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Arnold, David and Guha, Ramchandra (edit). NATURE, CULTURE, IMPERIALISM. |
£10 |
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Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia. 376pp. Index. Card covers. Essays on agriculture, forestry, irrigation and pollution. Fine. 2003 Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Benskin, Ernest. JUNGLE CASTAWAY. |
£14 |
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176pp. 15 b/w photographs. Autobiography of officer in the Indian Forest Service. Very good. Spine faded. Child's inscription. 1963 First, Hale. |
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Best, James W. FOREST LIFE IN INDIA. |
£28 |
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A Forest Officer's service in the Central Provinces. 317pp. 8 photographs and a folding map. Very good. Bookplate. 1935 First edition, John Murray. |
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Best, James W. FOREST LIFE IN INDIA. |
£32 |
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A Forest Officer's service in the Central Provinces. 317pp. 8 photographs and a folding map. Detailed account of his work and sport. Very good in tatty dw. 1935 First edition, John Murray. |
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Best, James W. FOREST LIFE IN INDIA. |
£35 |
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A Forest Officer's service in the Central Provinces. 317pp. 8 photographs and a folding map. Detailed account of his work and sport. Very good in chipped dw. 1935 First edition, John Murray. |
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Bor, Eleanor. ADVENTURES OF A BOTANIST'S WIFE. |
£10 |
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With 35 photographs and 6 drawings. 204pp. Travels with Forest Service husband in remote parts of Assam and Lahoul. Internally sound but rubbed and slack. 1952 First. |
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Brown, H.P. AN ELEMENTARY MANUAL ON INDIAN WOOD TECHNOLOGY. |
£24 |
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121pp. 33 figures in the text. 16 plates. The author was Wood Technologist at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. Very good. 1925 Government of India, Calcutta. |
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Bryant, Raymond L. THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF FORESTRY IN BURMA 1824-1994. |
£18 |
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257pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Hurst & Company. |
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Budden, John. JUNGLE JOHN. |
£14 |
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A Book of the Big Game Jungles. 304pp. Drawings. Fiction. Forest Officer's son learns the lore of the jungle. First appeared in the 1920s. Very good in slightly chipped pictorial dw. 1954 Reprint, Longmans. |
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Budden, John. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JUNGLE JOHN. |
£12 |
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226 pp. Illustrated by Major-General H. J. P. Browne. Stories set in the jungles of Central India. Very good. 1929 First edition, Longmans. |
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Campbell-Martin, Monica. OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN. |
£14 |
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196pp. Jungle life in Bihar. Her husband was estate manager for a mica mine and then forest officer in former-princely estates at Bettiah in the North Bihar terrai. Very good in darkening dw. 1951 First edition, Cassell. |
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Currie, Mary Macdonald (edits). FOREST FAMILIES. |
£6 |
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145pp. Index. Card covers. 29 b/w photographs. Reminiscences from the Indian Forest Service. First published by BACSA in 1991 under the name of Mary Ledzion. From the library of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Very good. 2000 Revised edition, British Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. |
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Currie, Mary Macdonald (edits). FOREST FAMILIES. |
£8 |
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145pp. Index. Card covers. 29 b/w photographs. Reminiscences from the Indian Forest Service. First published by BACSA in 1991 under the name of Mary Ledzion. Fine. 2000 Revised edition, British Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. |
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Eardley-Wilmot, S. FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA. |
£65 |
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324pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs by Mabel Eardley-Wilmot. Account of his career in the Indian Forest Service from 1873. Very good. Extremities a little rubbed. 1910 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Eardley-Wilmot, S. FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA. |
£56 |
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324pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs by Mabel Eardley-Wilmot. Account of his career in the Indian Forest Service from 1873. Very good but cloth of one corner and one inch of the fore-edge worn through but not fraying. 1910 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Forsyth, Captain J. THE HIGHLANDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. |
£55 |
