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1970réf. 80685Delhi: Vikas Publishing 1970. First Thus. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's orange cloth boards titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. 187pp. Strong and tight but visibly sunned to spine and edges of binding and a little bumped to the head of the spine. The priceclipped dustjacket is similarly sunned to the spine and has some light marginal wear but shows very well. A very good presentable copy. Internally clean with some annotation and emphasis to the text from an informed reader presumably Angus Thurmer. There is a 2 page letter from Major General Lunt dated January 1971 on Ministry of Defense notepaper to Angus Thurmer at the US Embassy in New Delhi discussing the book and the editing work and apprising Mr. Thurmer of his current status. Major General Lunt CBE had a prominent and successful career in the British Military spending a significant part of his career in India including a stint as Military Adviser to the High Commission there is a note on the title page to the effect that the book's attentive reader played Polo with Lunt whilst he was stationed in Delhi. The first edition of "From Sepoy to Subedar" was published in 1873 then languished forgotten for almost a century until Major General Lunt in his role as accomplished "Old India Hand" decided a new edition was called for. Primary source material for the period from native Indians is relatively thin on the ground spanning as it does Subedar Ram's memories of the Afghan Wars the first two the retreat from Khabul the subsequent trials and tribulations of a soldier's life and the post-"mutiny" changes to the leadership and administration of India and how badly that went. A fascinating account which should be ranked alongside "Confessions of a Thug" and Lady Florentia Sale's Journal as insights with all faults into the nature of life in and under the British Raj. Vikas Publishing unknown books
réf. 501113INDIA EXPEDITIONARY FORCE "A". The Indian Corps and The Indian Cavalry Corps 1914-1933 First Reunion Dinner Delhi February 17 1933. Large 8vo 4 pages with 4 tipped-in photographs. Stiff cream wraps with original blue ties. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
1956réf. 2222157First edition so stated. Octavo. Portrait; map. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped designed by Gilbert Etheredge. Very good. 511 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Housed in a custom red morocco and matching cloth slipcase and cloth wraparound. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
réf. 336875Bombay: The Times of India. paperback. very good/very good. 42 black and white photographs. 24 pages oblong 4to printed green wrappers. Bombay: The Times of India ca. 1903. In very good condition with minor fading and marks to wrappers. The Times of India unknown books
1942réf. 198066India: U.S. Army Forces in China Berma India 1942. Paperback. Good Heavily worn leather folder; many pages are annotated with practice Chinese characters or this book may have been used by a Chinese person to learn English; scattered toning and stains throughout; binding is solid. Brown leather binding with debossed lettering; 4 t.o.; folded map in pocket ifc; approximately 110 pp.; map; illustrations. An interesting wartime guide book issued by U.S. Armed Forces India a guide to the study of Chinese culture and language used by American forces stationed in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II. Sections provide English-to-Chinese translations on important military medical artillery and everyday terms. A notable section at the end even explains features to look for when trying to identify Japanese aircraft. Bound in a heavily worn leather folder many pages are annotated with practice Chinese characters or this book may have been used by a Chinese person to learn English. Scattered toning and stains throughout. [U.S. Army Forces in China, Berma, India] paperback books
1929réf. 198081929. Women in Sciences Balfour Margaret and Young Ruth. "The Work of Medical Women in India". London: Oxford University Press 1929. First Edition No Dust Jacket. 201 pages. Measures 5.75" x 8.75". The United States sent the first qualified medical woman to 1880 and for the next sixty years many women physicians from America England and other countries have gone to India as missionaries. The Association of Medical Women in India grew to 281 members by 1930 and there were four women's medical schools where 351 students were studying for the subassistant surgeon's diploma. This book focuses on the women from 1880 to 1929 who contributed to improving the health of women in India. It follows several famous figures from the medical movement of the day including Pechey Phipson E. Bielby CFlara Swain A. Jaganadhan and R. Rukhmabai. The book also includes several illustrations of the women where they worked and additional medical charts. Also included is a map of India from 1930 located as a pull-out at the end of the book. Textblock is tight with only minor wear from shelf use. