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The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon; in Eighteen Lectures; with Notes: Translated from the original, in the Sanskreet, or ancient language of the Brahmans - Charles  Wilkins - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Charles Wilkins (1749 - 1836)

The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon; in Eighteen Lectures; with Notes: Translated from the original, in the Sanskreet, or ancient language of the Brahmans

Charles Wilkins, The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon; in Eighteen Lectures; with Notes: Translated from the original, in the Sanskreet, or ancient language of the Brahmans, Printed for C Nourse, 1785, First edition

156 pages; hardbound in early marble-covered boards with a modern leather spine with gilt text
31.5 x 25 x 2 cm

The first edition of the English translation of the Bhagavad Gita, the most revered text in Hindu scripture.

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The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India [3 Volumes] - Robert Montgomery Martin - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Robert Montgomery Martin (1801 - 1868)

The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India [3 Volumes]

Robert Montgomery Martin, The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India: Comprising the Districts of Behar, Shahabad, Bhagulpoor, Goruckpoor, Dinajepoor, Puraniya, Rungpoor, and Assam in Relation to their Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Fine Arts, Population, Religion, Education, Statistics, etc., London: W H Allen and Co., 1838

Set of 3 Volumes
Volume I: xiii; 3; 53 appendix pages; 560 pages including 16 black-and-white folded plates related to Behar and Patna; 9 black-and-white folded plates related to Shahabad; 6 black-and-white in-text illustrations; 2 black-and-white with outlines in colour
Volume II: xxxii; 713 pages including 9 black-and-white plates and 3 maps with outlines in colour
Volume III: v; 1019 pages including 3 maps; 2 black-and-white plates; 4black-and-white plates related to Bhagalpoor; 8 black-and-white plates related to Goruckpoor; 14 plates related to Dinajppor and 12 black-and-white woodcut engravings for in-text illustrations
Publisher's cloth along with blind-stamped decorative pattern on the front and back boards and gilt text and "Pharoh" image at the spine (each)
23 x 15 x 12 cm (each)

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British India: Its History, Topography, Government, Military, Defence, Finance, Commerce, and Staple Products, with an Exposition of the Social and Religious State [12 Divisons] - Robert Montgomery Martin - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Robert Montgomery Martin (1801 - 1868)

British India: Its History, Topography, Government, Military, Defence, Finance, Commerce, and Staple Products, with an Exposition of the Social and Religious State [12 Divisons]

Robert Montgomery Martin, British India: Its History, Topography, Government, Military, Defence, Finance, Commerce, and Staple Products, with an Exposition of the Social and Religious State, London and New York: J. and F. Tallis, n.d., but 1848

Bound in the publisher's original bright red blind-stamped florally decorated and textured cloth; gilt cover national symbol and title, spine titles gilt and decorated (each)
28.8 x 19.8 x 1.5 cm (each)

In 12 divisions

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Taken at Kandelmund, which it represents, and the Toda family inhabiting (assigned by artist) - Captain Richard Barron - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Captain Richard Barron (fl.1815 - 1838)

Taken at Kandelmund, which it...
Hand coloured aquatint on paper
Print Size: 15.1 x 23 in (38.5 x 58.5 cm)
With Mount: 18.5 x 23.4 in (47 x 59.5 cm)

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Sketches of Native Life in India, with Views in Rajpootana, Simlah, etc. - Charles Richard Francis - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Charles Richard Francis (1821 - 1901)

Sketches of Native Life in India, with Views in Rajpootana, Simlah, etc.

Charles Richard Francis, Sketches of Native Life in India, with Views in Rajpootana, Simlah, etc., London: Meldola, Cahn & Co., 1848

iv; [1] blank page; 30 pages including 22 tinted lithographed plates by J C Anderson after C H Fairland; list of plates; 4 pages of list of subscribers at the end; errata slip pasted at the end; blue cloth board with gilt text on the front board
36 x 27 x 1.1 cm

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The View of Hindoostan [2 Volumes] - Thomas  Pennant - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798)

The View of Hindoostan [2 Volumes]

Thomas Pennant, The View of Hindoostan. Volume I: Western Hindoostan. Volume II: Eastern Hindoostan, London: No Publisher, Printed by Henry Hughs, 1798, 1st edition

