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India-continued. 8124 MAURICE (Rev. T.) Indian Antiquities, the ancient Geography, Theology, Government, Commerce, and Literature of Hindostan, 7 vols. 8vo. numerous plates, bd. 18s; or, calf gilt, 258

1800

"I beg to recommend the ingenious Mr. | unremitting diligence, should not fail of an Maurice's History of Hindostan and his Indian honourable reward.”—Pursuits of Literature. Antiquities. Such erudition, ingenuity, and

8125 MILL'S (James) HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA, with a CONTINUATION from 1805 to 1835, and copious Notes and Illustrations, by Horace Hayman WILSON, 9 vols. 8vo. fourth edition, cloth, £4. 4s 1840-48 8126 WILSON's History of British India, 1805-35, 3 vols. 8vo. (pub. 42s) cloth, 21s 1848 8127 MILLS' (A. J. M.) Report on the province of ASSAM, sm folio, containing an immense quantity of information upon the native Tribes, their Customs, Government, Internal Affairs, History, etc. half bound, 188 Calcutta, 1854 8128 MONTGOMERY'S Statistical Report of CAWNPOOR, roy. 4to. numerous maps, shewing even the smallest Hamlets, cloth, privately printed, 158

Calc. 1849

A pattern volume of a good topographical in Urdu and English, classifications of the work; the list of villages contains their names | Population, etc.

8129 MOOR'S (E.) HINDU PANTHEON, royal 4to. 451 pages of text, and 105 plates in outline of Hindoo Deities, bds. or, half calf, £4. 48; or a very fine copy in russia extra, gilt edges, £5. 58

1810 A valuable work, now scarce. Priced, 1847, Allen, £7.78; Klaproth's copy fetched 158 fr. 8130 MOOR's Hindu Pantheon, roy. 4to. the plates only, ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS, old calf gilt, 368

8131

1810

Plates illustrating the HINDU PANTHEON, edited with brief DESCRIPTIVE INDEX, by the Rev. A. P. Moor, royal 4to. 104 plates, with short descriptions, cloth, gilt edges, 30s

1861

1845 Roorkee, 1856

These plates form a valuable pictorial companion to the works on the Mythology of India. 8132 NAPIER's Conquest of Scinde, 8vo. map, cloth, 58 8133 NIMAR, Reports on the Province of, 4to. maps, cloth, 5s 8134 NOTES relative to the late transactions in the Marhatta empire, 4to. 6 coloured plans of Wellington's Indian Battles, bds. 10s 1804 8135 ORIENTAL ANNUAL, or Scenes in India, by Caunter and (the last two volumes by) Bacon, from the beginning in 1834 to the completion in 1840, 7 vols. roy. 8vo. LARGE PAPER, 149 beautiful plates, engraved by Cook, Finden, and others, from the designs of W. Daniell, R.A., David Roberts, Stanfield, etc. (pub. £18. 78 6d) olive morocco, gilt edges, £3. 10s 1834-40

8136 ORIENTAL SPORTING MAGAZINE, Vols. II-V, 4 vols. 8vo. plates, hf. bd. 208 Bombay, 1829-32 8137 ORIENTAL SPORTING MAGAZINE, Vol. I., 8vo. plates, half calf, a different publication from the preceding, half calf, 78 6d Calcutta, 1835 8138 ORME (R.) History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, fourth edition, 3 vols. maps, 1803-HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS of the Mogul Empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English concerns in Indostan, portrait, 1 vol. 1805-together 4 vols. 4to. calf gilt, £3. 88

1803-5

1805

This valuable historical work "occupies so India must unavoidably trench, in a greater or vast a field that every future historian of modern less degree, upon his premises." 8139 ORME, Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, Morattoes, English concerns, etc. 4to. portrait and maps, half calf, scarce, 25s 8140 PEMBERTON (Capt. R. Boileau) Map of India, coloured, 16 feet by 9, divided into 8 sheets, mounted on canvas, and folded into two 4to. cases, cloth; with Map of Muneepoor aud Burmese Frontier, 48 inches by 37, mounted on canvas and folded in 4to. case, 7s 6d

