From India to the Planet mars
Hardback 1900 446 All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK destinations / Good (Book ref. 545434) £75.00
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Field sports in India, 1800-1947 With two chapters on pigsticking by C. R. Templer, and a foreword by Wilson Stephens
Hardback Gentry Books 1st Edition 1973 223 0856140236 All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK destinations previous owner's small Very Good (Book ref. 543605) £12.00
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India A Million Mutinies Now
London: Heinemann, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 5¾" - 6'' Tall 0434510270 This is a Very Good + Copy of this hardcover Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the wrapper and with just a little light sunning to spine.Not price clipped.This copy was acquired from the private personal collection of Bill Towill a former brave serving Chindit who after the harrowing experiences of Dunkirk was sent out to India and commissioned into the 9th Gurkha Rifles,serving with their 3rd Battalion in India,in the Arakan (Burma) in 1942/43 in Northern Burma with the Chindits in 1944,in Java and also Malaya during 1945/46.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.8vo 521pp First Edition 1st Impression (Book ref. 62666) £15.00
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With The Gurkhas India,Burma,Singapore,Malaya,Indonesia 1940-1959
Bishop Auckland: The Pentland Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 5¾" - 6'' Tall 1858214203 Signed by Author This is a Fine Copy of this hardcover Book in a Fine dust-jacket which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket..Not price clipped.The book has been SIGNED by the Author on the Title page to Bill Towill and there is also an additional letter by the Author laid in at the front of the book.This copy was acquired from the private personal collection of Bill Towill a former brave serving Chindit who after the harrowing experiences of Dunkirk was sent out to India and commissioned into the 9th Gurkha Rifles,serving with their 3rd Battalion in India,in the Arakan (Burma) in 1942/43 in Northern Burma with the Chindits in 1944,in Java and also Malaya during 1945/46.This is a fascinating study on this extraordinary campaign.Scarce signed title and particullarly nice with this close association.8vo 270pp First Edition 1st Impression (Book ref. 62652) £55.00
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With The Gurkhas India,Burma,Singapore,Malaya,Indonesia 1940-1959
Bishop Auckland: The Pentland Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 5¾" - 6'' Tall 1858214203 This is a Fine Copy of this hardcover Book in a Fine dust-jacket which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket..Not price clipped.This copy was acquired from the private personal collection of Bill Towill a former brave serving Chindit who after the harrowing experiences of Dunkirk was sent out to India and commissioned into the 9th Gurkha Rifles,serving with their 3rd Battalion in India,in the Arakan (Burma) in 1942/43 in Northern Burma with the Chindits in 1944,in Java and also Malaya during 1945/46.This is a fascinating study on this extraordinary campaign.Laid in at the front of the book is a publisher's letter addressed to Bill Towill which the Author has requested that he be sent a copy with the Author's compliments.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Lovely clean copy internally with no previous names or inscriptions present and especially interesting with this close association,8vo 270pp First Edition 1st Impression (Book ref. 62630) £35.00
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A Passage To India
London: The Folio Society, 1983. Illustrated by Ian Ribbons. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 5¾" - 7¾" Tall This is a Fine Copy of this book in a Fine Slip-case,with drawings by Ian Ribbons.Lovely bright clean copy without any previous names or inscriptions present.8vo 301pp First Edition Thus (Book ref. 62542) £15.00
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A Passage To India.
London. Edward Arnold. 1924. 1st edn. Hardback, no d/w. 325pp + 3pp publishers adverts. Mid blue cloth boards with dark blue titles to front and spine. Very light rubs to extrems, bumps to spine ends and a small bump to centre of spine. Scattered light foxing to block edge. Overall a G++ uninscribed copy (Book ref. 4438) £70.00
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Hidden tribes of India.
Hong Kong: Local Colour Limited, 2000. First edition in English. 4to, 232pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. This copy is marred by staining to pages 163-167, and waving of the pages from page 100 onwards. The dustwrapper has light creasing to the edges. Only an acceptable copy, but still usable. ISBN 9628711032 (Book ref. 15592) £20.00
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A winter in India - light impressions of its cities, peoples and customs.
