1893. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Housed in two contemporary morocco backed cases stamped in gilt "Indien" on spine and upper covers with third box to match. Some occasional bowing of boards photographs fine and well preserved with exception of a stock image of the Taj Mahal lightly faded and some soiling to the mount. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Archduke Franz-Ferdinand - Big Game Hunting in India 1893. Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria 1863-1914. This official voyage of the Archduke lasting from December 1892 to October 1893 had explicit diplomatic ethnographic and scientific aims as well as an unspoken goal of permitting the Archduke to recover his health after a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The royal party traveled aboard the imperial cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth the most modern vessel of the Austrian fleet. They spent two weeks in Ceylon now Sri Lanka before arriving in India in mid-January 1893. The party spent two-and-a-half months in India before touring Nepal returning briefly to Calcutta to embark for Singapore at the end of March. The world tour continued with visits in Australia the Pacific Islands Japan Canada and the American West before the Archduke sailed from New York to Le Havre.<br/> The Archduke's stay in India included diplomatic engagements military reviews and a formal visit to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad who was in late Victorian times the richest man in the world. The Archduke was put up in the Nizam's Bashir Bagh palace. The Archduke also spent considerable time hunting hawking pigsticking bagging some 20 tigers and leopard antelope sambhur black buck and just about every other beast of the chase in Ceylon he had hunted elephant. Franz-Ferdinand was a devoted hunter whose lifetime game bag exceeded 200000 animals; on the world tour his entourage included a huntsman and his taxidemist Eduard Hodek 1858-1929 who was also the Archduke's photographer and boon companion. The itinerary of the Archduke's travels permits the close dating of many of the photographs and events of the trip. A detailed list of the photographs is available. An exhibition in Vienna in 1894 publicized the collections made by the Archduke during his world travels and his diary was published as Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde in two volumes 1895-6. Upon the death of his father in 1896 Franz-Ferdinand became the heir to the Austrian throne. His assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 proved the spark that sent Europe and the world into war.<br/> The photographs document a wide range of subjects both formal and informal including views of the Archduke's activities grand receptions by the Nizam of Hyderabad military reviews sporting and equestrian events topographical vistas palace scenes as well as ethnographic and hunting images including substantial game bags. Many of the formal photographs of events in Hyderabad were taken by Lala Deen Dayal 1844-1905 noted court photographer to the Nizam and the first Indian photographer to gain international recognition for his work as a pioneer of photography in India only a few bear his studio stamp; but the images are identified in Höfer. Some of the views of and around Calcutta are from Samuel Bourne or Bourne and Shepherd.<br/> A spectacular visual record of 1890s India the opulence of the court of Hyderabad and sporting episodes in the life of Franz-Ferdinand. Regina Höfer Imperial Sightseeing: Die Indienreise von Erzherzog Franz-Ferdinand von Österreich-Este Vienna Museum für Völkerkunde Wien 2010 unknown books
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1973. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated with twelve color plates and thirty-nine monochrome plates including the frontispiece. 4to maroon cloth top edge gilt board slipcase. 1 page creased. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1973. Second edition. Revised from the original 1935 edition. Near fine.<br/> <br/> Number 143 of four hundred thirty-five copies prepared for subscribing members of India House.<br/> <br/> Wesleyan University Press unknown
Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1973. Second Edition Limited Edition: 286/435. Hardcover. Quarto xliv 144 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus Slipcase. Slip case is burgundy and book spine is burgundy with gilt lettering. Slipcase has minor staining and some rubbing. Boards have some rubbing and a library identification on the spine. Ex-Library. NOTE: Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1373067. Special Collections. Wesleyan University Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 1373067 ISBN : 081954065X 9780819540652
Wesleyan 1973-08-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Number 70 of a limited 435 copies bound specially for members of India House. Maroon boars with gilt lettering and slipcase. Book is in excellent condition text is unmarked and pages are tight. Slipcase has slight shelf wear. Wesleyan hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : B14882 ISBN : 081954065X 9780819540652
NY NY: India House Inc. 1957. 16mo. Cream Cloth on Blue Gilt Boards 80 pp. Very Good. Scarce.Provenance: Everett Mathews attorney from Millbrae CA. NY, NY: India House, Inc., 1957. hardcover
Un volume (24 cm) di IX-533 pagine. In lingua inglese. Tela editoriale con titolo dorato al dorso. Ottime condizioni. Importante bibliografia indiana soprattutto per testi e documenti dei primi trent'anni del 900.
