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8vo, slight foxing of the text, 4 pp., folded as issued. The Zenana mission commenced in Calcutta in 1870 and other Zenana missions were set up in Delhi, Cawnpore, Madras, Tanjore, Lahore, Roorkee, Bombay and other large towns and cities. The missions were run by women missionaries to Indian women in their own homes, with the aim of converting them to Christianity. By the 1880s, the "Zenana missions" became dedicated to providing Indian women with medical help in their own homes. This involved recruiting female doctors, both by persuading female doctors in Europe to come to India and by encouraging Indian women to study medicine.
First edition, 34pp., title-page a little dusty, disbound.
First edition, 91, [1]pp., short tear on inner blank margin of title, disbound. The letter is signed "Fabius. London 27th February, 1813." Kress, B6166; Goldsmith, 20700.
First English edition, [2], 31, [2] pp., some spotting on inner margins, original printed wrappers, uncut.
First Edition, with a final advertisement leaf, [2], 36, [2] pp., stitched as issued, uncut.
[6], 37, [5]pp., with a half-title and 5 final pages of advertisements at end. In reference to the change of administration as a result of the rejection of Mr. Fox's India Bill.
First edition, 8vo (189 x 130mm), [6], 262pp., folding map, orig. cloth, gilt.
First edition, small 8vo, (183 x 118 mm), 104pp., 8 plates, orig. pictorial boards, trifle worn. The Mission to Lepers was founded in 1874, an Interdenominational and International Society engaged solely in work among lepers and their children.
First edition, 4to (280 x 220 mm), [2], 213, [1]pp., folding map of Political India coloured in outline (lightly offset on to title page), nineteenth-century ownership inscription, re-cased, contemporary calf, rubbed, title on upper cover and spine. COPAC and OCLC locates 3 copies only, the British Library, King's College London and University of Manchester.
4to, 149pp., presentation inscription from the author to Henry Holland-Hibbert, half light blue calf. A privately printed selection taken from Lord Curzon's speeches which was originally published in 1906. Provenance: From the Munden House library.
First edition, 2 vols., 4to, 259; 268pp., frontispieces, numerous plates, some intermittent foxing as usual, orig. blue cloth, lettered in gilt, a nice set. Provenance: From the Munden House library.
First edition, 8vo (230 x 145 mm), vii, [2], vi-xxviii, 427, [1]pp., some light spotting, rebound in half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, morocco title label. William Yates (15 November 1792 - 3 July 1845) was an English Baptist missionary and orientalist. After joining the Baptist Missionary Society he sailed for India and arrived in Calcutta in 1815. From there "He continued to Serampore to join William Carey (1761?1834), who had been sent out by the same society in 1792, and under his direction began to study Sanskrit and Bengali. Almost immediately he began to help with the mission's publications."?(Oxford DNB.)
First edition, 8vo (215 x 140 mm), 91, [1]pp., modern boards, small tear to head of upper joint, morocco label on spine. Provenance: Unobtrusive Lansdowne House blind stamp to head of title.
Second edition, [iv], 125 pp., text in English and Urdu, original green limp cloth, lettered in blind. "..... compiled from various sources but chiefly from the Urdu dictionary Farhang-i Asafiyya. Idioms that are not fairly common have been omitted."- Preface.
First edition, 8vo, 15, [1] pp., disbound. Letters complaining about the irregular customs duties being imposed at the Port of Calcutta, raised on copper, tin and tuthenague, but remaining the same on coffee, pepper and cloves. University of Oxford Libraries copy only on JISC.
First edition, 8vo, [6], iii, [1], iii, [3], 70pp., Stamp of "W. E. Bastian & Co., Colombo" on title, portrait, text in Sinhalese and English, original contemporary limp leatherette.
12mo, [8], 175, 25pp., lacks front blank endpaper, orig. red cloth lettered in gilt, waterstain to lower cover, tape to upper board.
Fourth edition, large 8vo, vi, 120, [4], [259]pp., orig. cloth, spine lettered in gilt, minor worm track to upper board otherwise a very nice copy. Provenance: Ownership signature of 'W. R. Partridge, May 1882' to front endpaper.
First edition, large 8vo, 8vo, 28, [v]-xxix, [1], 356 pp., front inner hinge shaken, original cloth, spine slightly faded, gilt lettering on spine, a very good copy. Provenance: From the library of W. R. Partridge (University Hall, 1882) with his remarks in the text.
Thick 8vo, iv, [2], 589, 19, [1]pp., printed in double columns, text in English and Hindustani, cont. half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, spine chipped.
First edition, 43, [1]pp., cont. name on upper blank margin of title, disbound. Goldsmith, 14717.
Oblong 8vo, xii, 110pp., folding map (minor tear at fold), numerous full-page illustrations, original printed wrappers frayed on outer edges, a good copy. Not recorded by JISC or OCLC.
2 Vols., small folio (305 x 190 mm), xxxiii, [3], 49-458; [4], 582, [2]pp., text in English and Persian, occasional marginal pencil notes, title page and terminal leaf to both volumes browned, staining to inner upper corner of leaves to start and end of volume two, later vellum-backed marbled boards, title in manuscript to spines. One of the most extensive Persian grammars written in English. "Matthew Lumsden (1777?1835), orientalist, was fifth son of John Lumsden of Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, and a cousin of Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden (1821?1896), army general. After education at King's College, Aberdeen, he went to India as assistant professor of Persian and Arabic in the College of Fort William, and in 1808 succeeded to the professorship. In 1812 he was appointed secretary to the Calcutta Madrasa, and superintended various translations of English works into Persian then in progress. From 1814 until 1817 he had charge of the East India Company's press at Calcutta, and in 1818 he became secretary to the stationery committee."?(Oxford DNB). Provenance: John L. Platts? signature in pencil to title page.
First and only edition, small folio (305 x 190 mm), [12], xix, [1], 705, [1]pp., woodcut title page vignette in Arabic, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, several leaves folding, a couple of minor repairs to inner margin of title, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a handsome copy with text clean and fresh. This volume 'forms a complete treatise in itself, since the it exhausts the Science of Arabic Inflexion'?Preface. All published, the intended second volume of Arabic "syntax" never made it to print.
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.