London: Stanley Paul, 1913. First edition. 8vo, xiii, 299pp. Frontispiece, 90 plates, 4 maps (2 folding). Original black cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. There is foxing to the edges of the text block, else this is a very good copy. (Book ref. 13016) £20.00
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Memoirs on the history, folk-lore and distribution of the races of the north-western provinces of India; being an amplified edition of the original supplemental glossary of Indian Terms [volume 1].
London: Trubner & co, 1869. New edition, volume 1 (of 2) only. 8vo, xx, 369pp. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Head and food of spine frayed, preliminary pages foxed - overall a good copy. (Book ref. 12921) £35.00
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India - a handbook of travel.
Narendrapur: Saturday Mail publications, 1980. Fifth edition (revised and enlarged). 8vo, 540pp. Folding maps, plates. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. The book itself is in very good condition - the dustwrapper is good (rather rubbed). (Book ref. 12042) £9.50
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Census of India, 1901; volume 1 (general report) & volume 1A (tables).
Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1903. First edition, 2 volumes. Large 4to, xxv, 582pp; 592pp. 9 folding maps, text diagrams. Original half cloth (red cloth for volume 1, blue cloth for volume 1A), gilt titling to spines. Bindings a little rubbed, page edges foxed, else a very good set. (Book ref. 3818) £120.00
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The chronicles of Budgepore, or, sketches of life in upper India.
London: W H Allen & co, 1893. New edition. 8vo, ix, 344pp, 31pp catalogue. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to front board and spine. Binding rather rubbed, bookplate to front pastedown, preliminary pages foxed and chafed at the edges, inscription to title page. Overall a good minus copy. (Book ref. 12045) £35.00
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India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825.
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979. First edition (hardback). 4to (27cm by 21cm), 536pp. 16 colour plates, 346 text illustrations. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Top edge slightly dusty, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is near-VG (spine panel lightly sunned). ISBN 0856670545 (Book ref. 26717) £95.00
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Continental India; travelling sketches and historical recollections, illustrating the antiquity, religion and manners of the Hindoos, the extent of British conquests and the progress of missionary operations [volume 1].
London: Thomas Ward & co, 1840. First edition (hardback), volume 1 (of 2) only. 8vo, xx, 477pp. Original purple cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt design to the front board. This copy is only in fair condition, as the spine is badly waterstained, but the contents are clean, making this suitable as a reading or working copy. (Book ref. 18828) £15.00
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Federico Peliti (1844-1914); an Italian photographer in India at the time of Queen Victoria.
Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 1994. First edition in English (hardback). Square 8vo, 293pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 094879772X (Book ref. 26675) £15.00
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The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (from the Mahabharata), being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the supreme being under the form of Krishna.
London: Trubner & co, 1885. Second edition (hardback). Small 8vo, xiv, 173pp. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Some minor marks to the binding, some minor pencil annotations, ownership inscription. Overall, this copy is in near-VG condition. (Book ref. 26189) £10.00
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The Game-Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon: snipe, bustards and sand-grouse, volume II.
London: John Bale, sons & Danielsson, 1921. First edition, volume 2 (of 3) only (hardback). 8vo, xvi, 328pp. 19 colour plates by H Gronvold, two coloured maps, 6 b&w plates. Bound in half black crushed morocco, green cloth boards, gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Binding a little rubbed, light staining of the endpapers, else this copy is in very good condition. (Book ref. 26721) £50.00
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Architecture and sculpture of India; sixteen photographs.
Calcutta: Government of India Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Braodcasting, nd [c. 1930] A portfolio of 16 plates (31cm by 25cm) in a white card folder. Plates in very good condition, the folder is good plus (rubbed, lightly frayed and lightly spotted). (Book ref. 16410) £10.00
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The history of cholera in India from 1862 to 1881. Being a descriptive and statistical account of the disease as derived from the published official reports of the several provincial governments during that period and mainly in illustration of the relation between cholera activity and climatic conditions. Together with original observations on the causes and nature of cholera. By Deputy Surgeon-General H.W. Bellew, C.S.I. Sanitary Commissioner, Punjab. With maps, diagrams, etc.
London: Trubner..., 1885. FIRST EDITION. Thick 8vo, pp. xiv, 839, [1] blank, [2] adverts., maps, plates, orig. dark brown ribbed cloth, stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland on prelims., binding sl. rubbed, top and base of spine chipped. (Book ref. 13445) £95.00
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