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np: n.d.d but after 1840 (?). The group includes a darkely lit night scene titled "A Village Tragedy" in which a tiger has struck down a man; a scene in which a large horned animal looms over a man hanging from a cliff's edge is titled "A Choice of Evils";..... Read More Item Details for 7 original drawings of Indian hunt scenes Add to Wish List
Item #314990
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London: W.H. Allen & Co, 1882. New (Second) Edition, Revised and corrected by the author (first published in 1880). A chapter on "The Shikarry." All were issued by Vanity Fair. Read More Item Details for Twenty-one Days in India, or the Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K.C.B Add to Wish List
Item #314698
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Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. London: W. Thacker & Co, 1890. Third Edition. Behind the scenes of colonial life in India, originally published in the TIMES OF INDIA-with advice for "Engaging a Boy," and portraits of "Domingo, the Cook," Hurree, the Dirzee," "That Dhobie," etc...... Read More Item Details for Behind the Bungalow Add to Wish List
Item #236658
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Lisbon: Academia Real das Sciencias, 1835. New edition from the original of 1651, with additions. New edition of the perennially reprinted Life of Joao de Castro, victor against the Turks in the Meditteranean who was then sent to India, where he repelled attacks on the fortress of Diu; here with..... Read More Item Details for Vida de Dom Joao de Castro. Quarto Viso-rey da India … Impresa conforme a primeira edição de 1651. Ajuntão-se algunas breves notes auctorizadas com documentos originaes e ineditos por D. Fr. Francisco de S. Luiz Add to Wish List
Item #366872
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Bombay: Conservator of Forests, 1945 (with renewals to 1948). A rare piece of ephemera; licenses such as this dictated the range that could be hunted, as well as the species (Bison, Sambhar and Cheetah) and the number of animals and their sex (bulls or stags only). Read More Item Details for Hunting License of Dr. H.B. Martin, District Medical Officer, MJSM Railway Add to Wish List
Item #319400
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London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Describes official visits to the King of Oudh, the Rajah of Bharatpur and the King of Delhi. Includes descriptions of troops and fortifications but also stories of local history, descriptions of Mughal architecture, and commentary on the local landscape. "Archer's narrative offers an important..... Read More Item Details for Tours in Upper India, and in parts of the Himalaya Mountains … Add to Wish List
Item #313658
Price: $450
Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, [1922]. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Recherches Zoologiques dans les Provinces Centrales de l'Inde et dans les regions occidentales de l'Himalaya Add to Wish List
Item #314715
Price: $750
London: Wm. H. Allen and Co. Leadenhall Street, 1837. First edition. "An officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery, Bacon recounts his assignment to India with vivid descriptions of life in the cantonments, travels along the Ganges River, and observations of the peoples he encountered. He also enjoyed hunting wild boar..... Read More Item Details for First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years' residence in Bengal and the Doab, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI Add to Wish List
Item #321388
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London: Witherby and Co, 1913. First Edition. Intended as a guide for the sportsman as well as the specialist, the volume forms a scarce companion to Baker’s Indian Ducks and Their Allies. Read More Item Details for Indian Pigeons and Doves Add to Wish List
Item #9477
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[British India, Simla and elsewhere: 1896-1904]. A sequence of reports and first hand accounts of local conditions in Mekran, Kalat, Baluchistan, Northwest India (now Pakistan), and relations with with the Khan of Kalat and his family. An uncommon glimpse of politics of and life in a frontier state of British..... Read More Item Details for 11 official Indian Government Reports from Col. Herbert Lionel Showers, political agent at Kalat, and others Add to Wish List
Item #259905
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London: Simpkin, Marshall, [n.d., 1888]. Collection of stories of British and Anglo-Indian life and adventure, including The Indian Mocking Lark; Navigating the Air (about a balloon expedition in Newcastle); Monkeys; Snakes and other Philistines; and Publishers; and with a verse afterword, To a Sun-Dial; with ads for other works by..... Read More Item Details for Under Two Shillings Add to Wish List
Item #313646
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Calcutta: 1851. Sixth Edition. Read More Item Details for Bible in Hindostan. The New Testament in Hindostání. Sixth Edition. 8vo, cloth, printed paper spine-label; Calcutta, 1851. Not in Darlow & Moule Add to Wish List
Item #332991
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Glasgow: James Macelhose and Sons, 1908. Privtaely Printed. Inscribed opposite tthe title-page: "John James Napier/ March 18 1917/ from the author." An account of the author's travels in India, Burma, Singapore & Johore, Canton & Macao, Shanghai & Far East, Up and Down in Japan, San Francisco & Monterey, Missions..... Read More Item Details for Winter Days in India and Elsewhere Add to Wish List
Item #316930
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title: "For Edward Steichen/ I couldn't do a book/ without sending it to you./ Maggy" Read More Item Details for Halfway to Freedom. A Report on the New India in the Words and Photographs of … Add to Wish List
Item #326940
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[Lahore: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 2126. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p...... Read More Item Details for Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption] Add to Wish List
Item #242359
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[Darjeeling: 1869]. Bourne cat. # 1904. Four upper-class Booteas, Tibetan-speaking inhabitants of Nepal. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian..... Read More Item Details for “Group of Booteas” [pencil caption] Add to Wish List
Item #242357
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[India: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. #2065. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p. 251)..... Read More Item Details for Mundapum, with facade of carved horses Add to Wish List
Item #242355
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[Tibet: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 1132B. A striking group portrait of six Tibetans, including a seated priest reading and fingering prayer beads and a woman, with her back to the camera, displaying an elaborate headdress. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan..... Read More Item Details for Tibetan natives [pencil caption] Add to Wish List
Item #242356
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London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1931. First edition. Read More Item Details for Wild Animals in Central India Add to Wish List
Item #338574
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Calcutta: W. Newman & Co., Limited, 1922. Second edition. Read More Item Details for Tours in Sikhim and the Darjeeling District Add to Wish List
Item #317159
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St. Albans: Fisher, Knight & Co., Ltd, [1935]. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page, dated November 1935. Read More Item Details for Experiences of a Jungle-Wallah. by "Nibs." Add to Wish List
Item #314743
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Bangalore City: The Bangalore Press, 1953. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Preservation of Wild Life in India. A Compilation with a Summarised Index of Contents...with foreward by Shri G.S. Bajpai Add to Wish List
Item #317155
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London: Spencer Blackett successors to J. R. Maxwell Milton House, 35 St. Bride Street, E. C, nd [1881]. "In his second book of reminiscences, Burton recalls a potpourri of experiences ranging from cyclones in Ceylon to military service and Burmese Buddhism. Of a sporting nature are his hunts for snipe..... Read More Item Details for An Indian Olio Add to Wish List
Item #321266
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London: Richard Bentley, 1877. First edition. Burton’s return visit to the lands, and annotations to the text, of his 1851 book, Scinde, or the Unhappy Valley. An attractive copy. Read More Item Details for Sind Revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, Etc Add to Wish List
Item #315945
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London: Lackington, Allen and Co., Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, 1809. A New Edition. Read More Item Details for The Lusiads of Camoens; or The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem. Translated from the Portugese of Luis de Camoens. With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Julius Mickle Add to Wish List
Item #43720