1838

India-continued. 8141 PHAYRE'S Report on the administration of Pegu, 1855-58, 2 parts, roy. 4to. 58 Calcutta, 1858, Rangoon, 1858 8142 PLAYFAIR's Taleef Shereef, or Indian Materia Medica, translated, 8vo. with the names in Hindostani and English, bd. 5s 8143 PLAYFAIR (Capt.) History of Arabia Felix, or Yemen, with an account of Aden, roy. 8vo. map, cloth, 68

Calc. 1833

Bombay, 1859

8144 POGSON'S History of the Boondelas, 4to. map and plates, bds. RARE,

30s

Calcutta, 1828

1825

8145 POSTANS' Personal Observations on Sindh, 8vo. map, coloured front. and cuts (pub. 18s) cloth, 6s 6d 1843 8146 PRINSEP (H. T.) Political and Military Transactions in India, 1813-23, 2 vols. 8vo. maps and portrait, (pub. 328 cloth) calf neat, 158 8147 PRINSEP (Jas.) Essays on INDIAN ANTIQUITIES, historic, numismatic, and paleographic, with his USEFUL TABLES illustrative of Indian history, coinage, weights, measures, etc. edited with Notes and additions by THOMAS, 2 stout vols. 8vo. 53 plates of early Indian and Bactrian Coins and Antiquities, (pub. at £2. 128 6d) cloth, 30s

66

1858 authentic records, viz. the Coins of all the rulers. The reproduction of the Useful Tables" is a boon to all the possessors of the "Bengal Journal," to which they form a necessary adjunct.

1852

Mr. Edward Thomas, late of the Bengal Civil Service, deserves the thanks of all Oriental Scholars for this first collected edition of Prinsep; his notes and additional matter are very considerable. These volumes form a complete Chronology of India, based upon the most 8148 RAIKES (Chas.) Notes on the North-Western provinces of India, 8vo. cloth, 58 8149 REPORTS and Documents connected with the E. I. Company's proceedings in regard to the culture and manufacture of Cotton-Wool, Raw Silk, and Indigo, stout 8vo. cloth, 108 (Privately) printed by order of the E. I. C. 1836 8150 RODRIGUES (E. A.) Historical Account of the origin, ceremonies, idolatry, manners, etc. of the CASTES of the Natives of British India, Vol. I. 4to. 20 coloured plates, hf. calf, 35s Madras, 1837 8151 SATARA. Memoir on the Satara Territory, early History, statistics, and notes on the old buildings of Beejapoor, roy. 8vo. map, cloth, 6s

Bombay, 1857 8152 SCHLEGEL (A. W.) Indische Bibliothek, Vols. I, II, and III pt. 1, 8vo. all published, two vols. calf gilt, and a part, 158 Bonn, 1823-30

Learned dissertation on the Languages, Literature, Ethnology, and History of India. 8153 SCOTT (F. H.) Routes in India, comprising the whole of Madras, and portions of Bengal and Bombay, stout roy. 8vo. pp. 601 and 114, large map mounted on canvas, hf. bd. 78 6d Madras, 1853 8154 SEIR-MUTAQHARIN, or View of Modern Times, from the year 1118 to the year 1195 of the Hidjrah, containing in general the Reigns of the Seven Last Emperors of Hindostan, and in particular, an Account of the English Wars in Bengal, translated from the Persian of Seid-GholamHossein Khan, 3 vols. 4to. Indian morocco, a little wormed, £2. 16s

1832

Calcutta, 1789 8155 SHURREEF, Qanoon-e-Islam; Customs of the Moosulmans of India, their rites and ceremonies, translated by Herklots, with appendix and glossary, stout 8vo. 7 plates, (pub. at 16s) cloth, 12, 6d 8156 SINDE. Correspondence relative to Sinde, 1838-39, (by Sir Charles Napier, Lord Ellenborough, etc.) 8vo. cloth, 98 Calcutta, 1844 8157 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION connected with the province of Sind, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. numerous maps and other engravings, bds. 20s Bombay, 1855 8158 SLEEMAN, Ramaseeana, VOCABULARY of the peculiar Language used by the THUGS, with Introduction, etc. 8vo. plates, bds. 15s Calcutta, 1836

India-continued.

