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1669rif. 15822Paris. 1669. The French Aristocracy Freely Admitted to Maritime Trade A variant issue with a slightly different title of this important edict which allows members of the nobility to trade by sea without foregoing any of their privileges. Previously their activities had been circumscribed by ordinances preventing their entering commerce. Apparently a catalyst for this edict was the formation of the Compagnie des Indes in 1664 which is specifically mentioned in the text. A note on the last page states that this copy was collated against the King's Ministry copy. OCLC locates only one copy at the University of Oxford. Rare. 7pp. Small quarto. Modern boards leather label. Light soiling around the edges. Very good. WROTH ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 95 ref. MAGGS FRENCH COLONIZATION OF AMERICA 10 ref. hardcover books
rif. MC8Seventeen original manuscripts from ca. 20x335 cm 13 ¼ x 8 in to ca. 11x18 cm 7 ¼ x 4 ¼ in. Brown ink on watermarked laid and wove paper single leaves or bifoliums; one document on vellum; four printed forms are completed in manuscript. In all ca. 24 pp. of text. The vellum document with the official seal of the East India Company on the left margin. With two original envelopes ca. 95x21 cm 3 ¾ x 8 ¼ in and 7x165 cm 2 ¾ x 6 ½ in. Foldmarks and creases paper slightly age-toned one letter with tears on the margins but readable; one document with the upper right corner detached but present; overall a very good archive. Historically significant archive of early original manuscripts documenting the military service of Robert Butler a British officer of the East India Company’s Madras Native Infantry in the first third of the 19th century. Butler entered the service of the East India’s Company Army in the 1810s being appointed a Lieutenant of the 11th Regiment Madras Native Infantry in 1812 and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the East Indies in 1855 The London Gazette. Tuesday February 6 1855 p. 435. Possibly he was the author of “Narrative of the Life and Travels of Serjeant B… Written by Himself” Edinburgh: David Brown 1823 describing the adventures of a young British soldier in India in the 1810s. The collection includes the original commission appointing Butler a lieutenant in the 11th Madras Native Infantry signed by the Governor of Madras Hugh Elliot originals and certified copies of the documents regarding his sick leave penalties for not reporting his return a subsequent pardon money loans payments and allowances from the Madras Native Infantry house renting near “Camp at Kulladghee” Kaladgi and a shipment of his order of “1 Linen surcingle 1 set of white tape headstall & reins 1 pale … saddlecloth with gold lace…” Overall a fascinating collection of early original manuscripts providing insight into the military service during the East India Company’s rule in India. A list of documents: 1 Elliot Hugh Governor of Madras in 1814-1820 Signed by. The Right Honourable Hugh Elliot Governor and Commander in Chief of the Fort and Garrison of Fort St. George and Town of Madraspatnam and of all the forces which are or shall be employed for the Service of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies <…> to R. Butler. Greeting. We reposing especial trust and confidence in your loyalty courage and good conduct do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Lieutenant in the Eleventh Regiment of Native Infantry in the said United Company’s service and do give and grant you full power and authority to take your rank as Lieutenant in the Eleventh Regiment of Native Infantry in the said service from the twenty-third day of April One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twelve. <…>. Given under our hand and the seal of the said Compan in Fort St. George this Eighteenth Day of February <…> in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifteen. 2 Affidavit to be sworn to by a Subscriber Subaltern applying for Assistance from the Fund while resident in England on Sick Certificate. I Robert Butler Lieutenant <…> 11th Regt. M.N.I. do hereby make oath and declare that the income arising from my property my pay and all other sources does not exceed £ one hundred two <…> per annum; and that the sum of £48 forty-eight <…> per annum which I solicit from the Madras Military Fund is requisite to make my whole income equal to £ 140 per annum. And I do further make oath and declare that my Indian allowances have been paid up to the 1st of October 1820… <…> Sworn before me <…> this 5th day of August 1821… 3 Extract from General Orders by Government Dated Fort St. George 22d November 1825. Captain Robert Butler of the 21st Regiment of Native Infantry on this Establishment who proceeded to Europe on Furlough on the 1stof October 1820 not having reported his return to this Presidency until the 5thInstant or more than 5 years from the date of his Furlough the Honorable the Governor in Council