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186845516Colombo: printed for the Christian Vernacular Education Society 1868. 12mo pp. 30; engraved title page; original stiff blue pictorial wrappers; spined ends cracked else very good. Despite the title this small pamphlet covers not only the geography of the island of what is now the country of Sir Lanka but also the people commerce and government. Only the NYPL copy in OCLC which locates no other editions. printed for the Christian Vernacular Education Society unknown
1852BOOKS047099ILondon: John Murray 1852. HC. good brown cloth hardcover wear to cloth - clean & tight copy. .TO WHICH IS PREFIXED SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVES AND NATIVE INSTITUTIONS." Chapter Contents include: Introductory; The Country and the People; The Institutions and Situation to which we Succeeded; Political Progress.; History and Progress of our Internal Government; The Government as it Now Exists; Instruments of Government; Lane Revenue; Sources of Income other that the Land Revenue; Finance; Police and Criminal Administration; Administration of Civil Justice. November 1851 Murray Catalogue follows text. NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY BUT WEAR TO CLOTH ON BOARDS. 560pp. John Murray 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
1851103London: Richard Bentley. 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Very light foxing to first few pages vol. 1; This is Burtons' first book written while on active duty in modern-day India and Pakistan. Rebound in attractive blue full leather boards with gilt spine lettering and three raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Penzer 39 Casada 57 ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 297 309 pages . Richard Bentley hardcover
1888040755London: Spencer Blackett 1888. xi 388pp 8 bw ills. Or green gilt cloth with title and elephant in gilt. Cloth lightly rubbed at edges front hinge a little tender. A nice clean copy. Originally published in 1881 this undated second edition 1888. Lots of hunting tiger and other military comment social comment and information on the various states. . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by The Author; Burton Miss C.G.M. 8vo. Spencer Blackett Hardcover
1893ADndLTD.32Brisbane: Warwick & Sapsford Printers 1893. 1893. 8vo. pp. 152 xxvi ads. 3 coloured maps 2 double-page 15 plates 1 full-page tinted & numerous text illus. 3 tipped-in ads. ads on enleaves. stiff cloth-backed illus. wrs. wrs. creased stained & detached spine perished out leaves embrowned. Sixth Edition so noted on upper cover. See Ferguson 7424. Hardcover. Brisbane: Warwick & Sapsford, Printers, 1893. Hardcover
1898011421Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing India 1898. Book measures 33x21.cm. v 209pp. Bound in original publishers printed boards. Boards rubbed dust marked spine sellotaped library label and withdrawal stamp. Binding in good condition. Internally occasional library stamp or mark. Pages in very good clean condition. A good clean copy. . Hard Cover. Good Plus. Quarto. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India Hardcover
1900011425Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing India 1900. Book measures 33x21.cm. ii64pp. Bound in original publishers printed boards. Boards rubbed dust marked spine sellotaped library label and withdrawal stamp. Internally occasional library stamp or mark. Pages in very good clean condition. A good clean copy. . Hard Cover. Good. Quarto. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India Hardcover
1898011424Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing India 1898. Book measures 33.5x21.5.cm. ii316pp. Bound in original publishers printed boards. Boards rubbed dust marked spine sellotaped library label and withdrawal stamp binding slightly loose. Internally occasional library stamp or mark. Pages in very good clean condition. A good clean copy. . Hard Cover. Good. Quarto. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India Hardcover
18161007220027Black Parbury & Allen 1816. Hardcover. Good. Black Parbury & Allen 1816 printing. 8vo. 1/2 leather marbled boards. 663 pp. Clean unmarked pages. Binding solid boards professionally reattached. Readable can be safely opened and used without fear of damaging book. Spine rebacked and missing part of the original leather. See pictures for appreciation. <br> <br> Sponsored by the East India Company the Asiatic Journal covered 1. Original Communications 2. Memoirs of Eminent Persons 3. History Antiquities Poetry 4. Natural History Geography 5. Review of New Publications 6. Debates at the East-India House 7. Proceedings at the East-India Colleges of Hertford and For William and Military Seminary 8. Appointments Promotions Resignations 9. Births Marriages and Deaths 10. East India Shipping Intelligence Arrivals and Departures 11. Lists of Passengers to and from India 12. Ship Letter-Mails 13. London Markets Prices Stocks etc. <br> The series provides a fascinating window into an earlier world of discovery imperialism and exploration. While primarily focused on British India the Journal connects seemingly disparate places and events from Cape Good Hope to Nagasaki and beyond and presents it for a contemporary British audience. The growth of American commerce in China in 1827 the news of the day from Bombay in 1829 Chinese musical instruments debates of the day dealing with the East India company a mission to Siam in 1822 an essay on the relative value of East and West Indies possessions early translations of Persian and Sanskrit poetry are but a few of the events chronicled. A must for all historians of 19th century Asia. Black, Parbury, & Allen hardcover
