The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India [3 Volumes]
Robert Montgomery Martin, The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India: Comprising the Districts of Behar, Shahabad, Bhagulpoor, Goruckpoor, Dinajepoor, Puraniya, Rungpoor, and Assam in Relation to their Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Fine Arts, Population, Religion, Education, Statistics, etc. , London: W H Allen and Co., 1838 Set of 3 Volumes Volume I: xiii; 3; 53 appendix pages; 560 pages including 16 black-and-white folded plates related to Behar and Patna; 9 black-and-white folded plates related to Shahabad; 6 black-and-white in-text illustrations; 2 black-and-white with outlines in colour Volume II: xxxii; 713 pages including 9 black-and-white plates and 3 maps with outlines in colour Volume III: v; 1019 pages including 3 maps; 2 black-and-white plates; 4black-and-white plates related to Bhagalpoor; 8 black-and-white plates related to Goruckpoor; 14 plates related to Dinajppor and 12 black-and-white woodcut engravings for in-text illustrations Publisher's cloth along with blind-stamped decorative pattern on the front and back boards and gilt text and "Pharoh" image at the spine (each) 23 x 15 x 12 cm (each) NON-EXPORTABLE
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Taken at Kandelmund, which it...
1837
Hand coloured aquatint on paper
Print Size: 15.1 x 23 in (38.5 x 58.5 cm) With Mount: 18.5 x 23.4 in (47 x 59.5 cm)
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The World in Miniatures: Hindoostan, Containing a Description of the Religion, Manners, Customs, Trades, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Diversions, & c. of the Hindoos [6 Volumes]
Frederic Shoberl, The World in Miniatures: Hindoostan, Containing a Description of the Religion, Manners, Customs, Trades, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Diversions, & c. of the Hindoos , London: Printed for R. Ackermann, repository of Arts, Strand; No date on the title-page but plates are dated 1822 Early 20th-century full tan polished calf, elaborately gilt-decorated flat spines in compartments with gilt text (each) 14.5 x 9.5 x 2.5 cm (each)
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The View of Hindoostan [2 Volumes]
Thomas Pennant, The View of Hindoostan. Volume I: Western Hindoostan. Volume II: Eastern Hindoostan , London: No Publisher, Printed by Henry Hughs, 1798, 1st edition Set of 2 volumes Volume I: Western Hindoostan , [2] + 1 frontispiece + [1] + (ii-v) + [11] + [1] + 2-263 pages, [1], [9] index, [1], 8 plates, 1 head piece at top of page 1; rebound with new marbled boards and ornamented leather spine with gilt title 32.5 x 26 x 3 cm Volume II: Eastern Hindoostan , 1 frontispiece, [10] + [1] + 2-374 pages, [13] index, 1 13 plates, 1 head piece at top of page 1, 1 map (folding); rebound with new marble boards and decorative gilt tooling and titles at the spine 32.5 x 26 x 3.3 cm
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Zoography; or, The Beauties of Nature Displayed. In Select Descriptions From the Animal, and Vegetable, and Additions From the Mineral Kingdom. Systematically Arranged. Illustrated With Plates Designed and Engraved by Mr. William Daniell [3 Volumes]
William Wood and William Daniell, Zoography; or, The Beauties of Nature Displayed. In Select Descriptions From the Animal, and Vegetable, and Additions From the Mineral Kingdom. Systematically Arranged. Illustrated With Plates Designed and Engraved by Mr. William Daniell , London: Cadell and Davies, 1807, 1st edition In 3 volumes Volume I: ix + 572 pages including 25 black-and-white engravings by William Daniell; 26.5 × 18.2 × 4.9 cm Volume II: viii + 618 pages including 19 black-and-white engravings by William Daniell; 26.6 × 18.2 × 5.2 cm Volume III: vii + 612 pages including 11 black-and-white engravings by William Daniell; 26.6 × 18.2 × 5.2 cm Half leather-bound with marbled boards and decorative gilt spine, marbled endpapers and edges (each) Half leather bound with marbled boards and decorative gilt spine, marbled end papers and edges (each)
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Books on Ornithology [Set of 2]
a) Hume and Marshal, 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; gilt lettering and ruling on front boards and spines; blind-stamped on rear boards 26.5 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm (each) One of the classics of ornithology literature and the definitive volumes on the game birds of the Indian subcontinent.
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Sporting Sketches and Scenes in India
J F Fotheringham, Sporting Sketches and Scenes in India , [London]: C. Moody, [1851] Lithographic title-page, address leaf, letterpress descriptive text for each plate, 7 lithographic plates by Fotheringham with later hand-colouring, appendix page; full red calf, boards with multiple rules and elaborate floral borders, all gilt, gilt title to upper board 34.5 x 49.7 x 1 cm
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The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India with plates, exhibiting numerous coloured photographs, etc.
John Forbes Watson, The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India with plates, exhibiting numerous coloured photographs, etc. , London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1867 pp. xxi + 174 including 9 tipped-in hand colored albumen photographs + 1 black and white plate + 1 photo and chromo-lithographed plate + 1 photo-lithographed plate; rebound in half leather with new spine and in original cloth bound cover 38 x 28 x 3 cm
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Tabula nova vtriusque Indiae
1522 [1541]
Copper engraving on paper
Map Size: 13.1 x 18 in (33.5 x 45.8 cm) With Mount: 18.1 x 22.7 in (46 x 57.8 cm)
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Haemisphaeriorum Tabula Carthesiana P...
Circa 1700
Copper engraving on paper
Map Size: 19.2 x 23.1 in (49 x 58.8 cm) With Mount: 25.7 x 29.5 in (65.5 x 75 cm)
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A Map of Bengal, Bahar, Oude &...
