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A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians - Henry  Lord - Antiquarian Books Auction
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A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians

HENRY LORD, A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians: Containing Their History, Law, Liturgie, Casts, Customes, and Ceremonies. Gathered from Their Bramanes, Teachers of that Sect: As the Particulars were Comprized in the Booke of their Law, called the Shaster: Together with a Display of their Manners, Both in Times Past, and at this Present, London: F Constable, 1630

Frontispiece; title pages; 14; 53 pages
2 parts in 1, first edition, additional engraved pictorial title by William Marshall, the second part with the separate title 'The Religion of the Parsees'.
Original leather bound with fresh spine along with contemporary slipcase
18.5 x 14 x 1.5 cm

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The Costume of Hindostan - Frans Balthazar Solvyns - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Frans Balthazar Solvyns (1760 - 1824)

The Costume of Hindostan

FRANS BALTAZAR SOLVYNS, The Costume of Hindostan: Elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engravings; with Descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799, London: Edward Orme, 1804

246 pages including 57 of 60 hand-coloured line and stipple engraved plates (3 missing), by Scott or T Vivares after Solvyns along with descriptions for each plate in English and French
Later quarter-bound leather with front and back blackboards
37 x 28 x 3.2 cm

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Sketches Illustrating the Manners and Customs of the Indians and Anglo Indians - William  Tayler - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sketches Illustrating the Manners and Customs of the Indians and Anglo Indians

WILLIAM TAYLER, Sketches Illustrating the Manners and Customs of the Indians and Anglo Indians: Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life by William Tayler Esq., London: Thomas McLean, 1842

Lithographed title and dedication page along with 6 lithograph colour plates by J Bouvier of the General Lithographic Establishment, 70, Martin's Lane, after watercolours by Tayler along with tissue guards
Publisher's moire fine ribbed brown cloth boards, title in gilt on upper cover, recent green leather spine
55.2 x 38 x 1.5 cm

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L'Inde Francaise - Eugéne Burnof and Eugéne Jacquet - Antiquarian Books Auction
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L'Inde Francaise

EUGENE BURNOUF AND EUGENE JACQUET, L'Inde Francaise: Ou Collection de Dessins representant les Divinites, Temples, Meubles, Ornements, Armes, Ustensiles, Ceremonies Religieuses et Scenes de la Vie Privee, Paris: Arthus-Bertrand, 1827-1835


(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: Title page, dedication page and first leaf of explanatory text, 90 finely hand-coloured lithographed plates by C Motte and others after various artists, each with an explanatory leaf of text, list of plates at the end
Volume II: 52 of 54 (2 MISSING) finely hand-coloured lithographed plates by C Motte and others after various artists, each with an explanatory leaf of text; 1; 118 appendix pages and 2 pages of list of plates at the end
Contemporary quarter leather-bound with marbled boards and gilt text at the spine
42.5 x 30 x 4 cm (each)

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Books on Sports (Set of two) - H Deb Delisle and K S Ranjitsinhji - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Books on Sports (Set of two)

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H DEB DELISLE, Polo in India: With Numerous Diagrams and Photographic Reproductions including the Hurlingham Rules, Bombay: Thacker and Company, Limited, 1913

286 Pages including 1 black and white frontispiece, illustrated with 12 diagrams and photographic reproductions including the Hurlingham Rules
Original green cloth boards with gilt title on the front board and at the spine
19.5 x 14 x 4 cm

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Oriental Field Sports - Captain Thomas Williamson - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Oriental Field Sports

CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLIAMSON, Oriental field sports: Being a Complete and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East, London: Edward Orme, 1808

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: xiv; 306 including engraved vignette title page and 20 engraved plates
Volume II: 239 including engraved vignette title page and 20 engraved plates
Brown leather-bound with gilt border on front and back covers, all edges marbled and spine with 5 raised bands
29 x 24 x 4.5 cm (each)

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Shooting in the Himalayas - Colonel Frederick Markham - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Shooting in the Himalayas

