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Taken at Kandelmund, which it represents, and the Toda family inhabiting (assigned by artist) - Captain Richard Barron - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Captain Richard Barron (fl.1815 - 1838)

Taken at Kandelmund, which it...
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 View of Hindoostan [2 Volumes] - Thomas  Pennant - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798)

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 - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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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The World in Miniatures: Hindoostan, Containing a Description of the Religion, Manners, Customs, Trades, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Diversions, & c. of the Hindoos [6 Volumes] - Frederick  Shoberl - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Frederick Shoberl (1775 - 1853)

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 Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India with plates, exhibiting numerous coloured photographs, etc. - John Forbes Watson - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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John Forbes Watson (1827 - 1892)

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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Books on Ornithology [Set of 2] - Stuart Baker, Allan Hume and Marshall - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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 - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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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Tabula nova vtriusque Indiae - Lorenz (Laurent) Fries and Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Tabula nova vtriusque Indiae
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 Schenkii - Petrus Schenk  (Pieter Schenck) the Elder - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Haemisphaeriorum Tabula Carthesiana P...
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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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 - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Thomas Duer Broughton (1778 - 1835)

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 - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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 - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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 - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Edward Ives (1719 - 1786)

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 R.A. - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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William Hodges R.A. (1744 - 1797)

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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Views of the Forts of Bhurtpore and Weire along with Sketches about Kurrah, Mannickpore - George  Abbott - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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George Abbott (1803 - 1838)

Views of the Forts of Bhurtpore and Weire along with Sketches about Kurrah, Mannickpore

George Abbott, Views of the Forts of Bhurtpore and Weire along with Sketches about Kurrah, Mannickpore, London: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. for J.M. Richardson, 1827

Later hand-coloured pictorial lithograph title page, dedication page (to General Combermere), and 11 lithograph plates of sheet size 33.2 x 48 cm on India paper and mounted on sheets. Lithographs by William Gauci (2), Paul Gauci (2), J D Harding (4), J S Templeton (2), F Mackenzie (2) and J H Lynch after Abbott, lithographed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.; each plate extensively captioned, single leaf of letterpress and list of subscribers at the end; binding refurbished with later contemporary dark red full leather binding with gilt text at the spine
31.2 x 45.2 x 1.5 cm

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A History of the Boondelas - Lieutenant Colonel  Wridenhall Roberts Pogson - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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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Goa and the Blue Mountains; or, Six Months of Sick Leave - Sir Richard Francis Burton - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Goa and the Blue Mountains; or, Six Months of Sick Leave

Sir Richard F Burton, Goa and the Blue Mountains; or, Six Months of Sick Leave, London: Richard Bentley, 1851, first edition

pp. viii, 368 pages including 4 tinted lithographic plates (including frontispiece) and folding engraved map printed by Hullmandel & Walton after drawings by Burton; later full polished calf, gilt rules to the front board, gilt text at the spine with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, inner dentelles with marbled end papers; enclosed in a customised cloth solander box
18.8 x 12.5 x 2.3 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 ? - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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) - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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 Mandal), Delhi, 13th March 1939 - A R Datt - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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The Chamber of Princes (Narender...
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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