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réf. H14578Very Good. 10 examples of this traditional Indian art form based apparently in Kerala which uses the dried and tough peepal leaf Ficus religiosa or sacred fig to paint on. 3 of the leaves measure roughly 5 inches not including steam: one features a woman braiding another woman's hair a second features two women with one holding a small flowerpot the third shows a couple sitting under a tree with their infant child; the leaf showing an elephant uprooting a tree is about 7 inches long and there are six small floral paintings about 2.5 inches tall each. All mounted on black craft paper with wax paper overlays. We don't think these are very old but probably from the second half of the 20th century. unknown
réf. 29157INDIA 5000 YEARS OF INDIAN ARCHITECTURE. Delhi: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting 1956. Small 4to. Wrappers. 52 pages. Third edition. Spine rubbed. unknown books
1974réf. 12435Various Places: Various Publishers. Very Good. c. 1974. Paper Ephemera. Maha Map with three pinholes at fold junctures half-inch split a fold line bottom edge; also the remnants of a Banana Republic sticker on back. Calcutta map with moderate rubbing & soil 2 pinholes at fold juncture small name Ho Cai and a few small marks near the street Acharya Jagadish Bose Road; cover to Survey of India map chipped and worn at edges map well preserved. Varanasi written in pen on the back of that map. Delhi map with a few nicks fold edges. ; Including: 1. Survey of India Color Map 37.25" x 34.5"; 1974 First Edition stated on borders. 2. The Maha Map of Kathmandu color map with illustrations 23" x 17". 3. Folding brochure with Guide Map of Calcutta and Howrah in color on one side 19" x 14". 4. Color Map of Varanasi 17.5 x 13.5". 5. Map Brochure of Mathura Uttar Pradesh with fold out map. 6. Folding Guide Map of Delhi. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Various Publishers unknown
1870réf. 302484London: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited 1870. 37 plates with 3 prints laid in and a portrait of Dr. Colin Rogers with notation on verso " Superintending Surgeon Madras Med. Dept. who married my Aunt Mary Anne. J.T.C. Ross.". 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary green morocco 2 minor tears to the tail of the first leaf not affecting illustration 1-1/2 inch tear to the tail of the second leaf affecting bottom center of image some staining and soiling but overall very good. Various artists including S. Austin Clarkson Stan. 37 plates with 3 prints laid in and a portrait of Dr. Colin Rogers with notation on verso " Superintending Surgeon Madras Med. Dept. who married my Aunt Mary Anne. J.T.C. Ross.". 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. A wonderful album containing images of India drawn during the first two decades of the British Raj signed by "J.T.C. Ross as belonging to Aunt Jini ." J.T.C. Ross 1823-1897 recieved his medical education at St. George's Hospital and was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1845. He served as Surgeon Major with the British Bengal Army Medical Service and was eventually promoted to Deputy Surgeon General and Surgeon-General. He was also the first editor of the Indian Medical Gazzette. The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited unknown
1870réf. 302484London: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited 1870. 37 plates with 3 prints laid in and a portrait of Dr. Colin Rogers with notation on verso " Superintending Surgeon Madras Med. Dept. who married my Aunt Mary Anne. J.T.C. Ross.". 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary green morocco 2 minor tears to the tail of the first leaf not affecting illustration 1-1/2 inch tear to the tail of the second leaf affecting bottom center of image some staining and soiling but overall very good. Various artists including S. Austin Clarkson Stan. 37 plates with 3 prints laid in and a portrait of Dr. Colin Rogers with notation on verso " Superintending Surgeon Madras Med. Dept. who married my Aunt Mary Anne. J.T.C. Ross.". 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. A wonderful album containing images of India drawn during the first two decades of the British Raj signed by "J.T.C. Ross as belonging to Aunt Jini ." J.T.C. Ross 1823-1897 recieved his medical education at St. George's Hospital and was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1845. He served as Surgeon Major with the British Bengal Army Medical Service and was eventually promoted to Deputy Surgeon General and Surgeon-General. He was also the first editor of the Indian Medical Gazzette. The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited unknown books
réf. 29164INDIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS MONUMENTS AND MUSEUMS. Two volumes. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India 1964. 8vo. Wrappers. First edition. Lower spine and tips bruised. unknown books
Cartella edit. in Tela cm. 31x25, con legacci, fregi al piatto che incorniciano il titolo ed una fig. applicata, contenente un front. e 75 tavv. fotografiche con antichi edifici dell'India. Abrasioni alla cartella, interno ottimo.
