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1828214811London.: John Murray Albemarle Street. First Edition. 1828. First Edition two volumes in 1: xvi 4 xvii-xlviii 632pp; full-page map coloured in outline 5 plates 21 wood engravings in text List of Subscribers etc. last blank; viii 516pp 5 plates 4 wood engravings in text contemporary calf boards scuffed sympathetically rebacked with the gilt monogram of the Church Missionary Society 27 x 20cm considerable foxing to plates & adjacent leaves with small waterstain to several plates in Volume I neat sealed tears to five leaves in the Appendix of Volume II otherwise clean with the label of the Church Missionary Society and of Kumars the Calcutta Booksellers to the front pastedown neat ownership inscription of W. R. Crocker to the front free endpaper a good copy. A seminal work describing India's geography and people with an interesting provenance. Sir Walter Russell Crocker KBE 1902 – 2002 was an Australian ambassador and he authored a well-received biography of Jawaharlal Nehru: "Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate" 1966. He was ambassador or high commissioner to eleven countries including India twice Indonesia Canada Italy Belgium Nepal the Netherlands Ethiopia Kenya and Uganda. He headed the Department of International Relations at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University 1949–1954 and was a Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia for more than nine years. . John Murray, Albemarle Street. hardcover
1844INDIA014500John Murray London. 1844. New edition of a book originally published in 1828. Small octavo. Two volumes: pp viii 311 1 adverts; iv 304. Double-column text. Period binding of quarter tan calf with raised bands gilt rules green morocco title labels marbled boards.Contemporary 1845 ownership signature on each title-page. Covers rubbed at the edges. Spines rubbed and faded. A very good set. John Murray, London. hardcover
1851200119AG1851. London & New York John Tallis & Company 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by A.H. Wray and Engraved by J.H. Kernot. Plate Size: 31.5 cm x 25 cm. Sheet Size: 37.2 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. Beautifully bordered map of northern India from Cambay to Chittagong and Aracan in the Bay of Bengal. The political subdivisions are colourfully included marking out independent Nepal and Bhutan. The regions of Jemer Malwa Allahabade and Assam can also be seen on the map along with the names of many towns and cities The regions rivers including the Ganges are shown and relief is depicted with hachuring. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
1851200124AG1851. London & New York John Tallis & Company 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and Engraved by J. Rogers. Plate Size: 34.5 cm x 34 cm. Sheet Size: 27.2 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. Published in the Illustrated Atlas And Modern History Of The World Geographical Political Commercial & Statistical Edited By R. Montgomery Martin. Beautifully bordered and fascinating double map of the overland route between Britain and India. The upper map shows Europe and the links - both land and sea - running from England through to Alexandria Egypt. The routes are; the 'Mail Steam Packet Route' which runs around Gibraltar through Malta and onto Egypt; the 'Marseilles Overland Route' that runs across France to Marseilles and onto Alexandria via Malta and; the 'German Overland Route' that runs through across Belgium Germany before reaching Trieste and then onto the Mediterranean and then Egypt. The second map shows the differing routes on the next part of the journey - either across the Turkish controlled Middle East and through the Persian Gulf or down the Red Sea and across the Indian Ocean. What the map clearly illustrates is the importance attached to India 'Hindoostan' in the Imperial mind and the need for secure communication and transport links which necessitated control of certain choke points on the link such as Gibraltar Malta Suez etc. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much-anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia 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
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
1871316630London: Strahan & Co 1871. Illus. 376 4 adspp. 8vo. Half modern mottled brown calf green title label. Fine. Illus. 376 4 adspp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Strahan & Co unknown
18933075751893. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Housed in two contemporary morocco backed cases stamped in gilt "Indien" on spine and upper covers with third box to match. Some occasional bowing of boards photographs fine and well preserved with exception of a stock image of the Taj Mahal lightly faded and some soiling to the mount. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria 1863-1914. This official voyage of the Archduke lasting from December 1892 to October 1893 had explicit diplomatic ethnographic and scientific aims as well as an unspoken goal of permitting the Archduke to recover his health after a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The royal party traveled aboard the imperial cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth the most modern vessel of the Austrian fleet. They spent two weeks in Ceylon now Sri Lanka before arriving in India in mid-January 1893. The party spent two-and-a-half months in India before touring Nepal returning briefly to Calcutta to embark for Singapore at the end of March. The world tour continued with visits in Australia the Pacific Islands Japan Canada and the American West before the Archduke sailed from New York to Le Havre.<br /> The Archduke's stay in India included diplomatic engagements military reviews and a formal visit to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad who was in late Victorian times the richest man in the world. The Archduke was put up in the Nizam's Bashir Bagh palace. The Archduke also spent considerable time hunting hawking pigsticking bagging some 20 tigers and leopard antelope sambhur black buck and just about every other beast of the chase in Ceylon he had hunted elephant. Franz-Ferdinand was a devoted hunter whose lifetime game bag exceeded 200000 animals; on the world tour his entourage included a huntsman and his taxidemist Eduard Hodek 1858-1929 who was also the Archduke's photographer and boon companion. The itinerary of the Archduke's travels permits the close dating of many of the photographs and events of the trip. A detailed list of the photographs is available. An exhibition in Vienna in 1894 publicized the collections made by the Archduke during his world travels and his diary was published as Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde in two volumes 1895-6. Upon the death of his father in 1896 Franz-Ferdinand became the heir to the Austrian throne. His assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 proved the spark that sent Europe and the world into war.<br /> The photographs document a wide range of subjects both formal and informal including views of the Archduke's activities grand receptions by the Nizam of Hyderabad military reviews sporting and equestrian events topographical vistas palace scenes as well as ethnographic and hunting images including substantial game bags. Many of the formal photographs of events in Hyderabad were taken by Lala Deen Dayal 1844-1905 noted court photographer to the Nizam and the first Indian photographer to gain international recognition for his work as a pioneer of photography in India only a few bear his studio stamp; but the images are identified in Höfer. Some of the views of and around Calcutta are from Samuel Bourne or Bourne and Shepherd.<br /> A spectacular visual record of 1890s India the opulence of the court of Hyderabad and sporting episodes in the life of Franz-Ferdinand. Regina Höfer Imperial Sightseeing: Die Indienreise von Erzherzog Franz-Ferdinand von Österreich-Este Vienna Museum für Völkerkunde Wien 2010 unknown