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1938réf. 165001938. Jeffrey Mary Pauline. Dr. Ida: India The Life Story of Ida S. Scudder 1938. Signed biography of American physician and medical missionary Ida Sophia Scudder 1870-1960 who established hospitals and medical training programs for women in colonial India. Born in India to American missionary parents Scudder pursued medicine after witnessing the consequences of restrictions preventing Indian women from receiving treatment from male physicians. In 1899 she graduated from Cornell Medical College as a member of its first graduating class to include women returning to India in 1900 to establish a small clinic in Vellore. Within two years she had founded the Mary Taber Schell Memorial Hospital which developed into a major center for women's medical treatment and professional training. Her subsequent establishment of a nursing school in 1909 and the Union Mission Medical School for Women in 1918 expanded opportunities for Indian women to enter the medical profession. Jeffrey Mary Pauline. Dr. Ida: India The Life Story of Ida S. Scudder. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company 1938. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. 212 pages with a frontispiece portrait and 18 additional illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth boards measuring 8 x 6 inches. Jeffrey recounts Scudder's upbringing in a missionary family her medical education in the United States and her return to India to establish healthcare facilities for women who faced religious and social restrictions on treatment by male physicians. The biography traces the expansion of her work from a small rural clinic into a hospital and medical training institution documenting her efforts to provide both medical care and professional education for Indian women. Published in 1938 while Scudder remained active in the administration of her medical institutions the biography records the development of women's medical education in British India before independence. Her work at Vellore addressed both the shortage of female physicians and the restrictions that prevented many Indian women from seeking treatment while establishing training opportunities for Indian women in nursing and medicine. The author's inscription distinguishes this copy and the illustrations provide additional contemporary documentation of Scudder's life and medical work. A few pages contain ink corrections or annotations. Very good condition. unknown books
1928réf. 305460Berlin: 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
1980réf. 318087Survey of India Offices 1980. unbound. Map. Colored offset lithograph. Hyderabad Guide Map image size 31.5 x 44.5 inches Bus Routes image size 30 x 21.5 inches verso. Sheet size 35 x 46.5 inches. Both Hyderabad Guide and Bus Routes Maps both show some repairs to tears along original folds and some light staining. Guide Map is backed with sturdy paper to support Bus Routes map. Detailed key for Hyderabad Guide Map Second edition includes extensive list of places of interest including galleries cinemas offices and cultural centers among others. Bus routes supplied by Andhra Pradesh State Road Corporation up to date to June 1977. Survey of India Offices unknown books
1929réf. 151011929. Act No. XIX of 1929 Passed by the Indian Legislature.An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages 1929 records the enactment of the Child Marriage Restraint Act an early statutory attempt in British India to restrict marriages involving children. Receiving the Governor-General's assent on October 1 1929 and taking effect April 1 1930 the Act defined a "child" as a male under eighteen or a female under fourteen and imposed criminal penalties on adult men contracting child marriages and on persons performing conducting or directing such marriages. The legislation is commonly associated with reformer Harbilas Sarda and became known as the Sarda Act. Act No. XIX of 1929 Passed by the Indian Legislature.An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages. 1929. Pamphlet. The text specifies the "punishment for male adult below twenty one years of age marrying a child" the "punishment for male adult above twenty one years of age marrying a child" and the punishment for "solemnising a child marriage." Under the original Act a male between eighteen and twenty-one who contracted a child marriage could be fined up to one thousand rupees; a male over twenty-one could receive up to one month of simple imprisonment a fine of up to one thousand rupees or both. Comparable penalties applied to a person who performed conducted or directed a child marriage. The pamphlet preserves the statutory language by which the colonial legislature sought to regulate marriage age through penalties imposed upon adult participants and officiants. The Act preceded later Indian legislation that progressively raised legal marriage ages and strengthened protections against child marriage. Its provisions document an early legislative attempt to intervene directly in the solemnization of marriages involving children and to assign legal responsibility to adult husbands and those conducting such marriages. unknown books
