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Leave of Absence in the Straits Settlements

1859réf. 320421Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co. printed by P.M. Craneburgh at the Bengal Military Orphan Press 1859. First edition. iv 244 viii pp. 8vo. Original blue ribbed cloth spine gilt bookplate to front pastedown of Sir Charles P. Hobhouse Bart. Bradford-on-Avon presentation inscription to title page. A fine copy. First edition. iv 244 viii pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the title page: "For Annie with the Author's love." This copy also formerly belonged to Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse 3rd Baronet of Westbury. A crisp copy recording the anonymous author's seven month's of exploring through South East Asia in 1851 and 1853. Departing 8 September 1851 the author who remains anonymous to this day spent four months travelling to Ceylon and Singapore before returning to Calcutta. In 1853 he set off again this time for a three month excursion to the Madras and Bombay Presidencies. There are vivid descriptions of Singapore Penang Malacca Madras Calcutta Bombay Bangalore and Candy as well as coffee plantations and Buddhist temples. The author spends quite some time travelling overland and describes an ascent of Pedro Tallagalla and Kilkamany and camping at Makoortie Peak. Despite the scarcity of this little book it did attract critical attention. A favourable notice appeared in the Calcutta Review which states that the author had "seen and noted down . as much as any one who had preceded or who has since followed him in the same track." The work concludes with an appendix in two parts the first being a table showing the route modes of transport ship rail bandy pony and the amount of time spent at each location. The second is titled "Hints for travellers" which concludes: "Travellers will find it wiser never to have coolies to their palanquins when they can procure bearers; never to go in palanquins when they can with safety from the sun ride; never ride down passes when they can walk and never to be discouraged by indifference or dissuaded by alarms from prosecuting any enterprise." There is nothing in the preface to explain the six year delay between the conclusion of his travel and the publication of the account. Exceedingly rare. No copies on OCLC or COPAC. The only other copy we know of is the Brooke-Hitching copy identically bound;the present copy is in superior condition. The Calcutta Review vol. 33. July-December 1859. Serampore: "Friend of India" Press 1859 pp. lxviii-lxxi Thacker, Spink & Co. (printed by P.M. Craneburgh at the [Bengal] Military Orphan Press) unknown books

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The Hassanoor Journal by "Myself.

1865réf. 311412Madras: Lawrence Asylum Press 1865. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full black morocco spine with gilt rules boards with gilt roll borders ornamental cornerpieces titled in gilt on upper cover yellow endsheets with orange ticket Bound at the Lawrence Asylum Press within border. Some minor rubbing occasional foxing. Fine. Gift inscription on first blank "J. Michael with the kindest regards of J.C.H. July 17th 1875. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs captioned in ink. Text within braided rule borders. ii 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. UNRECORDED. Spectacular unrecorded privately printed hunting diary recounting a hunting expedition in Kerala southern India from 27 July to 22 September 1865 "the best shikar trip I have ever had". The narrator and his companion A.M.D. bagged 43 heads of eleven different types of big game including tiger bear elephant bison chettul and others with original albumen photographs mounted and captioned in a neat hand. The unnamed narrator mentions passing hunting parties one such Brown Jones and Robinson suggests that he read Trollope when the