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1835rif. 196251Paris.: A. Bertrand. 1835. Aquatint 27.1 x 36 cm; 32.3 x 47.2 cm sheet trimmed including platemark margins outside the platemark toned and discoloured with soft crease and small split not affecting the image to an upper corner the image a fine dark impression in very good condition. Beautifully executed view of the Governor's Palace in the Pondicherry showing soldiers and officials trouping out from the official account of the Laplace voyage in the Favorite 1830-32 by voyage artist François-Edmond Pâris 1806-1893. The important French expedition encompassed India Southeast Asia and the Pacific. . A. Bertrand. unknown
1793In 8° (18,8x11,6 cm); due tomi: VIII, 319, (1) pp. e 2 grandi c. di tav. più volte ripiegate, 188 pp. Legature coeve in piena pergamena rigida con titolo e numero del volume al dorso. Tagli spruzzati. Qualche carta con leggere bruniture dovute alla qualità della carta utilizzata. Esemplare completo anche delle due carte spesso assenti ed in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. Prima edizione italiana di questa importante studio dedicato all’India ed al commercio con essa, scritta dal noto storico, storiografo, teologo scozzese William Robertson (Borthwick, 19 settembre 1721 – Edinburgo, 11 giugno 1793). Rettore dell’Università di Edimburgo per quasi trent’anni, ha dato contributi notevoli alla storia dell’sud America, della Spagna e della Scozia stessa. Cappellano del Castello di Stiriling, fu anche cappllano del re in Scozia. Fedele presbiteriano e un whig, si offrì volontario per difendere la città contro i giacobiti guidati dal principe Carlo Edoardo Stuart nel 1745. Nel 1754 fu un membro originale della Select Society, indicata anche come la Edinburgh Select Society. Le sue opere “Storia della Scozia fra il 1542 e 1603” (1759) e “Storia d’America” (1777), sono considerati alcune delle opere storiche più importanti del settecento. Figura preminente dell’illuminismo scozzese, fu tra i fondatori della Royal Society di Edimburgo. Nel 1791, il celebre storico scozzese, William Robertson, pubblicò il suo ultimo lavoro, “An Historical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India”, nel quale esplorò i collegamenti commerciali e culturali dell'India e dell'Occidente dai tempi antichi fino alla fine del il XV secolo. Questo studio è considerato fra i primi esempi del movimento "orientalista" britannico e dello studio dell'espansione del dominio britannico in India. Per certi versi il suo lavoro che pur rifletteva i presupposti e gli approcci della scuola orientalista britannica, probabilmente anche in risposta alle critiche mosse a Robertson secondo le quali la sua precedente Storia dell'America era stata troppo sprezzante nei confronti delle culture amerindi, andò oltre rispetto a molti orientalisti nella sua interpretazione positiva della cultura indiana e della loro opposizione a una politica imperiale interventista e repressiva. In effetti, il lavoro era in gran parte diretto a preservare l'antica e sofisticata civiltà indiana dall'imperialismo culturale occidentale. La visione favorevole di Robertson su ciò che percepiva come credenze monoteiste alla base dell'induismo “classico”, rivela molto sui suoi atteggiamenti religiosi come sacerdote e leader del partito “moderato” nella Chiesa di Scozia. La sua storia dell'India verrà sottovalutata in Gran Bretagna (nonostante le sue grandi vendite), in gran parte, non per il valore dell’opera in sé, indubitabile, ma per la situazione politico, religiosa e sociale del Regno Unito dell’epoca. Le sue tesi sull'induismo e la sua critica delle missioni cristiane, non potevano che esser in contrasto con la crescente ondata di risveglio evangelico che stava vivendo in quegli anni il suo paese natale. Tuttavia, la sua opera, grazie anche alle numerose traduzioni, venne lentamente recuperata e valorizzata, con il passare degli anni, arrivando ad avere un ruolo di primaria importanza nel promuovere l'interesse per l'India, nel continente europeo e rappresentò uno dei risultati più significativi del tardo illuminismo scozzese. Prima edizione italiana, completa e non comune. Rif. Bibl.: ICCU IT\ICCU\NAPE\010474.
