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réf. TK0040India: 19th century. Collection from various sources meaning clearly this group includes work from several different artists. Please view added illustrations online under this description. [19th century]. unknown books
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
1969réf. 67560New York: Burt Franklin 1969. 2 volumes 8vo pp. viii 324 2; viii 237 3; generally fine in original green cloth gilt-lettered spine. Comprehensive catalogue originally published in 1851 covering voyages travels exploration mythology numismatics law government statistics science literature and languages of countries and cultures in Africa Asia and the East Indies. Burt Franklin unknown books
1945réf. 819981945. Varying sizes and formats the majority being 8cm x 5.5cm with some larger format images being no larger than 12cm x 8.5cm. The majority in Very Good condition or better with a couple of images having some abrasions to verso some marginal creasing and in one instance a triangle of loss to the border. A compact and informative group of images the majority with detailed verso captions from an American serviceman a long way from home. One of the most strategically important but now somewhat marginalized initiatives of the later stages of WW2 was the vitally important China-Burma-India resupply route. A phenomenal effort was made to ensure seamless movement of troops and materials in defiance of the ebb and flow of Japanese occupations and blockades throughout the theater of war between 1943 and 1945. Originally allied forces held control of what came to be called "Stilwell Road" running from Ledo through to Kunming in China via Burma this ground route proved subject to a number of issues not least of which was Japanese aggression so an initiative was developed to allow the air transport of vital resources between the rapidly constructed Dinjan airfield in Assam where our G.I. is stationed and the distribution points in China and Burma. This important piece of military and indeed civilian co-ordination was carried out by a number of units; initially the India Air Task Force the majority of which became the U.S. Tenth Air Force with additional allied units ranging from British RAF to the legendary China National Aviation Corporation CNAC. This collection includes an image of Captain Enos Claire Kirkpatrick of the CNAC captioned "One swell fellow" which is notable mainly for his participation in the gradual evolution of the CNAC into the Civil Air Transport and subsequently into the CIA backed Air America for whom Kirkpatrick flew support missions to Dien Bien Phu and a number of other conflict torn South East Asian destinations before his retirement in 1966. Very much a 'cowboy' operation during WW2 with a number of the CNAC pilots being ex- Flying Tigers it later became a more streamlined and well supplied arm of U.S. military intelligence. CNAC was also distinctive for being made up of U.S. and Chinese pilots and crew flying together performing 38000 missions between 1942-1945. A number of other units operated out of Assam during this period including the 443rd Troop Carrier Group the 44th Service group represented in this collection the 3rd Combat Cargo Group and the 1080th QM Quartermaster Company. Which unit our GI belonged to or was seconded to is unclear the situation at Dinjan seems to have been fairly fluid and informal with the risky and rather impetuous nature of running missions "Over The Hump" as the Himalaya crossing was referred to lending itself to some fairly esoteric variations on traditional military roles and conventions. An unofficial grouping of images with many of the photos seeming to have been sent to a sweetheart back home with brief explanations of the content. There are numerous depictions of things that would naturally fascinate a U.S. serviceman positioned in Northern India: the Nimtollah burning ghats temples the Calcutta racetrack street scenes in Assam and Calcutta snake charmers beggars small reminders of home like the Red Cross "Donut Bebe" who ran a truck offering donuts and coffee every other day on base the building of a company bar and rec room the eccentric 1st Lieutenant various Fakirs C-47 transport planes flying low over the river and the day-to-day of base life. Also present in the captions are some observations on Indian culture ranging from the complimentary to the mystified; our PFC clearly and unsurprisingly had no grasp of India's caste system and few reference points for the complex social structures through which he wandered looking for excitement and distraction. An additional point on this largely forgotten wartime effort is that it inadvertently assured U.S. domination of the post-war international airline industry with a large number of the decommissioned transports subsequently being sold off and refitted for civilian air use. unknown books
