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The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon [3 Volumes] - Major George F L Marshall and Lionel De Niceville - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon [3 Volumes]

Major George F L Marshall and Lionel De Niceville, The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon: A Descriptive Handbook of all the known species of Rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations, Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press, 1882-1890

In 3 volumes
Volume I: Colour frontispiece chromolithograph by Messrs. West, New man & Co. + 17 black-and-white autotype plates by the Autotype Company of London + many black-and-white engravings by George Pearson; 1882
Volume II: black-and-white frontispiece and 8 black-and-white autotype plates by the Autotype Company of London; 1886
Volume III: Colour frontispiece chromolithograph and 1 more plate by Messrs. West, New man & Co. + 5 black-and-white autotype plates by the Autotype Company of London; 1880
Half leather board with gilt text at the spine with 4 raised bands (each). Original floral golden endpapers in Volume 2 and 3. Each plate drawn by Babu Grish Chunder Chuckerbutty and Babu Behari Lall Das.

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Carte Particuliere d‘une Partie d‘Asie ou sont Les Isles D‘Andemaon, Ceylan, Les Maldives.../ Partie Occidentale d‘une D‘Asie ou sont les Isles De Zocotora De l‘Amirante... - Pieter  Mortier - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Pieter Mortier (1661 - 1711)

Carte Particuliere d‘une Partie d‘Asie...
Circa 1700

Copper engraving on paper

Map Size: 24.8 x 35.8 in (63 x 91 cm)
With Mount: 31.1 x 42.1 in (79 x 107 cm)

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Erster Theil der Karte von Asien welche die Türkei, Arabien, Persien Indien diesseits des Ganges und einen Theil der Tatarei enthält [2 sheet Map], 1786 - Franz Anton Schrambl - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Franz Anton Schrambl (1751 - 1803)

Erster Theil der Karte von Asien welche ...

Franz Anton Schraembal, Erster Theil der Karte von Asien welche die Türkei, Arabien, Persien Indien diesseits des Ganges und einen Theil der Tatarei enthält [2 sheet Map], 1786


Rare two sheet later hand-coloured copper engraved mounted map of India, Persia and Arabia.
Northern Sheet:
15.9 x 31.1 in (40.5 x 79 cm) (Without Mount)
22.2 x 37.5 in (56.5 x 95.5 cm) (With Mount)
Southern Sheet:
17.1 x 31.1 in (43.5 x 79 cm) (Without Mount)
23.5 x 37.5 in (59.7 x 95.5 cm) (With Mount)

Will form a huge map of 37 x 31.1 in (94 x 79 cm) approximately, when both the sheets are joined together.

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A narrative of the campaign in India, which terminated the war with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792. With maps and plans illustrative of the subject, and a view of Seringapatam. By Major Dirom, deputy adjutant general of His Majesty‘s forces in India - Major Alexander Dirom - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Major Alexander Dirom (1757 - 1830)

A narrative of the campaign in India, which terminated the war with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792. With maps and plans illustrative of the subject, and a view of Seringapatam. By Major Dirom, deputy adjutant general of His Majesty‘s forces in India

Major Alexander Dirom, A narrative of the campaign in India, which terminated the war with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792. With maps and plans illustrative of the subject, and a view of Seringapatam. By Major Dirom, deputy adjutant general of His Majesty's forces in India, London: Printed by W Bulmer and Co. and sold by G Nicol, Pall-Mall; and J Sewell, CornHill, 1794, second edition

xv, [1], 300 pages including frontispiece View of Seringapatam, 7 engraved plates and 2 engraved map; full leather binding
27.5 x 22.2 x 3.5 cm

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Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies of the Mahrattas - Thomas Duer Broughton - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Thomas Duer Broughton (1778 - 1835)

Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies of the Mahrattas

Thomas Duer Broughton, Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies of the Mahrattas, London: John Murray, 1813. 1st Edition

[14], 358 pages, [1]. With ten coloured engravings including frontispiece, from drawings by a native artist; half leather bound with gilt text and marbled boards
10.6 x 8.6 in (27 x 22 cm)

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The Lusiad; Or, the Discovery of India: An Epic Poem translated from The Original Portuguese of Luis De Camoens - William Julius Mickle - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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William Julius Mickle (1734 - 1788)