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Notes on their Forests and Wild Tribes, Natural History and Sports. 387pp. 17 b/w illustrations. Folding map of the area between Indore and Nagpur. Much topographical, anthropological and shikar detail. Ex-public library copy in the original red cloth. Very good. 1919 New edition Chapman and Hall. |
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Forsyth, Captain J. THE HIGHLANDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. |
£45 |
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Notes on their Forests and Wild Tribes, Natural History and Sports. 387pp. 17 b/w illustrations. Folding map of the area between Indore and Nagpur. Much topographical, anthropological and shikar detail. Ex-public library copy in the original red cloth. Slack and well-used but a complete copy. 1919 New edition, Chapman and Hall. |
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Government of India. REVIEW OF FOREST ADMINISTRATION IN BRITISH INDIA |
£45 |
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for the Year 1903-4 with a Quinquennial Summary. iv + 64pp. 4to. 2 large folding maps in colour. They show the distribution of forest activity throughout India in great detail. Ex-library copy with no internal markings. Very good. 1906 Calcutta. |
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Grove, Richard H. et al (edit). NATURE AND THE ORIENT. |
£28 |
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The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia. 1036pp. Index. Massive symposium of scholarship. Wide coverage of forest policy during the colonial period. From the library of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Very good in very good dw. 1998 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Hunt, Gordon. THE FORGOTTEN LAND. |
£15 |
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223pp. Life in the teak forests of pre-war Burma. Very good in very good dw. 1967 First edition, Bles. |
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Lancaster, Roy. A PLANTSMAN IN NEPAL. |
£35 |
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291pp. Index. Map. 266 colour photographs and 73 in b/w. A lovely new edition. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. A long mountain circuit in Eastern Nepal. Interesting on the places and the plants. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First thus, Antique Collector's Club. |
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Lancaster, Roy. PLANT HUNTING IN NEPAL. |
£12 |
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194pp. Index. 20 colour plates and 39 line drawings. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. Paperback edition. Very good. Corners scuffed. 1983, Croom Helm. |
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Lancaster, Roy. PLANT HUNTING IN NEPAL. |
£16 |
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194pp. Index. 20 colour plates and 39 line drawings. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. Fine in slightly faded dw. 1981 First edition, Croom Helm. |
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Lancaster, Roy. TRAVELS IN CHINA. |
£80 |
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516pp. Index. 413 illustrations in colour, 253 in b/w. Endpaper maps. Includes short biographies of the early plant collectors. Signed by the author and inscribed by him 'For Colonel G.Gibbs a well known friend of trees with best wishes'. Postcard from Lancaster to Gibbs loosely inserted. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge. |
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Lyte, Charles. FRANK KINGDON-WARD. |
£26 |
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The Last of the Great Plant Hunters. 218pp. Index. 26 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, John Murray. |
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Martin, Monica. OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN. |
£14 |
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242pp. Jungle life in Bihar. Her husband was estate manager for a mica mine and then forest officer in former-princely estates at Bettiah in the North Bihar terrai. Very good. 1949 First US, Little, Brown, Boston. |
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Mjoberg, Eric. FOREST LIFE AND ADVENTURES IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. |
£10 |
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201pp. 83 b/w illustrations. Map. Card covers. Facsimile reprint of 1930 original. Stamped 'damaged' but damage not apparent. Travels to investigate the flora and fauna of Borneo and Sumatra. Translated from the Swedish. Very good. 1988 Oxford University Press, Singapore. |
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Negi, S.S. INDIAN FORESTRY THROUGH THE AGES. |
£14 |
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248pp. Index. From the library of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Very good in very good dw. 1994 First edition, Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi. |
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Osmaston, B.B. WILD LIFE AND ADVENTURES IN INDIAN FORESTS. |
£45 |
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From diaries of B.B.Osmaston C.I.E 1868-1961, Imperial Forest Service 1888-1923. 290pp. Endpaper maps. 18 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Service and shikar mainly in Garhwal and Kumaon but also on the Andaman Islands 1904-7. He had a great interest in birds. Czech's bibliography reports that the first edition was limited to 125 copies for private circulation. Fine. 1999 Second revised edition with new appendices. |
