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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
192753798New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1927. 8vo. xi 3 239 1 pp. Colour-tinted frontisp. 7 colour-tinted plates. Orange cloth silver lettering front cover & spine very minor shelfwear very slight bumping to corners w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art of stalking Tiger silhouette on front cover by Reynolds in black silver and orange slight chipping head of spine minor creasing edgewear still NF/VG- copy. First edition of this anthology of big game stories of the Indian jungle set on the North Eastern frontier near Bhutan. Casserly 1869-1947 joined the 22nd Bombay Infantry in 1892 served in China during the Boxer Rebellion and later with the 120th Rajputana Infantry with about 200 sepoys in a small fort in Cooch Behar. Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover
2020AME_9781774071717Society Publishing 2020. UNKNOWN. Hardcover. New/New. Society Publishing hardcover
2020DBS-9781774071717Society Publishing 2020. 1st. Hardcover. New. Society Publishing hardcover
2020DBS-9781774071717Society Publishing 2020. 1st. Hardcover. New. Society Publishing hardcover
19911808University of Chicago Press. 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Light shelfwear to book. Very light foxing to top of textblock. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing.; 1.36 x 9.26 x 6.38 Inches; 486 pages; The internationally renowned Assyriologist and linguist I. M. Diakonoff has gathered the work of Soviet historians in this survey of the earliest history of the ancient Near East Central Asia India and China. Diakonoff and his colleagues nearly all working within the general Marxist historiographic tradition offer a comprehensive accessible synthesis of historical knowledge from the beginnings of agriculture through the advent of the Iron Age and the Greek colonization in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea areas. Besides discussing features of Soviet historical scholarship of the ancient world the essays treat the history of early Mesopotamia and the course of Pharaonic Egyptian civilization and developments in ancient India and China from the Bronze Age into the first millennium B. C. Additional chapters are concerned with the early history of Syria Phoenicia and Palestine the Hittite civilization the Creto-Mycenaean world Homeric Greece and the Phoenician and Greek colonization. This volume offers a unified perspective on early antiquity focusing on the economic and social relations of production. Of immense value to specialists the book will also appeal to general readers. I. M. Diakonoff is a senior research scholar of ancient history at the Institute of Oriental Studies Leningrad Academy of Sciences. . 0226144658 . University of Chicago Press hardcover
17305023<p>Copperplate engraving 83.5 x 55.5 cm 1 folio. Fold marks minor edge wear otherwise a very good copy in very crisp dark impression.<br /></p><p>Rare large-format engraved print produced in 1730 as part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession 1530 one of the foundational documents of Lutheranism. The subject of the print is the famous Tranquebar Mission in southern India which was established by King Frederick IV of Denmark 1671-1730 and led by the German missionaries Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg 1682-1719 and Heinrich Plütschau 1676-1752 who are noted for having translated the Bible into Tamil and arranged for its printing.</p><p>The engraving executed by Johann Jacob Kleinschmidt after a design by Elias Riedinger is a splendid example of 18th-century Augsburg printmaking. It takes as its compositional conceit a church altar surmounted by a framed retable. The image above the altar depicts the German missionaries preaching to an audience of natives; in the background of this scene can be glimpsed a statue of 'Biruma oder Brama' Brahma. The elaborately carved frame of the retable is enlivened with vignettes illustrating the successes of the Lutheran mission e.g. an Indian smashing an idol a native being baptized a domesticated elephant symbolizing the people under God's yoke etc.</p><p>Placed atop the altar are oval portraits of Ziegenbalg and Plütschau their names written in Tamil and the books they translated an Indian bible an Indian catechism and an Indian hymnal. A map of southern India hangs on the front face of the altar. Flanking the altar are two young natives: the boy on the left holds the Danish Royal arms and the boy on the right displays the architectural plan of the New Jerusalem Church in Tranquebar built by the Germans and dedicated in 1719. In front of the altar are fallen symbols of the old dispensation. At the foot of the sheet is a poem in Latin and German celebrating the expansion of the Lutheran faith to all corners of the world.