The Lusiad; Or, the Discovery of India: An Epic Poem translated from The Original Portuguese of Luis De Camoens

William Julius Mickle, The Lusiad; or the Discovery of India. An Epic Poem. Translated from the original Portuguese of Luis de Camöens. By William Julius Mickle, Oxford: Jackson and Lister, 1776, first edition

[xii], clxvii, 484pp. (482pp. as there is an error in paging, pages 153 - 154 omitted - see SABIB); full leather bound with spine decorated in gilt
28 x 23.5 x 4.5 cm

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Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 & 1783 - William  Hodges R.A. - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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William Hodges R.A. (1744 - 1797)

Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 & 1783

William Hodges, Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 & 1783, London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J Edwards, 1793

vi + [1] + 156 pages including 14 engraved plates by Medland, Byrne, Angus and others after Hodges + large folding engraved map of part of Bengal and Bihar + table of the Plates (with advertisement to verso for Hodges' Views in India drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783); re-jointed retaining the original spine with half leather bound and marbled boards, all edges gilt
30 x 24.5 x 2.5 cm

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A History of the Boondelas - Lieutenant Colonel  Wridenhall Roberts Pogson - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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A History of the Boondelas

Captain W R Pogson, A History of the Boondelas, Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press and Published by the Asiatic Lithographic Company, 1828

pp. vii, 174 + 2-page list of Subscribers’ Names [135 copies] + 1-page Emendata [i.e. list of corrections in the text]. The title-page has a vignette captioned ‘View of the Breach of the N. W. Gateway of Ujeegurh’ [i.e. Ajaigarh]. Complete with 6 full-page lithographic plates [1 of them double-page] and 3 maps [Bundelkhund, Fort of Ujeegurh and Kalinjur] of which 1 is folding, and 1 folding genealogical table; contemporary half-leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers. All edges gilt. Gift slip to Armstrong College pasted inside front cover.
28 x 23 x 1.5 cm

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Mes Croisieres aux Indes. Ceylan, Zanzibar, Le Kénia, L‘Afrique Orientale, L‘Egypte, La Palestine, La Syrie et la Méditerranée. Avec soixante treize illustrations - Joseph  Guibal - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Mes Croisieres aux Indes. Ceylan, Zanzibar, Le Kénia, L‘Afrique Orientale, L‘Egypte, La Palestine, La Syrie et la Méditerranée. Avec soixante treize illustrations

Joseph Guibal, Mes Croisieres aux Indes. Ceylan, Zanzibar, Le Kénia, L'Afrique Orientale, L'Egypte, La Palestine, La Syrie et la Méditerranée. Avec soixante treize illustrations (My Cruises to India. Ceylon, Zanzibar, Kenya, East Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and the Mediterranean. With seventy-three illustrations) , Montpellier, 25 March 1946, 2nd edition

222 pages enriched with 12 original watercolors or gouaches in colour, some signed, by the painter Gaston Astier along with 106 photographic plates and 14 reproductions of the painters’ watercolours; representing scenes of wild animals and caravans; half-leather bound with marbled boards and 5 raised bands at the spine, marbled end papers enclosed in a slipcase
23 x 19 x 4 cm

This is copy number 6 from a limited edition of 10 numbered copies.

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Cartoons from the Hindi Punch: Being the Political and Social History of the Country during the year told in humorous cartoons, &c. [6 Volumes] - Barorjee  Nowrosjee - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Cartoons from the Hindi Punch: Being the Political and Social History of the Country during the year told in humorous cartoons, &c. [6 Volumes]

Barjorjee Nowrosjee, Cartoons from the Hindi Punch for 1910: Being the Political and Social History of the country during the year told in humorous cartoons & C., Bombay: Barjorjee Nowrosjee at the "Hindi Punch" office, Bombay Samachar Press, Frere Road, Fort, 1910

6 volumes [Volumes for the years 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1911 and 1913]
Uniformly bound in half leather with maroon cloth with title and volume number embossed on spine in gilt (each)
28 x 22.5 x 1.6 cm (each)

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam [Limited Edition Copy with ilustrations by Abanindranath Tagore] - M Robert  Delpeuch - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam [Limited Edition Copy with ilustrations by Abanindranath Tagore]

M Robert Delpeuch, Rubaiyat Poeme D'Omar Khayyam, Paris: Studio Edition: Librairie P Ollendorff, 1910

