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1839ref. 022098London: Smith Elder and Co. 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Fairly unobtrusive library blindstamp on frontispiece pictorial title map and several text pages. Still an attractive clean example of a scarce title in a Fine clamshell box. Modern half polished calf with marbled boards and matching calf corners 5-1/2" x 9"; xvii 3 283 1 pages housed in a red buckram clamshell box. Lacking the printed title page but with the lithographed additional pictorial title and illustrated with a hand-colored map 8 engraved plates 7 of which are hand-colored including 1 folding and several text engravings. In 1834 the author's husband was posted to Cutch a western district of present-day Gujarat India and there she gathered the notes and made the drawings that would form the basis for this her first publication. [Smith, Elder and Co.] hardcover books
1858ref. 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
1844ref. 022107London: J. Hatchard and Son 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Partly unopened; scattered foxing but text and plates mostly clean. Some fraying along spine edges; gilt fairly bright. Easily Very Good in a Fine clamshell box. Two 6-1/2" x 9-3/4" volumes in publisher's gilt-decorated and lettered green cloth: xii 478; vii i 459 1 pages. Housed in a green cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with 32 color chromolithographic plates with tissue guards. Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sleeman who spent his entire career in India was best known for his fight to suppress the activities of "thugs" bands of criminals who attacked robbed and often murdered innocent travelers. In these volumes he describes his experiences doing so as well as his thoughts on various aspects of Indian life including Hinduism local festivals and folklore natural history governance military discipline and the justice system. In 1828 Sleeman made the first documented discovery of dinosaur fossils in Asia before the term "dinosaur" was even formally coined. ABBEY TRAVEL 466. J. Hatchard and Son hardcover books
1929ref. 198081929. Women in Sciences Balfour Margaret and Young Ruth. "The Work of Medical Women in India". London: Oxford University Press 1929. First Edition No Dust Jacket. 201 pages. Measures 5.75" x 8.75". The United States sent the first qualified medical woman to 1880 and for the next sixty years many women physicians from America England and other countries have gone to India as missionaries. The Association of Medical Women in India grew to 281 members by 1930 and there were four women's medical schools where 351 students were studying for the subassistant surgeon's diploma. This book focuses on the women from 1880 to 1929 who contributed to improving the health of women in India. It follows several famous figures from the medical movement of the day including Pechey Phipson E. Bielby CFlara Swain A. Jaganadhan and R. Rukhmabai. The book also includes several illustrations of the women where they worked and additional medical charts. Also included is a map of India from 1930 located as a pull-out at the end of the book. Textblock is tight with only minor wear from shelf use. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1938ref. 165001938. Jeffrey Mary Pauline. Dr. Ida: India The Life Story of Ida S. Scudder 1938. Signed biography of American physician and medical missionary Ida Sophia Scudder 1870-1960 who established hospitals and medical training programs for women in colonial India. Born in India to American missionary parents Scudder pursued medicine after witnessing the consequences of restrictions preventing Indian women from receiving treatment from male physicians. In 1899 she graduated from Cornell Medical College as a member of its first graduating class to include women returning to India in 1900 to establish a small clinic in Vellore. Within two years she had founded the Mary Taber Schell Memorial Hospital which developed into a major center for women's medical treatment and professional training. Her subsequent establishment of a nursing school in 1909 and the Union Mission Medical School for Women in 1918 expanded opportunities for Indian women to enter the medical profession. Jeffrey Mary Pauline. Dr. Ida: India The Life Story of Ida S. Scudder. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company 1938. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. 