notifies that Captain Butler <…> is hereby become incapacitated for returning his place in the regular Army until permission to that effect shall be received from the Honourable the Court of Directors <…> /A true extract/. Deputy Adj. Genl. of the Army. 4 Fort St. George 29 May 1826. Commander in Chief’s Office. To Captain Butler 21st Regt. Nat. Infry. A copy of the official letter to the Military Auditor General from the Military Department dated 23 May 1826. Leaf 2. Sir I am directed by the Honble the Governor in Council to transmit to you the annexed copy of a letter from the officiating Military Secretary to the Commander in Chief <…> and to convey to you authority for passing arrears of pay and allowances to Captain Butler <…> on his declaration on honor as to the date up to which he had received them… 5 Adjutant Genl. Office Fort Saint George 15 January 1827. To Captain Butler 21st Regiment Native Infantry. Sir with reference to the annexed extract from General Order by Government dated 12th Instant I have the honor by Order of His Excellency Commander in Chief to direct that you will join your Regiment forthwith… Extract <…> Letter dated 19th July 1826. “Being satisfied from the circumstances which have been brought to our notice that the Absence from India of Captain Robert Butler beyond the prescribed period of five years was occasioned by inevitable accident within the meaning of the 78thSection of the Act of the 33d Georg 3d Chap. 52 we have resolved to restore him to his rank in your Establishment which Resolution has received the approbation of His Majesty’s Commissioners for the affairs of India.” 6 Camp at Kulladghee 1 October 1829. I acknowledge to have received from Captain Robert Butler of the 21stRegiment N.I. the sum of /2000/ tow thousand rupees as a loan to enable me to complete the building of a new house which sum I promise to repay to Captain Robert Butler on his order. I also promise and engage to rent the house above alluded to to Captain Robert Butler on the following terms: 1st. That the monthly rent shall be fifty rupees and to commence from this date. 2nd. That the house shall be at my disposal at the end of each month provided I get a purchaser. 3rd. That I will not rent the house to any other Gentleman as long as Captn. Butler wishes to keep it <…> Matthw. Hobart Barrack Sergeant. A note by Butler underneath: My dear Gray Will you have the goodness to take charge if this document & act upon it as circumstances may require. Yours sincerely R. Butler. Camp at Kullafgee Oct. 31st 1820. A note by Gray on the next leaf: Camp Bagurattah 23 Feby. 1830. My dear Ley Having left Kullaghee I can no longer look after Butler’s interest in this document and shall feel much obliged if you will do so and act as circumstances may require until you hear farther from him or me. Sincerely yours Geo. Gray. To Captain J. M. Ley. 7 Camp at Kulladghee 5 October 1829. I hereby certify that Captain Robert Butler 21st Regt. N.I. is in a bad state of health. I recommend that for recovery thereof he be allowed to proceed to the Western coast for three months. S. A. Boyes Asst. Surgeon 21st Regt. N.I. 8 Camp at Kulladghee 21 October 1829. To Captain R. Butler 21st Regiment N.I. Sir As you are about to proceed on Sick Certificate to the Western Coast I have been directed by the Officer Commanding to furnish you Extract from G.O.C.C. of the 2nd of March 1827 and 23rd June 1829 for your information and guidance the receipt of which you will be pleased to acknowledge… 9 Kulladghee 1 November 1829. Received from Capt. Butler the sum of Rupees seven Annas eight and Pice six <…> on account of the 4th …. Also 12 books. 10 Pay Office Malabar & Kanara. Cannanore 29 December 1829. Statement. Paid to Captain R. Butler of the 21st Regiment N.I. in arrears for November and Dec. and advance for December 1829 January 1830 Rupees 753. Deducted Military Fund and Donation 42-2-8. Deposited this day in my Treasury 410-13-4… 11 Pay Office Malabar & Kanara. Cannanore 11 January 1830. To Captain R. Butler of the 21st Regiment N.I. Sir Herewith I have the honor to transmit you the Pay Certificate required for you &c… 12 Cannanore P.O. 11 January 1830. Memorandum. Paid to Captain R. Butler of the 11th Regiment N.I. the Amount of his deposit in this office. Rupees 410-13-4. Coins paid. 410 Surat Rs. ---- 410-8-; 16 Copper pice ----- 5-4; Rupees 410-13-4. 