novel appeared as a serial in the Cornhill; the terrain around Hassanoor Ghaut was familiar to him for he had planted fruit trees and roses near a camp building; mention is made also of Hamilton Brooke and Faulkener hunting the area the previous year. This may be Douglas Hamilton who in 1892 published a long retrospective 'Records of Sport in Southern India'. The narrator buys prepared photographic plates from a departing hunter who had ordered them from the Patent dry Collodion Co. of Birmingham. The two hunters were accompanied by the dog Scamp chief among a pack that included Tinker and a plucky three-legged dog Pinko both killed by a panther and bearers of cowardly deportment save for the plucky Rajii who stood by when the narrator faced bear and elephant. At times the grass was too high for a man to get through easily. Notably the hunter describes many photographic incidents including how the frontispiece "The Tiger's Siesta" came to be made. One day D. encountered a a tigress atop the head of a young elephant and shot her despite the commotion. The young elephant ran off. The next day going to photograph the tigress the narrator was charged by a herd of elephants. He shot an elephant cow and they moved on to photograph the elephant "taking the tigress with us. The men who carried her threw her body into the elephants arms and it looked so strange the tigers mouth being curiously drawn up as if she were laughing that I thought I would try a picture in that position.". UNRECORDED in all the usual references and catalogues Lawrence Asylum Press unknown books

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India Sporting Review A Record of the Turf The Chase The Gun The Rod and Spear. Volume 1-Volume 12

1850réf. 254995Calcutta: Printed and Published by the Star Press; Sander Cones and Co Volumes 11 & 12 only 1850. First edition. The first 6 years complete with all plates called for. 12 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half tan calf and green cloth spines rubbed but generally sound. First edition. The first 6 years complete with all plates called for. 12 vols. 8vo. Volume III after p. 98 has 4 lithographic full portraits of Cricketeers James Cobbett William Lillywhite Fuller Pilch and Thomas Box done at Asiatic Lithographers by T. Black after the sketches originally printed at Brighton. The Indian Sporting Review later became the Indian Field. Latest issue consulted: Vol. 8 July-Dec. 1858 Plates Volume 1 as called for: Plates 1 and 2. Osteology of the Elephant at pages 5-6. Plate 3. Plan of the Calcutta Race Course. Surveyed by Charles Joseph from the India Sporting Review. 1845. Folding hand-coloured plate. H.M. Smith Lith. at p. 24. Plate 4. The Govenor General's Cup won by G.A.H. Elefoo. H.M. Smith Lith. at p. 29. Plate 5. The Bengal Club Cup 1844-5. Won by G.A.H. Crab the property of W.P. Grant. H.M. Smith. Lith. at p. 30. Plate 6 . Plan of the Dacca Race Course. Folding and hand-colourerd. H.M. Smith Lith. Plate 7. The Sporting Gallery.-No. 1. George Sheppard Barker Trainer and Principal Rider to Sir T. Herbert Maddock. p. 63. No II June 1845. Plate 1 2 3. The Columbidae pigeons of the Eastern Districts facing pp. 86-88-90. All hand-coloured and folding. Copied by H.M. Smith. Plate 4. Map of The Sporting Localities in the Dacca District. Folding and hand-coloured. p. 144. Plate 5. Portrait of Albert John de Hochepied Larpent Esq. late Sec. of the Calcutta Races Number II The Sporting Gallery at p. 166. Plate 6. The Boondela Cup-Presented by Col. Sleeman Governor General's Agent-Won by B.A.H. Postmaster. p. 174. Vol. II Part 1. September-December 1845. with 4 pp. of Subscribers Plate 1. Hold Hard! Mischief Bruin facing p. 4. Hand-coloured. H.M. Smith scr. Palte 2. A Queer fix! Hand-coloured. T. Black Asiatic Lith. Press. J. Hendrie Lith. Tape marks in gutter at p. 6. Plate 3. Stand from Under. Hand-coloured. T. Black Asiatic Lith. Press at