1959réf. 164581959. Chand Kailash. An Appeal to Members of Parliament of India and the World at Large 1959 a public petition challenging the legal and social preference for paternal lineage in India and advocating the right of individuals to identify through their mothers. Addressing members of the Indian Parliament and an international audience Chand argued that recognition of maternal descent would advance women's equality while eliminating the stigma attached to children born outside marriage. His appeal followed his efforts to establish through India's courts the right to identify with his mother's lineage rather than his father's challenging prevailing conventions governing family descent legitimacy and the legal standing of mothers. Chand Kailash. An Appeal to Members of Parliament of India and the World at Large. Bombay: Society for the Cause of Mother's Lineage Theosophical Colony 1959. One sheet printed on both sides measuring 10 x 7.75 inches. The handbill presents Chand's arguments for recognizing maternal ancestry as an alternative to patrilineal descent. Central to his proposal was the contention that children should be entitled to their mothers' lineage regardless of their parents' marital status thereby removing distinctions that subjected children born outside marriage to social discrimination. Issued under the auspices of the Society for the Cause of Mother's Lineage the appeal sought support for changes in the treatment of ancestry and legitimacy under Indian law. Published during the first decade following India's independence the appeal addressed questions of family law and women's legal status amid continuing debates over marriage inheritance and social reform. The Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 and the Hindu Succession Act of 1956 had introduced major changes to Hindu personal law although customary preferences for paternal descent remained influential. Chand's 1959 petition advanced a distinct proposal: recognizing maternal lineage as a means of challenging both the subordinate status of women in family relationships and the discrimination faced by children classified as illegitimate. Blue pen check marks on the second page and horizontal folds. In very good condition. unknown books
1923réf. 85606Calcutta: Printed at the Photo-Litho. Office Survey of India 1923. Paperback. Very Good. 7 maps 1- 13-61p. Softcover in original wrapper. 34cm. Modest cover staining and wear. Printed at the Photo-Litho. Office, Survey of India paperback books
1762réf. 239716London: Printed for J. Brotherton in Cornhill; and sold by R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall and T. Waller in Fleet Street 1762. First edition. 4 71 pp. Errata slip tipped to blank verso of second leaf. LACKING folding diagram. 1 vols. 4to. Removed. First two leaves detached. First edition. 4 71 pp. Errata slip tipped to blank verso of second leaf. LACKING folding diagram. 1 vols. 4to. Dunning's brilliant defence of the British East India Company against charges brought by the Dutch marked the beginning of his career as barrister and politician. " . of Dunning's great distinction as a lawyer there is no doubt. The obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine referred not purely conventionally to his 'amazing powers' . Shelburne wrote that 'all parties allowed him to be at the head of the bar . The only doubt was whether he excelled most at equity or common law. There was none as to anybody's coming up to him in either' . " ODNB. Kress 6007; Goldsmith 9776; Higgs 2737; ESTC T97097 Printed for J. Brotherton, in Cornhill; and sold by R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, and T. Waller, in Fleet Street unknown books
1873réf. 316648New York: Nelson & Phillips 1873. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Three quarters crimson morocco and cloth sides. Fine. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Inscribed on ffep"Mr David Smith/ with trhe compliments of/ Jno. W. Butler/ Mexico/ June 22/80. Nelson & Phillips unknown books
1828réf. 317758London: James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son 1828. Folding engraved map 15 engraved views. 4 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in half contemporary morocco and cloth. Very Good. Folding engraved map 15 engraved views. 4 vols. Small 8vo. James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son unknown books