8159 SLEEMAN'S REPORT on the Depredations of the THUG GANGS, 8vo. map and tables, bd. 10s

8160

Calcutta, 1840

1844

Rambles of an Indian Official, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. 30 coloured plates, (pub. at 21s) cloth gilt, 158 8161 SPRYE (Captain) MSS. MEMORANDA on INDIA, BURMAH, SIAM, and the neighbouring territories. Miscellaneous Papers having reference to the Kingdom of Siam, Burney's Embassy, the Tenasserim provinces, the Peninsula between the Bay of Bengal and the practicability of a canal across the Isthmus of Kraw, Burney's and Symes' Embassies to Burmah, 9 vols. sm. 4to. all in neat MS. by Captain SPRYE, half morocco, gilt, £5. 1829-59

India and China, through Burmah and Siam, and to prove its usefulness and practicability, he gave his life to the collection of geographical and political statistics of the most valuable kind. There are also papers relative to Disaffection in India, the Afghan War, chances of invasion by Russia, the Sikhs, the Andaman Islands, etc.

All these papers were collected by Capt. Sprye, and, in many instances, copied from MS. reports in the Secret Department of the India House, and other sources inaccessible to the public. They are the fruits of his endeavours to render communications of this country with the East quicker and more speedy. He proposed to establish a direct and easy connection between 8162 STUD BOOK, containing pedigrees of Horses bred in India, 8vo. interleaved, hf. calf gilt, 188 Calc. 1826 8163 SURVEY of India, published by the East India Company, a Series of Maps, mounted on linen, and enclosed in 8 roy. 8vo. cases, half russia, £2.168

32s

Lisboa, 1810

cir. 1830 8164 SYMES' Embassy to Ava, 4to. plates, MS. notes, hf. bd. 58 1800 8165 TAVEIRA (Arcebispo de Goa) Constituicões do Arcebispado de Goa, accrescentadas par Manoel de Santa Catharina, sm. folio, hf. bd. rare, 8166 TAYLOR'S Topography and Statistics of Dacca, large 8vo. map, cloth, 6s Calcutta, 1840 8167 THOMSON's Western Himalaya and Tibet, narrative of a journey, 1847-48, 8vo. maps and plates, (pub. 15s) cloth, 10s 1852 8168 THORNTON'S Gazetteer of the countries adjacent to India on the NorthWest, Sinde, Afghanistan, Beloochistan, the Punjaub, etc. 2 vols. 8vo. map, (pub. at 258) hf. calf, 9s

8169

1844 Gazetteer of the Territories under the government of the East India Company, and of the Native States on the continent of India, 4 vols. 8vo. map, (pub. at £4.) cloth, 368

1854 8170 Gazetteer of India, in one volume, stout 8vo. map, 1015 pp. double cols. (pub. at 21s) cloth, 158 1857 8171 TOD'S (Col. J.) ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India (commonly called Rajpootana), 2 vols. impl. 4to. above 50 extremely beautiful line engravings by Finden, and large folding maps, cloth, £11. 11s

the same, Vol. I, impl. 4to. bds. 15s

1829-32 1829

8172 8173 TREATIES. Collection of TREATIES, Engagements and Sunnuds relating to India, and neighbouring countries: Bengal, Burmah, and Eastern Archipelago, 1757-1861; N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Nipal, Punjab, etc. 1764-1863; the Peishwa, Nagpore, and Bundelcund, 1739-1862; 3 vols. roy. 8vo. maps, cloth, 36s Calcutta, 1862-63 8174 TWINING, on the Diseases of Bengal, 8vo. cloth, 12s Calcutta, 1832 8174* URQUHART'S Diplomatic Transactions in Central Asia, through which the barriers of India have been sacrificed to Russia, 4to. bds. privately printed, 208

1841

8175 WARD (W.) Account of the Writings, Religion, History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos, with a description of their Manners and Customs, 4 vols. 8vo. hf. russia, not quite uniform, 30s 1817-20

India-continued. 8176 WALLICH, PLANTE ASIATICE RARIORES, or Descriptions and Figures of a select number of unpublished East India Plants, 3 vols. impl. fol. containing 300 most beautifully coloured plates, nice clean copy in hf. morocco, gilt edges, £16.; or a fine copy, whole bound in RUSSIA extra, gilt edges, £18. 1830-32

Each part, containing 25 plates, was published | Botanical works published in this or any other at 2 guineas; the work was completed in 12 country. There were only 250 copies issued parts. The finest and most beautiful of all the | for the original Subscribers.