</p><p>The engraving is one of several quite ambitious broadside prints produced in Augsburg to commemorate the bicentennial of the Augsburg Confession some of which apparently reproduced paintings executed for the occasion. These rather disparate graphic productions were collected by Johann Michael Roth in 1730/31 and released as a small-edition composite volume with an added engraved title page reading <i>Augspurgisches Iubel-Gedächtnüs</i>. The contents of this rather odd production vary greatly from copy to copy. Kleinschmidt's <i>Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ost-Indischen Kirche</i> engraving apparently was a commercial success because in 1736 citing demand he released a small-format version of the work its composition slightly altered.</p><p>OCLC locates U.S. examples of the <i>Augspurgisches Iubel-Gedächtnüs</i> at Illinois Duke Getty Stanford Princeton Yale Harvard Emory Concordia Seminary and Cal. State Sutro. The Getty copy includes Kleinschmidt's <i>Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ost-Indischen Kirch</i> but it is not clear which other examples include this engraving.</p><p>Drugulin <i>Historischer Bilderatlas</i> 4112; S. Neill <i>A History of Christianity in India</i>.</p> Kleinschmidt
2020DBS-9781774072257Delve 2020. 1ST. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
2020DBS-9781774072257Delve 2020. 1ST. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
1166122506.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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65752December 1941. Original map of East Asia 68 x 86 cm extending from India in the west to Hawai'i in the east and Hokkaido in the north to New Zealand in the south. Showing the American British Japanese and French zones of influence in the Pacific. Very good condition. An interesting map produced at the time of The Battle of Hong Kong 8-25 December 1941 also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong one of the first battles of the Pacific War. The Battle of Hong Kong was a 17-day World War II conflict where Imperial Japanese forces invaded and captured the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong immediately following the Pearl Harbour attack Survey Section No. 1602 July 1941 - 1000. Reg. No.R/332. Dec '41-600-150. Reproduced by No.1 Ind. Fd. Svy. Coy. December, 1941. unknown
1924AQ32179Simla: Government of India Press 1924. vii 1 181pp 1. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Heavily rubbed and marked spine worn several small worm-tracks. Inked ownership inscription and later coloured pencil shelf-marks to title page. The comprehensive report of a royal commission charged with enquiring into the organisation and general conditions of the Civil Services in India financial and otherwise; the possibility of transferring any of their present duties and functions to services constituted on a provincial basis; and the best methods for ensuring and maintaining the recruitment of Europeans and Indians respectively. . First edition. 8vo. [Government of India Press] unknown
5104Without place or date circa 1820. One page octavo. Very good. On paper with 'C TAYLOR' Britannia watermarked paper. Possibly an East India Company document. Of obscure meaning headed 'List of Different Houses' and consisting of two columns the left-hand one of sixteen lines and the right-hand of eleven. Includes 'Moorshedabad' 'Massulipatam' 'Poona the Money paid to Mr. Mallet' 'Ahumabad the Residency of their Correspondent's' and 'The Mahratta Army'. With 'Exd: W D' in bottom left-hand corner. Docketed on reverse of second leaf of bifolium with reference 'No. 149. A. Entd at Dell <d.> " - MS'. Scan on application. Without place or date [circa 1820?]. unknown
1796ABC_49403Various places including Saudi Arabia and Yemen 1796. Contemporary or slightly later half black morocco marbled boards. Small folio ca. 19 x 30.5 cm. English manuscript on watermarked paper. With a loosely inserted manuscript map titled A Chart shewing the Track of HMS Ship Myrtle of the Bay of Biscay and Portugal and a hand-coloured manuscript signal chart. A detailed description of the voyage of the East India company vessel the Swift from 1794-1795 featuring visits to both Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Twelve pages of observations are dedicated to Jeddah alone witnessed at the height of the influx of pilgrims during the Hajj followed by a description of Mocha also Mokha in Yemen. Other ports visited include those of Brazil South Africa India the Nicobar Islands Malaysia and Sri Lanka.Jeddah the author says "has a very pleasant appearance as you approach it from the sea . The houses are all of stone of the coral kind." However as the Swift had arrived in the midst of the Hajj and its crew found provisions difficult to acquire as thousands of pilgrims poured into Jeddah: "It is astonishing the number of Mahometans arriving from all parts of the world to attend the yearly ceremony at Mecca called Hadgi from thence to Medina." Several accounts are given of particular Muslim practices through occasionally somewhat confused British eyes: "When near Geddah all the Pilgrims going their first journey altered their dress assuming what is called the Ihhram a piece of linnen ! which is wrapped round the loins leaving the rest of the body naked in this state they