1786
Copper engraving on paper
Map Size: 28.4 x 42.3 in (72.2 x 107.5 cm) With Mount: 34.8 x 48.4 in (88.5 x 123 cm)
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Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies of the Mahrattas
Thomas Duer Broughton, Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies of the Mahrattas , London: John Murray, 1813. 1st Edition [14], 358 pages, [1]. With ten coloured engravings including frontispiece, from drawings by a native artist; half leather bound with gilt text and marbled boards 10.6 x 8.6 in (27 x 22 cm)
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Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow [Author‘s presentation copy]
Lieutenant Clifford Henry Mecham, Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow: From Drawings made during the Siege by Clifford Henry Mecham with Descriptive Notices by George Couper, Esq. late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude , London: Day and Son, 1858 [12] pages; tinted lithographed title page with vignette and 26 fine tinted lithographed views on 17 plates, with tissue new guards; publisher's dark brown cloth-covered boards, tooled in blind and title embossed in gilt on the boards with fresh spine 57 x 38.5 x 1.2 cm Author's presentation copy.
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Chiefs and families of note in the Punjab: A Revised edition of "The Punjab Cities"
Sir Lepel H Griffin and Colonel C F Massy, Chiefs and families of note in the Punjab: A Revised edition of "The Punjab Cities" , Lahore: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1940 In 2 Volumes Volume I: Title page + xi + 512 pages; rebound in half leather bound with 4 raised bands and gilt text at the spine; 25.5 x 17.7 x 4.2 cm Volume II: Title page + v + 620 pages; rebound in half leather bound with 4 raised bands and gilt text at the spine; 24.2 x 16.5 x 4.8 cm
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A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757
Edward Ives, A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorder’s incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia , Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773 xii, 506 pages including 2 folding engraved maps and 13 engraved plates; contemporary calf retaining original gilt stamped spine label, marbled edges and inside marble end papers 27.7 x 22.5 x 4.5 cm
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Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 & 1783
William Hodges, Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 & 1783 , London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J Edwards, 1793 vi + [1] + 156 pages including 14 engraved plates by Medland, Byrne, Angus and others after Hodges + large folding engraved map of part of Bengal and Bihar + table of the Plates (with advertisement to verso for Hodges' Views in India drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783); re-jointed retaining the original spine with half leather bound and marbled boards, all edges gilt 30 x 24.5 x 2.5 cm
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A History of the Boondelas
Captain W R Pogson, A History of the Boondelas , Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press and Published by the Asiatic Lithographic Company, 1828 pp. vii, 174 + 2-page list of Subscribers’ Names [135 copies] + 1-page Emendata [i.e. list of corrections in the text]. The title-page has a vignette captioned ‘View of the Breach of the N. W. Gateway of Ujeegurh’ [i.e. Ajaigarh]. Complete with 6 full-page lithographic plates [1 of them double-page] and 3 maps [Bundelkhund, Fort of Ujeegurh and Kalinjur] of which 1 is folding, and 1 folding genealogical table; contemporary half-leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers. All edges gilt. Gift slip to Armstrong College pasted inside front cover. 28 x 23 x 1.5 cm
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The Route of the Overland Mail to India. From Southampton to India. Thirty two plates, from drawings by Messrs. Grieve, Telbin, Absolon, Herring. Sen., D. Roberts, R.A.Weir and other eminent artists
John Tillotson or J H Stocqueler?, The Route of the Overland Mail to India. From Southampton to India. Thirty two plates, from drawings by Messrs. Grieve, Telbin, Absolon, Herring. Sen., D. Roberts, R.A.Weir and other eminent artists , London: Atchley & Co. Printed by Leighton Brothers, [c.1860] 8 black and white wood engraved plates and 24 tinted lithographs by Messrs. Grieve, Telbin, Absolon, Herring, D. Roberts, R.A. Weir, etc. with new tissue guards; original blue decorative cloth binding with ornamental floral pattern debossed on the front and back boards; marbled endpapers and pastedowns; new leather spine bound 45 x 30 x 1.2 cm
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Carmonth: Loyal Rulers and Leaders of the East. A Record of Their Services in the Great War. Edited by the Earl of Carnwath, Etc. [With Portraits.]
Ronald Arthur Dalzell (Earl of Carnwath.), Loyal Rulers and Leaders of the East. A Record of Their Services in the Great War. With an Introduction by Field-Marshal Earl Haig , London: Zaehnsdorf Ltd, 1922 xv + 543 pages including photogravure frontispieces of King George V and Queen Mary, numerous photographic portraits of Indian rulers to the text throughout by Vandyk, Bassano, W. & D. Downey, F.A. Swaine, and others, the majority of them full-page, text printed throughout within gilt borders; publisher’s vivid blue cloth, title gilt to the spine with an elaborate "oriental window" panel, concentric panels gilt on both boards, a large central scrolled floral lozenge with similar corner pieces to the inner panel, and a red ground on the front board; all edges gilt, housed in a customised solander box with gilt text at the spine 30.5 x 25 x 5 cm 31.8 x 28 x 6 cm (with solander box)
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The Chamber of Princes (Narender...
1939
Silver gelatin print on paper
Photograph Size: 12 x 21 in (30.6 x 53.5 cm) With Caption: 17.1 x 21 in (43.5 x 53.5 cm) With Mount: 20.4 x 34.4 in (52 x 87.5 cm) With frame: 27.5 x 36.8 x 1.3 in (70 x 93.5 x 3.5 cm) A silver gelatin print of a large group of ruling princes and chiefs by A. R. Datt which is mounted on a custom decorative foliage mount with an original printed caption listing names of all attending Maharajas mounted on a wooden frame from the photographer’s studio bearing a brass plaque at the lower centre etched "The Chamber of Princes / Delhi / Narendra Mandal / March 1939."
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