p. 8. Plate 4. "Now's the Time." Hand-coloured. T. Black Asiatic Lith. Press. J. Hendrie Lith. at p. 10. Palte 5. "Stop a bit!!!" Hand-coloured at p. 12. Plate 6. "Mind you eye!!!" Hand-coloured. H.M. Smith Scr. at p. 12. Plate 7. "Devil take the hindmost!!!" Hand-coloured. H.M. Smith Scr. at p. 14. Plate 8. "Sharp's the Word!" Hand-coloured. T. Black Asiatic Lith. Press. J. Hendrie Lith. at p. 14. Plate 9. "The Emperor of Russia's Ascot Plate. Litrho. at p. 34. Plate 10. Tailpiece in text. Cheetah. at p. 49 Plate 11. Portrait of the Squire. The Sporting Gallery. No. III. Signed C.G. in plate. Plate 12. Plan of the Madras Race Course. Hand-coloured folding. H.M. Smith scr. P. S. D'Rozario & Co. Oriental Lith. Press. Plate 12. in text at p. 86 "The Lady of Fashion." Plate 13. in the texy at p. 88 "The Milk Maid." Plate 14. in the text at p. 91 "Love Making in the Olden Times." Plate 15. in the text at p. 93 "Modern Courtship." Plate 16. in the text at p. 95 "The Flying Leap." Plate 17. "The Bayswater Fresco selections full page litho. at p. 92. Part IV Plate 1. Frontispiece. Elepoo. Steel Engraving. Engraved by H. B. Hall frontispiece folded Plates 2 & 3. The Columbidae Pigeons of the Easter Districts. Plates IV and V facing pp. 10-122 hand-coloured and folded Plate 4. My First Donkey actually entitled "Hunting the Cutchà or Wild Ass" by T. Black Asiatic Lith. hand-coloured at p. 127. Plate 5. Sporting Gallery No. IV. Portrait of Mr. John Beckwith Esq. by C. Grant. Lithograph at p. 160. Plate 6. Plan of the Bangalore Race Course. P. S. D'Rozario & Co. O.riental L.ith. Press. Hand-coloured folding at p. 170. Plate 7. "Henry Monarch" The Winner of the Derby 1845. Lithograph. J. Hendrie. at p. 177. Plate 8. "Refraction." The Winner of "The Oaks" 1845. Lithograph by Black Asiatic Lith. Press. J. Hendrie at p. 178. Plate 9. "The Baron" The Winner of "The Great St. Ledger" 1845. Lithograph by Black Asiatic Lith. Press. J. Hendrie at p. 180. Part V Plate 1. The Guard's Horn in text at p.2. Plate 2. The Cioac Box in text at p. 4. Plate 3. Happy go Lucky in text at p. 9. Plate 4. Sporting Gallery V. The Portrait of T. Bracken Esq. by C. G.rantfacing p. 34 Plate 5. The Last Goodwood Cup in text at p. 90. Plate 6. The Stewart's Cup-Goodwood in text at p. 91. Plate 7. Lancaster Cup-1845 in text at p. 95. Plate 8. Plate presented by His Honor the Deputy-Govenor of Bengal. in text at p. 96. Plate 9. The Calcutta Trades' Plate-1846.in text at p. 97. Plate 10. Khajha Allee Moolah's Cup Dacca-1845 in text labelled Doncaster 1845 at p. 93. Plates 11 12 13 & 14 . 4 lithographic full portraits of Cricketeers James Cobbett William Lillywhite Fuller Pilch and Thomas Box done at Asiatic Lithographers by T. Black after the sketches originally printed at Brighton. Plate 15. Gladiotorial Games Bas Reliefs on the Tomb of Scaurus found at Pompeii folding lithograph by T. Black after J. Hendrie at p. 94. No. VI. June 1846 Plate 1. The Rhoo Rhooie fish hand-coloured folded lith. at p. 123. Plate 2. The K halabause fish hand-coloured lith. at p. 124. NOT PRESENT Plate 3. The Meergah fish hand-coloured lith. at p. 124. Plate 4. The Cutla fish hand-coloured lith. at p. 124. Plate 5. The Boalee Siberius Boalis in text at p. 137 Plate 6. The Novington Speechifying in text at p. 149 Plate 7. Ned Norrington's Polka. in text at p. 150 Plate 8. The Commercial Traveller in text at p. 155. Plate 9. Sporting Gallery No. VI W.P. Grant Portrait at p. 173 No. VII September 1846 Plate 1. Sketches on the Road-The Bar Belle in the text at p. 37 Plate 2. The Distinguished Furriner in the text at p. 41 Plate 3. I wonder whether My Missus thinks she's a making me religous in text at p. 44. Plate 4. "Race for the Winners' Handicap 1845 Walmer coming out again" hand-coloured folding by J. Hendrie Lithograph by Black Asiatic Lith. Press. facing p. 69. Plate 5. Sporting Gallery No VII. Henry Torrens Esq at p. 72. Plate 6. Ascot