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Neueste Karte von Hindostan, Bengalen etc. Mit der Anzeige der Strasen, Paesse und Genauester Eintheilung der Britischen Besitzungen in Ostindien - Franz Anton Schrambl - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Franz Anton Schrambl (1751 - 1803)

Neueste Karte von Hindostan, Bengalen...
1788

Copper engraving on paper

Four engraved and hand-coloured sheets 24.5 x 33.5 in (61.2 x 83.7 cm) (each); will form a large joined map approximately 49 x 67 in (124.4 x 170.1 cm) if assembled; unmounted and unjoined, as issued. This work will be shipped unframed, in four separate sheets in a roll form.

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Partie de la Nouvelle Grande Carte des Indes Orientales, contenant les terres du Mogol, Surat, Malabar, Coromandel, Bengale, Aracan, Pegu, Siam, Camboge, Tonquin & une partie de la Chine - Jan Barend Elwe  - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Jan Barend Elwe (b.fl.1785-1809)

Partie de la Nouvelle Grande Carte des...
Circa 1792

Later hand-coloured copper engraving on paper

21 x 24.25 in (53.5 x 61.5 cm)

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This Improved Map of India Compiled from all the Latest & most Authentic Materials Is Respectfully Dedicated by their most Obedient & most Humble Servant A. Arrowsmith. To The Hon[oura]ble the Court Directors of the East India Company - Aaron Arrowsmith  - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Aaron Arrowsmith (1750 - 1823)

This Improved Map of India Compiled...
2nd January, 1816

Copper-engraved map, printed on paper, with fine original full-wash hand-colouring, dissected into sections and mounted on linen, edged in blue silk

94.5 x 105 in (240 x 266.7 cm) when all of the sheets are joined together

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Map of RAJASTHAN or RAJWARRA, Embracing the Rajpoot Principalities of Central & Western India - Lieutenant Colonel James Tod - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Map of RAJASTHAN or RAJWARRA, Embracing ...
1829

Copper engraving on paper

27 x 42.25 in (68.5 x 107.5 cm)

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Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab, Containing a Particular Account of the Government and Character of the Sikhs - Baron Charles Hügel - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Baron Charles Hügel (1795 - 1870)

Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab, Containing a Particular Account of the Government and Character of the Sikhs

Baron Charles Hügel (1795–1870), Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab, Containing a Particular Account of the Government and Character of the Sikhs, London: John Petheram, 71 Chancery Lane, 1845

xvi, [1], 423 pp.; with engraved frontispiece portrait of Baron Hügel by James Cochran, additional engraved title-page vignette Method of Crossing Rivers in the Panjab, 4 black and white glyphographed plates, and a map of Punjab by John Arrowsmith; publisher’s original dark green cloth, covers blind-blocked with elaborate neo-Rococo borders, gilt vignette of tortoise and scroll on upper board with the motto “Paulatim” and series title Geography and Statistics of Asia, gilt spine title, all edges speckled red
10.25 x 6.5 in (26 x 16.5 cm)

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Provincia Ecclica di Goa Vicariati Aplici nel Dekkan [and] Vicariati E Prefetture Apostoliche nell‘ Indostan - Girolamo Petri - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Girolamo Petri (1806 - 1871)

Provincia Ecclica di Goa Vicariati...

a) Girolamo Petri
Provincia Ecclica di Goa Vicariati Aplici nel Dekkan
Watercolour on paper
Circa 1860
Map Size: 18.5 x 22.75 in (47 x 58 cm)
Sheet Size: 19 x 24.5 in (48.5 x 62.5 cm)


b) Girolamo Petri
Vicariati E Prefetture Apostoliche nell' Indostan
Watercolour on paper
Circa 1860
Map Size: 18.5 x 22.75 in (47 x 58 cm)
Sheet Size: 19 x 24.5 in (48.5 x 62.5 cm)

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An Atlas of Twelve Maps of India - Trelawney Saunders - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Trelawney Saunders (1808 - 1886)

