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1778rif. 223135London.: Printed for John Nourse. 1778-1880. Third Edition"revised by the author" of Volume I; first edition of Volume II Part I only lacking Part II. Two volumes 23 maps plans or views of 36 most folding: iv 436pp xcvii Index iii Errata Errata in the Index Directions for the Binder to Place the Maps; ii 365pp contemporary calf boards re-backed boards scored and scuffed 28.3 x 22 cm several of the maps with small fold splits no loss some offsetting the folding views of Calcutta and Bengal particularly fine the large folding "General Map of Indostan" in the first volume heavily spotted affecting the facing leaf several old paper repairs and inked corrections in an early hand with the armorial bookplates of Joseph Cator a prominent merchant and administrator with the East India Company and of Peter Cator his son founder of the Cator Prize and of Bertie Peter Cator and of Kelham Hall a handsome example lacking the second part of Volume II in good condition. Foundational work written by Robert Orme an official and historiographer for the British East India Company EIC with a noteworthy family provenance. The text chronicles the geopolitical struggles and military conflicts that paved the way for British dominance over the Indian subcontinent. The Cator family built a legacy of immense wealth regional development and colonial influence spanning three generations. Joseph Cator 1733–1818 laid the financial foundations as a wealthy "nabob" and high-ranking East India Company official in Calcutta. His 1780 marriage to Diana Bertie daughter of Sir Albemarle Bertie successfully elevated the family into the British aristocracy allowing him to return to England and manage expanding Kent estates like Beckenham Place Park. His son Peter Cator 1796–1873 leveraged this land inheritance during the mid-19th-century railway boom. Alongside his brother Peter transformed these holdings into the upmarket Cator Estate across Blackheath and Beckenham while also working as a lawyer and establishing educational scripture prizes in Madras. This colonial and legal influence continued with his descendant Sir Ralph Bertie Peter Cator 1861–1945 who served the British Empire as a prominent colonial judge holding key judicial appointments as the First Judge of British East Africa and later in the High Court of Constantinople. . Printed for John Nourse. hardcover
rif. 24731One item from ‘Allen’s Indian Mail’ 28 March 1887. Three items marked as from the periodical ‘India’ 1902 1903 and 1906. Another ‘Reprinted from “INDIA” August 16 1901.’. Five galley-proofs of articles written during the high-point of the Raj by leading Victorian journalist in India W. Martin Wood editor of the Times of India founder and editor of the Bombay Review. Ephemeral items creased and worn but with text clear and entire. ONE: Headed ‘ALLEN’S INDIAN MAIL / THE LATE MR. EDWARD BROOME C.E. / Mr. M. Martin Wood writes to us as follows: -’. Sixty-two lines in small print follow beginning: ‘Some little time back your “Domestic Occurrences” contained the name of Mr. Edward Broome Civil Engineer as having died at Southport something under 60 years of age. It struck me then that a note of Mr. Broome’s quiet work in India ought to be made’. TWO: Annotated at head by Wood ‘India Sep 16th. 1902’. Sixty-eight lines of small print. Three sections concerning drought ‘in Gujerat and the Deccan’. The first begins: ‘An esteemed correspondent writes: Telegrams from India during the last few weeks have told us very little about the suspension and in certain districts what almost threatens failure of the later monsoon rains.’ The second starts: ‘But this passive creed is nto that of their masters from the West’. The third: ‘Meantime what has become of the Scott-Moncrieff comprehensive Water-Supply and Irrigation Report’ THREE: Headed ‘INDIA’S CHRONIC DEFICIT. / FROM AN ANGLO-INDIAN CORRESPONDENT. Annotated by Wood at head: ‘From India Feb. 13th. 03’. Beginning ‘Those few of our official financiers at Simla or in the palace overlooking St. James’s Park who are at all sensitive to Press criticism must have felt happy when in the last Financial Statement they recorded the line - “the entry under Exchange has become of minor importance.”’ Ninety-three lines of text. FOUR: Headed ‘INDIA’S SEABORNE TRADE: / BALANCED ONLY BY DEADWEIGHTS.’ Annotated at head by Wood: ‘From India Jan 15. 06’. Begins: ‘Only within the last fortnight have come to hand detailed returns of India’s trade with the outside world during the first six months of its current financial year - April 1 to September 30.’ Eighty-one lines in small print. FIVE: Headed ‘Reprinted from “INDIA” August 16 1901. / INDIAN LOANS GUARANTEE. / AN EMERGENT ILLUSTRATION. / BY AN ANGLO-INDIAN.’ Beginning ‘The miscarriage of the proposed Indian sterling loan of £3000000 last month must have recalled attention to the often pressed always postponed demand for a British Treasury guarantee in support of the public debt of India.’ Sixty-five lines of small print. One item from ‘Allen’s Indian Mail’, [28 March 1887]. Three items marked as from the periodical ‘India’, [1902], 1903 unknown
