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    Bellasis, M.   HONOURABLE COMPANY. £10.00    
         286pp. 17 full-page b/w illustrations. Story of the Bellasis family and their service in India from the 17th to the mid 19th century. Preface by Arthur Bryant.   Very good in worn dw.   1952 First edition, Hollis & Carter.
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    Bidwell, Shelford.   SWORDS FOR HIRE. £16.00    
      European Mercenaries in Eighteenth Century India.   258pp. Index. 17 illustrations and 2 maps.   Fine in fine dw.   1971 First edition, John Murray.
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    Bidwell, Shelford.   SWORDS FOR HIRE. £14.00    
      European Mercenaries in Eighteenth Century India.   258pp. Index. 17 illustrations and 2 maps. De Boigne, Thomas, Perron and Skinner.   Fine in fine dw. Corner cut from front endpaper.   1971 First edition, John Murray.
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    Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrantsz.   MEMORABLE DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIAN VOYAGE 1618-25. £31.00    
         168pp. Index. In The Argonaut series (US version of the Broadway Travellers). Dutchman's eventful voyage to the East Indies.   Very good indeed.   1929 First thus McBride, New York.
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    Butler, Iris.   THE ELDEST BROTHER. £16.00    
      The Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842.   638pp. Index. Wellington's brother who was Governor-General of Bengal.   Fine in very good dw.   1973 First edition, Hodder.
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    Collis, Maurice.   THE GREAT WITHIN. £16.00    
         349pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. European attempts, many by the East India Company, to open up China.   Very good in very good dw.   1946 Third impression, Faber & Faber.
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    Collis, Maurice.   FOREIGN MUD. £13.00    
      Being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed.   319pp. Index. 24 b/w illustrations and 5 maps. The East India Company defends its trade in opium.   Yellow boards slightly soiled as usual. Otherwise very good.   1946 First edition, Faber.
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    Collis, Maurice.   FOREIGN MUD. £10.00    
      Being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed.   319pp. Index. 24 b/w illustrations and 5 maps. The East India Company defends its trade in opium.   Yellow boards slightly soiled as usual. Otherwise very good.   1952 Second impression Faber
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    Dersin, Denise (edits).   WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE IN THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN. £12.00    
      British India AD 1600-1905.   168pp. 4to. Many excellent colour illustrations.   Fine in fine dw.   1999 First edition, Time Life Books.
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    Duncan-Jones, Caroline M. (edits).   TRUSTY AND WELL-BELOVED. £14.00    
      The Letters Home of William Harness, an Officer of George III.   213pp. Index. 7 b/w illustrations. Service in Egypt, South Africa and India from 1793-1804. He was at Seringapatam.   Very good in rubbed dw.   1957 First edition, SPCK.
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    Embree, Ainslie.   CHARLES GRANT AND BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. £14.00    
         320pp. Index. Study of a late-eighteenth century merchant.   Very good in chipped dw.   1962 First edition, Allen & Unwin.
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    English, Barbara.   JOHN COMPANY'S LAST WAR. £10.00    
      A Victorian Military Adventure.   192pp. 20 b/w illustrations and 5 maps. Outram's 1856 campaign in Persia.   Very good.   1971 First edition, Collins.
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    Fisher, Michael H. (edits).   THE TRAVELS OF DEAN MAHOMET. £12.00    
      An Eighteenth Century Journey through India.   229pp. Index. 30pp introduction, notes and bibliography. Card covers. The first book published in English by an Indian (in 1794). Service in the Company's army and later life as popular 'shampooing surgeon' in Regency Brighton.   Fine.   1997 University of California Press.
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    Forrest, Denys.   THE ORIENTAL. £21.00    
      Life Story of a London Club.   240pp. Index. 28 b/w illustrations. History of the West End club founded in 1824 for servants of the East India Company.   Very good in rubbed dw.   1968 First edition,Batsford.
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    Forrest, G.W. (edits).   SELECTIONS FROM THE STATE PAPERS OF THE GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF INDIA. £58.00    
      Warren Hastings.   In 2 vols. 323 and 348pp. Index. Map in rear pocket. The first volume is the introduction to the documents in the second.   Internally sound and complete but spine cloth worn and frayed.   1910 First edition, Blackwell Oxford.
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    Fortune, Robert.    A JOURNEY TO THE TEA COUNTRIES OF CHINA. £10.00    
      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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    Foster, Sir William.   JOHN COMPANY. £22.00    
         286pp. Index. 22 plates. The London administration of the Company.   Very good.   1926 First edition, Bodley Head.
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    Gopal, Ram.   HOW THE BRITISH OCCUPIED BENGAL £21.00    
      A Corrected Account of the 1756-1765 Events.   373pp. Index.   Very good in very good dw.   1963 First edition, Asia Publishing House.
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    Groseclose, Barbara.   BRITISH SCULPTURE AND THE COMPANY RAJ. £25.00    
      Church Monuments and Public statuary in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay to 1858.   152pp. 4to. Index. Illustrated with photographs of every work treated in the text the majority of which have never before been reproduced.   Fine in fine dw.   1995 First edition, University of Delaware Press, Newark.