13 Adjutant General Office Fort St. George 13 January 1830. To Captain R. Butler 21st Regiment N.I. Sir The Commander in Chief has granted you Leave of Absence from your Corps and Station until the 1st July 1830… 14 Camp Bagreecoteeh 23 February 1830. “If Sergeant Hobart sells his house Capt. Ley to claim the amount due on Captain Butler’s mortgage which is now after deducting five month rent from October to February inclusive seventeen hundred and fifty Rupees 1750 Rs. and should the Sergeant only get 2200 for the house Capt. Gray authorizes Capt. L. to take 1200 in full of all demands against Segt. Hobart by Capt. Butler…” 15 Fort St. George 2 April 1830. Military Fund Office. To Captain R. Butler 21st Regiment N.I. Sir As requested in your letter of the 24th Ultimo I have the honor by desire of the Directors to transmit herewith a Statement of your account with the Military Fund exhibiting a balance due by you on account of Donation and Subscription amounting to Madras Rupees 64= 3= 4 which you will be pleased to put in a train of liquidation. <…> 16 Cannanore 11 June 1830. My dear Butler I had the pleasure of receiving your of the 9th & 10th last evening and this morning & I have now the pleasure of sending <…> the balance of your pay and a pay certificate. I have taken this course in consequence of having seen Mr. Maclean here this Mg. as you would not be able to obtain any money for an order on him during his absence. You seem to have forgot that yesterday was Sunday and that an office is opened before 10 on any day. <…> 17 Madras 1837. To Captain R. Butler. Sir We have the pleasure to advise you of our having shipped on your account on the Cutter Arrow the articles mentioned in the annexed statement <…> 1 box: 1 Linen surcingle; 1 set of white tape headstall & reins; 1 pale … saddlecloth with gold lace …. hardcover
1911rif. Biblio17Official Directory with Maps 1911 2 folding maps in pocket at end maps measure 365 x 340mm and 490 x 270mm 3 Indian postage stamps with ink-stamps dated 15th December to title previous owner's ink signature original cloth-backed printed boards a little rubbed slight bumping to corners and extremities Superintendent Government Printing, India hardcover
1843rif. 9298Paris, Fortin, Masson & Cie / Langlois et Leclercq, 1843. 2 parties en un volume in-4 de [6]-134-[4]-107 pages, pleine percaline aubergine (passée), titre, décors et filets dorés au dos. Coins frottés, rousseurs, un cahier légèrement déboîté. Nom de possesseur sur garde : Henry de Lessert (époux de Hélène Marie Tronchin ?).
1930rif. 21210841930. India. c. 1930-31 Oblong folio. Cord-bound and cloth-covered album with over 200 mostly original photographs including 27 photographic postcards mounted recto-verso on 25 dark brown album cards neat manuscript captions in white; album a little worn and with replaced cords. An interesting album documenting the life and travels of a soldier during the twilight years of the 'British Raj'. Collection opens and closes with the panoramic views of the Himalayas followed by detailed images of Ghurkas and other Tribal Hill people travelling vendors snake charmer camel transport bed of nails absent a fakir Jubbulpore views Meerut street scenes Temples Mosques 'A Vultures Tea Party' 'Elephant Bridge' 'Christmas Decorations. Royal Signal men's mess' and 'The Barrack 3rd Indian Division Signals'; 'Hindu Gods' at a religious festival captured in Ranickhet ; Studies of Naini Tal Lake and Temple on the bank ; Delhi illuminated by night studies of Lutyen's 'Imperial Delhi' the Jumna Bridge and other engineered structures 'Kutab Minar' views of the Old City from the Jumna Masjid Chandi Chowk Clocktower; Jhansi tombs and ruins. Other images of interest to the compiler show 'Types of wells used in Indian irrigation systems' and several shots recording the famed cricketers Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe on their tour of India at the Roshana Cricket Club in Delhi organised by the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram. Professional photos also depict the Taj Mahal and a memorial at Cawnpore. Military subjects in addition to Meerut soldiers mess include 'The Kings Birthday Parade Ranikhet 1931'; 'Mounted Sports Royal Deccan Horse Meerut 1930'; military personalities such as RSM Biggs Major General Ironside and General Sir P. Chetwode; a Ghurka soldier; a sequence documenting 'The Viceroy's visit to Meerut February 1930' arrival in a biplane; Attock camps bridge construction 'Armoured Car' and 'Machnine Gun Outpost'. 'With the Sappers and Miners Khajuri Plain North West Frontier during the Afridi trouble 1930-31'. hardcover
First edition, royal 8vo (258 x 164 mm), xiv, [2, errata leaf], 136pp., with list of subscribers, 11 lithograph views and plates, all but one hand-coloured, 3 large folding maps (two with minor repairs) and 30 lithographed route maps, one coloured plate with small stain and some light offsetting to maps, other a very nice clean copy, new endpapers, recent half calf, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece. A rare Calcutta printing on the Nilgiri Mountains which form part of the Western Ghats mountain range in Southern India. The fine maps are signed by J. B. Tassin, who started one of Calcutta's earliest lithographic presses in 1830, and later moved in San Francisco. In the preface the author gives full costings for the production of the book and states that 500 copies were printed. Also contains "A list of plants gathered on the Neilgherries, particularly in the environs of Ootacamund, by the Rev. Mr. [B.] Schmid.": p. 129-136. Not in Abbey.