Racing Plates. The Queen's Vase. Won by Mr. Dawson's "Grimston"-Ascot 1846 at p. 80. Plate 7. The Royal Hunt Cup at p. 81. Plate 8. The Emperor's Cup at p. 82. Plate 9. "The Race weighing Stand Dacca and portraits of four and twenty gentlemen all in a row hand-coloured Lithograph by Black Asiatic Lith. Press. facing p. 83. No. VIII. December 1846 Plate 1. A Night Scene-The Leopard Disturbed. litho. by H.M. Smiith by the Star Press at p. 167. Plate 2. Scrimmage with a Bear folding litho. at p. 168. Palte 3. The Portrait Gallery No. VIII-Dr. Sawers Litho. by C. Grant "If not the Father of the Indian Turf." at p. 172. Plate 4. The London Inn-Keeper litho in the text at p. 183. Plate 5. The Halderman litho. in the text at p. 183. Plate 6. Plan of Saugor Race Course 2 plates one folding and the other hand-coloured at p. 191. Plate 7. Portrait of the Winner of the St. Leger at p. 199. Palte 8. The Orange Cup at 200. Palte 9. The Goodwood Cup at p. 201. Plate 10. The Chesterfield Cup at p. 202. Plate 11. The Stewards' Cup Goodwood at p. 203 No. IX March 1847 Plate 1. Wild Ducks of the Rain hand-coloured folded by H.M. Smith at p. 2. Plate 2. Indian Water-Hen-Water Crane hand-coloured at p. 6. Plate 3. The water Pheasant-Chinese Jacana hand-coloured at p. 7. Plate 4. Antelope's Horns at p. 17. Plate 5. The Lhassa Tangahn of Tibet hand-coloured at p. 33. Plate 6. The Habshi or Ablac Tangahn of Bhutan hand-coloured printed at the Star Press at p. 34. Plate 7. The Gianchi Tangahn of Tibet hand-coloured at p. 34. Plate 8. The Chenglia Tanghan of Tibet hand-coloured at p. 35. Plate 9. Sporting Gallery No. IX. W.F. Ferguson Esq. at p. 43. Plate 10. A Sweetheart of Long standing in text at p. 59. Plate 11. My Pet Spaniel in text at p. 65. Plate 12. The Bengal Club Plate 1846-7 at p. 89. Plate 13. The Mercahnt's Cup 1846-7 at p. 92. Plate 14. The Trades Cup 1846-7 at p. 96. Plate 15 The Nawab Nazim's Palte 1846-7 at p. 97. Number X Number XVII. March 1849 Plate 1. The Sporting Gallery-No. XVII-Portrait of Sheik Ibrahim at p. 77. Plate 2. The Govenor General's Cup at p. 98. Plate 3. The "Trades' Plate at p. 105. Plate 4. The Saumbur Deer at p. 120. Plate V. Remarkable Hybrid Selections at p. 130. No.XVIII. June Plate 1. Plan of the Ganges and Jad-Gunga above Byramghattee folding at p. 129. Plate 2. Plan of Dumdar Nela and Genora folding at p. 137. Plate 3. Antelope Picta or the Nylghaw at p. 159. Plate 4. The Shirt Stakes at p. 185. Plate 5. Milla Shaib Milla! at p. 194. Plate 6. The Sporting Gallery-No. XVIII-Abdool Rayman at p. 202 Plate 7. "Fanny Grey Winner of the Manchester Grand Steeple Chase at p. 316 No. XIX September 1849 Plate 1. Sketch of the Rectum and Part of the large intestines of the Horse at p. 58 Plate 2. The Sporting Gallery-No. XIX-William Pybus Esq. at p. 73. Plate 3. The Rein Deer or Caribou-Plate 1 at p. 74. Plates 4 & 5. Antlers of the Rein Deer-Plates II and III at p. 77. Plate 6. Barren-Ground Bucks-Plate IV at p. 83. Plate 7. Plan of the Kirkee Race Course folding litho at p. 139. No. XX . December 1849 Plate 1. The Rectum of the Horse at p. 215. Plate 2. The Sporting Gallery-No. XX-Sir John Creape C.B. at p. 225. Plate 3. Sambur Horns at p. 256. No. XXI March 1850 Plate 1. A Map with the Places for Shooting Along the Left Bank of the Ravee folding lithograph at p. 53. Plate 2. The Sporting Gallery-No. XXI-James Grant Esq. C.S. by C. Grant at p. 79. No. XXII June 1850 Plate 1. Firing a Horse litho. of both sides at p. 214. Plate 2. Horns of the Sambre in text at p. 216. Palte 3. Taty ka Keyl in text at p. 217. Plate 4. The Sporting Gallery-No. XXII-John Johhnstone Esq. at p. 229. No. XXIII September 1850 Plate 1. The Sporting Gallery-No. XXIII-Portrait of Abel East at p. 81. BM 19: 869 294 Printed and Published by the Star Press; Sander, Cones and Co [Volumes 11 & 12 only] unknown books