rif. 63524c.1880. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition pasted on original mount. Dimensions: 230 x 120mm. 9 x 4.5 inches. Seated man with a talwar Indian curved sword in his left hand. [c.1880]. unknown
rif. 74013c.1875. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition pasted on original mount. Print size 18.5 x 23.5 cm [c.1875]. unknown
1932rif. 188518Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1932. Fifth iteration of this important collection of treaties and deeds sanads granted to the rulers of Rajputana now Rajasthan. These cover the states of Jaipur Jodhpur and Bikaner including details on various projects such as the construction of the Jodhpur-Bikaner railway. Only 660 copies were printed and 6 are held in UK institutions. Aitchison 1832-1896 went out to India as a civil servant in September 1856 narrowly escaping a massacre at Hissar in 1857 before being stationed at Amritsar. In 1865 he took up administrative work in the Punjab where he was "extremely industrious and thorough in his work. He exercised a marked influence on successive governors-general who trusted him for advice" ODNB. He commenced a compilation entitled A Collection of Treaties Engagements and Sanads Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries in 1862 and eleven volumes were issued by 1892. In 1882 he became governor-general of the Punjab where he advocated for the Indianization of the civil service. Copies of this volume in the UK are held by the British Library Oxford Cambridge King's College London National Library of Scotland and SOAS. Large octavo 256 x 180 mm. Tables in text. Contemporary khaki half cloth spine lettered in gilt low bands ruled in gilt brown cloth boards. Purple ink deaccession stamp on front pastedown. Light scuffs and tidemarks spine a little toned title page sometime stabilized in gutter with cloth tape rear inner hinge starting but sturdy: a very good copy. hardcover
1849rif. 89449Agra: The Secundra Orphan Press 1849-51. First editions. Interesting collection of technical papers relating to the government of the North Western Provinces. Includes the description of a bridge built at Seoni by Major Boileau with plan; detailed plans for the cutting of a canal from the Sutlej at Tihara with excellent maps; an account of the "Oothaeegeeras" or Sunoreahs "professional thieves of Bundelcund" including a glossary of "Bolee" their argot; a important "Report upon the Tea Plantations in the North Western Provinces" by Robert Fortune noted botanist and plant collector for the HEIC; together with some revenue surveys of the region submitted by William Muir as secretary of the revenue board to John Thomason the lieutenant-governor. Attractive group of uncommon Indian imprints. Octavo 200 x 126 mm Twentieth-century blue cloth title gilt to the spine original upper wrappers bound in. pp. ii 66-108 3 folding lithographic maps with colour; pp. ii 213-250 folding lithographic map and 3 folding letter-press table; ii 251-286pp. folding letter-press table and tables to the text. Cloth clean and sound Patent Office Library ink-stamps to the wrappers maps and occasionally to the text light toning overall very good. hardcover
rif. 25637‘Athenaeum London / July 29th 1837’. See his entry and hers in the Oxford DNB. From the papers of Lady Theresa Lewis and written while she was married to her first husband the novelist Thomas Henry Lister 1800-1842. 2pp 12mo. In good condition lightly aged and folded once for postage. Begins: ‘Mr J Baillie Fraser begs to enclose a note for Mrs Lister received today thro’ Sir Gore Ouseley - he believes from the Interpreter of the Persian Princes & probably to announce their safe arrival at Baghdad - At all events Mr Fraser has the pleasure to state that this is really the case - they have arrived safe at Baghdad.’ He would have waited on her himself but he has been unwell and is now ‘forced to go this day to Scotland on the pleasant work of Electioneering’. He does not remember whether he told her when he saw her ‘that he intends probably bringing out a little Volume on the story of the Ruins in England & then going out to Constantinople’. The last paragraph refers to ‘the Three’ ‘Partridge’ and an ‘agreeable remembrance’. See Image of first page ‘Athenaeum [London] / July 29th 1837’. unknown