1777rif. 390092London : East India Company 1777. 1st edition. Hardcover. Finely bound copies in modern half tan buckram over contrasting fine-ribbed cloth boards. Title page repaired. Particularly well-preserved; tight bright clean and strong. Further scans images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; 2 volumes. Contents; Vol. 1. Containing orders of the Court of Directors and minutes of Council entered on consultations -- Vol. 2. Containing letters from different persons respecting the above transactions. Subjects; Pigot George Baron 1719-1777. Chennai India History ; Sources. Madras India. Thanjavur India : District History Early works to 1800. London : East India Company hardcover
1958rif. 231781958. Bombay red light district photographs of women seated in brothel doorways gathered in interior rooms and receiving male visitors circa 1958 recording the sex trade as it operated in post independence India under the combined pressures of urban poverty migration and state regulation. Drawn from a merchant marine album and anchored by a source page marked 1958 the group preserves an outsider's view of brothel based sex work at the moment when independent India's Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act had just come into force. British rule had already concentrated prostitution into regulated urban zones in Bombay with districts such as Kamathipura shaped by segregation policing and the management of commercial sex. The 1956 law effective 1 May 1958 targeted brothel keeping procuring and related activities without removing the economic structures that kept poor women in the trade. Photo archive of 17 silver gelatin photographs each 2.75" x 4" Bombay India circa 1958. Several images show women in saris seated on stone thresholds and steps outside narrow ground floor rooms watching the street conversing with one another or facing the camera from darkened doorways. Other photographs move inside the premises where a group of young women pose on a sofa beneath patterned wallpaper one beside a Western man holding a camera while another interior view shows several women crowded before a wall mirror with the same man visible in reflection behind them. Street level exterior views record a worn multistory building with open upper windows shuttered lower bays pedestrians passing and an automobile and hand pulled or cycle traffic in front fixing the brothel within a dense commercial streetscape rather than an isolated interior world. One of the most arresting images shows a white clothed man carrying a tray as he faces several figures in a narrow passage potentially showcasing the work surrounding and upkeeping the trade. The archive belongs to a longer history in which Bombay's sex districts were formed under colonial urban governance and continued after 1947 as sites where caste class migration policing and women's labor met in highly unequal ways. These photographs show the raw historical context of such professions with women waiting at entrances living in cramped quarters and occupying semi public thresholds where domestic space commercial exchange and street visibility collapse into one another. Light surface wear small edge chips and album glue residue en verso. Overall very good condition. The album context fixed 1958 dating and repeated views of the same doorway spaces make this a concise photographic record of brothel based sex work in postcolonial Bombay. unknown
1958rif. 231781958. Bombay red light district photographs of women seated in brothel doorways gathered in interior rooms and receiving male visitors circa 1958 recording the sex trade as it operated in post independence India under the combined pressures of urban poverty migration and state regulation. Drawn from a merchant marine album and anchored by a source page marked 1958 the group preserves an outsider's view of brothel based sex work at the moment when independent India's Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act had just come into force. British rule had already concentrated prostitution into regulated urban zones in Bombay with districts such as Kamathipura shaped by segregation policing and the management of commercial sex. The 1956 law effective 1 May 1958 targeted brothel keeping procuring and related activities without removing the economic structures that kept poor women in the trade. Photo archive of 17 silver gelatin photographs each 2.75" x 4" Bombay India circa 1958. Several images show women in saris seated on stone thresholds and steps outside narrow ground floor rooms watching the street conversing with one another or facing the camera from darkened doorways. Other photographs move inside the premises where a group of young women pose on a sofa beneath patterned wallpaper one beside a Western man holding a camera while another interior view shows several women crowded