12 294 résultats
1792réf. 1325NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS GOWER Richard Hall in the India Service. A Description of several instruments for Measuring a Ship's Way through the Water By.With an Account of his Patent Perpetual Log and how the same principle may be applied to shew the absolute velocity of the Wind and the depths of the Sea. 8vo modern cloth backed marbled boards half-title title 5-32 2 copper engraved plates. London: Printed for the Author 1792. First Edition of author's rare first nautical work with the half-title. ESTC locates two copies in England BL & NMM and two copies in this country BA & NYPL. Gower fl. 1767-1833 a sea captain and naval architect "had been shocked by the low standard of navigation which he found in the convoy which took him to the East Indies.He devised a patent log part of the workmanship being entrusted to Alexander Grant and the sole rights of sale vested in Messrs Gilbert & Wright of 148 Leadenhall Street. He refers to "the indefatigable Mr. Stancliff' as cutting the scale on his optical instrument with his dividing machine. He then tried the instrument out with John Adams a mathematical teacher of Edmonton who has been identified as a reviser of textbooks for Mount and Page the chart-sellers."-Taylor The Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England 1714-1840 #840. "In 1787 he devised an instrument which measured a vessel's way through the water with greater accuracy than had previously been possible."-ODNB. The followng year he wrote A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Seamanship which long remained a standard work. We trace no copies at auction. 84574 The Author
réf. MC22Watercolour ca. 24.5 x 41.5cm 9.5 x 16.5 inches. Recently matted with a couple of minor scratches but overall a very good watercolour. The well executed watercolour show a wild boar being chased by two British hunters with spears on horseback in the foreground and native Indians and an Indian castle in the background. "In India pigsticking was popular among the Jatts Gujjars Rajputs Sikhs Maharajas and with British officers during Victorian and Edwardian times. According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica it was encouraged by military authorities as good training because "a startled or angry wild boar is . A desperate fighter and therefore the pig-sticker must possess a good eye a steady hand a firm seat a cool head and a courageous heart "Wikipedia. unknown
1961réf. 232281961. Southern India photo album documenting an international Christian missionary medical group around Vellore Karigiri Katpadi and Kanchipuram in 1961 many photographs captioned and identify individuals. The album showcases how missionary labor operated after the end of British rule through hospitals training schools religious ceremony and organized visits into village and temple spaces. Compiled by a French speaking participant within an international Christian medical network the album centers on institutions linked to Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore where foreign and Indian personnel worked inside a system first developed under colonial era Protestant missions and then carried forward in postcolonial India through education nursing public health and evangelical presence. Photo archive of 110 Silver gelatin photographs mounted in a leather bound album most photos measure 3" x 4" album measures 9" x 12" Vellore Karigiri Katpadi Polambakkam and Kanchipuram Tamil Nadu dated by captions to 1961. Many identified individuals. Captioned pages identify "Vellore CMCH" "Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore" and a "Soirée de remise du voile aux infirmières étudiantes de dernière année Sept. 61" showing large indoor assemblies of Indian nursing students in uniform at a veil ceremony for final year nurses. Other pages name hospital streets a guest house pavilion postman colleagues and an international group including participants identified by nationality including Argentina Belgium Venezuela Australia Thailand the United States England and South India. The album also moves beyond the hospital into the surrounding countryside and sacred landscape with rice cultivation and field irrigation at Karigiri village huts pastoral scenes cattle and goats potters fuel collection pigs and ducks a cyclist returning from Sunday mass the cathedral at Katpadi and multiple views of temples and priests at Kanchipuram. Handwritten French captions guide the viewer through these scenes including "inner courtyard of a temple" "Hindu priest explaining a point of his religion" "signing the temple guest book and giving the offering" and observations of sculpture yogis village labor and local children. The 19th to early 20th century saw an increase in Protestant missionary organizations in India with schools hospitals and women's medical training programs as response both to evangelical ambition and to colonial inequalities in health care access. By 1961 India was politically independent yet this album shows how missionary medicine still organized relations between Western visitors Indian Christian institutions and local Tamil communities. Overall very good condition. A strong record of postcolonial missionary medicine in southern India showing how colonial religious systems survived through healthcare education and cross cultural authority rather than formal imperial rule alone. unknown