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Photographs of the Indian Tour of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria January to March 1893

1893réf. 3075751893. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Housed in two contemporary morocco backed cases stamped in gilt "Indien" on spine and upper covers with third box to match. Some occasional bowing of boards photographs fine and well preserved with exception of a stock image of the Taj Mahal lightly faded and some soiling to the mount. 193 original albumen prints ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm mounted on card most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Archduke Franz-Ferdinand - Big Game Hunting in India 1893. Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria 1863-1914. This official voyage of the Archduke lasting from December 1892 to October 1893 had explicit diplomatic ethnographic and scientific aims as well as an unspoken goal of permitting the Archduke to recover his health after a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The royal party traveled aboard the imperial cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth the most modern vessel of the Austrian fleet. They spent two weeks in Ceylon now Sri Lanka before arriving in India in mid-January 1893. The party spent two-and-a-half months in India before touring Nepal returning briefly to Calcutta to embark for Singapore at the end of March. The world tour continued with visits in Australia the Pacific Islands Japan Canada and the American West before the Archduke sailed from New York to Le Havre. The Archduke's stay in India included diplomatic engagements military reviews and a formal visit to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad who was in late Victorian times the richest man in the world. The Archduke was put up in the Nizam's Bashir Bagh palace. The Archduke also spent considerable time hunting hawking pigsticking bagging some 20 tigers and leopard antelope sambhur black buck and just about every other beast of the chase in Ceylon he had hunted elephant. Franz-Ferdinand was a devoted hunter whose lifetime game bag exceeded 200000 animals; on the world tour his entourage included a huntsman and his taxidemist Eduard Hodek 1858-1929 who was also the Archduke's photographer and boon companion. The itinerary of the Archduke's travels permits the close dating of many of the photographs and events of the trip. A detailed list of the photographs is available. An exhibition in Vienna in 1894 publicized the collections made by the Archduke during his world travels and his diary was published as Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde in two volumes 1895-6. Upon the death of his father in 1896 Franz-Ferdinand became the heir to the Austrian throne. His assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 proved the spark that sent Europe and the world into war. The photographs document a wide range of subjects both formal and informal including views of the Archduke's activities grand receptions by the Nizam of Hyderabad military reviews sporting and equestrian events topographical vistas palace scenes as well as ethnographic and hunting images including substantial game bags. Many of the formal photographs of events in Hyderabad were taken by Lala Deen Dayal 1844-1905 noted court photographer to the Nizam and the first Indian photographer to gain international recognition for his work as a pioneer of photography in India only a few bear his studio stamp; but the images are identified in Höfer. Some of the views of and around Calcutta are from Samuel Bourne or Bourne and Shepherd. A spectacular visual record of 1890s India the opulence of the court of Hyderabad and sporting episodes in the life of Franz-Ferdinand. Regina Höfer Imperial Sightseeing: Die Indienreise von Erzherzog Franz-Ferdinand von Österreich-Este Vienna Museum für Völkerkunde Wien 2010 unknown books

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