rif. 73669Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown. London. 1812. 1st Ed. IV 218 PP with 8 tables a lengthy manuscript note at lower margin of pages 70 & 71 and inked correction on page 144. Leaf 91/92 dog-eared. Errata slip tipped in on page 1. Leather binding front and back covers with "tooling in blind" and gilt border lines spine with 5 raised bands gilt decorations and gilt title "Considerations on India Trade". Title page with 2 manuscript notes: name of a previous owner at top and name "by Mr. McCulloch". Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. A rare item. 21.6 x 13.5. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London. 1812. hardcover
1842rif. 182100London W. H. Allen & co. 1842. Third Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original plain cloth. Professionally re-cased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Scans etc. on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 773 pages; Related names: East India Company. Great Britain. Laws statutes etc. Description: xiv 773 p. 28 x 23 cm. London, W. H. Allen & co. hardcover
1915rif. 56328Bangalore: Office of the Director Southern Circle Survey of India P.B. No. 44 1915. 4to. 7.25 x 9.75 in. which holds a 32-panel linen backed colour-printed map which folds out into double atlas folio sized map sized 36.5 x 53 in. Mounted within Navy-blue linen portfolio printed label w/ manuscript annotations on front cover indicating the sheet number minor shelfwear slight rubbing still NF copy. First edition thus of this map of Bangalore prepared under the auspices of the Survey of India Office of the Director in the opening years of World War I. This remarkable topographical map featuring a scale of 1” to 1 mile is based on the surveys first launched by William Lambton in the 19th Century known as the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India led successively by Lambton George Everest Andrew Waugh and James Walker. These fulfilled the premise that geodetic survey was the only option for accurate maps of large areas and much of this work in the survey of India was based upon the base lines in Bangalore originally measured by Warren and the base lines of Kumta by De Penning. These original linen-backed survey maps of India from the early 20th Century have become quite scarce. No copies located in Worldcat; See; Rama Deb Roy The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in a Historical Perspective Pre-Census Population Studies Unit Indian Journal of History of Science 1986 Vol. 21 1 pp. 22-32. Office of the Director, Southern Circle, Survey of India, P.B. No. 44, unknown
1895rif. 21117Edinburgh And London: William Blackwood and Sons. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. Light marginal dampstaining.; The story of a hunting adventurer in India. Including a large rear fold-out map in VG condition. Numerous illustrations.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; x 373 32 pages . 1895. William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
1929rif. 219671929. Government of India An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages 1929 documents the legal system created to restrict child marriage in British India and supports research into women's rights colonial law childhood and social reform in South Asia. The Act commonly known as the Sarda Act after reformer Har Bilas Sarda reveals how legislation sought to regulate marriage age through statutory definitions penalties and enforcement provisions. It provides primary-source evidence for the study of Indian feminist legal history colonial governance and campaigns against patriarchal marriage customs. Government of India. An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1929. First edition. Official pamphlet printing of Act No. XIX of 1929 passed by the Indian Legislature and assented to by the Governor General on October 1 1929. The Act defines "child" "child marriage" "contracting party" and "minor" sets age thresholds for boys under eighteen and girls under fourteen and establishes penalties for adult men contracting child marriages as well as for those who solemnize arrange or permit such ceremonies. Its jurisdiction extends across British India including British Baluchistan and the Santhal Parganas with enforcement beginning April 1 1930. The printed price of "1 anna or 1½d" indicates official distribution for public and administrative use. The pamphlet documents a legal enforcement system for marriage reform through statutory age limits criminal penalties and responsibility assigned to adult men parents priests and other facilitators demonstrating the process by which colonial law entered debates over gender childhood and personal status. The timing is significant because Indian social reformers and women's rights advocates used the late colonial legal arena to challenge early marriage and forced domestic subordination. Minor edge creasing; overall very good condition. A concise official printing of a foundational statute in South Asian women's rights law and the legal history of childhood protection. unknown