1961réf. 232281961. Southern India photo album documenting an international Christian missionary medical group around Vellore Karigiri Katpadi and Kanchipuram in 1961 many photographs captioned and identify individuals. The album showcases how missionary labor operated after the end of British rule through hospitals training schools religious ceremony and organized visits into village and temple spaces. Compiled by a French speaking participant within an international Christian medical network the album centers on institutions linked to Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore where foreign and Indian personnel worked inside a system first developed under colonial era Protestant missions and then carried forward in postcolonial India through education nursing public health and evangelical presence. Photo archive of 110 Silver gelatin photographs mounted in a leather bound album most photos measure 3" x 4" album measures 9" x 12" Vellore Karigiri Katpadi Polambakkam and Kanchipuram Tamil Nadu dated by captions to 1961. Many identified individuals. Captioned pages identify "Vellore CMCH" "Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore" and a "Soirée de remise du voile aux infirmières étudiantes de dernière année Sept. 61" showing large indoor assemblies of Indian nursing students in uniform at a veil ceremony for final year nurses. Other pages name hospital streets a guest house pavilion postman colleagues and an international group including participants identified by nationality including Argentina Belgium Venezuela Australia Thailand the United States England and South India. The album also moves beyond the hospital into the surrounding countryside and sacred landscape with rice cultivation and field irrigation at Karigiri village huts pastoral scenes cattle and goats potters fuel collection pigs and ducks a cyclist returning from Sunday mass the cathedral at Katpadi and multiple views of temples and priests at Kanchipuram. Handwritten French captions guide the viewer through these scenes including "inner courtyard of a temple" "Hindu priest explaining a point of his religion" "signing the temple guest book and giving the offering" and observations of sculpture yogis village labor and local children. The 19th to early 20th century saw an increase in Protestant missionary organizations in India with schools hospitals and women's medical training programs as response both to evangelical ambition and to colonial inequalities in health care access. By 1961 India was politically independent yet this album shows how missionary medicine still organized relations between Western visitors Indian Christian institutions and local Tamil communities. Overall very good condition. A strong record of postcolonial missionary medicine in southern India showing how colonial religious systems survived through healthcare education and cross cultural authority rather than formal imperial rule alone. unknown books
19248vo., First Edition thus; original black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered and ruled in yellow, yellow top (mildly faded) uncut, a near fine copy. Kirkpatrick records that 4000 copies were printed. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Kirkpatrick A10b.
1914réf. 951F7London: The Government of India by John Murray 1914 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9.5". Not Stated. The very scarce first edition of this richly illustrated account of George V's 1911 visit to entia to take part in the Imperial Durbar in Delhi. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece eight colour plates two photogravures forty-four collotypes and numerous monochrome plates alongside four plans one of which is folding.Collated complete.With the bookplate of Christopher J. E. Jarchow to the front pastedown.The Delhi Durbar or Imperial Durbar was a mass assembly organized by the British at Coronation Park Delhi India to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India. Also known as the Imperial Durbar it was held three times in 1877 1903 and 1911 at the height of the British Empire. The 1911 Durbar was the only one that a sovereign George V attended. It took pace in December 1911 to honour King George V and Queen Mary's coronation in Britain a few months prior and to proclaim their titles of Emperor and Empress of India. All Indian princely state kings and governors were called to pay respect.This work in great detail depicts this display of imperial power during the British Raj and includes detailed itineraries speeches and illustrations of this defining event of Colonial India. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Light spotting to perimeters of front board with a touch of fading to centre of rear board. Light spotting to text block fore edge. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good The Government of India by John Murray hardcover
1907réf. 011405Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing India 1907. Book measures 33.5x21.cm. iiivi 40pp. Bound in original publishers printed boards. Boards rubbed sellotaped spine library labels and withdrawal stamp. Binding in good condition. 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
1898réf. ABC_45361Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government printing India 1898. Blind-stamped blue cloth title in gold on spine blue decorated endpapers. Folio. With armorial vignette on the title page. The official Summary always published at the end of a Viceroy-ship by the Office of the Superintendent of Government printing in Calcutta containing the narrative of proceedings of the Home Department in this case from January 1894 to December 1898 the time the 9th Earl of Elgin served in that function. The extensive contents pp. i-iv refers always to the pages in the appendices pp. 1-6156 ! not present.During his time as Viceroy famine broke out in India in which Elgin reportedly admitted that up to 4.5 million people died. Other estimates have put the death toll at 11 million people. His administration in India was otherwise notable for the Afridi frontier uprisings of 1897-1898.With the label of the Home Department Juridical Branche on the front board and a second label with the shelfmark and stamps of the Ministry of Home Affairs on the title page and elsewhere including a Confidential stamp. Head of both boards damaged and damp-stained front hinge worn front endpapers loose slightly browned throughout.l Bence-Jones Mark. The Viceroys of India London 1982. Office of the Superintendent of Government printing, India, hardcover
1768réf. PHO-5562 VOLUMES EN 1
1796In 4, pp. XIX + 176 + 138 + 181 + 9. M. pl. coeva. Spelature ai piatti e al d. Edizione originale di questa descrizione di viaggio dall'Europa a Zante, Cipro, Aleppo, Baghdad, Bassora fino a Goa e Bombay. Cox, I, 306.
1719réf. 37720Paris veuve Saugrain & Pierre Prault s.d. [1719] in-4 en feuille
1891réf. 20236Paris, Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1891 ; in-16, percaline rouge de l’éditeur, décorée à la plaque, Bibliothèque Elzevirienne, titre, sphère armillaire et édition dorés au dos, non rogné (cartonnage de la Bibliothèque Elzévirienne) ; XXXII, 232 pp., [2] ff. de Table et nom d’imprimeur ; 2 fac-similés dépliants sur chine, de la première page du manuscrit holographe du Neveu de Rameau et de la page de manuscrit contenant le texte de la fin de la pièce.
1854réf. 36272Paris Just Rouvier 1854 in-8 broché, non coupé
1894réf. 8790EBEdinburgh and London, W. & A. K. Johnston, 1894. 4°. 31,5 x 21,5 cm. 1 Karte, Titelblatt, [1] Blatt Vorwort, [1] Blatt Inhaltsverzeichnis, 38 Seiten, 15 Karten, 19 Seiten Index. Original-Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Deckeltitel. [3 Warenabbildungen]
1856réf. 36712Nancy Grimblot et veuve Raybois 1856 in-8 dérelié
1778réf. 38786Yverdon [Avignon] Imprimerie de M. de Felice 1778 2 vol. in-12 demi-basane fauve, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés, tranches mouchetées [rel. du XIXe siècle], dos insolés
1875réf. 40041Paris Hachette et Cie 1875 fort vol. gr. in-4 demi-chagrin rouge, reliure de l'éditeur
1827réf. 34192Lyon Imprimerie de Louis Perrin 1827 in-8 dérelié
réf. 134743aafn.d. (19th C.), 30 x 25 cm, (with support), Inde (Rhajastan ?) with gilt images on his feet / coloured and framed in red. /on verso manuscripts notes (Sanskrit), 20 x16 cm, Passepartout
réf. 10626-8182052149Paperback. New. Book Condition is in New Paperback Original Edition. Shipped Same Day. We do not ship APO and FPO. Will be dispatched fast. Please send me an email if you have any questions. 100% Satisfaction. paperback
