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1884189408London: Printed by the Ballatyne Press "For Private Circulation" 1884. Duleep Singh reclaims his throne First and only edition privately issued of this controversial presentation of the maharajah's grievances against the British Government's claims to the Punjab. Decidedly uncommon around 14 copies traced institutionally just a couple at auction. An excellent copy of a fragile fugitive and highly desirable work here in a variant binding to the black skiver usually encountered. The child king Duleep Singh 1838-1893 Maharajah of Lahorewas carried into exile following defeat in the Second Anglo-Sikh War 1848-9 converting to Christianity in 1854 obtaining a royal audience and becoming "an immediate success" with the Queen and eventually settling in Elveden Suffolk with Bamba Müller his "part-Ethiopian part-German" ODNB wife who he had met in Cairo when returning from his mother's funeral in India; "Duleep Singh loved Elveden and rebuilt the church cottages and the school. His fame as a shooter of game was revived in the grounds of the great estate". However "amid European glamour the spirit that had tasted sovereignty was hibernating somewhere in the mind of Duleep Singh. Prompted initially by his mother then by his cousin Thakur Singh Sandhanwalia and finally by the supposed prophecies of the tenth Sikh guru Duleep Singh began a battle with the British government asserting the illegality of the annexation of the Punjab and demanded to be reinstated as maharajah. In 1886 he tried to return to India to place himself as the prophesied head of the Sikh people but was arrested at Aden. Here he was received back into the Sikh faith". From Paris he made himself the centre of various plots to overthrow British rule in the Punjab scheming with Russian and Irish revolutionaries to force the Khyber Pass but all of these conspiracies came to nothing. Increasingly dogged by ill health he sought a reconciliation with Victoria who "responded with a full pardon through the secretary of state on 1 August 1890". He died in Paris in 1893 and was carried back to his beloved Elveden and buried in the graveyard of St Andrew's and St Patrick's Church. The present work represents the historical groundwork to his campaign for reinstatement to the throne and was distributed solely to those who he felt could be of influence to that end. It was "compiled partly from historical sources and partly from private information and documents furnished" Preface by Duleep Singh himself and encompasses a sketch of the early history of the Punjab; a biographical narrative of the Maharajah; and an explanation "of the peculiar Relations in which the Maharajah stands towards the Government and the causes of the differences between them". Octavo. pp. viii 183. Original moderate red cloth over flexible boards title gilt to the front cover single fillet blind panel to both covers grey-blue decorative endpapers. Slightly rubbed the spine sunned; endpapers a little browned pale toning to the text-block else a very good copy. hardcover
1842182100London W. H. Allen & co. 1842. Third Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original plain cloth. Professionally re-cased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Scans etc. on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 773 pages; Related names: East India Company. Great Britain. Laws statutes etc. Description: xiv 773 p. 28 x 23 cm. London, W. H. Allen & co. hardcover
1873316648New York: Nelson & Phillips 1873. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Three quarters crimson morocco and cloth sides. Fine. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on ffep"Mr David Smith/ with trhe compliments of/ Jno. W. Butler/ Mexico/ June 22/80. Nelson & Phillips unknown books
1873316648New York: Nelson & Phillips 1873. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Three quarters crimson morocco and cloth sides. Fine. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Inscribed on ffep"Mr David Smith/ with trhe compliments of/ Jno. W. Butler/ Mexico/ June 22/80. Nelson & Phillips unknown