1929rif. 219671929. Government of India An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages 1929 documents the legal system created to restrict child marriage in British India and supports research into women's rights colonial law childhood and social reform in South Asia. The Act commonly known as the Sarda Act after reformer Har Bilas Sarda reveals how legislation sought to regulate marriage age through statutory definitions penalties and enforcement provisions. It provides primary-source evidence for the study of Indian feminist legal history colonial governance and campaigns against patriarchal marriage customs. Government of India. An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1929. First edition. Official pamphlet printing of Act No. XIX of 1929 passed by the Indian Legislature and assented to by the Governor General on October 1 1929. The Act defines "child" "child marriage" "contracting party" and "minor" sets age thresholds for boys under eighteen and girls under fourteen and establishes penalties for adult men contracting child marriages as well as for those who solemnize arrange or permit such ceremonies. Its jurisdiction extends across British India including British Baluchistan and the Santhal Parganas with enforcement beginning April 1 1930. The printed price of "1 anna or 1½d" indicates official distribution for public and administrative use. The pamphlet documents a legal enforcement system for marriage reform through statutory age limits criminal penalties and responsibility assigned to adult men parents priests and other facilitators demonstrating the process by which colonial law entered debates over gender childhood and personal status. The timing is significant because Indian social reformers and women's rights advocates used the late colonial legal arena to challenge early marriage and forced domestic subordination. Minor edge creasing; overall very good condition. A concise official printing of a foundational statute in South Asian women's rights law and the legal history of childhood protection. unknown books
18798vo [23 x 15 cm]; x, 326, 40 [publisher's ads, dated September 1879] pp. orig cloth expertly rebacked using the original spine and covers, gilt spine title lettering, margins of title, half-title & leaf of preface strengthened with clear tape, partly erased library stamp on title & other leaf, good solid copy, cover bright. A Yakushi A315. Robinson 80. The author describes the peoples, conditions, customs, building, etc, as she travelled from Bombay to Agra, Delhi, Lahore, Kashmir, Ladakh, Leh, Belgaum, Saugor, Benares, Allahabad, Muttra, Jeypore, Meerut, Simla to Kulu to the Solang Valley, Lucknow, Cawnpore, Poona, etc. There is a brief mention of tea cultivation in Kulu, opium factory in Ghazipore, Sikh festivals, camp life in Kashmir, sheep as beasts of burden.
rif. 201610571Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, 1897 ; in-12, 210-230 pp., cartonnage. Les 2 volumes. En superbe état 2 vol. Edition illustrée de cinquante compositions de DURAND gravées à l'eau-forte par E. CHAMPOLLION - TIRAGE DE 150 EXEMPLAIRES - 1 À 15 sur Japon et 16 a 150 Vélin du Marais. Exemplaire n°60 sur vélin du marais - Ex. Libris James Manfield- très belle reliure plein chagrain dos bien orné à 4 nerfs - reliure signé SINDSALL NOMTHAMPTON.
rif. 112632Paris, Librairie de Ladrange, 1840, 6 volumes in-8 de 135x220 mm environ, lii-(2)-490, 507, 507, 534, 471, et 486 pages. Demi-reliure cuir bleu marine, dos lisses portant titres et tomaisons dorés, ornés de filets et petites frises dorés en guise de faux-nerfs, tranches finement mouchetées, gardes marbrées. Complet de la carte dépliante de l'Inde. Frottements légers sur les coiffes, frottements plus accentués sur le cartonnage, quelques rousseurs, léger manque de papier dans la marge de la p. 292-293, sinon intérieur frais, bon état général.
1900rif. LBW-5968Germany, [circa 1900]. 319 x 416 mm.
1792rif. LBW-7970Paris, Au Bureau de l'Atlas National, [1792]. 225 x 291 mm.
