Mundapum, with facade of carved horses
[India: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. #2065. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and... Read More about Mundapum, with facade of carved horses
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Pictures of Anglo-Indian Life, Sketched with the Pen.
Lahore: Printed at the Lahore Chronicle Press by Francis Mendes, 1860. First Edition. Inscribed on the upper front wrapper "Mrs Mark Caldwell/ with the Author's compliments/ August 64." Cust was a British administrator and judge in colonial India, as well as an evangelical Anglican Christian. Read More about Pictures of Anglo-Indian Life, Sketched with the Pen
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A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way of China.
London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1810. First edition. Thomas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left England on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by way of India in 1794. The journey, financed in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, was documented in William’s journal..... Read More about A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way of China
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Hindu Polytheism.
[New York]: Bollingen Series LXXIII, Pantheon Books, [1964]. First edition. Read More about Hindu Polytheism
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Bygone Days in India.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. First edition. Historical accounts of life and travel in India by the noted ornithologist. Wide ranging and well written. Read More about Bygone Days in India
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Afoot through the Kashmir Valleys.
London: Sands, 1901. First edition. The extensive travels of the botanizing Miss Doughty, who “makes the glaciers and peaks of the Himalaya sound as tame as the South Downs … And after cataloguing the pleasures and perils of a Kashmiri holiday she has the effrontery to insist that any ‘idle..... Read More about Afoot through the Kashmir Valleys
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The Northern Barrier of India. A Popular Account of the Jummoo and Kashmir Territories.
London: Edward Stanford, 55, Charing Cross Road, 1877. First edition of the book originally published as The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories. Frederick Drew was an English geologist,FGS, famous for his geographical study of Kashmir. He was in Maharaja Ranbir Singh's government for 10 year and was the Governor of Ladakh. "He..... Read More about The Northern Barrier of India. A Popular Account of the Jummoo and Kashmir Territories
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Wild Animals of Central India.
London: Edward Arnold, 1923. First edition. Read More about Wild Animals of Central India
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Wild Animals of Central India.
London: Edward Arnold, 1923. First edition. Read More about Wild Animals of Central India
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Trekking in Kashmir with a Family, --or without one.
Lahore: "Civil and Military Gazette" Press by E.A. Smedley, Manager, 1930. First edition. Read More about Trekking in Kashmir with a Family, --or without one
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A Hint to the British Nation on the Violation of Their Constitutional Rights.
London: Printed for J. Derbett, 1787. Read More about A Hint to the British Nation on the Violation of Their Constitutional Rights
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A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown.
Philadelphia: P. Byrne, Law Bookseller, 1806. First American Edition (First English is 1806). East's Treatise is the first substantial English legal work subsequent to Blackstone's Commentaries. He was born in Jamaica in 1764, called to the bar in 1786. In 1813 East was chosen to succeed Sir Henry Russell as..... Read More about A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown
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Views of India and Canton with Historical and Descriptive Illustrations. [Preface dated Januaery 1, 1838].
London: H. Fisher Son, & Co., Newgate Street, 1838. First edition thus. Read More about Views of India and Canton with Historical and Descriptive Illustrations. [Preface dated Januaery...
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Bondo Highlanders.
[Bombay]: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, [1950]. First Edition. Highlanders living in Orissa of Southern India. Read More about Bondo Highlanders
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The Muria and Their Ghotul.
[Bombay]: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, [1947]. Ashley Montagu's copy with a copy of his Review of this book laid in. Read More about The Muria and Their Ghotul
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The Tribal Art of Middle India. Specimens of the Oral Literature of Middle India.
[Madras]: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, [1951]. First edition. Read More about The Tribal Art of Middle India. Specimens of the Oral Literature of Middle India
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The Highlands of Central India. Notes on Their Forest and Wild Tribes, Natural History, and Sports.
London: Chapman and hall, 1889. First edition. Read More about The Highlands of Central India. Notes on Their Forest and Wild Tribes, Natural History, and Sports
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Early Travels in India 1583-1619.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921. First edition. Read More about Early Travels in India 1583-1619
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IN DUST JACKET
Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots. A Civil Servant's Recollections and Impressions of Thirty-seven Years of Works and Sport in the...
London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1911. IN DUST JACKET. Read More about Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots. A Civil Servant's Recollections and Impressions of Thirty-seven...
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Amateur Horsemasters in Asia.
Bombay: F. Borton for G. Claridge & Co., Ltd, [1936]. First Edition. From the Introduction: "This is intended to be a book of quick and easy reference for amateurs in matters pertaining to the care and management of the saddle-horse, more especially in India and the East." Read More about Amateur Horsemasters in Asia
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Racing Reminiscences.
Calcutta: David Maxmillian & Co, [November, 1942]. First edition. Dedicated to "All those Bookmakers, who, for the past sixty years have taken my hard earned money..." Read More about Racing Reminiscences
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The Oriental Linguist, an Easy and Familiar Introduction to the Popular Language of Hindoostan ; [Vulgarly, But Improperly Called the...
Calcutta: Printed by Thomson, Ferris, and Greenway, 1798. Lacking the last leaf of music (supplied in photocopy facsimile from the Ferris and Greenway setting, where this appears as pp. 162-3). Fascinating early dictionary and handbook of Hindustani (Urdu). Read More about The Oriental Linguist, an Easy and Familiar Introduction to the Popular Language of Hindoostan ;...
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ALS to Adair [with:] DS promoting James Vospier to Captain.
Saint Helens and Bengal: nd & 1844. Promoted to Field Marshall in 1862, Gough had served in the Peninsular War, the First Opium War in 1841, he helped defeat the Mahrattas and Sikhs and was appointed Commander in Chief in India in 1843. ODNB, summarises Gough's achievements, thus: "Gough, a...... Read More about ALS to Adair [with:] DS promoting James Vospier to Captain
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Manuscript record of the travels and hunting adventures of Giles Graeme.
1867-1869. Several hundred pages legibly written in black ink on blue paper, the first volume with inserted photographs and drawings, drawings on the rear endpaper of the second, the third with an order for supplies from the Maharajah of Cashmere tipped-in, with his seal, as well as some drawings. Bindings..... Read More about Manuscript record of the travels and hunting adventures of Giles Graeme
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My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from Recent Mutiny.
London: Richard Bentley, 1891. First edition. Ethel Grimwood''s narrative of her husband who was a political agent at Manipur and slaughtered during the Manipurian Munity a small hill stae in the North-East Frontier. Read More about My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from Recent Mutiny
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