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    A.L.O.E. (A Lady of England, Charlotte Maria Tucker).   A WREATH OF INDIAN STORIES. £18    
         211pp. In original decorated green cloth. All edges gilt. Christian stories written for Indian readers by Amritsar missionary.   Hinges slack and boards marked.   No date (1890s?) Nelson.
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    Ahmed, Akbar S.   JINNAH, PAKISTAN AND ISLAMIC IDENTITY. £18    
      The Search for Saladin.   274pp. Index.   Fine.   1997 First edition, Routledge..
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    Anand, Mulk Raj.   SEVEN SUMMERS. £18    
         241pp. Novelist's early childhood memoir. Punjab Indian Army setting. First published in 1951.   Fine in fine dw.   1970 Reprint, Cedric Chivers.
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    Anon.   HALF HOURS IN THE FAR EAST among the People and Wonders of India. £35    
         357pp. Many engraved illustrations both full-page and in the text. In original elaborately decorated boards. All edges gilt. Account of a tour through India by an enterprising and observant lady. Victorian visitors to Mutiny sites but also much on Bombay, Poona and an expedition up the Sutlej from Simla.   Very good indeed. A lovely copy.   1880 First edition, Isbister.
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    Archer, Mildred.   INDIAN POPULAR PAINTING £35    
      in the India Office Library.   196pp. Index. 92 black and white illustrations.   Fine in fine dw.   1979 Second impression, HMSO.
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    Archer, W.G.   PAINTINGS OF THE SIKHS. £55    
         284pp. Index. Colour frontispiece and 112 illustrations in black and white. Victoria and Albert Museum monograph.   Fine in slightly chipped dw. Owner's name.   1966 First editon, HMSO
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    Auboyer, Jeannine.   DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIA £12    
      from approximately 200 BC to AD 700.   344pp. Index. 31 b/w photographs. Translated from the French.   Fine.   1965 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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    Baird-Murray, Maureen.   A WORLD OVERTURNED. £14    
      A Burmese Childhood 1933-47.   180pp. 21 b/w photographs. Autobiography of daughter of Irish administrator, Assistant Superintendent at Lashio, and his Burmese wife.   Fine in fine dw.   1997 First edition, Constable.
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    Bernstein, Jeremy.   DAWNING OF THE RAJ. £14    
      The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings.   319pp. Index.   Fine in fine dw.   2000 First edition, Arum Press.
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    Blake, Stephen B.   SHAHJAHANABAD. £24    
      The Sovereign City in Mughal India 1639-1739.   226pp. Index. Study of Mughal Delhi.   Very good in very good dw.   1991 First edition, Cambridge University Press.
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    Bokonyi, Dr Sandor.   THE PRZEVALSKY HORSE. £10    
         140pp. Index. 37 b/w illustrations.   Near-fine in fine dw.   1974 First edition, The Souvenir Press.
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    Bower, Hamilton.   DIARY OF A JOURNEY ACROSS TIBET. £20    
         309pp. Index. Folding map. 29 b/w illustrations. Facsimile reprint of 1894 original. Pictures rather smudgy.   Fine in fine dw.   1976 Bibliotheca Himalayica, Kathmandu.
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    Campbell, Arthur.   THE SIEGE. £16    
      A Story from Kohima.   211pp. Endpaper maps. 6 b/w illustrations and 4 maps in the text. Fictionalised account of the battle.   Fine in fine dw.   1956 First edition, Allen and Unwin.
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    Chetwode, Penelope.   KULU. £28    
      The End of the Habitable World.   233pp, Index. 40 b/w photographs. Journeys from Simla by intrepid wife of John Betjeman. Return to a valley first visited 30 years before as the daughter of the Commander-in-Chief, India.   Fine in fine dw.   1972 First edition, John Murray.
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    Cole, Captain D.H.   IMPERIAL MILITARY GEOGRAPHY. £25    
      General Characterisics of the Empire in Relation to Defence.   394pp. Index. 27 maps, many folding. Much on the defence of India. First published 1924.   Very good.   1930 6th edition, Sifton Praed.