réf. a615411921 1st Darjeeling-Himalyan Railway. Sm.4to. 106pp. photo illustrations maps bright salmon cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on front. VG some light cover wear and light cover staining. The Very Scarce first edition. hardcover
1899réf. 317966London: James Nisbet 1899. Illus.xiii 1 354 adspp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters mottled brown calf and marbled boards. Fine. Illus.xiii 1 354 adspp. 8vo. James Nisbet hardcover
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
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
1906réf. 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
réf. a86861Agra 1911 first edition Priya Lall and Co. Hardcover. Oblong sm.4to. about 100 photo illustrations with brief text in English peach color silk brocade cloth cover with gilt lettering. Good plus light wear and light soiling. No ownership marks. . hardcover
réf. 29156INDIA TEMPLES OF SOUTH INDIA. Delhi: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting 1960. 8vo. Wrappers. 52 pages plates. Spine chipped. unknown books
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. Spectacular unrecorded privately printed 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
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. Spectacular unrecorded privately printed 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
réf. a20550Bangalore 1860 5th Wesleyan Mission Press. Text in Sanskrit. 12mo. about 200pp. later plain wraps. Good light wear. Very hard to find in original nineteenth century editions. . paperback
1798réf. 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
1798réf. 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
1880réf. 3050981880. Albumen prints approximately 9 x 11-1/2 in. mounted on card with manuscript captions 61 signed and numbered in the negative by Bourne the rest unattributed. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Contemporary full pebbled morocco. Light traces of rubbing occasional light foxing to mounts. Albumen prints approximately 9 x 11-1/2 in. mounted on card with manuscript captions 61 signed and numbered in the negative by Bourne the rest unattributed. 1 vols. Oblong folio. An excellent and varied view of British India in the 1860s with large-format photographs supplied by one of the longest running photography firms in the world. The images grouped by location generally show architectural views as well as some Himalayan and rural views. Images include scenes from Goverdhan Deig Cawnpore Lucknow Benares Calcutta Darjeeling Udaipur Palace in the Lake and Ahmedabad. unknown
1880réf. 3050981880. Albumen prints approximately 9 x 11-1/2 in. mounted on card with manuscript captions 61 signed and numbered in the negative by Bourne the rest unattributed. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Contemporary full pebbled morocco. Light traces of rubbing occasional light foxing to mounts. Albumen prints approximately 9 x 11-1/2 in. mounted on card with manuscript captions 61 signed and numbered in the negative by Bourne the rest unattributed. 1 vols. Oblong folio. An excellent and varied view of British India in the 1860s with large-format photographs supplied by one of the longest running photography firms in the world. The images grouped by location generally show architectural views as well as some Himalayan and rural views. Images include scenes from Goverdhan Deig Cawnpore Lucknow Benares Calcutta Darjeeling Udaipur Palace in the Lake and Ahmedabad. unknown books
1873réf. 316648New York: Nelson & Phillips 1873. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Three quarters crimson morocco and cloth sides. Fine. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Inscribed on ffep"Mr David Smith/ with trhe compliments of/ Jno. W. Butler/ Mexico/ June 22/80. Nelson & Phillips unknown
1873réf. 316648New York: Nelson & Phillips 1873. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Three quarters crimson morocco and cloth sides. Fine. Eighth edition. Illus. with a map and 42 illustraions. 557pp. Inscribed on ffep"Mr David Smith/ with trhe compliments of/ Jno. W. Butler/ Mexico/ June 22/80. Nelson & Phillips unknown books
1828réf. 317758London: James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son 1828. Folding engraved map 15 engraved views. 4 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in half contemporary morocco and cloth. Very Good. Folding engraved map 15 engraved views. 4 vols. Small 8vo. James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son unknown
1828réf. 317758London: James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son 1828. Folding engraved map 15 engraved views. 4 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in half contemporary morocco and cloth. Very Good. Folding engraved map 15 engraved views. 4 vols. Small 8vo. James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son unknown books