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    Khan, Abdul Majed.   THE TRANSITION IN BENGAL. £22.00    
      A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan.   376pp. Index. The transition from Mughal to British rule.   Fine in fine dw.   1969 First edition, Cambridge University Press.
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    Lawson, Sir Charles.   THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WARREN HASTINGS. £31.00    
      First Governor-General of India.   254pp. Index. 80 illustrations.   Very good indeed.   1905 Second edition, Sonnenschein.
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    Love, Henry Davison.   VESTIGES OF OLD MADRAS 1640-1800. £49.00    
      Traced from the East India Company's Records preserved at Fort St.George and the India Office.   Indian Records Series. Published for the Government of India. Volume 4 only. This volume is a 197pp index to the whole work.   Very good. Cloth darkening.   1913 First edition, John Murray.
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    Mo, Timothy.   AN INSULAR POSSESSION. £8.00    
         593pp. Novel of the opium wars in the East India Company factories in south China.   Fine in fine dw.   1986 Fourth impression Chatto.
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    Mo, Timothy.   AN INSULAR POSSESSION. £13.00    
         593pp. Opium wars in the East India Company factories in south China.   Fine in fine dw.   1986 First, Chatto.
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    Moon, Penderel.   WARREN HASTINGS AND BRITISH INDIA. £10.00    
         361pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Written by former ICS officer for 'Teach Yourself History Library'.   Fine in near-fine dw.   1947 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.
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    National Army Museum.   THE VICTORIA CROSSES AND GEORGE CROSSES OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND INDIAN ARMY 1856-1945. £14.00    
         47pp. 9 plates. Card covers. 9 full-page b/w illustrations.   Very good. Owner's name.   1962 First edition, National Army Museum.
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    Pearse, Colonel Hugh.   THE HEARSEYS. £67.00    
      Five Generations of an Anglo-Indian Family.   410pp. Includes 155pp of the autobiography of Sir John Hearsey describing campaigning in early-nineteenth century South India.   Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise very good.   1905 First edition, Blackwood.
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    Philips, C.H.(edits).   THE CORRESPONDENCE OF DAVID SCOTT £25.00    
      Director and Chairman of the East India Company Relating to Indian Affairs 1787-1805.   In 2 volumes. 458pp. Index.   Near-fine. A lovely set. Largely uncut.   1951 First edition, Royal Historical Society.
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    Prinsep, H.T.   HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY TRANSACTIONS IN INDIA £34.00    
      during the administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1813-1823.   In 2 volumes. 484pp and 487pp. Index. 5 large folding maps. Excellent facsimile reprint of 1825 original.   Fine.   1972 Irish University Press, Shannon.
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    Roberts, P.E.   HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA UNDER THE COMPANY AND CROWN. £22.00    
         625pp. Index. 14 maps.   Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise very good indeed.   1930 Second impression, Oxford University Press.
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    Sheppard, E.W.   COOTE BAHADUR. £10.00    
      A Life of Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote.   247pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations and 9 maps. Eighteenth century Commander in Chief for the Honourable Company. In India 1756-1783.   Very good. Spine lettering faded.   1956 First edition, Werner Laurie.
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    Sheppard, E.W.   COOTE BAHADUR. £16.00    
      A Life of Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote.   247pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations and 9 maps. Eighteenth century Commander in Chief for the Honourable Company. In India 1756-1783.   Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise very good indeed in slightly chipped and darkening dw.   1956 First edition, Werner Laurie.
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    Spear, Percival.   MASTER OF BENGAL. £14.00    
      Clive and his India.   224pp. Index. 133 illustrations.   Fine in fine dw.   1975 First edition, Thames and Hudson.
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    Spear, Percival.   MASTER OF BENGAL. £10.00    
      Clive and his India.   224pp. Index. 133 illustrations.   Fine in fine dw.   1975 Bookclub edition.
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    Srinivasan, C.K.   BAJI RAO I, THE GREAT PESHWA. £13.00    
         152pp. Index. Ex-public library.   Very good in protected dw.   1961 Asia Publishing House.
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    Thompson, Edward.   THE MAKING OF THE INDIAN PRINCES. £22.00    
         304pp. Index. A study of emerging British ascendency in the early 19th century. Mainly concerns Central India, the Marathas and the Peshwa.   Very good indeed in very good dw. Owner's name.   1943 First edition, Oxford University Press.
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    Trease, Geoffrey.   IN THE LAND OF THE MOGUL. £6.00    
      A story of the East India Company's first venture in India.   254pp. Juvenile novel.   Boards rubbed. School library marks.   1938 First edition, Blackwell.
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    Wilson, C.R.   OLD FORT WILLIAM IN BENGAL. £144.00    
      A Selection of Official Documents dealing with its History.   In 'The Indian Records Series'. Vol 1 256pp. Vol 2 330pp. Index. 33 plates and maps in colour and b/w. Bound in plain black cloth with the library label of the 'Bengal United Services Club' pasted to rear boards.   Mainly very good but the rear of the second volume was once damp and this has marked but not destroyed the final pages of illustrations.   1906 First edition, Published for the Government of India, John Murray.
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    Woodford Peggy.   RISE OF THE RAJ. £10.00    
         4to. 160pp. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Account of the pre-Mutiny period of British India.   Fine in fine dw.   1978 First edition, Midas Books.
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