Indian Subcontinent
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Ancient accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan travellers.
SULAIMAN EL TAJIR; RENAUDOT, Eusébe (translator).Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Scarce. 'Sulaiman's works had a profound effect on many Arabic and Persian geographers and are of exceptional importance for the study of early Is...
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Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe,
KHAN, Mirza Abu Taleb; STEWART, Charles (translator).Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00Account 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...
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Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match.
ZOFFANY, Johann.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00With 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...
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The Upper part of Kailasa No.1 and No.2.
WALES, James; DANIELL, Thomas.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Thomas Daniell (1749–1840) and his nephew William Daniell (1769–1837) travelled extensively in India between 1786 and 1793. On their return to Bri...
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Narrative of a residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad;
LANGLEY, Edward Archer.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Provides 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...
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[Sri Lanka] VII. Isole Mariane o de Ladroni.
[RABATTA, Augusto da & BAILLOU, Jean-Baptist de].Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Rare 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...
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A historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India;
ROBERTSON, William.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Robertson 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 ...
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Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825.
HEBER, Reginald.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00A valuable description of the culture of India in the 1820s. Heber's tour encompassed a journey through Bihar, Rohilkhand, Rajputana, and Gujarat,...
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The voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies,
[LANCASTER, Sir James]; MARKHAM, Clements R. (editor).Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Hakluyt Society, first series 56. The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Middleton, Love, Downton, and Cross. Calen...
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A view of the rise, progress, and present state of the English government in Bengal:
VERELST, Harry.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00A defence by Harry Verelst (1734-1785) of the British administration in Bengal during his governorship. 'Verelst became a loyal supporter of Clive...
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Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
[OVERLAND ROUTE].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Rare broadsheet advertising an exhibition at the Egyptian Hall. The Egyptian Hall was a leading venue for exhibitions featuring original artwork a...
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Marriage Procession, Bansda.
[VERNON (attributed to).Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00A pair of photographs showing the nuptial celebrations of Kumar Shri Pravinsinhji of Bansda and the Kunvari of Kumar Shri Madarsinhji, heir appare...
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Oriental field sports,
WILLIAMSON, Thomas; Samuel Howett; Edward Orme.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £15,000.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00'The most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence' (Schwerdt), Oriental Field Sports is a valuable record of the sporting activities of Britis...
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Manuscript Panorama of Madras.
[MADRAS].Original price £14,500.00 - Original price £14,500.00Original price £14,500.00£14,500.00£14,500.00 - £14,500.00Current price £14,500.00Rare eighteenth century manuscript panorama of Madras. one of the first detailed views of this city today populated with more than 7 million people...
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Rambles and recollections of an Indian official.
SLEEMAN, William Henry (Lieut-Col.)Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Sleeman (1788-1856), an officer in the East India Company, achieved some renown for his part in the anti-Thugee campaign in the 1830's and 40's, b...
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Les Noces Mogolienes.
OPIZ, Georg Emanuel.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Georg Emanuel Opiz, or Opitz (1775-1841) was born in Prague, but moved to Dresden where he studied painting under Giovanni Battista Casanova. His ...
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