INDIA. Manuscript. 4pgs. November 12 1863. N.p. A manuscript of a poem entitled “Revelry in India†copied out by and twice signed “E. N. Liseâ€. “Revelry in India by Capt Dobney Royal Bengal Fusileers sic We meet neath the sounding rafter And the walls around us are bare As they shout to Our Peals of Laughter It seems that the dead are there But stand to your glasses steady We drink to our comrades Eyes Quaff a cup to the Dead Already And Hurrah for the next that dies…Cut off from the land that bore us Betrayed by the land We find Where the brightest have gone before us And the dullest remain behind Stand Stand to your glasses steady It is all We have left to prize A cup to the dead already And Hurah for the next that dies.†The last page also contains the ending of a letter. Lise signed the end of the letter and also signed and dated the bottom of the last page upside down. This poem was much published in under a variety of titles and authors but it was most likely written by British-Indian civil servant William Francis Thompson 1808-1842. It appeared in Bengal Annual an East India Company publication in 1835. The manuscript is in very good condition with deep folds and discoloration. unknown books
Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing India 1911. Book measures 33.5x21.cm. Collation in 2 parts 22999pp. Bound in original printed boards. Boards rubbed spine sellotaped library labels and withdrawal stamp binding slightly loose. Internally occasional library stamp or mark. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy. . Hard Cover. Good Plus. Quarto. Superintendent of Government Printing India Hardcover
Bombay: Printed at the Government Central Press 1919. Book measures 33.5x21.cm. 79pp folding coloured map. Bound in original publishers printed paper covers. Covers rubbed top cover detached library label. Internally occasional library stamp cancellation stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy in a worn binding. Paper Covers. Good Plus. Quarto. Printed at the Government Central Press Paperback
Bombay: Printed at the Government Central Press 1919. Book measures 33.5x21.cm. 109pp folding coloured map. Bound in original publishers printed paper covers. Covers rubbed spine sellotaped library label. Internally occasional library stamp cancellation stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy in a worn binding. Paper Covers. Good Plus. Quarto. Printed at the Government Central Press Paperback
Bombay: Printed at the Government Central Press 1919. Book measures 33x21.cm. 87pp folding coloured map. Bound in original publishers printed softcover. Covers lightly rubbed library label spine sellotaped. Internally occasional library stamp cancellation stamp pages clean. A good clean copy. . Paper Covers . Good Plus. Quarto. Printed at the Government Central Press Paperback
Bombay: Printed at the Government Central Press 1913. Book measures 33.5x21.cm. 69pp folding coloured map. Bound in original publishers printed paper covers. Covers rubbed spine sellotaped library label. Internally occasional library stamp cancellation stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy in a worn binding. Paper Covers. Good Plus. Quarto. Printed at the Government Central Press Paperback
Bombay: Printed at the Government Central Press 1920. Book measures 33.5x21.cm. 85pp folding coloured map. Bound in original publishers printed paper covers. Covers rubbed spine sellotaped library label. Internally occasional library stamp cancellation stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy in a worn binding. Paper Covers. Good Plus. Quarto. Printed at the Government Central Press Paperback
Bombay: Printed at the Government Central Press 1916. Book measures 33.5x21.cm. 69pp folding coloured map. Bound in original publishers printed paper covers. Covers rubbed spine sellotaped library label. Internally occasional library stamp cancellation stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy in a worn binding. Paper Covers. Good Plus. Quarto. Printed at the Government Central Press Paperback
Bombay: Printed at the Government Central Press 1920. Book measures 33.5x21.cm. 91pp folding coloured map. Bound in original publishers printed paper covers. Covers rubbed spine sellotaped library label. Internally occasional library stamp cancellation stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy in a worn binding. Paper Covers. Good Plus. Quarto. Printed at the Government Central Press Paperback
<p>No Publisher. An album of mainly pen and ink sketches of India; 4to. The sketches include portraits: of a Sikh Warrior A Daughter of Kashmir A Gurkha Family and monuments such as The Hiran Minar or Elephant Tower and Toers of Silence. The album also includes artist's notes on various subjects including Indian punishment and execution jugglers snake charmers and many more. There 31 drawings in total. The album has had some professional restoration to the spine.</p> No Publisher
India 1930. With 124 photographs most 3 x 4 inches a few 4 x 6 inches mounted on black album leaves some with corner mounted others tipped in. With four other photographs and four negatives loosely inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black cloth. Minor exterior wear. Photos fine and fresh. With 124 photographs most 3 x 4 inches a few 4 x 6 inches mounted on black album leaves some with corner mounted others tipped in. With four other photographs and four negatives loosely inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Abum of travels of a party of western travellers in India with scenes of the Taj Mahal and the Ganges formal gardens and monasteries in Ladakh and many views of plains and mountain valleys. There are excellent photos of large mahseer taken by the three anglers two gentleman and a lady trout fishing and a large trophy tiger. Pictures of the campsites in Kashmir and accompanying shikaris and guides round out the record.<br/>Nicely composed and covering a variety of terrain and scenes with great sporting content. unknown books
Lahore: Punjab Government printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press 1909. With the scarce maps First edition compiled only three years after the district's formation and including a plan of the civil station of Campbellpore. We have traced only ten copies on WorldCat four of which are in the UK: University of Birmingham Edinburgh University Manchester University and Oxford University. Attock has been inhabited since the classical period and was the location where Alexander the Great crossed the Indus. In the early 19th century it was occupied by the Sikh Kingdom under Ranjit Singh but was taken by the British East India Company in the Second Sikh War in 1849. It was then renamed as Campbellpore District after Sir Colin Campbell Commander-in-Chief of India. The district was annexed by the British government in 1858 and constituted as a distinct administrative body on 1 April 1904. This work contains comprehensive information on the district from its physical geography and history to its agriculture rent prices wages administrative divisions policing and education. It pays particular attention to the local tribes and their history while providing precise data on population patterns land ownership statistics and trade. The maps show the borders of the district's local communities. Octavo. With 4 heliozincographed folding maps printed in black and orange tables in text. Original red half cloth spine lettered in gilt grey paper boards lettered in black edges untrimmed. Binding worn spine sunned maps re-tipped to stubs and with light foxing and a few worm holes: a very good copy. hardcover
Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing India 1912. Book measures 24.5x16.cm. vi 246pp lxxixpp index interleaved with blank pages occasional illustratuion. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth rubbed a short tear and abrasion mark on spine library label on top board. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally occasional library stamp cancellation stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy. . Cloth. Near Very Good. 8vo. Superintendent Government Printing, India Hardcover
Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing India 1897. Book measures 33x21.cm. 126pp.Bound in original publishers printed boards. Boards lightly rubbed spine sellotaped library withdrawal stamp. Binding in good condition. Internmally ooccasional library stamp or mark. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy. . Good Plus. Quarto. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India hardcover
Lahore: Printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press 1913. The 1913 edition of this handbook with guidance on camping fishing shooting and other matters. Readers are also warned against felling trees for firewood and against gifting or selling guns to any subject of the maharaja not licensed to carry firearms. The Kashmir visitor rules were first issued in 1806. Institutional searches show small holdings of a range of editions but no copies of this 1913 publication. Small octavo. Original green hexagonally grain cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Spine sunned light wear a few pages dog-eared: near-fine. hardcover
Madras: 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
London: Printed for J. Almon 1783. First edition 184 pp. disbound. The writer describes his plans for the establishment of regular systems of political and military Government of India. Attributed by Higgs to Governor Thomas Pownall. Kress 6964; Goldsmith 11029; Higgs 5735. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1783 unknown