COLONEL FRED MARKHAM, Shooting in the Himalayas: A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, & Etc, London: Richard Bentley, 1854

xii; 375 pages including 1 engraved title page; 1 folding black and white lithographed map; 7 tinted lithographic plates after Sir E P Campbell by Hullmandel & Walton; 14 black and white woodcuts throughout
Original green cloth, with gilt decoration on the front and back boards along with the spine
25.5 x 17.5 x 3.5 cm

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Tiger-Shooting in India - William  Rice - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Tiger-Shooting in India

WILLIAM RICE, Tiger-Shooting in India: Being an Account of Hunting Experiences on Foot in Rajpotana, During the Hot Seasons from 1850 to 1854, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1857

xviii; 219 pages including 1 frontispiece and 11 colour chromolithograph plates from the sketches by the author
Contemporary binding with top edge gilt along with gilt text at the spine with 5 raised bands
26.5 x 18.5 x 2.7 cm

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Indian Shikar (Set of 7) - William Rice, R G Burton,  Frank Sheffield et al - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Indian Shikar (Set of 7)

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WILLIAM RICE, Indian Game (From Quail to Tiger) , London: W H Allen and Co., 1884

iv, 221, [6] appendix pages with 13 plates including 12 full-page tinted lithographs
Original gilt-pictorial green cloth over bevel-edged boards.br.26 x 17.5 x 2.5 cm

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The Indian Ducks and Their Allies - Edward Charles Stuart Baker - Antiquarian Books Auction
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The Indian Ducks and Their Allies

E C STUART BAKER, The Indian Ducks and Their Allies, London: Bombay Natural History Society, 1908

xi; 292 pages including 30 coloured plates with deckled edges
Original half Morocco green cloth binding with upper edges gilt
27.5 x 19.5 x 4 cm

Limited edition of 1200 copies

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Books on Ornithology (Set of 3) - Stuart Baker and Allan Hume - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Books on Ornithology (Set of 3)

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ALLAN HUME ed., The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Calcutta: A O Hume and C H T Marshall, 1879-1881

(Set of 3 Volumes)
Volume I: ii; 279 pages including 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Published in 1879 this volume is dedicated to ducks, swans and geese
Volume II: 264 pages including 44 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Published in 1880 this volume is dedicated to snipe, bustards and sand-grouse)
Volume III: 438 pages including 54 hand-coloured lithographed plates; 4 famous colour egg plates and 6 index pages. Published in 1881 this volume is dedicated to pheasants and bustard-quail
In original green boards with gilt-stamped peacock illustrations on front boards of each volume; gilt lettering and ruling on front boards and spines; blind-stamped on rear boards.
26.5 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm (each)

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Illustrations of Indian Ornithology - Thomas  C Jerdon - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Thomas C Jerdon (1811 - 1872)

Illustrations of Indian Ornithology

THOMAS C JERDON, Illustrations of Indian Ornithology: Containing Fifty Figures of New, Unfigured and Interesting Species of Birds, Chiefly from the South of India, Madras: P R Hunt, American Mission Press, 1847

Title leaf, plate list, and 23 hand-coloured lithographs (of 50) with accompanying text, species list on the leaf at end. The plates are numbered from XLI - L and then (in manuscript) from XIII - XXV, the captions corresponding to the numbers on the plate are listed at the front
Green leather-bound with gilt text on a maroon label at the spine with 5 raised bands
30.2 x 23.5 x 3.5 cm

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Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies - Allan  Hume - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Allan Hume (1829 - 1912)

Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies

ALLAN HUME, Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies, Calcutta: T Black and Co., 1872-99

(Set of 12 Volumes)
3 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 5 uncoloured lithographed plates (four folding); 10 folding maps (some hand-coloured); volume 2 lacks final five pages of index and here supplied in photocopy; volume 11 lacking preliminary leaves but with upper wrapper tipped in, occasional pencil marks and marginalia by Claude B Ticehurst and Martin Woodcock, bookplate of The Avicultural Society to front pastedowns on all the volumes. index by Charles Chubb
Each volume is original half leather-bound with marbled boards and gilt text at the spine with 5 raised bands
13.6 x 15 x 3 cm (each)

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Illustrations of Indian Botany or Figures Illustrative of Each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plant - Robert  Wight - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Robert Wight (1796 - 1872)