rif. 24732One item from ‘Allen’s Indian Mail’ 28 March 1887. The other ‘Reprinted from “INDIA” August 16 1901.’. Two galley-proofs of articles by leading Victorian journalist in India W. Martin Wood editor of the Times of India founder and editor of the Bombay Review. Ephemeral items creased and worn but with text clear and entire. ONE: Headed ‘ALLEN’S INDIAN MAIL / THE LATE MR. EDWARD BROOME C.E. / Mr. M. Martin Wood writes to us as follows: -’. Sixty-two lines in small print follow beginning: ‘Some little time back your “Domestic Occurrences” contained the name of Mr. Edward Broome Civil Engineer as having died at Southport something under 60 years of age. It struck me then that a note of Mr. Broome’s quiet work in India ought to be made’. TWO: Annotated at head by Wood ‘India Sep 16th. 1902’. Sixty-eight lines of small print. Three sections concerning drought ‘in Gujerat and the Deccan’. The first begins: ‘An esteemed correspondent writes: Telegrams from India during the last few weeks have told us very little about the suspension and in certain districts what almost threatens failure of the later monsoon rains.’ The second starts: ‘But this passive creed is nto that of their masters from the West’. The third: ‘Meantime what has become of the Scott-Moncrieff comprehensive Water-Supply and Irrigation Report’ THREE: Headed ‘INDIA’S CHRONIC DEFICIT. / FROM AN ANGLO-INDIAN CORRESPONDENT. Annotated by Wood at head: ‘From India Feb. 13th. 03’. Beginning ‘Those few of our official financiers at Simla or in the palace overlooking St. James’s Park who are at all sensitive to Press criticism must have felt happy when in the last Financial Statement they recorded the line - “the entry under Exchange has become of minor importance.”’ Ninety-three lines of text. FOUR: Headed ‘INDIA’S SEABORNE TRADE: / BALANCED ONLY BY DEADWEIGHTS.’ Annotated at head by Wood: ‘From India Jan 15. 06’. Begins: ‘Only within the last fortnight have come to hand detailed returns of India’s trade with the outside world during the first six months of its current financial year - April 1 to September 30.’ Eighty-one lines in small print. FIVE: Headed ‘Reprinted from “INDIA” August 16 1901. / INDIAN LOANS GUARANTEE. / AN EMERGENT ILLUSTRATION. / BY AN ANGLO-INDIAN.’ Beginning ‘The miscarriage of the proposed Indian sterling loan of £3000000 last month must have recalled attention to the often pressed always postponed demand for a British Treasury guarantee in support of the public debt of India.’ Sixty-five lines of small print. One item from ‘Allen’s Indian Mail’, [28 March 1887]. The other ‘Reprinted from “INDIA,” August 16, 1901.’ unknown
1906rif. 181023Mumbai. Circa1906. Four silver albumen prints with pencilled captions on the verso approx. 7.4 x 10 cm fading and edge wear one minor tear but in good condition. Group of private tourist photos taken around 1906 as captioned a street scene and one looking towards Dadabhai Naoroji Road with impressive architectural skyline and two of well-dressed European passengers on board a tug heading towards a "British India Steamer". From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker. . unknown
1837rif. 224787London.: Wm. H. Allen and Co. First Edition. 1837. Black and white folding engraved frontispiece and one other folding plate ii blanks iv 475pp 22 x 13.5 cms original green cloth-covered boards re-backed mounting the original paper title label chipped endpapers renewed the plates spotted and darkened concentrated at the margins and folds early inked ownership inscription "John C. Clare/Calcutta Decr. 1851" to the initial blank and one other recent to the front pastedown a little dusty the original boards a trifle scuffed frontispiece starting but firm in the renewed binding a good copy of a scarce work. Scarce. The author Edward Thornton 1799-1875 was on the staff of East India House 1814-57 and his account was a sensational exposé that detailed the secret hereditary network of highway assassins who terrorised travellers across India for centuries. Relying heavily on official court records and testimonies from captured informants Thornton meticulously documented how these gangs disguised themselves as friendly travellers used a sacred cloth scarf rumāl to strangle their victims without shedding blood and buried them in hidden graves to avoid detection. The account deeply fascinated and horrified Western readers by illustrating the religious rituals underpinning the crimes—including devotion to the goddess Kali and the tracking of omens—while ultimately highlighting the aggressive intelligence-led colonial campaign spearheaded by William Sleeman and was hugely popular. With the early ownership inscription of "John C. Clare Calcutta Decr. 1851" possibly the prominent 19th-century British ship master and captain who regularly commanded merchant voyages along trade routes between the UK Australia and Calcutta India. In October 1851 the British Indian Association had been formed in Calcutta marking the exact birth of organised Indian nationalist politics and a shift in how both native elites and Europeans challenged the British East India Company's monopoly. . Wm. H. Allen and Co. hardcover