proceed through the rest of the pilgrimage till they have visited the Kaaba at Mecca; the other garment they are then suffered to wear is a cloth of linen over their shoulders. . Some of them carry a trade of muslins and some other little articles which if they are not robbed by the Bedouins wild Arabs they make out tolerably well . The landing of the pilgrims with their wives and household utensils would have been an excellent view for the inimitable Hogarth."The Swift appears to be one of the ships which accompanied the Suffolk a 64-gun ship to escort a convoy to India under the command of Captain Peter Rainier 1741-1808 later Admiral of the Blue and namesake of Mount Rainier. This particular voyage was in itself notable as a trial for the implementation of a citrus diet for sailors to ward off scurvy which was ultimately successful and became Admiralty policy the following year. On the first page of the account we find the following: "The beer being expended ordered the Company to be served wine mixed with 1oz of sugar and oz of lemon juice to every pint it was very nice tipple."The boards show mild traces of use. With a few small smudges on some of the leaves. Otherwise in excellent condition. hardcover
1881143683London: James Imray and Son 1881. Good. London James Imray and Son 1881. A very large engraved chart in two sheets combined printed surface 1039 × 1240 mm overall sheet size 1039 × 1264 mm with minimal hand-colouring mounted together on the original blue backing paper with the publisher's title-label on the verso. Minor chipping at the edges with minimal loss to the headline title above the top border; a few light stains and creases; a short sealed tear to the middle of the left and right sides one extending about 100 mm into the printed surface; a few old pencil annotations; in good condition. A very large and detailed blueback chart of the western part of the Java Sea the passages connecting it to the Indian Ocean the Sunda Strait and the South China Seas the Karimata Gaspar and Bangka Straits and Batavia Jakarta. Lighthouses are highlighted with spots of red and yellow colouring. <p>The publisher's inkstamp dated 1882 appears near the imprint. The title-label on the verso reads 'Chart No. 161. Western Route to China. In Six Charts. Chart No 1. Price 7s. 6d.'. James Imray and Son unknown
1881143682London: James Imray and Son 1881. Very Good. London James Imray and Son 1881/ 1863. A very large engraved chart in two sheets combined size approximately 1040 × 1285 mm with minimal hand-colouring mounted together on the original blue backing paper with the publisher's title-label on the verso. Head and foot slightly cropped with slight loss to the text outside the border; some marginal chips and tears with two that extend slightly into the printed surface now expertly sealed; short left-hand portion of the top margin a little waterstained not affecting the printed surface; a few trifling spots of foxing and some unobtrusive creases; overall in very good condition. A very large and detailed blueback chart of the Java Sea including the eastern half of the Indonesian archipelago and the southern coasts of Borneo and Sulawesi. It includes twelve inset charts: the Baly Bali Strait; Sapie Bay; Labuan Tring Bay; Tafel Hoek; Segoro Wedie Bay; Beliling and Sangsit Roads; Bunkolan and Lirang Roads; Koeboe Road; Amok Bay and Padang Cove; Tiulik Road; Oedyon Road; and Macassar. Lighthouses are highlighted with small spots of red and yellow colouring. <p>The publisher's inkstamp dated 1882 appears below the title. The title-label on the verso reads 'Chart No. 171. Eastern Passages to China & Japan in Nine Charts. Chart No 1. Price 7s. 6d.'. James Imray and Son unknown
9169Dated at foot '1845'. On one side of a piece of laid watermarked paper 14 x 8 cm. On aged and creased paper. The accounts are brief and neatly written in an unidentified hand. At foot '1845'. Headed 'Revenue as calculated to end of Charter' and featuring a total of £17936217 against itemised charges of £18763517 including those incurred 'in India' 'Esp: St Helena' 'Political Chges in England' and 'Cost of <remittce>'. Beneath this a section headed 'Of ye above charges may be pble in Engd'. It may be that the accounts were a projection of how matters might stand when the Company's Charter of 1833 which vested the island of St Helena in the Crown came to an end as it did with the creation of the new Charter in 1853. From the Twining Papers. Dated at foot '1845'. unknown
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ria9783375006501_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Reprint of the original first published in 1863. Copy of Correspondence Relating to the Introduction of the Chinchona Plant Into India and to Proceedings Connected with Its Cultivation from March 1852 to March 1863 paperback
ria9783375006518_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Reprint of the original first published in 1863. Copy of Correspondence Relating to the Introduction of the Chinchona Plant Into India and to Proceedings Connected with Its Cultivation from March 1852 to March 1863 hardcover
