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Inscriptions on the Seikh Guns Captured by the Army of the Sutledge 1845-46.
[FIRST SIKH WAR].Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /First Sikh War. Scarce. The title-page gives the name of C. Gomeze as the designer and lithographer - probably the Christopher Gomez, of the H.C. L...
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Personal observations on Sindh;
POSTANS, Thomas.Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /Mrs Postans' advance copy. Postans (1808-46) was assistant to the political agent in Sindh and Baluchistan. A comprehensive description of Sindh in...
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An account of the kingdom of Caubul,
ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart.Original price £1,800.00 - Original price £1,800.00Original price £0.00£1,800.00£1,800.00 - £1,800.00Current price £1,800.00| /the first detailed account of Afghanistan by a western observer. Elphinstone collected important information on the geography, government, languag...
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Allerneuester Geographisch- und Topographischer
HEYDT [aka HEIJDT], Johann Wolfgang.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Important early iconography of Jakarta. Heydt's Ost-Indien provides us with an extensive and important work with regard to the town planning and ge...
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The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco islands;
CORNEY, Bolton, editor.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £350.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Hakluyt Society First Series, no. 19.Important early East India Company voyage to theEast Indies.The appendix includes commissions, letters of Ja...
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The diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges),
HEDGES, William.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £600.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00| /'An important glimpse of the activities of the East IndiaCompany in the period 1682 to 1684' (Riddick). Hedges was a director of the Company and p...
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Report of proceedings on a voyage to the northern ports of China
Lindsay, Hugh Hamilton.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Author's wife's copy. Hugh Lindsay's Report of Proceedings contains reports by Lindsay, an East India Company man, and Charles Gutzlaff on trade wi...
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An authentick and faithful history of that arch-pyrate Tulagee Angria.
(TOOLAJI ANGRIA).Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00| /Rare. ESTC lists only BL, Advocates Library, and Birmingham Central Library in U.K., adding College of William and Mary and University of Minnesot...
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Royal Navy Master's logbook recording the tour of HMS Amazon
[RENAUD, Benjamin].Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /Watercolours of Singapore and the West Indies. A richly illustrated record of service in the Royal Navy at the height of British maritime supremacy...
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Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste,
M'LEOD, John.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00| /Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was u...
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The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier,
TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Attractive copy of Tavernier's account of his travels to the East. One of the most popular works of its time and translated into several European ...
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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 £350.00| /Hakluyt Society, first series 56. The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Middleton, Love, Downton, and Cross. Calend...
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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 £950.00| /A 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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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 £2,000.00| /Sleeman (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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Chow-Chow;
FALKLAND, [Amelia Cary] Viscountess.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Vi...
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Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India to the court of Ava
CRAWFURD, John.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /By paddle steamer up the Irrawaddy river. Crawfurd was sent on an envoy mission to Burma in 1826, by Hastings's successor Lord Amherst, in the afte...
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