1858IE-23125London, The London Printing and Publishing Company, o. J. (um 1858). Vollständiges Werk in 8 Bänden. Original-Ganzleinenbände im Format 29 x 20 cm mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln sowie reichen Goldprägungen auf Buchrücken und Vorderdeckel; beide Deckel außerdem mit reichen floralen Blindprägungen. Complete work in 8 volumes. Original full-cloth volumes in the format 29 x 20 cm with gold embossed spine titles and rich gold embossing on the spine and front cover; both covers also with rich floral blind embossing. Comprehensive, richly illustrated work by Irish writer, colonial official and explorer Robert Montgomery Martin (1801-1868) on the history of India and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Includes 3 engraved titel pages, 120 steel-engraved illustrations and two double-page maps. From an early age, Martin joined several expeditions that took him to Ceylon, the Cape of Good Hope, the south-east coast of Africa and Madagascar, among others. Around 1838 he began to deal intensively with questions of the British colonial empire. The result of these studies was his work "Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire", published in 1839. His special interest was in India, where he had already lived for a year in 1828. His present work "The Indian Empire" contains a complete history of India (volumes 1 - 5, 582 p.), which is divided into 5 chapters: Chapter I: Early history, mythological and traditional - Persian and other invasions - Greek expedition and conquers of Alexander - plundering incursions of Mahmood the Ghuznivede - Mohammedan conquests, dominion and downfall - Rise and progress of British power and supremacy. Chapter II: Topography - mountains and passes - Rivers - Plateaux - Provinces and chief towns - climate and diseases - geology - soil - mineralogy. Chapter III: Population - numbers density to area - proportion of Hindoos to Mohammedans - varieties of race - diverse languages - aborigines - slavery - past and present condition of the people. Chapter IV: Religion - Christian missions - education - the press - and crime. Chapter V: Civil government - judical administration - military power - and protected states and pensionaries. The second large part of the work entitled "History of the Mutiny of the Sepoy Troops" is dedicated to the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (Vol. 5: pp. 1 - 72; vol. 6: pp. 73 - 192; vol. 7 : pp. 193 - 328; vol. 8: pp. 329 - 504). Finally, a third part deals with the description of the illustrations contained in the work ("Description of the Engravings", vol. 5: p. 1 - 64; vol. 6: p. 65 - 136; vol. 7: p. 137 - 192).
187334726London: Trubner & Co. . Very Good with no dust jacket. 1873. First Edition . Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Vol. 5 only of six. Gilt-stamped later green cloth boards very slight wear to corners binding tight fine overall. Approx. 8.5" x 5.75" 10 575 pp. Clean and bright discard stamps from the Merchant Library of Philadelphia on title page and a couple of other pages not affecting the text otherwise unmarked. A nice copy. . Trubner & Co. , hardcover
186411804London: T. Nelson and Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1864. Hardcover. Red cloth binding with blind decorative impressions on front and rear panels. Cover is clean with wear at edges and some rubbin on panels. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. There is some spotted foxing present. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages . T. Nelson and Sons hardcover
1865311412Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press 1865. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full black morocco spine with gilt rules boards with gilt roll borders ornamental cornerpieces titled in gilt on upper cover yellow endsheets with orange ticket Bound at the Lawrence Asylum Press within border. Some minor rubbing occasional foxing. Fine. Gift inscription on first blank "J. Michael with the kindest regards of J.C.H. July 17th 1875. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. UNRECORDED. Spectacular unrecorded privately printed hunting diary recounting a hunting expedition in Kerala southern India from 27 July to 22 September 1865 "the best shikar trip I have ever had". The narrator and his companion A.M.D. bagged 43 heads of eleven different types of big game including tiger bear elephant bison chettul and others with original albumen photographs mounted and captioned in a neat hand. <br/>The unnamed narrator mentions passing hunting parties one such Brown Jones and Robinson suggests that he read Trollope when the novel appeared as a serial in the Cornhill; the terrain around Hassanoor Ghaut was familiar to him for he had planted fruit trees and roses near a camp building; mention is made also of Hamilton Brooke and Faulkener hunting the area the previous year. This may be Douglas Hamilton who in 1892 published a long retrospective 'Records of Sport in Southern India'.