1863rif. PHO-2565Pondichéry, Imprimerie des Missionnaires apostoliques, 1863, in-12, 4pp.-14pp.-554 pp., basane époque, dos lisse avec pièce de titre. Accrocs aux coiffes, ressauts de feuillets, coins usés, faux-titre fragilisé, annotations et sous lignages, réparation page 1 de la grammaire
1880rif. 027021Leiden 1880 E. J. Brill Hardcover
1768In 8, cm 13 x 20, pp. XXVIII + (4) + 208; (4) + 184 con 4 carte e 5 tavole piu' volte ripiegate incise all'acquaforte. Piena pelle coeva con fregi oro al dorso e tassello. Tagli decorati. Abile restauro alle cuffie. Nel complesso esemplare genuino. Edizione originale francese dell'opera di questo medico che esercito' in Bengala prima di entrare nell'amministrazione pubblica. Fu anche governatore per tra il 1759 e il 1760. Apprese diverse lingue tra cui l'indoustani. la sua opera descrive i territori dell'Indostan e del Bengala ma anche i credi e i dogmi locali. le tavole raffigurano esclusivamente dei e idoli indiani. Holwell viene considerato inoltre il primo europeo a studiare le antichita' indiane. Chadenat, 5221
Paris : Librairie de H. Fournier, 1823. 2 volumes in-8, (2 ff.), 388 pp., 1 carte ; (2 ff.), 374 pp. Demi-veau rouge, dos lisse orné, tranches mouchetées (Capé). (légers frottements sur la reliure). Édition originale posthume illustrée d'une grande carte dépliante de l'Inde. Cette riche correspondance que Jacquemont adressa à sa famille ainsi qu'à ses amis tels que Prosper Mérimée et Victor de Tracy, rend compte de son ultime voyage scientifique qui le mena, entre autres, à Pondichéry, Calcutta, l'Himalaya, au Cachemire et au Tibet. Il mourut à l'hôpital de Bombay le 7 novembre 1832 à l'âge de 31 ans. Signature “Madame Hagerman” sur les premières gardes blanches. Bel exemplaire relié par Capé. Dos très légèrement plus clair. Quelques rares griffures. Rousseurs éparses. "Jacquemont (1801-1832) était médecin ; chargé par le Muséum d'histoire naturelle d'une mission, il visita le nord de l'Inde (Bénarès, Dehli, Agra, le Pendjab, le Cachemire) et mourut à Bombay de maladie en 1832. Cette correspondance eut un énorme succès, y compris en Angleterre ; on a là une des premières descriptions modernes et réalistes de l'Inde."
1836In 8° (20x13 cm); LXXIII, (3), 603, (1) pp. Legatura coeva in mezza pelle verde con titolo e filettature in oro al dorso. Piatti foderati con carta marmorizzata coeva verde-azzurro (qualche strofinatura e piccola macnza di carta). All'interno in perfette condizioni di conservazione. Dedica autografa Jules Berger de Xivrey alla prima carta bianca. PRIMA RARA EDIZIONE dell'opera più importante del grande erudito francese nato a Versailles e considerato fra gli uomini più dotti del suo tempo. Questo studio è considerato come basilare nella storia della Tetralogia sia umana che animale illustrata attraverso lo studio della mitologia, delle favole e delle tradizioni popolari. L'autore quindi prende in considerazione i fauni, le gorgoni, le sirene, i ciclopi, gli sciapodi, gli acefali, le arpie, il minotauro, i tritoni, varie mostruosità animali (leoni, linci, tigri, elefanti, chimere ecc.). Un capitolo è deidcato alle meraviglie dell' India riportate da Jehan Wauquelin. VERY GOOD COPY. AUTOGRAPH.
1724A Son Altesse Roiale Madame La Princesse de Prusse - Preface 1 15,5x9,5 cm., legatura in piena pelle, 5 nervetti, fregi e titolo su tassello in oro al dorso, tagli a spruzzo, frontespizio rosso e nero con bella incisione su rame, pp. (14), 570, (54),in antiporta bellissima tavola incisa su rame, figurata, 3 tavole raffiguranti tre divinit? Indu (Biruma o Brama, Isuren, Whischtnu, 1 carta geografica dell'India "Cotes de Malabar et de Coromander", pi? volte ripiegata, testatine, capilettera e finalini, testo in lingua francese, bell'esemplare, ben conservato.
1973rif. 1902241973. Bezeichnet 1-28 / Juli 73. 100 x 63,5 cm.