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    Collis, Maurice.   LORDS OF THE SUNSET. £24    
      A Tour in the Shan States.   326pp. Folding map. 47 b/w photographs. Travel in pre-war Burma.   Very good in chipped dw.   1938 Second impression, Faber.
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    Coupland, R.   THE CRIPPS MISSION. £12    
         64pp. Card covers. 4 b/w photographs and a cartoon. The author was on the staff of the Mission.   Very good indeed in like dw.   1942 First, Oxford University Press.
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    Crawford, F Marion.   MR ISAACS. £18    
      A Tale of Modern India.   316pp. Set in Simla, the principal character is based on A.M.Jacob who also inspired Lurgan Sahib in 'Kim'.   Very good.   1882 First edition, Macmillan.
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    Desmond, Ray (edits).   VICTORIAN INDIA IN FOCUS. £15    
      A selection of early photographs from the collection in the India Office Library and Records.   4to landscape. 100pp. 79 full-page illustrations. With text and captions on photography in India and on the social context. Card covers.   Fine.   1992 HMSO.
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    Desmond, Ray (edits).   VICTORIAN INDIA IN FOCUS. £15    
      A selection of early photographs from the collection in the India Office Library and Records.   4to landscape. 100pp. 79 full-page illustrations. With text and captions on photography in India and on the social context. Card covers.   Fine.   1992 HMSO.
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    Edwardes, Michael.   THE NABOBS AT HOME. £12    
         192pp. Index. 25 b/w illustrations. The spending of the plunder of Bengal in late 18th century England. Their lives, houses and estates.   Fine in fine dw. Bookplate.   1991 First edition, Constable.
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    Edwardes, S.M.   BABUR: DIARIST AND DESPOT 1483-1530. £24    
         138pp. 5 b/w illustrations.   Very good. Owner's name.   No date (1930s) Philpot.
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    Elliott, Maj.Gen.J.G.   A ROLL OF HONOUR. £16    
      The Story of the Indian Army 1939-1945.   392pp. Index. 33 b/w photographs and 9 maps. Involvement of Indian forces throughout the world.   Very good. Owner's name.   1965 First edition, Cassell.
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    Elliott, Major-General J.G.   THE FRONTIER 1839-1947. £28    
      The Story of the North-West Frontier of India.   306pp. Index. 20 illustrations and 8 maps. A soldier's history. Covers the minor frontier campaigns.   Very good in chipped dw.   1968 First edition, Cassell.
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    Elphinstone, Mountstuart.   THE HISTORY OF INDIA. £28    
      The Hindu and Mahometan periods.   767pp. Index. Large folding map. Ex-college library copy in plain library binding.   Very good.   1866 Fifth edition, John Murray.
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    Forbes, Rosita.   INDIA OF THE PRINCES. £10    
         319pp. 32 photographs. Book Club edition.   Very good.   1939.
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    Fortescue, John.   THE ROYAL VISIT TO INDIA 1911-1912. £65    
         324pp. Photographs. Folding map of the Durbar site. George V and Queen Mary in India. Much on the 1911 Durbar with full lists of participants. Signed by naval officer who presumably was of the party. He has made a few neat pencil corections of facts about the voyage and loosely inserted are 2 printed broadsheets of the game shot on the tour. It appears that in Nepal the King personally shot 21 tigers and 8 rhino.   Very good.   1912 First edition, Macmillan.
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    Fortune, Robert.    A JOURNEY TO THE TEA COUNTRIES OF CHINA. £12    
      With a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains.   398pp. Facsimile reprint of 1852 original. 16 illustrations and a map. Fortune returned from China with more than twenty thousand tea plants for the Himalayan estates. In card covers.   Fine.   1987 Mildmay.
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    Ganguli, Taraknath (translated by Thompson, Edward).   THE BROTHERS. £45    
      from the Bengali of Svarnalata.   181pp. Copy 92 of 425 specially printed and bound for 'The India Society'.   Very good.   1928 First edition, Oxford University Press.
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    Gopalan, A.K.   KERALA - PAST AND PRESENT. £18    
         128pp. Index. 26 b/w photographs. From the Communist perspective at the time of the first election of a communist state government.   Very good in very good dw.   1959 First edition, Lawrence & Wishart.
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