1890234981890. Colonial Indian labor photo archive depicting street work informal commerce transport labor and social hierarchy under British rule circa 1890s-1920s. British India depended on low-paid manual labor to move people goods food and raw materials through cities ports hill stations and military cantonments. The group contrasts workers seated on the ground with baskets tools tents carts and roadside goods against riders on horseback and passengers carried by rickshaw carriage and bullock cart. <br /> <br /> Photo archive of 16 silver gelatin photographs and black-and-white real photo postcards various sizes India circa 1890s-1920s. Marketplace sellers sit among baskets cloth tents and on the ground goods; families and workers gather beside tents and rough encampments; men pull or guide rickshaws carriages and ox-drawn carts through colonial streets. A mounted man sits formally on a white horse while views of Simla show pedestrians commercial buildings and hill-station streets associated with British administration and seasonal elite life. Additional scenes show an outdoor "Hindu barber" "Indian coolies" carrying large baskets men seated by stonework near a Gothic-style building children posed in white garments some hand written captions en verso identify locations or tasks.<br /> The archive records the everyday labor that supported colonial India before independence when caste landlessness debt and imperial wage economies shaped who carried cleaned hauled shaved sold and served. Ligh toning handling and edge wear; overall in very good condition. A late colonial documentation of Indian labor and social separation grounded in street work transport marketplace survival and the visible privileges of those being carried or served. unknown
189521117Edinburgh And London: William Blackwood and Sons. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. Light marginal dampstaining. ; The story of a hunting adventurer in India. Including a large rear fold-out map in VG condition. Numerous illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; x 373 32 pages . William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
1889SZEPEBKS007501ILondon: Harrison & Sons 1889. First edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. - xi52111 pp. plus plates. - Contemporary dark brown 3/4- leather title on leather label on spine green boards marbled endpapers. - Small amount of foxing on some pages else fine - back of plates slightly browned else fine. - With 25 full-page illustrations by Baden- Powell on plates. - Considered to be the first book dedicated to wild boar hunting in India by the founder of the Boy Scouts Movement. - The first sentence of the Preface reads: "Pigsticking a sport second to none and invaluable to our prestige and supremacy in India deserves what it has not had for years a book to itself." - An excellent copy. Very Rare 1 Copy at the British Library 11/18 <br/> <br/> Harrison & Sons hardcover
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
185633583circa 1856- 57. 1856- 57. Very good. - Signature on a piece of vellum approximately 1-3/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide clipped from the close of a document. Signed "George Anson" beside his printed title "General / Commander-in-Chief / East Indies". Together with an engraved portrait of Anson 3-3/4 inches high by 2-1/4 inches wide. There is a tiny area of soiling to the portrait's bottom edge. Very good. <p>British army officer George Anson 1797-1857 was promoted to the rank of C in 1853. The following year he was appointed to the command of the Madras Army and in early 1856 became Commander-in-Chief in India. He caused resentment by his bias against the Indian Army and its sepoys. He was quoted as saying that he could never see a sepoy sentry "without turning away in disgust at his unsoldierlike appearance". Anson's appointment coincided with the tensions leading up to the Indian Mutiny of 1857. In May 1857 he sent troops to secure the arsenals in the Punjab. He intended to join the Meerut Brigade and to press on to retake Delhi but four days into the march he died of cholera at the age of 59. circa [1856- 57]. hardcover
1846007190London: Richard Bentley 1846 First edition. Decorative cloth gilt titles frontispiece engraving inside front board protective tissue. 527 pp. last page inside rear board. Two engraved portraits in total. Light foxing to prelims spine cloth separating at several points needs rebacking. Good condition. Richard Bentley hardcover
189215638Thacker Spink & Co. Calcutta 1892. 8vo. Fifth Edition with a frontispiece original tissue guard present illustrated title and numerous illustrations a number full-page in the text; original blue pictorial cloth upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black bevelled boards black endpapers a remarkably bright fresh clean copy. With the trade ticket of Sizer of Felixstowe on front paste-down and 40pp publisher's illustrated catalogue dated January 1894 bound in at end. First published in 1883 this scarce work collects a series of papers first published in the newspaper 'Times of India'. Scarce especially in this condition. Thacker Spink & Co., Calcutta, hardcover