1778réf. 223135London.: Printed for John Nourse. 1778-1880. Third Edition"revised by the author" of Volume I; first edition of Volume II Part I only lacking Part II. Two volumes 23 maps plans or views of 36 most folding: iv 436pp xcvii Index iii Errata Errata in the Index Directions for the Binder to Place the Maps; ii 365pp contemporary calf boards re-backed boards scored and scuffed 28.3 x 22 cm several of the maps with small fold splits no loss some offsetting the folding views of Calcutta and Bengal particularly fine the large folding "General Map of Indostan" in the first volume heavily spotted affecting the facing leaf several old paper repairs and inked corrections in an early hand with the armorial bookplates of Joseph Cator a prominent merchant and administrator with the East India Company and of Peter Cator his son founder of the Cator Prize and of Bertie Peter Cator and of Kelham Hall a handsome example lacking the second part of Volume II in good condition. Foundational work written by Robert Orme an official and historiographer for the British East India Company EIC with a noteworthy family provenance. The text chronicles the geopolitical struggles and military conflicts that paved the way for British dominance over the Indian subcontinent. The Cator family built a legacy of immense wealth regional development and colonial influence spanning three generations. Joseph Cator 1733–1818 laid the financial foundations as a wealthy "nabob" and high-ranking East India Company official in Calcutta. His 1780 marriage to Diana Bertie daughter of Sir Albemarle Bertie successfully elevated the family into the British aristocracy allowing him to return to England and manage expanding Kent estates like Beckenham Place Park. His son Peter Cator 1796–1873 leveraged this land inheritance during the mid-19th-century railway boom. Alongside his brother Peter transformed these holdings into the upmarket Cator Estate across Blackheath and Beckenham while also working as a lawyer and establishing educational scripture prizes in Madras. This colonial and legal influence continued with his descendant Sir Ralph Bertie Peter Cator 1861–1945 who served the British Empire as a prominent colonial judge holding key judicial appointments as the First Judge of British East Africa and later in the High Court of Constantinople. . Printed for John Nourse. hardcover
1917réf. 20036Clarendon Press Oxford 1917. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispiece 14 plates 5 full-page maps in the text and 3 folding maps on japon title lightly dust-soiled; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker custom-made-slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SIR REGINALD SPENCE AND BEARS HIS FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE- DOWN. IT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PRESENTED BY SPENCE TO THE LIBRARY OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL SCHOOL HORSHAM AND BEARS THAT INSTITUTION'S PRESENTATION BOOKPLATE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Sir Reginald Spence prominent merchant philanthropist and educationalist spent much of his career in India. He was a prominent wine merchant Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers 1949-1950 and an eminent freemason District Grand Master of Bombay and Northern India; the Lodge Reginald Spence was founded in his memory. A fervent educationalist he co-founded Barnes School in Devlavi one of the finest institutions of its type in Western India where a school house now bears his name. A NOTABLE ASSOCIATION COPY OF A WORK SELDOM FOUND IN THE ORIGINAL EDITION. Clarendon Press, Oxford, hardcover
réf. 9781No place, no date, end of 19th century, beginning of 20th century. 1 very large album in folio (30*344 cm), half leather binding with corners, and marbled boards, with 76 black and white plates. Each plate offers 2 to 6 figures on sculptures, statues and temples architecture from different archeological locations in India. A very good copy of this album of plates.
1834Tre volumi in -8°, pp. [6], 266, [4]; [4], 260, [4] e [4], 290, [4], con 69 tavole incise e protette da velina; mezza pelle con fregi e titoli al dorso. Si tratta della traduzione francese del periodico britannico “The Oriental annual, or Scenes in India”. Il pittore e disegnatore inglese William Daniell aveva accompagnato lo zio, Thomas Daniell, nel suo viaggio in India. Le incisioni qui contenute sono le riproduzioni di un suo celebre albumi di acquetinte colorate, “Oriental Scenery”, comparso tra il 1795 e il 1808. It’s the french translation of the english journal “The Oriental annual, or Scenes in India”. The engravings are reproductions from an album of William Daniell, “Oriental Scenery” (1795-1808)
1846in 8°, pp. 24 nn., 393, 1 b., leg. coeva p/pelle nera, ds. a riquadri con tit. e fregi in oro, cornici in oro ai piatti e all'unghia, sguardie in carta marmor., front. in litografia. Opera illustrata con 31 tavv. litografiche f.t., 2 carte geogr. ripiegate e mm. ill. b/n n.t. Lievi arrossamenti ma ottimo vol. 343/34