1762réf. 239716London: Printed for J. Brotherton in Cornhill; and sold by R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall and T. Waller in Fleet Street 1762. First edition. 4 71 pp. Errata slip tipped to blank verso of second leaf. LACKING folding diagram. 1 vols. 4to. Removed. First two leaves detached. First edition. 4 71 pp. Errata slip tipped to blank verso of second leaf. LACKING folding diagram. 1 vols. 4to. Dunning's brilliant defence of the British East India Company against charges brought by the Dutch marked the beginning of his career as barrister and politician. " . of Dunning's great distinction as a lawyer there is no doubt. The obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine referred not purely conventionally to his 'amazing powers' . Shelburne wrote that 'all parties allowed him to be at the head of the bar . The only doubt was whether he excelled most at equity or common law. There was none as to anybody's coming up to him in either' . " ODNB. Kress 6007; Goldsmith 9776; Higgs 2737; ESTC T97097 Printed for J. Brotherton, in Cornhill; and sold by R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, and T. Waller, in Fleet Street unknown books
1973réf. 316514Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1973. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated with twelve color plates and thirty-nine monochrome plates including the frontispiece. 4to maroon cloth top edge gilt board slipcase. 1 page creased. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1973. Second edition. Revised from the original 1935 edition. Near fine. Number 143 of four hundred thirty-five copies prepared for subscribing members of India House. Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1973réf. 1373067Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1973. Second Edition Limited Edition: 286/435. Hardcover. Quarto xliv 144 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus Slipcase. Slip case is burgundy and book spine is burgundy with gilt lettering. Slipcase has minor staining and some rubbing. Boards have some rubbing and a library identification on the spine. Ex-Library. NOTE: Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1373067. Special Collections. Wesleyan University Press hardcover books
1858réf. 022106London: Richard Bentley 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Text toned. Very Good in a Fine binding and clamshell box. Two 5" x 7-1/4" volumes in modern half polished green calf with marbled boards and matching calf corners gilt-decorated spines with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels: lxxx 337; vi 424 pages. Housed in a green cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with a folding map. Richard Bentley hardcover 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 books
réf. B306750-1New York 1948. 36ff. Mimeographed. 4to. Buckram. Albert Einstein is listed as a member of the National Advisory Board. Very rare. WorldCat lists 2 copies New York Public Library Princeton University. New York, 1948. hardcover books
1962réf. 9317With refence to Family Background Bombay: Allied Pub 1962. First edn. 8vo Pp. 242 adv. VG in dj. "Based on the case histories of 350 common prostitutes and 75 mistresses in Bombay City . primarily a study of the family background . Allied Pub 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 books
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
1861réf. 30491033 Norland Square Notting Hill 1861. 4pp. 12mo. Old folds. 4pp. 12mo. Born in Bombay in 1799 Duncan was the illegitimate son of the Governor of Bombay. Duncan's father's wealth enabled him to pursue a literary life and he published regularly from 1825-57. He summarises the work thus: "The object of this book is to enable those who have never studied India to acquire a knowledge of its institutions with the best possible expenditure of time." A book on India would be seemingly inevitable for a writer with his background yet the work described here was seemingly never published. unknown books
1688réf. 24522London: J. Richardson for Samuel Titmarsh 1688. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown calf marbled boards rebacked. Near fine. 6 223 1. 81 1 34 pages. 18 x 12 cm. The anonymous author of this work attempts to refute the "slanderous imputations" of the work Justification of the Directors of the Netherlands East-India Company reprinted here in full with a separate title following page 223. He proclaims that it is "such a tedious rhapsody of fictitious fallacious inferences and arguments confusedly mixt with some distorted truths spun out. that it would be tiresome to the reader to trace all the prevarication's mis-recitals and sophistry contained in it. I shall proceed to detect his willful mistakes by which he endeavours to honest many injurious and insolent violations of right done by the Dutch towards the English in India directly contrary to the Articles of Peace." KRESS 1675. WING. I90 J1259. Interior contents clean and bright. Raised bands red leather spine label printed in gilt. J. Richardson for Samuel Titmarsh hardcover books
réf. 12447ANCIENT INDIA. Numbers 18 and 19. New Delhi: Director General of Archaeology in India 1963. 4to. Wrappers. iv 250 pages 61 plates 4 folding charts. First edition. Including articles by S.R. Rao B.B. Lal and Niharranjan Ray. Name in ink text lightly foxed and cockled. unknown books
réf. 12448ANCIENT INDIA. Number 16. New Delhi: Director General of Archaeology in India 1962. 4to. Wrappers. ii 88 pages 47 plates 2 folding charts. First edition. With articles by B.B. Lal V.D. Krishnaswami H. Sarkar and T.R. Gairola; illustrated. Name in ink some coverwear. unknown books
