London: printed for A. Millar, 1758. First edition, with half-title. BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA. J.Z. Holwell (1711-1798), a.... Read More about A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of 123 English Gentlemen and Others who were...
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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 about 7 original drawings of Indian hunt scenes
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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 about Twenty-one Days in India, or the Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K.C.B
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Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. London: W. Thacker & Co, 1890. Third Edition. "A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service" Behind the scenes of colonial life in India, originally published in the TIMES OF INDIA-with advice for "Engaging a...... Read More about Behind the Bungalow
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Poona: ca. 1900-1905. The first leaf caption titled in ink "Ruth's first brush, given by J.A. Lord Esq. M.F.H./Snapshots by Capt. Jennings" and a second contemporary hand has written in pencil "Bombay Hunt ... 1905." The seventeen card leaves of this early album have been ,The images generally fine, the..... Read More about album of a Bombay hunt made by a young girl
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London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Upper India in the 1820s. 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..... Read More about Tours in Upper India, and in parts of the Himalaya Mountains …
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Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, [1922]. First Edition. Read More about Recherches Zoologiques dans les Provinces Centrales de l'Inde et dans les regions occidentales de...
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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 about First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to...
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Washington, D.C: Embassy of India, January 20, 1947. After Independence of India in 1947, Nehru made Sir Girija his principal foreign affairs adviser, appointing him the first Secretary General in the Ministry of External Affairs. In 1952, he was appointed as the Governor of Bombay State untilk his death. Read More about Autograph
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London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., Bunhill Row, 1880. First edition. Irsish geologist, son of Robert Ball to whom this book is dedicated. He was part of the Geological Survey of India in 1864 -1881. Read More about Jungle Life in India; or the Journeys and Journals of an Indian Geologist
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London: Simpkin, Marshall, [n.d., 1888]. NO OTHER COPY RECORDED. 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..... Read More about Under Two Shillings
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[DElhi]: Clarion Books, [1985]. First Hardcover edition. The first book on India's first wildlife sanctuary. Read More about Corbett National Park
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Glasgow: James Macelhose and Sons, 1908. Privtaely Printed. Inscribed. 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..... Read More about Winter Days in India and Elsewhere
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition. Inscribed to Edward Steichen. Inscribed on the half-title: "For Edward Steichen/ I couldn't do a book/ without sending it to you./ Maggy" Read More about Halfway to Freedom. A Report on the New India in the Words and Photographs of …
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![Item #242359 Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption]....](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/242359.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669651129)
[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 about Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption
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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 about “Group of Booteas” [pencil caption
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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 about Mundapum, with facade of carved horses
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![Item #242356 Tibetan natives [pencil caption]. Samuel Bourne](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/242356.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669651129)
[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 about Tibetan natives [pencil caption
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London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1931. First edition. Read More about Wild Animals in Central India
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Bombay [India]: March 1918. 'The Same Pleasure and Advantages as the British'. A British Raj era letter, written by the Marchioness of Willingdon, while in India with her husband, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, who was serving as Governor of Bombay. Lady Willingdon organized the Bombay Presidency War and..... Read More about Typed letter signed Lady Marie Willingdon ("Marie Willingdon") to the Rajsaheb...
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New York: Thomas Whittaker, [1873]. First edition. Read More about Shoshie, The Hindoo Zenana Teacher
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Calcutta: W. Newman & Co., Limited, 1922. Second edition. PETER HOPKIRK COPY. Read More about Tours in Sikhim and the Darjeeling District
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Bangalore City: The Bangalore Press, 1953. First edition. Read More about The Preservation of Wild Life in India. A Compilation with a Summarised Index of Contents...with...
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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 about An Indian Olio
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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 about Sind Revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, Etc
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