Including a visit to the Sultan of Muscat. By the time Cowans' account of his life on the sea as a merchant sailor was published, the Golden Age of...

A handsome set, with illustrations exploring the regions of India through architecture, people, and geography. First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; numero...

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

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...

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 rare supplementary volume. This was the first major attempt to explore the Karakoram. The six-man expedition ascended the Hispar Glacier,and t...

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...

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...