice copy of a very uncommon volume there were recently fewer than a dozen copies found on OCLC<br /> <br /> Major-General Francis Ringler Thomson R E 1794-1863 was the son of the author He joined the Royal Engineers in 1812 and served many assignments in France and across the Empire including Ceylon Gibraltar Canada and Malta A Major in Canada when he inscribed this book in 1842 he continued to rise through the ranks and was eventually promoted to Major General in 1856 Unpaginated but approx 200 pp. Oliver & Boyd unknown
184989449Agra: The Secundra Orphan Press 1849-51. First editions. Interesting collection of technical papers relating to the government of the North Western Provinces. Includes the description of a bridge built at Seoni by Major Boileau with plan; detailed plans for the cutting of a canal from the Sutlej at Tihara with excellent maps; an account of the "Oothaeegeeras" or Sunoreahs "professional thieves of Bundelcund" including a glossary of "Bolee" their argot; a important "Report upon the Tea Plantations in the North Western Provinces" by Robert Fortune noted botanist and plant collector for the HEIC; together with some revenue surveys of the region submitted by William Muir as secretary of the revenue board to John Thomason the lieutenant-governor. Attractive group of uncommon Indian imprints. Octavo 200 x 126 mm Twentieth-century blue cloth title gilt to the spine original upper wrappers bound in. pp. ii 66-108 3 folding lithographic maps with colour; pp. ii 213-250 folding lithographic map and 3 folding letter-press table; ii 251-286pp. folding letter-press table and tables to the text. Cloth clean and sound Patent Office Library ink-stamps to the wrappers maps and occasionally to the text light toning overall very good. hardcover
1898011601India: India 1898. 10 budget estimates of the Irrigation Branch for 1897-98. Rajputana. Baluchistan. Upper Burma. Lower Burma. Bengal. North-Western Province and Oudh. Punjab. Madras. Bombay. Bombay-Sind. Each section has a separate title page. 318pp in all. Bound in cloth backed printed boards. Spine sellotaped boards rubbed library stamp and number cancellation stamp. Although worn binding in good condition. Internally some tanning pages in good clean condition throughout. A good clean copy. Hardcover. Good Plus. Quarto. India Hardcover
1878ABC_45484London: George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode colophon 1878. Contemporary cloth title in gold on spine. Large 8vo. First and only edition of a catalogue of the material held in the London India Office that was produced by the Indian Surveys for the East India Company. The catalogue was printed by order of her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in council. It is a key reference work for all studies on the East India Company era in Indian and British history.Shelf mark on spine library plate on front paste-down Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam. Slight foxing on the first and last couple pages. Otherwise in very good condition.l Kaul Early writings on India: a union catalogue of books on India in the English language published up to 1900 and available in Delhi libraries 1975 92. George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode (colophon), hardcover
18717187London: House of Commons 1871. Lithographed colour-printed map 32 x 35 cms cut close to printed area blank verso; prepared by the India Office for their annual report: East India Progress and Condition. Statement exhibiting the moral and material progress and condition of India .; shows developing railway nework including railways proposed and under construction. Map House of Commons unknown