before a wall mirror with the same man visible in reflection behind them. Street level exterior views record a worn multistory building with open upper windows shuttered lower bays pedestrians passing and an automobile and hand pulled or cycle traffic in front fixing the brothel within a dense commercial streetscape rather than an isolated interior world. One of the most arresting images shows a white clothed man carrying a tray as he faces several figures in a narrow passage potentially showcasing the work surrounding and upkeeping the trade. The archive belongs to a longer history in which Bombay's sex districts were formed under colonial urban governance and continued after 1947 as sites where caste class migration policing and women's labor met in highly unequal ways. These photographs show the raw historical context of such professions with women waiting at entrances living in cramped quarters and occupying semi public thresholds where domestic space commercial exchange and street visibility collapse into one another. Light surface wear small edge chips and album glue residue en verso. Overall very good condition. The album context fixed 1958 dating and repeated views of the same doorway spaces make this a concise photographic record of brothel based sex work in postcolonial Bombay. unknown books
19331st Edition. 4to. Later Blue Boards with Original Wrappers bound inside for each issue. A full run of the first 3 years of The Jewish Tribune, from the year 1933 to 1936. 36 issues in total running about 1100 pages. Note that though these are consecutive they are marked as Volumes 1, 2, and 6. Includes a 1934 article titled, The Holocaust in Germany, " an EXTREMELY early use of this term to describe the growing attacks on the Jews of Germany by the Nazis. This rare run of the first three years of Bombays first Zionist periodical is inscribed by Joseph Sargon, who worked as managing editor of the Jewish Tribune during the publication of these issues. Born and educated in Bombay, Mr. Sargon came to the United States in 1939 (land lived in Brookline) after serving as managing editor of the Bombay Jewish Tribune for 13 years. During his world travels, he interviewed and wrote articles about Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and other figures. (Boston Globe, 1990) The Bombay Tribune was established by the nephews of Nissim Elias Benjamin Ezra. N. E. B. Ezra, was a Baghdadi Jewish publisher and Zionist based in Shanghai. He founded the Shanghai Zionist Association in 1903 and its official newspaper, Israel's Messenger, one of China's oldest and most sophisticated Jewish periodicals Influenced by Ezra, his nephews started the newspaper Jewish Tribune in Bombay, India. (Wikipeida, 2017) These 36 issues of the Tribune include the 1st appearance of many articles and editorials from some of the leading Jewish thinkers from across the world including: NEB Ezra, Bernard S. Deutsch, Rabbi Julius J. Price, Haham Moses Gaster, Emanuel Neumann, Israel Cohen, Khan Bahadur Jackson B. Israel, Jl Magnes, Samuel Magnus, David Sassoon, Rabbi Leo Jung, Jl Landau, Rabbi Schlesinger, Laszlo Schwartz, Louis Golding, Jh Hertz (Then Chief Rabbi Of British Empire) , Jacob De Haas, Rabbi D. De Sola Pool, Edward Jacobs, Mrs. Israel Davidson, Lily Tobias, H. Pereira Mendez, Rabbi Benjamin Ouziel, and Cyrus Adler. Includes a few early reporting articles about Nazi Anti-Semitism, early reporting on the 1934 Nepal-Bihar Earthquake, and a few articles about Mahatma Gandhi, among other topics of Jewish and Zionist interest. Period Advertisements throughout. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Bookplate and Usual Markings. Inscribed by Sargon on the Front-End Page. Also includes Sargons Personal Bookplate/Nametag. Damp Stains throughout and pages are wavy. Some edgewear. Overall in good condition. (SEF-55-8B)
1780rif. PHO-1926Genève, Pellet, 1780, 5 volumes in-4, 4 de texte et un atlas in-4, Texte ; portrait, XVI, 741 pp., 1 pl.; front., (2 ff.), VIII, 485 pp.; front., XV, 629 pp.; front., (2 ff.), VIII, 770 pp., (1 f.), Atlas ; 2f., 28pp. ; illustré complet des 50 cartes (chiffrées 1-49 et 17 bis) ; quelques cartes mal chiffrées et 23 tableaux de statistiques in fine, la plupart dépliants. Rousseurs éparses, feuillets légèrement brunis par places. Tampons humides "Bibliothèque populaire de Bordeaux". Reliure Texte ; Basane fauve marbrée de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés, triple filet doré encadrant les plats, Atlas ; veau brun marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, fleurons tulipes entre caissons, tranches marbrées, filet à froid encadrant les plats, double filet doré sur coupes 2 coiffes arasées, une arrachée, petits chocs à 2 autres, frottements et épidermures, coins très émoussés, mors fendillés aux entrées, coins émoussés, tranches marbrées (atlas).