1834rif. 152302London.: Published for Henry Colburn. 2nd edition.1834. Two volumes. Volume I: Large folding map of Burma 6 plates 4 folding one vignette in the text 541pp; Volume II: Folding plan of Ava one full page plate 4 vignettes in the text viii 319 163pp Appendix; original blind stamped green cloth boards a trifle rubbed and bumped 23 x 14.5 cms both volumes neatly rebacked mounting the original spines endpapers renewed with the blind stamp "Manchester City Library 1854" to the frontispiece title page and map in both volumes the large folding map of Burma Vol I with extensive neat fold repairs frontispiece in Vol II split along the lower hinge but holding otherwise text clean and sound a good set. Foundational work by John Crawfurd 1783–1868 a Scottish physician colonial administrator for the British East India Company and prominent ethnologist. It chronicles his diplomatic assignment and observations in the Kingdom of Burma Myanmar. Abbey Travel 405 second edition; Herbert 185. . Published for Henry Colburn. hardcover
1872rif. 195548New York.: Harper's Weekly. 23 November1872. Five engravings in three columns 23.5 x 10 cms; on a single newspaper leaf 28.7 x 40.8 cm unrelated text on the verso lower margin creased with a small central tear affecting the caption no loss the image sin very good condition. Engravings from Harper's Weekly in November 1872 all centred on the quinine production in Darjeeling. Production began in the 1860s from seeds sent by the famed botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Quinine proved indispensable to British rule in India and they invested heavily in plantations to sure up supply.The anti-malarial was vital for colonial expansion "quinine coursed through the bloodstream of empire" Townsend Middleton "Becoming after: The Lives and Politics of Quinine’s Remains" in Cultural Anthropology Vol. 36 Issue 2 pp. 282-311 2014 although probably known more to the readers of Harper's Weekly as an essential for gin and tonic. The five engravings: Foot-Bridge over the River Rungbee Buttress of Suspension Bridge over the River Teestah Cinchona Succirubra Thirty Feet High signed but indecipherable Native of Sikkim Cane Suspension Bridge over the Great Runjeet. . Harper's Weekly. unknown
1924rif. 224758Calcutta.: Superintendent Government Printing. 1924. Tables and charts xi 253pp appendices. 25 x 16cm. Quarter cloth with a decorated papered upper board. Light general wear endpapers lightly browned corners bumped but a clean and sturdy copy. A contemporary account of the measures of re-organisation carried out in the Army in India after the Great War of 1914-1918. . Superintendent Government Printing. hardcover
1813rif. 222915London.: Edward Orme. 1813. 20 hand coloured aquatint plates 149pp x Index including the Half Title and List of Plates; contemporary half calf over marbled boards spine gilt-lettered in compartments marbled edges 28.2 x 22 cm the first plate a trifle spotted with a small chip from the bottom margin slight age-toning and minor spotting in very good condition. Scarce suite of finely hand coloured aquatints depicting domestic colonial life in British India: the Europeans at their leisure attended by Indian servants. Doyley's compositions are often quietly satirical: Plate IV "A Gentleman Dressing Attended by His Head-Bearer and Other Servants" shows a young man in his gown relaxed seated and reading while an Indian servant washes his feet another in the background pours his drink and yet another makes his bed all overseen by the "Head-Bearer". The artist Charles Doyley was illustrating and observing a world in which was an intimate participant he had been born in India into a family that had long served in India himself serving as a member of the Bengal Civil Service from 1797 to 1838. Abbey Travel 435; Tooley 185 . Edward Orme. hardcover
1907rif. 223716Oxford.: Clarendon Press. 1907 19081909 1931. 26 volumes including the Index and Atlas frontispiece map of "The Indian Empire" in vols I-XXV neatly strengthened to the verso in a few volumes 26 other folding maps or plans the Atlas volume with 66 double page coloured maps or plans Vol II with inked name of an early owner “K. Shama Ras…Benares 21st July 1911” and the blind stamp of the bookseller Ram Narain Lal Allahabad Vols III and IV with the inked stamp of the Ruskin Library; endpapers rather age-toned throughout scant foxing; original green cloth gilt lettered on the spines 22 x 14 cm occasional rubbing and wear the cloth to the second volume faded and rubbed at the corners with some loss the hinges of a couple of volumes starting but sound a very good set of the complete third edition. A complete collation is available on application. A magisterial survey of Empire. This "New" edition issued in twenty-six volumes by the Clarendon Press Oxford constitutes the definitive third iteration of this landmark administrative and geographical record. Produced under the editorial guidance of Sir Herbert Hope Risley and James Sutherland Cotton the work expanded upon the foundational work of Sir William Wilson Hunter. The first four volumes "The Indian Empire" offer an exhaustive analysis of the subcontinent’s historical economic and administrative frameworks. The twenty succeeding volumes of alphabetical entries offering close statistical and descriptive accounts of specific regions and localities. The collection is formally concluded by a comprehensive index and a concluding atlas volume the latter featuring maps by J. G. Bartholomew. . Clarendon Press. hardcover