212 pages with a frontispiece portrait and 18 additional illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth boards measuring 8 x 6 inches. Jeffrey recounts Scudder's upbringing in a missionary family her medical education in the United States and her return to India to establish healthcare facilities for women who faced religious and social restrictions on treatment by male physicians. The biography traces the expansion of her work from a small rural clinic into a hospital and medical training institution documenting her efforts to provide both medical care and professional education for Indian women. Published in 1938 while Scudder remained active in the administration of her medical institutions the biography records the development of women's medical education in British India before independence. Her work at Vellore addressed both the shortage of female physicians and the restrictions that prevented many Indian women from seeking treatment while establishing training opportunities for Indian women in nursing and medicine. The author's inscription distinguishes this copy and the illustrations provide additional contemporary documentation of Scudder's life and medical work. A few pages contain ink corrections or annotations. Very good condition. unknown books
1924ref. 511351924. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing 1924. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing 1924. 1924 Edition of the Bombay Code Government of India Legislative Department. The Bombay Code: In Five Volumes. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing India 1924. 5 volumes. Original cloth gilt titles to spines moderate shelfwear and soiling. Text blocks cracked in a few places internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines small stamps to versos of title pages. A solid set. $500. Fourth edition. Volume I: The unrepealed Bombay Regulations The Local Acts of the Governor General in Council in Force in Bombay The Regulations Made Under the Statute 33 Victoria Chapter 3 And the Government of India Act 1915 5 and 6 Geo. 5 C. 61 In force in Bombay Lists of the Enactments Which Have Been Notified for Scheduled Districts in Bombay Under the Scheduled Districts Act 1874: And Chronological Tables of Enactments Reproduced; Volume II: The Unrepealed Acts of the Governor of Bombay in Council in Force in Bombay from 1862 to 1887 Inclusive: And a Chronological Table of Enactments Reproduced with an Index; Volume III: The Unrepealed Acts of the Governor of Bombay in Council in Force in Bombay From 1888 to 1897 Inclusive; A Chronological Table of Enactments Reproduced with an Appendix and Index; Volume IV. Containing the Unrepealed Acts of the Governor of Bombay in Council in Force in Bombay from 1898 to 1908 Inclusive And a Chronological Table of Enactments Reproduced with Index; Volume V: Containing the Unrepealed Acts of the Governor of Bombay in Council and of the Bombay Legislative Council in Force in Bombay from 1909 to 1922 Inclusive Chronological Tables of Enactments reproduced with Index. OCLC locates 9 copies. BMC 3:850. unknown books
1790ref. 47670Paris: Didot 1790. Brief work cautioning against too much freedom of trade with the East Indies. Three copies in OCLC at the John Carter Brown Library and the national libraries of France and Australia. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. Untrimmed. unknown books
1968ref. 87661Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society 1968. First American Edition. Folio. 33.5cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket and Slipcase. 295pp. Very light wear to extremities and spine ends tight and bright; internally clean and fresh lavishly illustrated throughout; in a clean sharp pictorial dustjacket with a little fraying to the head of the spine; and a grey card publisher's slipcase with a little wear and toning to the edges and corners. A very good copy. Partly sponsored by Unesco Heritage this is a large format showcase of examples of the arts and culture of the various peoples of the Himalayan region. Written and edited by Madanjeet Singh noted Indian diplomat writer and artist and a lifelong campaigner for world peace and harmony. New York Graphic Society unknown books
1945ref. 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
1970ref. 80685Delhi: Vikas Publishing 1970. First Thus. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's orange cloth boards titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. 187pp. Strong and tight but visibly sunned to spine and edges of binding and a little bumped to the head of the spine. The priceclipped dustjacket is similarly sunned to the spine and has some light marginal wear but shows very well. A very good presentable copy. Internally clean with some annotation and emphasis to the text from an informed reader presumably Angus Thurmer. There is a 2 page letter from Major General Lunt dated January 1971 on Ministry of Defense notepaper to Angus Thurmer at the US Embassy in New Delhi discussing the book and the editing work and apprising Mr. Thurmer of his current status. Major General Lunt CBE had a prominent and successful career in the British Military spending a significant part of his career in India including a stint as Military Adviser to the High Commission there is a note on the title page to the effect that the book's attentive reader played Polo with Lunt whilst he was stationed in Delhi. The first edition of "From Sepoy to Subedar" was