1980réf. 34139Boulder: Great Eastern. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0877737126 . First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Great Eastern hardcover books
1950réf. 88476Delhi: Printed at the United Press 1950. Paperback. Very Good. 8 pages of photos 15p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Cover scuffed. Printed at the United Press paperback 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
réf. 12412ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE OF INDIA. N.P.: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting 1956. Small folio. Wrappers. Frontispiece vi pages 19 plates. First edition. Photographs showing the sculpture and construction of Indian monuments. Worn. unknown books
1796réf. 398421796. The archive comprises: 1. Autograph letter signed "John Canning." Bifolium 13 x 8 1/4 inches 21 lines in fine Malay Jawi with Arabic opening formula docketed "Calcutta 10 Dec 1796"; octagonal red-wax armorial seal of the Canning family. Letter requests that local rulers receive Capt. Hogan "as our agent. to conclude a treaty advantageous to both sides" dated 22 Jumada II 1211 / 10 Dec 1796. 2. to 5. 4 Paper wrappers. English addresses in a copperplate hand & parallel Jawi headings each with intact Canning seal. Addressed to the Sultan of Magindanao King of Mempawah Borneo King of Bali Sultan of Borneo. 6. to 8. 3 Yellow-silk diplomatic covers. Golden satin sleeves with paper address bands in two languages; two remain unopened and sealed. Addressed to the Sultan of Johor unopened King of Sumbawa unopened Sultan of Sulu wrapper only. An exceptional archive uniting British Malay and Islamic manuscript traditions that captures the East India Company’s first concerted overtures to the island-states of Southeast Asia. Drafted in the wake of the Dutch East India Company's collapse and the French Revolutionary Wars this archive documents the East India Company's first concerted diplomatic overtures to the maritime courts of the Malay world. With Dutch control unraveling after the 1795 Batavian Revolution Britain saw a strategic opportunity to enter the lucrative Spice Island trade. Lacking on-the-ground alliances the Company turned to private initiative: Captain Michael Hogan an Irish-American merchant and former convict transport captain was enlisted as unofficial envoy aboard his ship Marquis Cornwallis. The diplomatic texts were composed by Captain John Goodall Canning then Harbour-Master of the port in refined court Malay using Jawi script the Islamic-inflected lingua franca of diplomacy from Aceh to Sulu. In keeping with regional tradition the letters open with Islamic invocation and florid honorifics followed by carefully phrased expressions of friendship and commercial intent. The surviving autograph letter fixes the date of the mission and declares its purpose: "to plant affection and concord and if Your Highness deem it good to enter with us into a compact benefiting both realms." After disembarking convicts in Port Jackson Sydney in February 1796 the Marquis Cornwallis passed northward through Torres Strait calling at New Guinea the Moluccas and ports across the Java Sea almost certainly delivering these and parallel documents en route. The silk wrappers signal the elevated diplomatic status of the messages which were meant to be presented in person by Hogan and opened only in the presence of the addressee. The present archive offers a rare and vivid glimpse into the hybrid ceremonial linguistic and political world of early modern Southeast Asia and into the improvisational diplomacy of the Company at the edge of empire. unknown books
1943réf. 234951943. Indian famine crisis press archive depicting hunger relief work and public unrest from Bengal famine conditions through later food riots in independent India. The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated three million people and food scarcity remained politically volatile in India for decades afterward. Street demonstrations over grain rationing and hunger drew police deployments in multiple cities turning food access into a public order crisis as well as a humanitarian emergency. Photo archive of 7 silver gelatin press photographs mostly measuring 8" x 10" India 1943-1964. Crowds gather outside food distribution points children sit with metal bowls during feeding mounted police face demonstrators and uniformed officers move through dense street scenes. Press captions identify Calcutta famine conditions food rioters dispersed by police in Kerala fighting and fire in Lucknow and relief activity for famine victims. Typed captions identify "food rioters" being dispersed outside the Travancore state government house in Trivandrum Kerala where police and mounted officers filled the street after looting over food. Another caption describes Lucknow fighting in which "rioters set fire to about a six-block square" with crowds massed near burning buildings and shopfront signs. Calcutta scenes show famine victims clustered around relief vessels and feeding bowls with one caption stating that people had been "reduced to skin and bone" after food shortages. A street-side feeding scene shows children and adults crouched in rows with metal dishes receiving food from a man holding a large bucket.Verso stamps include Acme Newspictures NEA reference markings New York Bureau labels editor crop marks typed captions and publication dates. The group connects famine mortality postwar scarcity and street protest in India across a period when food distribution became a central test of colonial and postcolonial government authority. Press handling wear caption remnants crop marks corner creasing and scattered surface marks; overall in very good condition. A strong press group linking famine relief imagery with the public unrest that followed hunger into India's mid-century political life. unknown books