1960rif. 223133Circa1960s. Two brochures a map and a book. "Madras. Mahabalipuram-Kanchipuram" and "Mysore": Published by the Government of India. Folding brochures with colour and black and white map and photographic illustrations. 23 x 10cm. "Latest Road Guide of Kerala State": Published by S. B. Makhija & Bros. Large folding map accopanied a 14pp guide in stapled wrappers each adhered to pastedowns of original wrappers. 24.8 x 12.5cm. Repaired closed tears at spine of worn wrappers. "Glimpses of Maharashtra": Prepared by the Government of Maharashtra. Black and white photographic plates 104pp. 24 x 18.5cm. Binding starting a prior owner's signature front pastedown a little worn original wrappers. Overall in good to very good condition. . unknown
Gr. In-8 carré, non paginé. Catalogue de l'exposition qui s'est tenue au Musée du Petit-Palais du 17 novembre 1978 au 28 février 1979. 212 objets décrits. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et en couleurs. A l'état de neuf.
rif. VLE-128P., , 1989, in-4, 199pp. ornées de nombreuses illustrations en couleurs broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs
1867rif. 19941867 16,5 x 25 cm (planche), 10 x 18,5 cm (sujet).
1937rif. 179540Lahore.: Civil and Military Gazette Limited. 1937. Brown cloth covered spine lettered in black printed papered boards prior owner name and chop on the front free endpaper endpapers browned and text block age-toned at the edges and corners bumped but a firmly bound copy. xii adverts 618pp plus 3pp adverts. 24 x 15.5cm With an index of the Viceroy and Governor-General and a gradation list covering Assam Bengal Bihar Bomboy Burma Central Provinces Madras North-West Frontier Province Orissa Punjab Sind and United Provinces together with a complete list of the departments of the Government of India. . Civil and Military Gazette, Limited. hardcover
rif. 201413776Paris, Celiv, s.d. ; in-4, 92 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.
1992Ouvrage publié à l'occasion de la Semaine de l'Inde 1992 de Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion, sous la direction de Balasubrahmanyam VENKATARAMAN, où sont présentés par des spécialistes les divers domaines culturels: sources littéraires, musique, danse, théâtre et marionnettes, arts corporels populaires (arts martiaux et danses), arts plastiques (artisanat, joaillerie, peintures rupestres), architecture, gastronomie, arts contemporains (théâtre et cinéma); textes traduits de l'anglais par Eliane BERANGER; notices sur les auteurs; photos en noir et en couleurs. Français
rif. 19060Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion, Ville de Saint-Denis, 1992 1 volume 19 x 27cm Broché sous couverture au 1er plat orné d'une grande vignette couleurs. XII (VIII + IV in fine) + 159p., 2 feuillets; illustrations en noir in texte, vignettes et quelques pleines pages, 4 planches couleurs hors texte. Bon état.
rif. 6197Lausanne, Edita / Vilo, 1982. In-4, reliure de l'éditeur, illustrations, jaquette.
rif. 5865Paris, Musée du petit Palais, 1979. In-8, broché.
rif. 43262P., Rieder (Collection toutes les Colonies N°3), sans date, in 8° broché, 159 pages ; très nombreuses illustrations ; minuscule manque de papier en tête du dos.
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
1725rif. 40677Paris. 1725. Reorganizing the Compagnie des Indes after the Mississippi Bubble A French royal decree releasing the Compagnie from some of its debts an important step in its reorganization. In 1721 the Compagnie had declared bankruptcy and was reorganized after the Mississippi Bubble burst. "This decree discharges the Compagnie des Indes of a large number of financial burdens which had been weighing on it for a number of years" - Maggs. Wroth locates only one copy at NYPL; OCLC identifies three more copies. Scarce. From the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne 1727–94 Minister of Louis XVI Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 presumably as an attempt to save his life. Quarto. Unbound folded sheets. Minor foxing. Light soiling along spine edge. Contemporary inscription. Very good. MAGGS FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 311 this copy. WROTH ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 1101. OCLC 62370774. unknown
rif. 7897P., Simon, 1767. In 4° de 3 pp.
rif. 8052P., Imprimerie Royale, 1770. In 4° de 7 pp., bandeau gravé.