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
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
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
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
1872195548New York.: Harper's Weekly. 23 November1872. Five engravings in three columns 23.5 x 10 cms; on a single newspaper leaf 28.7 x 40.8 cm unrelated text on the verso lower margin creased with a small central tear affecting the caption no loss the image sin very good condition. Engravings from Harper's Weekly in November 1872 all centred on the quinine production in Darjeeling. Production began in the 1860s from seeds sent by the famed botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Quinine proved indispensable to British rule in India and they invested heavily in plantations to sure up supply.The anti-malarial was vital for colonial expansion "quinine coursed through the bloodstream of empire" Townsend Middleton "Becoming after: The Lives and Politics of Quinine’s Remains" in Cultural Anthropology Vol. 36 Issue 2 pp. 282-311 2014 although probably known more to the readers of Harper's Weekly as an essential for gin and tonic. <br> <br>The five engravings: <br>Foot-Bridge over the River Rungbee <br>Buttress of Suspension Bridge over the River Teestah <br>Cinchona Succirubra Thirty Feet High signed but indecipherable <br>Native of Sikkim <br>Cane Suspension Bridge over the Great Runjeet. . Harper's Weekly. unknown
1859189711Calcutta.: Surveyor Generals Office. 1870. Reissue of 1859 edition. Lithographed map 57.2 x 93 cms; 61.1 x 96 cms sheet original folds old paper repairs to the verso and a sealed marginal tear central folds archivally strengthened some toning to the folds and creasing but the map in remarkably good clean condition. Impressive large Calcutta printing from the Survey of India showing Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh and surrounding states with extremely detailed delineation of settlements roads railways rivers and major points of interest the Taj Mahal is highlighted. . Surveyor Generals Office. unknown
1844223122London.: J. Hatchard and Son. 1844. Two volumes hand-coloured chromolithograph portrait frontispiece to each volume 30 plates including 6 botanical plates in the second volume lacking the tissue guards: xii 475 pp ; vii List of Illustrations 459 pp; contemporary half calf spine gilt-ruled between compartments raised bands gilt lettered title labels edges fully gilt 23.5 x 16 cms professionally re-backed mounting the original spine corners a little rubbed and bumped title and frontispiece to each volume rather spotted and affecting a number of the plates some age toning but a good handsome copy. Sir William Henry Sleeman 1788–1856 was a British soldier and administrator in India and "his most memorable achievement was an exposure of the practices of the thugs an organised fraternity of professional murderers.In February 1839 additional duties being assigned to his office he became commissioner for the suppression of Thuggi and dacoity. During the next two years he was actively engaged in investigating and repressing criminal organisations in Upper India. During 1826 and 1835 over fourteen hundred thugs were hanged or transported for life." DNB. At the time of writing Sleeman was political resident in Gwalior. His readable observations touch on a myriad of subjects and places and illustrate many facets of Indian life including suttee witchcraft influence of electricity on vegetation corn dealers the Kohinoor diamond transit duties Delhi Indian Police and military discipline. . J. Hatchard and Son hardcover
1844022107London: J. Hatchard and Son 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Partly unopened; scattered foxing but text and plates mostly clean. Some fraying along spine edges; gilt fairly bright. Easily Very Good in a Fine clamshell box. Two 6-1/2" x 9-3/4" volumes in publisher's gilt-decorated and lettered green cloth: xii 478; vii i 459 1 pages. Housed in a green cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with 32 color chromolithographic plates with tissue guards. Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sleeman who spent his entire career in India was best known for his fight to suppress the activities of "thugs" bands of criminals who attacked robbed and often murdered innocent travelers. In these volumes he describes his experiences doing so as well as his thoughts on various aspects of Indian life including Hinduism local festivals and folklore natural history governance military discipline and the justice system. In 1828 Sleeman made the first documented discovery of dinosaur fossils in Asia before the term "dinosaur" was even formally coined. ABBEY TRAVEL 466. <br/><br/> J. Hatchard and Son hardcover
182420379First American Edition from the Second London Edition H. C. Carey & I. Lea - Chestnut Street hardcover
1841AQ32634Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press 1841. 35pp 1. Bound with: Drop-head title: List of members of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India. January 1st 1841. Calcutta. Bishop's College Press 1841. 2 23pp 1. 8vo. Modern brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Two early manuscript corrections to first mentioned work title and drop-head title. The second located copy of the annual report of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India for the year 1840 together with a contemporary list of members printed at the Baptist Mission Press at Calcutta which operated from 1818 until the 1970s. The Society was founded by orientalist and missionary William Carey 1761-1834 in 1820. The report records the progress of the work done by the society including efforts to promote and improve cotton cultivation in the country the introduction of a new species of mulberry plant the promotion of tea culture in Assam and revision of discriminating duties on rum and tobacco. OCLC and COPAC record copies of each work at a single location BL. . First edition. Printed at the Baptist Mission Press 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