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Parker, R.N. A FOREST FLORA FOR THE PUNJAB WITH HAZARA AND DELHI. |
£45 |
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591pp. Index. No illustrations. Compiled for the use of Forest Officers. Very good. Front hinge slack but holding. 1924 Government Press, Punjab. |
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Parker, R.N. COMMON INDIAN TREES. |
£18 |
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and How to Know Them. 46pp. 40 b/w plates. The front board is illustrated and has the title 'Forty Trees Common in India'. The illustrations are by Ganga Singh. Author and illustrator worked at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. Very good. 1940, First edition, Government of India, Delhi. |
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Poffenberger, Mark and McGean, Betsy (edit). VILLAGE VOICES, FOREST CHOICES. |
£12 |
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Joint Forest Management in India. 356pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1998 Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Shebbeare, E.O. SOONDAR MOONI. |
£12 |
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The Story of an Indian Elephant. 224pp. Illustrated with drawings by the author, who was a Forest Officer in Assam for 32 years (and a climber on two pre-war Everest expeditions). Very good indeed. 1958 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£15 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£24 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Near-fine in very good dw. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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St Joseph, J.D. LIFE IN THE WILDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. |
£35 |
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428pp. Sketch maps and 46 b/w photographs. The author's career in the Forest Department from 1891-1914. Edited from his papers with excellent detail on forest conservation, wild-life and the tribal peoples of Central India. Very close observation of tigers. Sadly, for such a lavishly produced book, no index. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. |
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Warren, C.V. BURMESE INTERLUDE. |
£36 |
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288pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs and a map. The author was Forest Officer with Messrs Swan Bros extracting teak in Prome District. Very good indeed in rubbed and slighly chipped dw. 1937 First edition, Skeffington & Son. |
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Webber, Thomas W. THE FORESTS OF UPPER INDIA and their Inhabitants. |
£180 |
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344pp. Index. 2 folding maps in colour. In the original brown cloth. Webber was employed by the Indian Forest Service shortly after its foundation and worked mainly in Garhwal and Kumaon (under Ramsay), where he built the cart road from Kathgodam to Naini Tal. In 1864 with a party of three other Englishmen and sixty Bhotia porters he crossed the high passes at the head of the Kali River and entered Tibet without authority. They ignored the local authorities and undertook two long hunting trips. The first reached 20,000 feet on Gurla Mandhata which he thought could be climbed without great difficulty (Longstaff in 1905 wrote that 'it had never been visited by European'). They were interested in hunting not climbing. He writes extensively on 'The Scientific Management of Forests' seeking to apply methods learned in Germany to India. Very good. Armorial bookplate and ownership label of Colonel Gibbs, himself a distinguished forester. Pasted to the front endpaper is a cutting of a letter from Webber to 'The Leinster Express' on forest policies. Front hinge slack but a nice copy. 1902 First edition, Arnold. |
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Williams, J.H. BANDOOLA. |
£10 |
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More stories of the elephants of the Burma forests. 251pp. Very good in very good dw. 1954 First US edition, Doubleday. |
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Williams, J.H. BANDOOLA. |
£10 |
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More stories of the elephants of the Burma forests. 251pp. Very good indeed. 1953 First edition, Hart-Davis. |
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Williams, J.H. ELEPHANT BILL. |
£12 |
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321pp. 42 photographs and 4 maps. Elephants working in the teak forests of Burma. Very good in worn dw. 1950 First edition, Hart Davis. |
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Williams, J.H. ELEPHANT BILL. |
£10 |
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321pp. 42 photographs and 4 maps. Elephants working in the teak forests of Burma. Very good. 1956 Reprint, Hart Davis. |
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Wright, H.L., Conservator of Forests. REVISED WORKING PLAN OF THE LOWER SIRAN AND AGROR CHIR FORESTS, KAGAN FOREST DIVISION, NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE. |
£24 |
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1935-36 to 1944-45. 35 + xlix pp. Folding Survey of India map, one inch to the mile showing forest holdings, in rear pocket. Hazara District of the Punjab. Very good. A few marginal notes. 1935 Government Stationery and Printing, Peshawar. |
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