First English grammar of Sinhala. Chater's book is the first English grammar of Sinhala, the major language of Sri Lanka, and the first major book ...

Churchill's first book. 'While I was attached to the Malakand Field Force, I wrote a series of letters from the London Daily Telegraph. The favoura...

A detailed narrative of the Bengal Army from the earliest establishment of the British influence in India, to the close of Lord Clive's second adm...

Second edition. The author was Financial Commissioner for Oudh and describes himself as 'the intimate adviser and confidant of' Sir Henry Lawrence...

Engraved map of Southeast Asia, showing the area from India in the northwest to the southernmost part of Japan in the northeast, with the Indonesi...

A fine detailed map of India and the Burmese coast. The map extends from Turkestan and southern China south to the Maldives, Ceylon and Sumatra. I...

Scarce. 'Sulaiman's works had a profound effect on many Arabic and Persian geographers and are of exceptional importance for the study of early Is...

Account of Western society by an Indian poet. An entertaining account of Khan's impressions and remarks on the travels he made West from his hometo...

With the rare index plate. 'An Embassy despatched in 1788 by the Nawab of Oudh, travelled in a huge convoy to meet Lord Cornwallis in Calcutta. Zof...

With the rare index plate. The contest is between the game-cocks of Colonel Mordaunt and the Nawab Wazir of Oudh, Asafud-dauba, who are seen facing...

With the rare index plate. "In 1784 Zoffany was persuaded by Lady Day, wife of the Advocate-General, to take part in a tiger hunt at Chinsura with ...

Thomas Daniell (1749–1840) and his nephew William Daniell (1769–1837) travelled extensively in India between 1786 and 1793. On their return to Bri...

Provides important details of Indian court life and travel (Czech).'Langley was a political agent in Khairpur and had the rank of a major. Mir Ali...

Rare playing card map. Designed to play the Florentine version of the tarot game, the 'Minchiate'.The card features a miniature map to its upper p...

Robertson was encouraged in this work by his reading of Major James Rennell's Memoir on the Map of Hindustan, 1783 and also by Edward Gibbon. The ...

A valuable description of the culture of India in the 1820s. Heber's tour encompassed a journey through Bihar, Rohilkhand, Rajputana, and Gujarat,...

Hakluyt Society, first series 56. The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Middleton, Love, Downton, and Cross. Calen...

'With a text written in Hindi and English, this how-to guide for beginning sportsmen to arrange driven tiger shoots was probably written for sport...

A defence by Harry Verelst (1734-1785) of the British administration in Bengal during his governorship. 'Verelst became a loyal supporter of Clive...

Rare broadsheet advertising an exhibition at the Egyptian Hall. The Egyptian Hall was a leading venue for exhibitions featuring original artwork a...

Calcutta printing and binding. Scarce Calcutta imprint.First edition. 8vo, vi, 119, cclxvi pp., folding tables, contemporary green polished half ca...

A pair of photographs showing the nuptial celebrations of Kumar Shri Pravinsinhji of Bansda and the Kunvari of Kumar Shri Madarsinhji, heir appare...

'The most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence' (Schwerdt), Oriental Field Sports is a valuable record of the sporting activities of Britis...

Rare eighteenth century manuscript panorama of Madras. one of the first detailed views of this city today populated with more than 7 million people...