An Atlas of Twelve Maps of India

Trelawney Saunders, An Atlas of Twelve Maps of India: Illustrating the Mountains and River Systems; the Irrigation; Civil Divisions, Population and Languages; Railways, Roads, Telegraphs, Post Offices, Ports, etc. Military commands and posts, famines, meteorology, crops, forests, and one-inch surveys. Accompanied by tables and notes, London: Edward Stanford, 1889

377 pages, including 11 double-page colour lithographic maps, each accompanied by explanatory text leaves, tables, and notes, including one three-fold map; quarter cloth over dark brown boards with fresh spine
23.25 x 14 x 0.5 in (59 x 35.5 x 1.5 cm)

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Goojerat - Lieutenant W L D Smith  - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Goojerat
1849

Colour lithograph on paper

Print size: 14.5 x 19.75 in (37 x 50 cm)
Sheet size: 15.5 x 22 in (39.6 x 56 cm)

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The Imperial Gazetteer of India [Complete with 49 Volumes] - Sir William Wilson Hunter  - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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The Imperial Gazetteer of India [Complete with 49 Volumes]

First edition (1881)
Sir William Wilson Hunter, The Imperial Gazetteer of India, London: Trübner & Co., 1881, 9 volumes; uniformly bound in contemporary or slightly later brown half morocco over matching dark brown boards, spines in five compartments ruled in gilt, lettered and dated in gilt (each)
Vol. I – Akbar to Benaras: xxxiv, 544 pp; Vol. II: Bengal to Cutwa, 539 pp; Vol. III: Dabha to Harduaganj, 567 pp; Vol. IV: Hardwar-Jalalpur-Nahvi, 716 pp; Vol. V: Jalandhar to Kywon-Pya-That, 509 pp; Vol. VI: Labanakhya to Mysore, 533 pp; Vol. VII: Naaf to Rangmagiri, 555 pp; Vol. VIII: Rangoon to Tappal, 537 pp; Vol. IX: Tapti-Zut-Thut and Index, 478 pp.

Second edition (1885-87)
Sir William Wilson Hunter, The Imperial Gazetteer of India, London: Trübner & Co., 1885–1887, 14 volumes; bound in contemporary or slightly later dark green half morocco over green textured cloth boards, spines in five compartments with gilt tooling, title, volume number, and year lettered in gilt, library shelf labels to lower spines (each)

Vol. I – Abar to Balasinor: xxxviii, 460 pp; Vol. II – Balasor to Biramganta: xxii, 462 pp; Vol. III – Birbhum to Cocanada: 472 pp; Vol. IV – Cochin to Ganguria: 479 pp; Vol. V – Ganjam to Indi: 511 pp; Vol. VI – India: xxix, 747 pp; Vol. VII – Indore to Kardong: 477 pp; Vol. VIII – Karens to Madnagarh: 544 pp; Vol. IX – Madras Presidency to Multai: 539 pp; Vol. X – Mulltan to Palhalli: 544 pp; Vol. XI – Pali to Ratia: 518 pp; Vol. XII – Ratlam to Sirmur: 556 pp; Vol. XIII – Sirohi to Zumkha: 562 pp; Vol. XIV – Index: 350 pp

Third edition (1907–1931)
Herbert Hope Risley (1851-1911), ed.; R Burn, W S Meyer, and J S Cotton (co-editors), The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907–1909 (Text Volumes); 1931 (Atlas), 26 volumes comprising 4 volumes on The Indian Empire, 20 volumes of the Alphabetical Gazetteer, 1 index volume, and 1 atlas; a mixed set in two styles of bindings: Volumes I–IV (The Indian Empire), and the Atlas volume in original publishers dark green cloth, titled and bordered in gilt to spine, Greek key pattern at head and foot; Volumes V–XXV uniformly bound in matching dark green cloth, spines ruled and titled in gilt in compartments, these volumes later restored in matching green half morocco over cloth boards, with gilt fillets and blind ruling.

Vols. I–IV: The Indian Empire
Vol. I – Descriptive: xxxi, 568 pp; Vol. II – Historical: xxxv, 573 pp, with 1 folding map; Vol. III – Economic: xxxvi, 520 pp, with 1 folding map; Vol. IV – Administrative: xxx, 552 pp, with 1 folding map.