1880187528Edinburgh.: J. Bartholomew. circa1880s. Map 40.2 x 30.4 cms with printed colour and outline hand colour in very good condition. Handsome map with colonial interests attractively coloured. . J. Bartholomew unknown
1891173786London.: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1891. Large folding map 64.7 x 71.7cm map size 67.5 x 100cm sheet size with railway gauges highlighted in original colour three small tears without loss along the folds and two longer fold tears strengthened on the verso without loss the left margin of the sheet chipped with some overall toning but a striking map in good condition. Impressive large map from the exhaustive Survey of India with the burgeoning railway network highlighted in attractive detail. A lengthy gazetteer listing "Principal centres of traffic showing goods and passenger traffic separately and combined" is printed either side of the map. . [Her Majesty's Stationery Office]. unknown
1853911681853. House of Commons London. 1853. Tall sl. narrow hardback bound in plain dark moss green cloth. xviii 275 pages; vi 141 pages. hardcover
187724159Bangalore India 1877. Very good condition. Four large albumen photographs with pen and ink decoration surrounding them of the famed Victorian light cavalry regiment known as the Hussars in India. <br /> <br /> The albumen photographs on the front are: a portrait of three relaxed officers lounging in uniform on the terrace of a colonial building in India captioned in ink in a period hand "McBurn Capt. Malone and Hon.ble H. G. Gough". The two men at the left wear small round caps; the man at the right sits with one leg flung over the arm of his chair. <br /> <br /> The second image is a large group portrait of the regiment in civilian dress including wives and Indian servants at the colonnaded facade of an imposing building captioned "XIV Hussars Group Mess House Bangalore 1877". Below this image an unidentified member of the regiment and his wife are portrayed in a charming pen and ink cartoon of the couple in a row boat with a clipped photo of their faces pasted in.<br /> <br /> On the verso an impressive private residence with British women waiting in a horse drawn carriage at the portico and Indian servants is captioned in period ink "General Macintyre's House Secunderabad". Below is another image of a grand residence with a curved façade on which is painted a sign "The Deanery 1877". It is captioned in period hand "Mr. Dean's house. North Trimulgherry". Both of these large albumen photographs are decorated with hand drawn pen and ink borders.<br /> <br /> According to an autobiography by Edwin Mole entitled 'A King's Hussar: Being the Military Memoirs for Twenty-five Years of a Troop-sergeant-major of the 14th King's Hussars' the regiment's horses were being newly imported from Australia. The new hardier breed dubbed "Walers" were imported from New South Wales to replace the existing stock from England which was suffering in the harsh climate. Sgt. Mole was sent to Australia as part of a commission to supervise the breeding of the stock of "Walers".<br /> <br /> The four prints laid down on card stock 11 ½ x 18". 3 of the 4 albumen images 11 ¼ x 9; one image 5 1/2 x 4" unknown
1898ABC_457021898. 2 PARK Superintendent. 1898. Catalogue of photographs by Sergeant A.J. Clarke R.E. taken during Tirah Expedition 1897-1898. Kirkee Pune India Sappers and Miners' Press 1898. Small folio 22 x 14.5 cm 4 pp. With a lithographed title-page. Loosely inserted in the album. Collection of photographs taken by a British Indian Army officer who served in the Peshawar Column during the Tirah Expedition in the Northwest Frontier of India from June 1897 to April 1898 including a manuscript Key that identifies seven British officers that are in the first photo of the album and a list of captions to 10 photos in the album.The Tirah Expedition was aimed against the Afridi and Orakzai tribes in British Indias Northwest Frontier modern-day Khyber Pashtunkhwa province of Pakistan. One of many Northwest Frontier campaigns of British India the Tirah campaign concentrated on the area west and south of Peshawar in the mountainous region between the valleys of the Bara and Kohat Rivers. The album primarily documents the actions of the Tirah field forces Peshawar Column under command of Brigadier-General Arthur George Hammond 1843-1919 which followed the route of the Bara Valley.The present photo album contains 8 large albumen photos documenting the movement of the Peshawar Column. The large photos were taken by W. Rahn according to the memoirs of Peshawar Column officer Richard Thomsett we had a photographer named Rahn with the column and he accompanied us until we arrived at Ali Masjid in December 1897 when an accident necessitated his returning to India. Rahn was a German who had come out to the East some twenty years before and seemed to be ubiquitous for wherever we were there he was with his camera ready and I must say he took some very excellent pictures.The present album also includes 43 smaller gelatin photos with manuscript captions for 10 of them on a small piece of paper perfectly describing the photos on leaves 5 and 9 of the album. The album is supplemented with a rare 4-page brochure no doubt produced in a small print-run that lists 99 photos. About 20 have been marked by hand in pencil probably by the albums compiler. The brochure indicates that the present photos could be purchased from the Bombay Sappers and Miners.8 of the large photos have contemporary manuscript captions in ink on the mounts. 