Set of 2 volumes
Volume I: Western Hindoostan, [2] + 1 frontispiece + [1] + (ii-v) + [11] + [1] + 2-263 pages, [1], [9] index, [1], 8 plates, 1 head piece at top of page 1; rebound with new marbled boards and ornamented leather spine with gilt title
32.5 x 26 x 3 cm
Volume II: Eastern Hindoostan, 1 frontispiece, [10] + [1] + 2-374 pages, [13] index, 1 13 plates, 1 head piece at top of page 1, 1 map (folding); rebound with new marble boards and decorative gilt tooling and titles at the spine
32.5 x 26 x 3.3 cm

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Zoography; or, The Beauties of Nature Displayed. In Select Descriptions From the Animal, and Vegetable, and Additions From the Mineral Kingdom. Systematically Arranged. Illustrated With Plates Designed and Engraved by Mr. William Daniell [3 Volumes] - William Wood and William Daniell - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Zoography; or, The Beauties of Nature Displayed. In Select Descriptions From the Animal, and Vegetable, and Additions From the Mineral Kingdom. Systematically Arranged. Illustrated With Plates Designed and Engraved by Mr. William Daniell [3 Volumes]

William Wood and William Daniell, Zoography; or, The Beauties of Nature Displayed. In Select Descriptions From the Animal, and Vegetable, and Additions From the Mineral Kingdom. Systematically Arranged. Illustrated With Plates Designed and Engraved by Mr. William Daniell, London: Cadell and Davies, 1807, 1st edition

In 3 volumes
Volume I: ix + 572 pages including 25 black-and-white engravings by William Daniell; 26.5 × 18.2 × 4.9 cm
Volume II: viii + 618 pages including 19 black-and-white engravings by William Daniell; 26.6 × 18.2 × 5.2 cm
Volume III: vii + 612 pages including 11 black-and-white engravings by William Daniell; 26.6 × 18.2 × 5.2 cm
Half leather-bound with marbled boards and decorative gilt spine, marbled endpapers and edges (each)
Half leather bound with marbled boards and decorative gilt spine, marbled end papers and edges (each)

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Books on Ornithology [Set of 2] - Stuart Baker, Allan Hume and Marshall - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Books on Ornithology [Set of 2]

a) Hume and Marshal, The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Calcutta: A O Hume and C H T Marshall, 1879-1881

Set of 3 Volumes
Volume I: ii; 279 pages including 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Published in 1879, this volume is dedicated to ducks, swans and geese
Volume II: 264 pages including 44 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Published in 1880, this volume is dedicated to snipe, bustards and sand-grouse
Volume III: 438 pages including 54 hand-coloured lithographed plates; 4 famous colour egg plates and 6 index pages. Published in 1881 this volume is dedicated to pheasants and bustard-quail
In original green boards with gilt-stamped peacock illustrations on front boards; gilt lettering and ruling on front boards and spines; blind-stamped on rear boards
26.5 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm (each)

One of the classics of ornithology literature and the definitive volumes on the game birds of the Indian subcontinent.

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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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Sporting Sketches and Scenes in India - J F Fotheringham - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Sporting Sketches and Scenes in India

J F Fotheringham, Sporting Sketches and Scenes in India, [London]: C. Moody, [1851]

Lithographic title-page, address leaf, letterpress descriptive text for each plate, 7 lithographic plates by Fotheringham with later hand-colouring, appendix page; full red calf, boards with multiple rules and elaborate floral borders, all gilt, gilt title to upper board
34.5 x 49.7 x 1 cm

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The World in Miniatures: Hindoostan, Containing a Description of the Religion, Manners, Customs, Trades, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Diversions, & c. of the Hindoos [6 Volumes] - Frederick  Shoberl - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Frederick Shoberl (1775 - 1853)

The World in Miniatures: Hindoostan, Containing a Description of the Religion, Manners, Customs, Trades, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Diversions, & c. of the Hindoos [6 Volumes]

Frederic Shoberl, The World in Miniatures: Hindoostan, Containing a Description of the Religion, Manners, Customs, Trades, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Diversions, & c. of the Hindoos, London: Printed for R. Ackermann, repository of Arts, Strand; No date on the title-page but plates are dated 1822

Early 20th-century full tan polished calf, elaborately gilt-decorated flat spines in compartments with gilt text (each)
14.5 x 9.5 x 2.5 cm (each)