Complete set of 12 colour plates by Abanindranath Tagore tipped in on thick cardboard sheets with tissue guards as issued, each print set within grey borders printed on the board with tissue guards carrying the quatrain on which each painting is based printed in red, top edges gilt, with 16-page string-tied booklet printed in London (carrying the 75 quatrains in the first edition of Edward Fitzgerald's version published in 1859), translated into French by M Robert Delpeuch; drop-over portfolio with paper-covered boards along with ribbons and a cloth spine, and with the title-ticket pasted on the cover.
Size of prints: 7.5 x 5.25 in (19 x 13.3 cm)
Size of cardboard mounts: 12 x 9.6 in (30 x 24 cm)
Size of the book: 12.4 x 8.8 x 1 in (31.2 x 22 x 2.5 cm)

Limited edition of 250 copies of which this is copy number 36.

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Nandalal Bose [Signed book by Nandalal Bose] + Pictures from the Life of Buddha - Nandalal  Bose - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Nandalal Bose (1882 - 1966)

Nandalal Bose [Signed book by Nandalal Bose] + Pictures from the Life of Buddha

a) Nandalal Bose

pp. 32 including the covers + 8 plates tipped-in on one side of each sheet, 2 in colour; thread-stitched softcover catalogue for the show with a black and white illustration by Nandalal Bose on cover with his printed signature.
29 x 23 x 0.5 cm

Signed and dated in pencil on the half-title page, “Nandalal Bose / 7.8.56" A souvenir of the exhibition held March-April 1954. The exhibition was held under the joint auspices of Santiniketan Asramika Sangha and Government College of Art and Crafts, Calcutta.

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The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected with it (from the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With illustrative Prints, engraved by William Daniell, from pictures painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights - William  Daniell - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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William Daniell (1769 - 1837)

The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected with it (from the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With illustrative Prints, engraved by William Daniell, from pictures painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights

William Daniell, The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected With It (From the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With Illustrative Prints, Engraved by William Daniell, From Pictures Painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights, London: Printed For William Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square. By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars., 1814

[2], 99, [1] pp. frontispiece and 16 black and white aquatint plates on mounted India-proof paper with tissue guards engraved by William Daniel after Robert Smirke; half leather bound with 5 raised bands and gilt text along with decorative motif on the spine, marbled boards.
42.5 x 33 x 2.8 cm

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Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling [Signed and limited deluxe edition] - Rudyard  Kipling - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling [Signed and limited deluxe edition]

Rudyard Kipling, Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912

xix + 477 pages; bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling along with swastika symbol to the spine, front and rear panels along with a embossed gilt elephant on the front board, top edges gilt, others uncut
27.5 x 21.2 x 5.5 cm

An attractive Signed limited first deluxe edition of Rudyard Kipling's Collected Verse printed on Japanese vellum, limited to 100 copies signed by Kipling, of which this is number 95.

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Goal [Signed book by the Author] - Captain  Dhyan Chand - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Captain Dhyan Chand (1905 - 1979)

Goal [Signed book by the Author]

Captain Dhyan Chand, Goal, Madras: Sport & Pastime, 1952

xii + [2] + 136 pages including 33 black and white plates + 8 advertisement pages at the end; original pictorial hardbound
21.2 x 13.5 x 1.7 cm

Signed and inscribed by Dhyan Chand on front free endpaper: "With best wishes & good luck / to Major F.B.Uphoald. / Yours / DhyanChand / 22.12.52"

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High Adventure + Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing [Signed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay] - Edmund Hillary and James Ramsey Ullman - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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High Adventure + Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing [Signed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay]

a) Edmund Hillary, High Adventure, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955

226 including 1 colour frontispiece and 31 black and white photographic plates, 14 sketches by George Djurkovic in text and 7 maps by A Spark; original cloth bound covered with dust jacket
21 x 15 x 2.5 cm

Signed by Hillary in blue ink to colour frontispiece from photograph depicting him at the summit of Mount Everest, 29 May 1953, and signed by fellow mountaineer and member of the successful 1953 British Mount Everest expedition George Lowe (1924-2013) on front free end paper. Hillary's first book and his account of his introduction to climbing and the 1953 climb to the summit of Mount Everest.

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