Vols. V–XXIV: Alphabetical Gazetteer (A–Zira)
Each volume is approximately xx–xxiii prelims + 540–570 pp, with the following alphabetical spans:

Vol. V – Abazai–Arcot: xvii, 437 pp, with 1 folding map; Vol. VI – Argaon–Bardwan: vi, 432 pp with 1 large folding map; Vol. VII – Bareilly–Berasia: xvi, 423 pp with 2 folding maps; Vol. VIII – Berhampore–Bombay: xvi, 421 pp with 3 folding maps; Vol. IX – Bomjur–Central India: vi, 392 pp with 2 folding maps; Vol. X – Central Provinces–Coompta: vi, 390 pp with 1 folding map; Vol. XI – Coondapoor–Edwardesabad: vi, 403 pp with 2 folding maps; Vol. XII – Einme–Gwalior: vi, 443 pp with 2 folding maps; Vol. XIII – Gyaraspur–Jais: vi, 402 pp, with 1 folding map; Vol. XIV – Jaisalmer–Kara: vi, 416 pp, with 1 folding map; Vol. XV – Karachi–Kotayam: vi, 426 pp, with 1 large folding map; Vol. XVI – Kotchandpur–Mahavinyaka: vi, 438 pp with 1 folding map; Vol. XVII – Mahbubabad–Moradabad: vi, 430 pp, with 1 folding map; Vol. XVIII – Moram–Nayagarh: xxii prelims; 552 pp.; Vol. XIX – Nayakanthatti–Parbhani: vi, 416 pp, with 2 folding maps; Vol. XX – Pardi–Pusad: vi, 423 pp, with 2 folding maps; Vol. XXI – Pushkar–Salween: vi, 423 pp, with 2 folding maps; Vol. XXII – Samadhiala–Singhana: vi, 435 pp, with 1 folding map; Vol. XXIII – Singhbhum–Trashi-Chod-Zong: vi, 435 pp, with 1 folding map; Vol. XXIV – Travancore–Zira: vi, 437 pp, with 1 folding map

Vol. XXV: Index Volume
Vol. XXV – Index: xxx, 631 pp, with 1 folding map
A comprehensive index to over 20,000 entries, covering administrative units, geographical features, and princely states.

Vol. XXVI: Atlas Volume
Vol. XXVI – Atlas: vii, 45 pp of explanatory text and 64 large colour lithographed maps (many double-page or folding), folio format (approx. 43 x 34 cm).
Maps include political divisions, population density, language groups, railways, forest cover, rainfall, tribes, castes, and provincial boundaries.

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History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar. Held of the first of January 1903 to Celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty Edward VII, Emperor of India. Compiled from Official Papers by Order of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India - Stephen Wheeler - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar. Held of the first of January 1903 to Celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty Edward VII, Emperor of India. Compiled from Official Papers by Order of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India

Stephen Wheeler, History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar. Held of the first of January 1903 to celebrate the coronation of His Majesty Edward VII, Emperor of India. Compiled from Official Papers by Order of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, London: John Murray, 1904

xiv; 347 pages including a Plan of the Amphitheatre; plate illustrating the Durbar medal; a folding panorama of the Durbar [equivalent to 4 pages]; large folding seating plan; large folding coloured plan of the camps; 30 full-page photogravure portraits by Walker & Cockerell after various photographers; 18 full-page half-tone engravings from photographs; original red cloth boards with gilt monogram of royal arms on front and back cover, uncut edges, top edges gilt
13 x 10.5 x 3.5 in (33 x 26.6 x 9 cm)

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The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors - Max Arthur MacAuliffe - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Max Arthur MacAuliffe (1838 - 1913)

The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors

Max Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909, Six volumes bound in three