<br/>The narrator buys prepared photographic plates from a departing hunter who had ordered them from the Patent dry Collodion Co. of Birmingham. The two hunters were accompanied by the dog Scamp chief among a pack that included Tinker and a plucky three-legged dog Pinko both killed by a panther and bearers of cowardly deportment save for the plucky Rajii who stood by when the narrator faced bear and elephant. At times the grass was too high for a man to get through easily.<br/>Notably the hunter describes many photographic incidents including how the frontispiece "The Tiger's Siesta" came to be made. One day D. encountered a a tigress atop the head of a young elephant and shot her despite the commotion. The young elephant ran off. The next day going to photograph the tigress the narrator was charged by a herd of elephants. He shot an elephant cow and they moved on to photograph the elephant "taking the tigress with us. The men who carried her threw her body into the elephants arms and it looked so strange the tigers mouth being curiously drawn up as if she were laughing that I thought I would try a picture in that position.". UNRECORDED in all the usual references and catalogues Lawrence Asylum Press unknown books
1865311412Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press 1865. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full black morocco spine with gilt rules boards with gilt roll borders ornamental cornerpieces titled in gilt on upper cover yellow endsheets with orange ticket Bound at the Lawrence Asylum Press within border. Some minor rubbing occasional foxing. Fine. Gift inscription on first blank "J. Michael with the kindest regards of J.C.H. July 17th 1875. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Spectacular unrecorded privately printed diary recounting a hunting expedition in Kerala southern India from 27 July to 22 September 1865 "the best shikar trip I have ever had". The narrator and his companion A.M.D. bagged 43 heads of eleven different types of big game including tiger bear elephant bison chettul and others with original albumen photographs mounted and captioned in a neat hand. <br /> The unnamed narrator mentions passing hunting parties one such Brown Jones and Robinson suggests that he read Trollope when the novel appeared as a serial in the Cornhill; the terrain around Hassanoor Ghaut was familiar to him for he had planted fruit trees and roses near a camp building; mention is made also of Hamilton Brooke and Faulkener hunting the area the previous year. This may be Douglas Hamilton who in 1892 published a long retrospective 'Records of Sport in Southern India'.<br /> The narrator buys prepared photographic plates from a departing hunter who had ordered them from the Patent dry Collodion Co. of Birmingham. The two hunters were accompanied by the dog Scamp chief among a pack that included Tinker and a plucky three-legged dog Pinko both killed by a panther and bearers of cowardly deportment save for the plucky Rajii who stood by when the narrator faced bear and elephant. At times the grass was too high for a man to get through easily.<br /> Notably the hunter describes many photographic incidents including how the frontispiece "The Tiger's Siesta" came to be made. One day D. encountered a a tigress atop the head of a young elephant and shot her despite the commotion. The young elephant ran off. The next day going to photograph the tigress the narrator was charged by a herd of elephants. He shot an elephant cow and they moved on to photograph the elephant "taking the tigress with us. The men who carried her threw her body into the elephants arms and it looked so strange the tigers mouth being curiously drawn up as if she were laughing that I thought I would try a picture in that position.". UNRECORDED in all the usual references and catalogues Lawrence Asylum Press unknown
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
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
1843WRCAM45615Bombay 1843. 108pp. Later black morocco gilt. Corners heavily rubbed; library markings. Front flyleaf detached. Text clean. Good plus. An early Indian imprint printed for the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society at the American Mission Press with text in both English and Marathi. Not in Diehl. Scarce - a search of OCLC turns up only three copies at Yale Oxford and the New York Public Library though this copy is marked as a Library of Congress duplicate. unknown books
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
189757629Delhi u. Dehradun, Periodical Expert Book Agency u. International Book Distributors, 1978 (Nachdruck der Ausgabe 1872-1897). 8°. Zus. ca. 5.500 S., OLwd.-Bde.