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Asiatic Costumes; A Series of Forty-Four Coloured Engravings, from designs taken from Life by Captain Smith, 44th Regiment: With a description to each subject - Captain Robert Smith - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Captain Robert Smith (1787 - 1853)

Asiatic Costumes; A Series of Forty-Four Coloured Engravings, from designs taken from Life by Captain Smith, 44th Regiment: With a description to each subject

Captain Robert Smith, Asiatic Costumes; A Series of Forty-Four Coloured Engravings, from designs taken from Life: With a description to each subject, London: R Ackermann, 1828

[iv] and 88 pages; 44 fine later hand-coloured engraved plates; contemporary full leather bound with gilt text and decoration at the spine with 4 raised bands
18.5 x 11 x 3 cm

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The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India with plates, exhibiting numerous coloured photographs, etc. - John Forbes Watson - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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John Forbes Watson (1827 - 1892)

The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India with plates, exhibiting numerous coloured photographs, etc.

John Forbes Watson, The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India with plates, exhibiting numerous coloured photographs, etc., London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1867

pp. xxi + 174 including 9 tipped-in hand colored albumen photographs + 1 black and white plate + 1 photo and chromo-lithographed plate + 1 photo-lithographed plate; rebound in half leather with new spine and in original cloth bound cover
38 x 28 x 3 cm

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Tabula nova vtriusque Indiae - Lorenz (Laurent) Fries and Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Tabula nova vtriusque Indiae
Copper engraving on paper
Map Size: 13.1 x 18 in (33.5 x 45.8 cm)
With Mount: 18.1 x 22.7 in (46 x 57.8 cm)

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Haemisphaeriorum Tabula Carthesiana P Schenkii - Petrus Schenk  (Pieter Schenck) the Elder - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Haemisphaeriorum Tabula Carthesiana P...
Copper engraving on paper
Map Size: 19.2 x 23.1 in (49 x 58.8 cm)
With Mount: 25.7 x 29.5 in (65.5 x 75 cm)

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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...
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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Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d‘Histoire Dédié a Monsieur Le Président Hénault - Louis Charles Desnos - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Louis Charles Desnos (1725 - 1805)

Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d‘Histoire Dédié a Monsieur Le Président Hénault

Louis Charles Desnos, Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d'Histoire Dédié a Monsieur Le Président Hénault, Paris: Chez l'auteur... et chez Desnos son associé, ingénieur géographe pour les glôbes et sphères, 1761-62, 1st edition

Uncoloured engraved allegorical title page, calligraphic title page, 37 engraved plates of globes, armillary spheres, celestial plans and maps, additional classical half-title (dated 1762), a plate of 'historical trees' showing timelines, and a further 84 engraved maps, tables and biblical illustrations, many with contemporary outline colouring; half morocco but retaining the original boards with new spine.
50.5 x 64.5 x 2 cm

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A Map of Bengal, Bahar, Oude & Allahabad with Part of Agra and Delhi Exhibiting the Course of the Ganges from Hurdwar to the Sea by James Rennell, R.F.S - William  Faden - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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William Faden (1749 - 1836)

A Map of Bengal, Bahar, Oude &...
Copper engraving on paper
Map Size: 28.4 x 42.3 in (72.2 x 107.5 cm)
With Mount: 34.8 x 48.4 in (88.5 x 123 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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Recueil de Cartes Geographiques, pour la description de l‘indoostan; par le major J Rennell, ingenieur et arpenteur general dans le Bengale - James Rennell and Jean-Nicolas Bauche - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Recueil de Cartes Geographiques, pour la description de l‘indoostan; par le major J Rennell, ingenieur et arpenteur general dans le Bengale

James Rennell and Philippe Bauche, Recueil de cartes géographiques, pour la description de l’Indostan (18th Century Maps of Hindoostan), Paris: Chez Poignée, An VIII [1799/1800]

40 pages, Atlas, alone, four large folding engraved maps, six engraved folding maps and one plan of various sizes. The four large folding engraved maps are forming the 'Carte de L'Indostan ou de L'Empire Mogol', the oulines are contemporary hand-coloured, most of them folded; new binding with marbled boards retaining the original spine
29 x 22.5 x 2.5 cm

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