Three volumes, containing six parts as issued:
Vol. I, pp. 471, Guru Nanak, his life and writings.
Vol. II, pp. 351, The lives and hymns of the second, third and fourth Gurus.
Vol. III, pp. 444, The life of Guru Arjan, the fifth Guru, and his hymns, photograph of his shrine.
Vol. IV, pp. 421, The lives of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth Gurus and the hymns of the ninth Guru, Teg Bahadur; photographs of the Akal Bunga and the Baba Atal tower, Amritsar.
Vol. V, pp. 351, The life of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru; his compositions; his stance against idolatry; his epistle to the Emperor Aurangzeb; a discussion of the musical measures of his hymns; photographs of the shrine at Fatagarh, Muktsar, the temple at Nander, and an Akali.
Vol. VI, pp. 453, Supplementary religious texts, including the Bhagats of the Granth Sahib, the life and hymns of Jaidev and of Namdev, Kabir, and Rav Das, a photograph of Namdev's shrine at Ghuman, and of two Sikh holy men, index.
Bound in publisher’s original navy-blue cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on spines, with Clarendon Press device stamped in gilt on lower portion of spine panels (each)
8.5 x 6.25 in (21.8 x 16 cm) (each)

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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 - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Chiefs and families of note in the Punjab: A Revised edition of "The Punjab Cities"

Sir Lepel Henry 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, 3 volumes

Volume I: [2], xi, 512 pp.
Volume II: [2], iv, 620 pp.
Volume III: [2], 275 pp.
All 3 volumes include numerous genealogical tables; rebound in recent half-tan calf over green (volumes I and II) and maroon (volume III) cloth-covered boards; spines in six compartments with 4 raised bands, double gilt fillets and gilt-lettered text at the spine, marbled endpapers and red silk ribbon markers bound in. All edges untrimmed (each)

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Untitled [A suite of six engravings of architectural and topographical views in and around Dacca] - G Cooke And John Landseer and Charles D'Oyly - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Untitled [A suite of six engravings of...

a) John Landseer after Charles D'Oyly
Paugla pool, from the River, 1st June, 1827

b) John Landseer after Charles D'Oyly
Remains of a bridge near the Tantee bazar, 4th June, 1814

c) John Landseer after Charles D'Oyly
Ruins of Tungy bridge, 26 December 1825


d) John Landseer after Charles D'Oyly
Paugla pool, with part of Dacca in the extreme distance, 4th June 1817

e) G Cooke and John Landseer after Charles D’Oyly
Part of the interior of the city of Dacca, 4th June 1814

f) John Landseer after Charles D'Oyly
Part of Dacca from the Douillac Nulla, 1st September 1826

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Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús - Rám Ráz - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Rám Ráz (1796 - 1833)

Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús

Rám Ráz, Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús, London: John William Parker, for the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1834

pp. xiv, 64, [2 (errata)], with 42 lithographic plates by Day & Haghe (many folding or double-page), engraved vignette to title; rebound half leather bound with 4 raised bands and gilt text at the spine, retaining the original publisher's printed wrappers inside, complete with the Royal Asiatic Society’s engraved vignette on the title.
13 x 10 in (33 x 25.5 cm)

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Illustrations of Rock-Cut Temples of India - James Fergusson - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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James Fergusson (1808 - 1886)

Illustrations of Rock-Cut Temples of India

James Fergusson, Illustrations of Rock-Cut Temples of India: Selected from the best examples of the different series of caves at Ellora, Ajunta, Cuttack, Salsette, Karli, and Mahavellipore. Drawn on stone by Mr T C Dibdin, from sketches carefully made on the spot, with the assistance of the Camera-Lucida in the years 1838-39, by James Fergusson, Esq., London: John Weale, 1845

1 later hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 18 later hand-coloured lithograph plates; two plates with two scenes, after Fergusson by T C Dibdin. All plates are captioned as 'From A Sketch by Jas. Fergusson Esqr.' (except the title plate and plate XI) and signed as drawn and lithographed by T C Dibdin and printed by M and N Hanhart. Each numbered plate carries the publisher's imprint of John Weale - except plates 6, 8, and 15. The work is dedicated by James Fergusson "To the President and Fellows of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland"; rebound in modern full brown leather, sympathetically tooled in blind and gilt with a red morocco title panel and raised bands to the spine; marbled endpapers replaced with modern plain cream paper.
21.75 x 15 x 0.5 in (55.5 x 38 x 1.5 cm)

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Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir. Prepared under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council from Photographs, Plans and Drawings taken by Order of the Government of India - Lieutenant Henry Hardy Cole - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir. Prepared under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council from Photographs, Plans and Drawings taken by Order of the Government of India