Due Voll. in 8 cm. 20,5x15,4; (Vol I) in seconda edizione Felice Cesaretti -Roma-1676 pp. (8: con ritratto dell'autore in rame), 896, 58; (Vol II) in prima edizione Michele Ercole -Roma-1669, pp (20: con frontespizio in cornice xilogr. di arco trionfale con colonne tortili, ritratto dell'autore f.t. inciso in rame , in fine marca tipografica xilogr. a p.p. con leone rampante che regge due colonne e pp. 928 Bella legatura romantica ottocentesca in mz. pelle con dorsi riccamente decorati e scritte in oro tagli azzurrini piatti cartone rigido con carta a colori spruzzati. Sebbene in edizioni diverse i volumi hanno stessi caratteri e testalini, finalini, capilettera xilograf. uguali. Magnifico esemplare ben conservato solo alcune pagg. leggermente brunite .
1908rif. 86-235Murray 1908. 1908. 734p. Folding Maps. Red cloth. Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering on spine. Heavy. Near Fine Copy. Hardcover. Near Fine. Book. Murray, 1908. Hardcover
1815In-4 gr. (mm. 368x255), primi 2 (su 4) volumi, p. marocchino verde coevo (abraso), cornici dorate ai piatti e al dorso con tit. oro. Di questa celebrata e monumentale opera offriamo i primi due volumi della parte dedicata all’"Asia", completi (come da Indice) delle 179 tavole f.t., disegnate ed incise all’acquatinta da valenti artisti (fra cui Biasioli e Sanquirico), con preziosa coloritura editoriale. Il primo volume, con 87 tavole fra cui 2 grandi carte geografiche a colori, più volte ripiegate (una con il mappamondo ed una con la carta generale dell’Asia + una carta, a una pag., con il Mondo conosciuto dagli antichi), è dedicato alla Cina - Corea, Giappone - Isole del Giappone, della terra di Jesso, di Lieu-Kieu. Il secondo, con 92 tavole, a: Indostan - Ceilan, Maldive e Laccadive - Indocina - Impero dei Birmani - Isole Andamane e Nicobar - Tonchino - Cocincina - Cambogia - Siam - Penisola di Malaca. "Prima edizione" in tiratura numerata “ad personam”. Il ns., 43, ha qualche fiorit. ma complessivam. è un buon esemplare con barbe.
1791In 4°. Pagine XII, 326 + 30 carte di tavole. Rilegatura in piena pergamena coeva con titolo su tassello impresso in oro al dorso. Alcune macchie e bruniture. Stato di conservazione complessivamente molto buono. Importante studio, quasi un catalogo, sulle opere di arte indiana contenute nel Museo Borgiano di Velletri, fondato dal cardinale Stefano Borgia. All’interno sono presenti molte belle incisioni, diverse delle quali a piena pagina, raffiguranti divinità, monumenti e personaggi mitologici indiani. Rara e fondamentale opera del carmelitano scalzo Paolino da San Bartolomeo, al secolo Johann Philipp Wesdin (1748-1806), celebre orientalista ed indologo austriaco. Edizione originale.
1671In-4to, cc. 4 nn. (prima bianca), pp. 152 + 6 tavv. f.t. incise in rame. Frontespizio in rosso e nero con vignetta con le armi de'Medici. Legatura coeva in oiena pelle con fregi e dorature al dorso e ai piatti. In-4to, cc.4 nn. (including blank and half-title), 152 pp. and 6 etched plates of botanical specimens, title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette of the Medici arms. Bound in contemporary leather with gilt at spine.