1900réf. 316898London: Macmillan and Co 1900. New Edition in One Volume. With 42 Illus. ii 601pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters mottled brown calf and marbled boards green leather title label. Fine. New Edition in One Volume. With 42 Illus. ii 601pp. 8vo. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1934réf. 275256India: Survey of India 1934. Colored offset Lithograph. Sheet maps 22" x 29.5". This 1934 pocket map depicts the plan of the Gulbarga Fort and vicinity located in the northern part of the state of Karnataka at the time Hyderabad State in southern India. Beautifully detailed the map notes the fort important roads lakes wells vegetation and a host of other topographic elements. Originally built by Raja Gulchand a feudatory of the Warangal Kakatiyas it was further fortified and enlarged in 1327 by Sultan Al-ud-din Bahmani of Bahmani Sultanate in 1327 and Adil Shah. Various monuments such as mosques palaces tombs and other structures were also built. Most notable of these is the Jami Masjid built on the lines of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain is one of the first mosques in southern India. The fort remained the capital of the Bahmani Kingdom until 1424. Later the fort would be razed by the Vijaynagar Emperor and subsequently rebuilt by Yusuf Adil Shah the founder of the Bujapur Sultanate. This map was published under the authority of Brigadier H. J. Couchman Surveyor General of India. It is in good condition with minor wear along the original folds and some offsetting. The map is lined with silk. Survey of India unknown books
1854réf. 84658London: Wm. H. Allen & Co 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. index c 145p. plus 6p. advertisements. Rebound in a red 20th century quarterbinding red leather backstrip and red cloth. 17cm. Rear joint tender. Richard F. Burton shows up in the list as does John H. Speke. Wm. H. Allen & Co hardcover books
1792réf. 245340Maestricht: Roux & Compagnie 1792. First edition was London 1791. With 2 large folding maps of south and southeast Asia the first encompassing the classical references in Robertson's text the second of the region according to Ptolemy. xii 501 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf and boards new endpapers. Bookplate. Very good. First edition was London 1791. With 2 large folding maps of south and southeast Asia the first encompassing the classical references in Robertson's text the second of the region according to Ptolemy. xii 501 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A translation into French of Robertson's Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India. Robertson was also the author of The History of America 1777. Lowndes 1571 Roux & Compagnie unknown books
1885réf. 66644Cairo Egypt 1885. Printed broadsheet faint old fold lines. 22 cm. 2 pp. The program includes 6 races and describes a list of conditions for entries. Also names the Judge: Maj. Gen. J. C. Dormer C. B.; the Starter: Maj. Gen. Davis C. B.; and the Clerk of the Scales: Lt. Col. Hitchcock. Offered with two additional broadsides: SUAKIN DIVISIONAL RACE MEETING. First Day Saturday 16th May.Second Day Monday 18th. 5 races each. Names of the President Vice President and Stewards given. 35 cm. Old fold lines some shallow splits at margin edges. And CAIRO WINTER RACES 1885.Friday 2nd January 1885. 6 races. 33 cm. Old fold lines some shallow chipping to margins not affecting text. A few ink notes adjusting times and the order of the races. All three pieces announce races entries handicaps and conditions for betting. The President listed in the Suakin piece is Lt. Gen. Sir Gerald Graham who was a recipient of the Victoria Cross. The Khedivial Sporting Club was founded in 1882 for the use of the British Military it was later remaned the Gezira Sporting Club. It is located on the island of Zamalek in Cairo. In 1952 the club was nationalized and became a public club albeit for the Egyptian elite. Under Nasser it was opened up to the Egyptian populace at large with a membership of 43000 stated in 2012. What began as a British Officers Club became Egypts premier sporting spot which grew to include golf and tennis among a number of other sports. For the three items. unknown books
1790réf. 47670Paris: Didot 1790. Brief work cautioning against too much freedom of trade with the East Indies. Three copies in OCLC at the John Carter Brown Library and the national libraries of France and Australia. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. Untrimmed. unknown books