Henry Hardy Cole, Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir. Prepared under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council from Photographs, Plans, and Drawings taken by Order of the Government of India, London: India Museum, W. H. Allen and co., publishers to the India office, 1869

31, [1] p. plates, 44 mounted carbon autotype prints (numbered 1-44), a lithographed map, and 14 plans; original brown half-leather and orange cloth boards with gold-embossed titles and decorative borders, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom-made half-brown morocco and marbled paper slipcase with decorative gilt rules and title to the spine.
13.25 x 10.25 x 1 in (34 x 26 x 2.5 cm)

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The Moghul Architecture of Fathpur-Sikri. Described and Illustrated by Edmund W. Smith, Archaeological Survey of India [4 Volumes] - Edmund W Smith - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Edmund W Smith (1877 - 1938)

The Moghul Architecture of Fathpur-Sikri. Described and Illustrated by Edmund W. Smith, Archaeological Survey of India [4 Volumes]


Edmund W Smith, The Moghul Architecture of Fathpur-Sikri. Described and Illustrated by Edmund W. Smith, Archaeological Survey of India., Allahabad: Superintendent, Government Press, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Vol. XVIII, Parts I–IV, 1894–1898

Part I: xix, pp. 38,120 plates, some coloured; 1894
Part II: v, pp. 34,103 plates; 1896
Part III: x, pp. 60, 91 plates, some coloured; 1897
Part IV: vi, 88 plates, some coloured; 1898
Illustrated with numerous photogravures, architectural elevations, plans, measured drawings, and photographic reproductions, some plates are folding or double-page.
Four parts bound in uniform contemporary half-black morocco over original printed boards, spines with raised bands in gilt, gilt ruling and titling, and a floral device to compartments; edges sprinkled. The original printed front board retained, showing publication details (Allahabad: Government Press, 1894, 1896, 1897, 1898) and retail price (Rs. 20 / £1 6s. 8d.). (each)
12 x 10 in (30 x 25 cm) (each)

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Portfolio of Indian Architectural Drawings: Part I, Issued by the Government North-West Provinces and Oudh - Edmund W Smith - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Edmund W Smith (1877 - 1938)

Portfolio of Indian Architectural Drawings: Part I, Issued by the Government North-West Provinces and Oudh

Edmund W Smith, Portfolio of Indian Architectural Drawings: Part I, Issued by the Government North-West Provinces and Oudh, London: W H Allen & Co.; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.; Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.; Bombay: Thacker & Co., Ltd. and Allahabad: The Supt. Govt. Press, North-West Provinces and Oudh, 1897

Title page, [2], 52 loose photolithographed plates by W Griggs including 50 black and white plates and 2 colour plates (plate nos. 39 and 40) each measuring 56 x 38.2 cm; loose as issued in publisher's portfolio cloth with ribbon and gilt text on the front board measuring 22 x 15 x 1 in (56 x 38.2 x 2.8 cm)

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Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization: Being an Official Account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-Daro Carried Out by the Government of India between the Years 1922 and 1927 [3 Volumes] - John Marshall - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization: Being an Official Account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-Daro Carried Out by the Government of India between the Years 1922 and 1927 [3 Volumes]

John Marshall, Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization: Being an Official Account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-Daro Carried Out by the Government of India between the Years 1922 and 1927, London: Arthur Probsthain, 1931, 3 volumes

Vol. I: xxv, 364 pp., 14 black and white plates and 10 in-text illustrations, 2 folded maps enclosed in a slip at the end.
Vol. II: xii, 365-716 pp., 30 in-text illustrations
Vol. III: xi, 150 black and white plates (some folding); numerous illustrations, plans, and maps in text
Publisher’s original publisher's brown cloth with gilt device of the zebu bull to upper board and gilt spine titles, top edges trimmed, others uncut (each)
11.5 x 9 in (29 x 23 cm) (each)

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Panorama of Calcutta, taken from the Ochterlony Monument on the Maidan - Sache and Westfield - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Panorama of Calcutta, taken from the...
Circa 1865

Albumen print mounted on linen

9 x 74.5 in (22.8 x 189.2 cm) (when opened)

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