1929rif. 173000Bombay: Published for the Railway Board by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway 1929. Untraced institutionally The second iteration of this ambitiously comprehensive publication. The large folding map in the end pocket distinguishes between general and deluxe section services and shows broad metre and narrow gauge lines steamer routes and roads. The insets concern Delhi Calcutta and other interchange destinations. While passengers already had access to Newman's Indian Bradshaw and other commercially published guides the All-India Time-Table was the first official attempt at an encyclopaedia of the country's railway services. Compilation was overseen by the head office of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway following the government's assumption of the company's management in 1925. The timetable was periodically updated and reissued. This iteration was succeeded by the version that came into force in September 1929. Copies were sold at India's main railway stations. Quarto. Large folding network map in rear pocket 37 charts and plans and many tables in text; advertisements at front and rear. Some leaves printed on blue or green paper. Original red calf bevelled boards front cover lettered and with British Government arms in gilt purple marbled endpapers. A few minor abrasions to binding skinning from removed label on first blank text browned as expected couple of leaves proud at fore edge: a near-fine copy. hardcover
1909rif. 179531Lahore: 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
1881rif. 137674Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press 1881-84. News from the sandy plains of Nowshera First editions a broken but substantial run of this rare regimental newspaper with no copies of any volume recorded in commerce or institutionally. Two volumes are signed on the pastedowns by Captain Cecil Morris Lester who is listed in O'Donnell's history of the regiment as the newspaper's first editor. His completed January 1888 subscription slip is loosely inserted. The 2nd Battalion 14th Regiment was raised in 1858. In 1880 it was sent to India as part of the Second Anglo-Afghan War stationed at Nowshera and Sialkot. In July 1881 Our Journal was first released a monthly newspaper of approximately 10 pages each compiling regimental news results from sports competitions submissions of poetry and prose and puzzles. The editors wrote often in the first volume about the difficulty of finding contributors and funding but by Volume 6 that support was forthcoming. Lester 1859-1898 "had twenty years' service in the Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regiment which he entered as a second lieutenant in 1878 becoming lieutenant in the following year and captain in 1885. He served in the Afghan war on 1879-80 which Roberts's march made famous and received a medal for the Kama expedition" Evening Observer p. 5. Alongside being one of the unnamed editors he also appeared in cast lists for performances put on by the regiment playing Coco in The Midnight Watch vol. 1 no. 1 p. 7. In September 1881 he was congratulated in the paper for passing his required exams vol. 1 no. 3 p. 3. In November he joined the garrison class at Rawalpindi vol. 1 no. 5 p. 3. He was promoted to captain in 1885. From 1892 he instructed at Sandhurst and was the president of the Royal Military College Dramatic Society. 32 issues bound in 3 vols quarto 277 x 220 mm and 315 x 245 mm. Tables in text. Contemporary red half skiver or black half sheep spines lettered ruled and decorated in gilt cloth boards of various colours with borders tooled in gilt two vols with black skiver front labels lettered and ruled in gilt edges of 1884 vol. speckled red binder's ticket of "Civil & Military Gazette Press" to front pastedowns of two vols. Contemporary blue pencil crosses and sidelinings. Bindings worn but sturdy some toning and foxing especially to 1884 vol. a few small paper repairs at edges: a very good set. "Faith-healing Charlatanry: Major Lester's Treatment" Evening Observer 25 November 1898. hardcover
1906rif. 321920Poona and Bombay India 1906. Comprising 17 album leaves with approximately 84 mounted photographs ranging in size from 16 full page and 8 half page photographs to smaller snapshots mounted with some thought many with detailed captions identifiers and dates in ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio 10-3/4 x 14 inches. Modern three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards new endpapers a.e.g. Some toning to a few album leaves the photographs generally clean and fresh. Comprising 17 album leaves with approximately 84 mounted photographs ranging in size from 16 full page and 8 half page photographs to smaller snapshots mounted with some thought many with detailed captions identifiers and dates in ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio 10-3/4 x 14 inches. A nice little family album of foxhunting and equestrian scenes relating to the Poon and Bombay Hunts as well as views of landscape and family life. The paterfamilias is identified in captions as A.W.S. a British officer and his wife R.A.S. even while numerous others members of hunts or parties are identified by name and rank. "Ruth" and "Baby" complete the family unit and RUth can be seen seated among a line of children in hunting kit at the "Children's Fancy Dress Party / Given by Poona Bachelors / Poona Gymkhana" and then mounted on a pony in panoramic Hunt portraits. One leaf with six photographs depicts the stages of a meet from draw to check to who'oop! with the central image captioned "Ruth's first brush given by J.A. Lord Esq. M.F.H. / Snapshots by Capt. Jennings" and another contemporary hand has added in pencil " run near Saula Creek Bombay Hunt . 1905". Other groups of images show views at "Singhur 1901-1905" and domestic scenes. unknown