1914réf. 180951914. Certificate awarded to the Vicereine of India Lady Hardinge of Penshurst upon her visit to the Indraprastha Hindu Girls School in Delhi. 1914. Measures 10" x 16" inches. Text enclosed in ornately decorative box with the school's seal centered at the top reading "The Hindu Girls School Delhi First deserve then desire 1904." The certificate's attractive green script reads in part "To her excellency Lady Hardinge of Penshurst May it please your Excellency It is with feelings of the profoundest joy and gratitude that we to-day welcome Your Excellency to the Indraprastha Hindu Girls School Delhi.Your Excellency's loving interest in the advancement of the women of this land and motherly affection for the children your care for the suffering poor the exemplary fortitude which you have shewn in the time of danger and the heroic devotion to your husband--our ideals of womanhood--have endeared your name to every woman and child in India and we pray you to accept our reverential and warm-hearted welcome to-day." Lady Hardinge of Penshurst Winifred Selina Sturt married her first cousin Henry Sturt a racing magnate and close friend of Edward Prince of Wales. She served as a Woman of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales before her husband by then a Baron was named Viceroy of India. The concurrence of monarchical rule and colonialism put aristocratic families with close ties to the royal family put aristocratic Europeans in positions of power worldwide no matter their qualifications. The family moved to India where Lady Hardinge worked to advance women's education. She was instrumental in starting the Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi the first medical school exclusively for women in India. She died in November of 1914 just 8 months after receiving this certificate. Signed by the school's President Lady Superintendent and Secretary. Creased along lines where paper was folded. 3 small holes along left side do not affect text. 1" tears along top do not affect text. Tape attached to verso. Very good condition. unknown books
1835réf. 8652First edition. Octavo. Descriptive account by Rev. Hobart Caunter. 22 engravings from original drawings by William Daniell. 263 pages 4 pages of advertisements. Original gilt and blindstamped dark brown morocco spine with gilt stamped design of a palm tree and camel covers with gilt stamped vignette of 3 men riding on an elephant surrounded by blindstamped border of intertwined snakes a.e.g. rubbing to extremities. Very good. No foxing. Binder's ticked of F. Westley. Bookplate of H. Scofield and C.W. Nicolay with Nicolay's ink signature dated 1835. Bull and Churton hardcover books
1861réf. 30491033 Norland Square Notting Hill 1861. 4pp. 12mo. Old folds. 4pp. 12mo. Born in Bombay in 1799 Duncan was the illegitimate son of the Governor of Bombay. Duncan's father's wealth enabled him to pursue a literary life and he published regularly from 1825-57. He summarises the work thus: "The object of this book is to enable those who have never studied India to acquire a knowledge of its institutions with the best possible expenditure of time." A book on India would be seemingly inevitable for a writer with his background yet the work described here was seemingly never published. unknown books
1880réf. List3871Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1880. Carte de visite measuring approximately 2 ½ x 4 inches. Albumen portrait of an Indian man wearing a turban and white garment mounted on photographer's card. Printed verso headed "India Missionary Photographs" advertising copies of "this and other India photographs printed by first-class artists in Philadelphia from negatives taken in India" sold for the benefit of foreign mission work. Addressed in print to Rev. A. D. Rowe York Pennsylvania or Miss Alice Geiger Secretary Woman's Missionary Society Springfield Ohio. Light wear and toning; very good. A carte de visite portrait from a series of India missionary photographs printed in Philadelphia from negatives taken in India and sold to raise money for foreign mission work. The verso offers the photographs in card and cabinet sizes with prices for single copies small groups and lots of one hundred suggesting that the images were intended for circulation among church members missionary supporters and women's missionary societies. American missions in South Asia were less politically dominant than British missionary work there but were active throughout the nineteenth century especially through Congregational Presbyterian Baptist Methodist and women's missionary societies. By the later nineteenth century American mission networks in India supported schools medical work printing itinerant preaching and fundraising efforts at home of which photographic cards like this were one small part. A strong nineteenth-century missionary CDV especially for its printed verso documenting the reproduction pricing and circulation of South Asian photographs through American foreign mission networks this being the first example we have encountered with a South Asian subject. unknown books