Berlin: Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag 1928. 1-15 taiusend. xxxvi iv 304 pp. of photographs. 4to. Burnt orange cloth. Fine in dustjacket with loss to upper front cover and a little on spine. 1-15 taiusend. xxxvi iv 304 pp. of photographs. 4to. Part of the series "Orbis Terrarum Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag unknown books
Penguin Books Ltd. Paperback. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Bestselling writer India Knight explores the inevitable panic that family and Christmas bring in her third novel Comfort and Joy. 'I'd say Christmas was about hope. Yeah. Hope. And optimism. It's like the fairy tales in the window: for families every Christmas is a new opportunity for Happy Ever After. No pressure then.'Oxford Street two shopping days left to Christmas and wife and mum Clara Dunphy is desperately madly trying to make everything not perfect but just right for her extended family on the greatest day of the year. But then she gets distracted. . . 'Will make you laugh maybe make you cry and keep you reading past bedtime' Penguin Books Ltd paperback
Penguin Books Ltd. Hardcover. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. 'A savagely funny bracingly sad dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love. I loved it' Meg Mason author of Sorrow and Bliss 'A triumph! Brilliantly done faithful but imaginative tremendously romantic and very funny' Nina Stibbe author of Reasons to be CheerfuMarooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love but how will she ever find it She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone.Eventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family and she escapes to London. She knows she doesn't want to marry 'a man who looks like a pudding' as her good and dull sister Louisa has done and marries the flashy handsome son of a UKIP peer instead.But this is only the beginning of Linda's pursuit of love a journey that will be wilder more surprising and more complicated than she could ever have imagined.A razor-sharp laugh-out-loud novel that re-imagines the cast of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love 'Darling is a black forest gateau of a book: rich characters sumptuous prose delicious dialogue and layered throughout with sharp wit and intelligence . Treat yourself to this novel' Katherine Heiny author of Early Morning Riser Penguin Books Ltd hardcover
Fig Tree 2013. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> India Knight</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Fig Tree</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780241955048</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2013</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 242</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> 'Hilariously accurate. The funniest novel about the female mid-life crisis' The Times Clara Hutt is forty-six years old and in pretty good nick considering. She has kick-ass underwear a large and loving family and a healthy sense of what matters in life. Until Gaby moves in. Gaby's an old school friend of Clara's who has just returned from LA. She may be a yoga mogul who lives off kale and speaks a made-up fantasy novel language but Gaby's no stranger to cosmetic surgery: she's almost fifty but looks thirty-six at most. What with Gaby and Clara's son's leggy girlfriend Sky wafting around the house in her stripy pants Clara starts to wonder if a little Botox a little filler a nip and a tuck would be so very wrong. Should she ignore the fear Or is there another way to grow old gracefully - and how far is she prepared to go to find out 'Had me reaching for the hankie as I wept with laughter from start to finish' Evening Standard 'A brilliant mix of humour and heart . . . offers a witty take on the ageing process delivered in Knight's usual pithy thought-provoking style' Grazia 'Tear-inducingly funny . . . we love this story' Closer 'Gleeful. A frank and funny novel of Harley Street makeovers and matronly madness' Independent India Knight is the author of three previous novels: My Life on a Plate Don't You Want Me and Comfort and Joy. Her non-fiction books include The Shops the bestselling diet book Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet the accompanying bestselling cookbook Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook and The Thrift Book. India is a columnist for the Sunday Times and lives in London with her three children.</p> Fig Tree hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 9780241955048-2025 ISBN : 0241955041 9780241955048
Fig Tree 2013. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> India Knight</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Fig Tree</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780241955048</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2013</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 242</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> 'Hilariously accurate. The funniest novel about the female mid-life crisis' The Times Clara Hutt is forty-six years old and in pretty good nick considering. She has kick-ass underwear a large and loving family and a healthy sense of what matters in life. Until Gaby moves in. Gaby's an old school friend of Clara's who has just returned from LA. She may be a yoga mogul who lives off kale and speaks a made-up fantasy novel language but Gaby's no stranger to cosmetic surgery: she's almost fifty but looks thirty-six at most. What with Gaby and Clara's son's leggy girlfriend Sky wafting around the house in her stripy pants Clara starts to wonder if a little Botox a little filler a nip and a tuck would be so very wrong. Should she ignore the fear Or is there another way to grow old gracefully - and how far is she prepared to go to find out 'Had me reaching for the hankie as I wept with laughter from start to finish' Evening Standard 'A brilliant mix of humour and heart . . . offers a witty take on the ageing process delivered in Knight's usual pithy thought-provoking style' Grazia 'Tear-inducingly funny . . . we love this story' Closer 'Gleeful. A frank and funny novel of Harley Street makeovers and matronly madness' Independent India Knight is the author of three previous novels: My Life on a Plate Don't You Want Me and Comfort and Joy. Her non-fiction books include The Shops the bestselling diet book Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet the accompanying bestselling cookbook Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook and The Thrift Book. India is a columnist for the Sunday Times and lives in London with her three children.</p> Fig Tree hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 9780241955048-2025 ISBN : 0241955041 9780241955048
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Lower Provinces Code - containing the Unrepealed Acts of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal in Council and Regulations made under the Thirty-Third of Victoria Cap. 3 with a Chronological Table of the Bengal Acts - Vol. 2 is an uncha paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : ria9783348019453_inp ISBN : 3348019451 9783348019453
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