Illustrations of Indian Botany or Figures Illustrative of Each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plant

ROBERT WIGHT, Illustrations of Indian Botany or Figures Illustrative of Each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plants: Described in the Author's Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis with Observations, on their Botanical Relations, Economical Uses, and Medicinal Properties; Including Descriptions of Recently Discovered or Imperfectly Known Plants, Madras: J B Pharoah, 1840

Volume I: xi; ii; 212 pages including 97 hand-coloured lithographed plates (of 104); errata slip tipped-in; lacks 2 leaves of text at the end
Contemporary leather bound with gilt text on a black label at the front board and the spine
28.5 x 22.5 x 4.2 cm

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The Thanatophidia of India, Being a Description of Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula - Sir Joseph Fayrer - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sir Joseph Fayrer (1824 - 1907)

The Thanatophidia of India, Being a Description of Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula

JOSEPH FAYRER, The Thanatophidia of India, Being a Description of Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula: With an Account of the Influence of their Poison on Life and a Series of Experiments, London: J & A Churchill, 1874

xii; half-title page; 166 pages including 28 chromolithograph plates and 3 lithographed plates by M & N Hanhart after Annoda Prosad Bagchee and others. The title page and the dedication pages are photocopies on a hard card paper and the appendix pages at the end are black and white photocopies of the original
Contemporary half leather bound with red cloth boards and gilt text at the spine
45 x 33 x 3 cm

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Materia Indica - Whitelaw  Ainslie - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Whitelaw Ainslie (1767 - 1837)

Materia Indica

WHITELAW AINSLIE, Materia Indica: Or, some account of those articles which are employed by The Hindoos, and other Eastern nations, in their Medicine, Arts, and Agriculture; comprised also Formulae, with practical observations, names of diseases in various eastern languages, and a copious list of Oriental Books immediately connected with general science, and c. and c., London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: xiv and 654 pages
Volume II: xxxix and 604 pages
Rebound in red buckram
23 x 15.5 x 4 cm (each)

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Books on Bombay (Set of 3) - Henry Moses, James Douglas and G W Clutterbuck - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Books on Bombay (Set of 3)

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HENRY MOSES, Sketches of India with Notes on the Seasons, Scenery and Society of Bombay, Elephanta and Salsette, London: Simkin Marshall and Co., 1850

xviii; 300 pages with 1 black and white frontispiece
Original marbled boards with fresh spine
20 x 13.2 x 8 cm

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Life in Bombay and Neighbouring Outstations, with Illustrations - James  Gray - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Life in Bombay and Neighbouring Outstations, with Illustrations

JAMES GRAY, Life in Bombay and Neighbouring Outstations, with Illustrations, London: Richard Bentley, 1852

xvi; 350 Pages with 13 tinted lithographic plates
Original cloth binding with blind-stamped decorative pattern on the front and the backboards along with gilt text and design at the spine
26 x 17 x 3 cm

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The Route of the Overland Mail to India, from Southampton to Calcutta - David Roberts, Absolon,  Telin, et al - Antiquarian Books Auction
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The Route of the Overland Mail to India, from Southampton to Calcutta

MESSRS. GRIEVE, TELIN, ABSOLON, HERRING, SEN., DAVID ROBERTS, WEIR AND OTHER EMINENT ARTISTS, The Route of the Overland Mail to India, from Southampton to Calcutta, London: Atchley & Company, circa 1851

iv; 32 black and white wood-engraved plates, including a vignette title, each with tissue guards
Publisher's original cloth, overall oriental design blocked in blue and yellow colours, lettered in yellow with a new leather spine
38.5 x 25.5 x 1 cm

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Views of Calcutta Environs - Sir Charles  D`Oyly - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sir Charles D`Oyly (1781 - 1845)

Views of Calcutta Environs

SIR CHARLES D'OYLY, Views of Calcutta Environs, London: Dickinson & Co, 1848

26 lithographs including 1 lithograph title page; 23 lithograph plates and 2 plates with 2 illustrations in each
Later dark brown leather-bound with gilt border on the front and back covers
68 x 48 x 2.5 cm

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