1912réf. 235531912. Missionary education and colonial album depicting India circa 1912 recording Western presence in a British ruled colony through girls' schooling domestic compounds rural labor and major sites of imperial tourism. One of the first images show a group of Indian girls posed with three Western women standing behind them likely a mission school or mission supported classroom during the period when Protestant and Catholic missions made female education one of their central claims to social reform in India. The album also records the wider colonial setting around that work with Western men and women appearing in bungalows on a tennis court and among Indian workers and residents placing missionary possibility inside the everyday social and racial ordering of colonial life. Photo album of 20 silver gelatin photographs each approximately 4 x 3 inches in a 6.5 x 5 inch album India circa 1910s with one image captioned "Holgate 1912." The photos show Indian girls grouped outside a building with three Western women at the rear; children or young laborers crouched in a field; men carrying harvested material along a road; an Indian woman seated at a weaving apparatus; another photo of young Indian girls in seated position in front of grass housing units potentially implying another educational setting; other images show Western figures in colonial settings including a woman holding a tennis racket players on a tennis court with the caption "Holgate 1912" a Western man and children on the veranda of a bungalow a Western woman standing in a brick doorway a Western man with a horse before a house and a large residence set behind a lawn. Architectural and travel views include the Taj Mahal another domed Mughal or Indo Islamic building a street scene with horse drawn vehicles outside commercial buildings a rural village at the base of hills and a settlement or station in a dry mountainous landscape. At the turn of the twentieth century Western women in India came as missionaries teachers medical workers wives of colonial officials tourists and members of expatriate religious and commercial communities. Mission boards used girls' schools orphanages zenana visiting Bible instruction and medical missions to enter spaces that male missionaries could not easily reach while British colonial rule supplied the legal linguistic transport and racial framework that made such work possible and unequal. Light surface wear fading silvering and album wear with some prints unevenly toned. Overall good condition. A compact visual record of Western missionary possibility colonial domestic life Indian labor and tourist seeing in India under the British Raj. unknown books
1864réf. 160811864. Wood Charles later 1st Viscount Halifax. Autograph Letter Signed to H. Reckitts 1864 addresses the continuing development of British educational administration in India during Wood's tenure as Secretary of State for India. Wood had earlier set out an extensive program for education in the 1854 document subsequently known as Wood's Despatch recommending provincial education departments universities modeled on British institutions support for public and private schools and the use of Indian languages in provincial curricula. Written a decade later this letter concerns a proposal for a college intended to educate young members of the Indian Civil Service and records Wood's direct consideration of another institution connected with the administration of British India. Wood Charles. Autograph Letter Signed to H. Reckitts. Balmoral September 5 1864. 4 pages. Wood reports that Algernon West had forwarded "the printed letter with numerous signatures of Indian Civil Servants as to the establishment of a College for the education of the young Civilians." He describes the proposal as "a very interesting and important subject" requiring "very careful attention" and assures Reckitts that it "will receive the best attention which the members of the Indian Council and I myself can give to it." The letter documents the route by which a proposal supported by serving Indian Civil Servants reached the Secretary of State and his council showing consultation between colonial administrators and the metropolitan office responsible for Indian government. Wood's 1854 Despatch had recommended the creation of education departments in the provinces and the establishment of universities in major Indian cities; universities at Calcutta Bombay and Madras opened in 1857 with later institutions established in Punjab in 1882 and Allahabad in 1887. This 1864 letter places Wood within the continuing administrative work of developing educational institutions after those initial reforms specifically in relation to the training of British civil servants charged with governing India. Condition was not provided in the supplied description. unknown books