1906rif. 321920Poona and Bombay India 1906. Comprising 17 album leaves with approximately 84 mounted photographs ranging in size from 16 full page and 8 half page photographs to smaller snapshots mounted with some thought many with detailed captions identifiers and dates in ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio 10-3/4 x 14 inches. Modern three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards new endpapers a.e.g. Some toning to a few album leaves the photographs generally clean and fresh. Comprising 17 album leaves with approximately 84 mounted photographs ranging in size from 16 full page and 8 half page photographs to smaller snapshots mounted with some thought many with detailed captions identifiers and dates in ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio 10-3/4 x 14 inches. A nice little family album of foxhunting and equestrian scenes relating to the Poon and Bombay Hunts as well as views of landscape and family life. The paterfamilias is identified in captions as A.W.S. a British officer and his wife R.A.S. even while numerous others members of hunts or parties are identified by name and rank. "Ruth" and "Baby" complete the family unit and RUth can be seen seated among a line of children in hunting kit at the "Children's Fancy Dress Party / Given by Poona Bachelors / Poona Gymkhana" and then mounted on a pony in panoramic Hunt portraits. One leaf with six photographs depicts the stages of a meet from draw to check to who'oop! with the central image captioned "Ruth's first brush given by J.A. Lord Esq. M.F.H. / Snapshots by Capt. Jennings" and another contemporary hand has added in pencil " run near Saula Creek Bombay Hunt . 1905". Other groups of images show views at "Singhur 1901-1905" and domestic scenes. unknown books
1798rif. 319520London: Henry Hughes 1798. First edition. Folding map frontispieces plates. xv 263 9 index; x 374 12 pp. 2 vols. 4to 11 x 9 inches. Contemporary full tan calf rebacked retaining original boards lower corner of Vol. I repaired. 19th-century ownership inscriptions to first blanks 1-inch tear to map near mount some thumb soiling and scattered spotting. First edition. Folding map frontispieces plates. xv 263 9 index; x 374 12 pp. 2 vols. 4to 11 x 9 inches. "This tireless naturalist and antiquary reached out to the ends of the world to gather in knowledge" Cox. These are volumes one and two on India and Ceylon of an intended 14-volume series entitled "Outlines of the Globe." Welshman Pennant died in 1798 the year of publication and only two more volumes China and Japan were published after his death by his son. ESTC T145966; Cox I p. 307 Henry Hughes unknown
1798rif. 319520London: Henry Hughes 1798. First edition. Folding map frontispieces plates. xv 263 9 index; x 374 12 pp. 2 vols. 4to 11 x 9 inches. Contemporary full tan calf rebacked retaining original boards lower corner of Vol. I repaired. 19th-century ownership inscriptions to first blanks 1-inch tear to map near mount some thumb soiling and scattered spotting. First edition. Folding map frontispieces plates. xv 263 9 index; x 374 12 pp. 2 vols. 4to 11 x 9 inches. "This tireless naturalist and antiquary reached out to the ends of the world to gather in knowledge" Cox. These are volumes one and two on India and Ceylon of an intended 14-volume series entitled "Outlines of the Globe." Welshman Pennant died in 1798 the year of publication and only two more volumes China and Japan were published after his death by his son. ESTC T145966; Cox I p. 307 Henry Hughes unknown books
1844rif. 022107London: J. Hatchard and Son 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Partly unopened; scattered foxing but text and plates mostly clean. Some fraying along spine edges; gilt fairly bright. Easily Very Good in a Fine clamshell box. Two 6-1/2" x 9-3/4" volumes in publisher's gilt-decorated and lettered green cloth: xii 478; vii i 459 1 pages. Housed in a green cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with 32 color chromolithographic plates with tissue guards. Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sleeman who spent his entire career in India was best known for his fight to suppress the activities of "thugs" bands of criminals who attacked robbed and often murdered innocent travelers. In these volumes he describes his experiences doing so as well as his thoughts on various aspects of Indian life including Hinduism local festivals and folklore natural history governance military discipline and the justice system. In 1828 Sleeman made the first documented discovery of dinosaur fossils in Asia before the term "dinosaur" was even formally coined. ABBEY TRAVEL 466. J. Hatchard and Son hardcover
1851rif. 103London: Richard Bentley. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light foxing to first few pages vol. 1; This is Burtons' first book written while on active duty in modern-day India and Pakistan. Rebound in attractive blue full leather boards with gilt spine lettering and three raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Penzer 39 Casada 57; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 297 309 pages . 1851. Richard Bentley hardcover