published in 1873 then languished forgotten for almost a century until Major General Lunt in his role as accomplished "Old India Hand" decided a new edition was called for. Primary source material for the period from native Indians is relatively thin on the ground spanning as it does Subedar Ram's memories of the Afghan Wars the first two the retreat from Khabul the subsequent trials and tribulations of a soldier's life and the post-"mutiny" changes to the leadership and administration of India and how badly that went. A fascinating account which should be ranked alongside "Confessions of a Thug" and Lady Florentia Sale's Journal as insights with all faults into the nature of life in and under the British Raj. Vikas Publishing unknown books
1909ref. 312711N.p. India 1909. 126 tipped in gelatin photographs 63 in each volume; with four manuscript sketch maps 2 in each volume. 153 pp.; 7 numbered a-g 124 ff. including blanks. 2 vols. 8vo and 4to. Contemporary full brown morocco covers ruled and lettered in gilt black coated endpapers by Thacker & Co. Bombay with their red ticket at the back. Corners bumped faintest traces of rubbing. 126 tipped in gelatin photographs 63 in each volume; with four manuscript sketch maps 2 in each volume. 153 pp.; 7 numbered a-g 124 ff. including blanks. 2 vols. 8vo and 4to. Substantial detailed and extensively illustrated chronicle of travel and sport in the area north and east of Simla Sutlej River Adampur Jhansi and elsewhere in India including a trip in the Himalayas. The author was Lawrence Christian Gordon a major in the artillery; at this time he was staioned in Jhansi. The first volume is divided in three parts: Part I. Trip near Adampur after black buck and gazelle pp. 1-26 dated 23 December 1906 to 3 January 1907 Part II. Near Jhansi after black buck pp. 27-37 Part III. Himalayas after burhel and ibex pp. 39-153 dated April to July 1907 up the Sutlej river from Simla with mention of Asirang Lipi Jangi The second volume is a continuous narrative describing short shooting and fishing trips in 1908 and one longer account of three months' shooting leave March to June 1909 in the terrain upriver from Simla close to the border with Tibet and indeed many of the villages and monasteries passed were of TIbetan culture. The photographs are well composed and printed; burhel was the chief game hunted. Gordon writes candidly with many observations on local conditions and weather. Provenance: Norman James Anderson Galleries 9 November 1928 lot 784; Harvard Travellers Club in May 1934 bookplates unknown books
1906ref. 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
1847ref. 316972New York: William H. Colyer 1847. First Edition. Frontis. 209pp. Bound in full modern mottled brown calf. Fine. First Edition. Frontis. 209pp. Huntress 166 William H. Colyer unknown books
1798ref. 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
1859ref. 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
1873ref. 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
1900ref. 316898London: Macmillan and Co 1900. New Edition in One Volume. With 42 Illus. ii 601pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters mottled brown calf and marbled boards green leather title label. Fine. New Edition in One Volume. With 42 Illus. ii 601pp. 8vo. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1828ref. 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
1865ref. 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
1870ref. 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
1893ref. 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. 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
1880ref. 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
1976ref. 306083Washington D.C.: Embassy of India 1976. First edition. 222 pp. 4to. Original blue silk-covered boards dust jacket. Front hinge over-opened some minor edgewear to jacket. First edition. 222 pp. 4to. INSCRIBED by the author to then Secretary of State Cyrus Vance 1917-2002. Vance occupied the post 1977-1980 succeeding Henry Kissinger. He accompanied President Carter on his historic visit to India in January 1978 a few months before this inscription which culminated in the Delhi Declaration in which the two nations made a strong commitment to global diplomacy and human rights. The visit was crucial in restoring good relations with India following Nixon's tilt toward Pakistan in 1971. Kamath was Washington correspondent for the Times of India from 1969 to 1978. Embassy of India unknown books
1861ref. 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
1928ref. 305460Berlin: Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag 1928. 1-15 taiusend. xxxvi iv 304 pp. of photographs. 4to. Burnt orange cloth. Fine in dustjacket with loss to upper front cover and a little on spine. 1-15 taiusend. xxxvi iv 304 pp. of photographs. 4to. Part of the series "Orbis Terrarum Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag unknown books