1813222915London.: Edward Orme. 1813. 20 hand coloured aquatint plates 149pp x Index including the Half Title and List of Plates; contemporary half calf over marbled boards spine gilt-lettered in compartments marbled edges 28.2 x 22 cms the first plate a trifle spotted with a small chip from the bottom margin slight age-toning and minor spotting in very good condition. Scarce suite of finely hand coloured aquatints depicting domestic colonial life in British India: the Europeans at their leisure attended by Indian servants. Doyley's compositions are often quietly satirical: Plate IV "A Gentleman Dressing Attended by His Head-Bearer and Other Servants" shows a young man in his gown relaxed seated and reading while an Indian servant washes his feet another in the background pours his drink and yet another makes his bed all overseen by the "Head-Bearer". The artist Charles Doyley was illustrating and observing a world in which was an intimate participant he had been born in India into a family that had long served in India himself serving as a member of the Bengal Civil Service from 1797 to 1838. <br> <br>Abbey Travel 435; Tooley 185 . Edward Orme. hardcover
185484658London: Wm. H. Allen & Co 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. index c 145p. plus 6p. advertisements. Rebound in a red 20th century quarterbinding red leather backstrip and red cloth. 17cm. Rear joint tender. Richard F. Burton shows up in the list as does John H. Speke. <br/><br/> Wm. H. Allen & Co hardcover books
185484658London: Wm. H. Allen & Co 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. index c 145p. plus 6p. advertisements. Rebound in a red 20th century quarterbinding red leather backstrip and red cloth. 17cm. Rear joint tender. Richard F. Burton shows up in the list as does John H. Speke. Wm. H. Allen & Co hardcover
18802880Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. Brown cloth blind-stamped decoration gilt spine lettering. Early official compilation of local acts and regulations in force in Coorg/Kodagu including land-revenue regulation and related colonial administrative law. With two-page publishers advertisement at rear.; 7" x 10-1/4"; 99 pp; Ex-library with front bookplate and ownership markings on title page; no spine label or pocket. Covers edgeworn. . Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing hardcover
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
1898510408Oxford University Press American Branch 1898. Leather. NEAR FINE. 48mo 2.75.4' xl 582pp. Fine binding on India Paper with Smyth-sewn binding in pebbled calfskin with ironed calfskin liner all edges art gilt gilt stamped spine lettering and black place ribbon. Owner's name and inscription to front flyleaf d. 1914 some very trivial rubbing to the spine ends ELSE FINE an exceedingly clean and sharp copy with no signs of wear. An uncommonly nice survival for a devotional book. Although this is listed as the American Branch with New York address we suspect this copy was printed in the UK at the Oxford Bible Press--the fine India paper has the distinct feel of the Wolvercote Mill paper that distinguishes Oxford's India Paper Bibles of this era. Oxford University Press American Branch unknown
187538231Benares: Printed by E. J. Lazarus and Co. at the Medical Hall Press 1875. 1st edition. OCLC shows 4 holding institutions. Printed blue paper wrappers sewn. 1st edition. General wear & soiling. Spine paper chipping with vertical split along the entire. PO initials to rear wrapper. A Good - Good copy. 6 xi 1 blank 128 2 blank pp. Folding 'Sketch Map of Benares' 15" x 16-1/2". 12mo. <br/><br/> Printed by E. J. Lazarus and Co., at the Medical Hall Press unknown books
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
1897158925Calcutta: Catholic Orphan Press 1897. XXXV, (1), 383 Seiten / Pages. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Halbleinenband. [Hardcover / fest gebunden]. / Orig.-Halfcloth.
18132557DBLeipzig, Gerhard Fleischer d. Jüng., 1813. 16°. XXII S., (1) Bl., 349 S. Mit gest. Titel, 11 Kupfern (von 12, davon 10 gef.), 1 mehrfach gef. Karte. Pappband d. Zt. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 2557D = 12. Jahrgang, 1. Abteilung.
181215101AB1812. 12thyear second part off 2. Leipzig Fleischer 1812. 13 : 9 cm. XVII 306 pages with engraved title-page 9 7 folded engraved plates. Contemporary boards slipcase. This volume treats extensive with India culturell economicly historical etc. The plates show landscape temples plants people etc. - Binding a bit rubbed. - Text in German. hardcover