2 marks on the front paste-down reading "photographs by British Royal Engineers. Tirah Expedition 1897-1898 North India. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities the original 5 cords replaced with 3 new black cords hinged to stubs . A few images mildly faded. The additional manuscript leaves foxed and worn. Otherwise in good condition.l The navy and army illustrated V no. 53 24 December 1897 pp. 150-152 4 of the 8 large photographs & no. 57 18 February 1898 p. 275; R.G. Thomsett With the Peshawar olumn. Tirah expeditionary force London 1899 pp. 103-104. unknown
1874ABC_46925Calcutta 1874. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco brown cloth sides. Oblong 8vo. With 33 mounted sepia albumen prints ca. 15/15.5 x 10.5/11 cm all captioned. Manuscript title and captions of the pictures in English written in brown ink in a neat 19th-century cursive hand. Photograph album containing 33 albumen prints of buildings important places views and people in Calcutta in the 1870s. The album opens with some architectural photographs including the governor's house the new market the post office St. Paul's cathedral and the high court. Also included are views of roads and streets that are still important today such as Benting Street Chilpore Road Russell Street and Strand Road and 5 albumen prints of the B.Y. Docks. The album also contains views near Kalighat and Barnatore especially of the landscape but also of a Hindu temple. The album concludes with some photographs of people living in Calcutta showing beggars carpenters palki bearers a barber ending the album with a group of Rohillas.The album includes a photograph of the statue of Sir James Outram unveiled in Calcutta on 22 May 1874 an all photographs seem likely to have been made soon after that.Binding a little worn and scuffed endpapers a little dust-soiled some leaves marginally slightly dust-soiled some leaves slightly browned some occasional foxing paper of the last photograph slightly damaged not affecting the image some images a little faded but overall in good condition. A highly interesting album showing life in Calcutta in the 1870s.l For dating the statue of Sir James Outram: Catalogue of the sculpture of J.H. Foley in: Dublin Historical Record 32 3 1979 pp. 108-116. hardcover
1837ABC_46027London Calcutta etc.: various publishers 1837. Half calf with marbled sides and lettering in gold on spine or cloth with marbled sides and a spine label. 8vo. Some illustrated with plates and maps. 107 volumes many containing multiple articles. Handsomely bound extraordinary collection of important scientific journal articles by 19th and 20th century Western explorers of Afghanistan Central Asia China the Himalayas India including Assam Bengal Kashmir and Punjab Karakoram Pakistan including Sindh and Tibet with content covering anthropology archaeology exploration geography geology glaciology history language and grammar mountaineering and politics. At the time these were the far outskirts of the world for Western science where a lot was yet to be learned. Often the maps in these journals are the first modern maps of such regions and findings were the first to be scientifically published.Generally in very good condition.Please inquire for a full list of contents. various publishers, hardcover
1842M2ACVI942UQXLondon: Thomas McLean 1842. Contemporary half calf with cloth sides gold tooled title on front cover. Large folio 545 x 375 cm. With 6 hand coloured lithograph plates and a lithographed title. First and only edition of an ethnographic study of native Indian people by William Tayler 1808-1892 who was at that time Acting Salt Agent of the Central Division of Cuttack for the East India Company. He dedicated his work to "Lady William Bentinck" born Lady Mary Acheson 1809-1850 who was the wife of the Governor-General of India. The illustrations were drawn by Tayler himself who was an amateur artist and drew much of the Indian daily life that he encountered. He selected the present 6 drawings to be published and had them lithographed by J. Bouvier. The first 3 plates not only show the ways of Indian people but even more so the luxurious life of the English in India. The first plate The Young Civilian's Toilet shows a young man relaxing while being treated by several servants who are named Anglo-Indians. The room is strewn with objects of leisure. The next 2 plates The Young Ladies Toilet & The Breakfast show equal scenes. The other 3 plates are more ethnographic in nature showing native Indians in their everyday life: Women grinding at the mill; the Sunyasees Sannyasis & The village barber. Tayler later became a controversial figure for his excessively harsh oppression of Indian people when he was the commissioner of Patna.Spine and covers slightly worn pages a little frayed some foxing on the text pages. Dedication page broened. Plate 2 detached and inserted loosely. Plates in good condition.l Abbey Travel 465; Bobins I 272; H.K. Kaul Early Writings on India 454; Prasannajit De Silva Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India c. 1785-1845 2018 pp. 116-119. Thomas McLean, hardcover