8180

1867-68

8177 WEBB'S Pathologia Indica, or Anatomy of Indian Diseases, illustrated by detailed cases, 8vo. hf. calf, 10s 6d Calcutta, 1848 8178 WELLESLEY'S (Marquess) DESPATCHES, Minutes and Correspondence during his administration in India, 5 vols. 8vo. portraits, maps, etc. hf. russia, from Mr. Ewer's library, £3. 58; or calf gilt, £3. 15s 1836-37 8179 WHEELER (J. Talboys) Madras in the Olden Time, a history of the Presidency, compiled from official records, Vols. II, III, 1702-48, sq. sm. Svo. map, cloth, 78 Madras, 1861-62History of India during the Hindu period, Vols. I-III, 8vo. (pub. at £2. 148) cloth, £2. 58 "It must be borne in mind that the ancient | traditions of the people of India are household words in every quarter of the Peninsula; that they have not passed away from the land in the same way that Stonehenge and Druidism, the worship of Thor and Odin, and the wars of the Heptarchy, have passed away from the people of England, but that they are living realities, exercising the same degree of influence over the 8181 WILKS' (Lieut.-Col. Mark) Historical Sketches of the SOUTH OF INDIA, in an attempt to trace the History of MYSORE, 3 vols. 4to. maps, including the very large one, often wanting, neatly bd. £3. 10s; or calf gilt, £3. 168 "A 66 very valuable and authentic work."- Lowndes1810-17 8182 WILLIAMS' Historical Account of the Bengal Native Infantry, 8vo. coloured plates, calf gilt, 68

Hindú as is exercised by the Bible, the Library, and the Newspaper, over the European. In a word, it may be emphatically stated that a thorough acquaintance with the ideas and aspirations of the masses is impossible without a close familiarity with the subject matter of the Mahá Bhárata and Rámáyana."-Extract from the Prospectus.

1817

8183 WILSON (H. H.) Documents illustrative of the BURMESE War, with introductory sketch, roy. 4to. large folding Map, bds. 25s; or calf gilt, from the Hon. Hugh Lindsay's library, 308 See also ante, General Oriental Alphabet.

Calc. 1827 8184 TRACTS on the History, Geography, Languages and Races of India, a collection of 29 Works, and Opuscula, folio, 4to. and 8vo. including some in Urdu, a bargain, 108 1780-1857

JAPAN. 8185 ALCOCK (Sir R.) the Capital of the Tycoon: a Narrative of Three Years' Residence in Japan, 2 vols. 8vo. with maps, coloured plates, and above 100 illustrations, (pub. at £2. 2s) cloth, 278

1863

"We have not previously had a book like | tion and close study among a strangely interthis on Japan. As a narrative it is excellent; esting people, it possesses an importance for all and as containing the results of large observa-thinking readers."-Athenæum, Feb. 21, 1863. 8186 CARON and Schorten, Description of Japan, rendered into English by Capt. Roger Manley, 12mo. with autograph of Admiral Sir John Narbrough, dated 1676, a very rare signature, 7s 6d

1671

8187 FISSCHER (J. F. Van Overmeer) Bijdrage tot de Kennis vat het Japansche Rijk, roy. 4to. plates of the Costume and Manners of the Japanese, &c. bds. 30s Amsterdam, 1833 8188 FORTUNE's Yedo and Peking: Journeys to the capitals of Japan and China, 8vo. map and 21 engravings, (pub. 16s) cloth, 10s 6d 1863 8189 GUERRERO (Fernan) Relacion Anual de las cosas que han hecho los Padres de la Compañia de Jesus en la INDIA ORIENTAL Y JAPON en (1)600 y (1)601, traduzida de Portugues por Colaço, sq. 8vo. vellum, rare, 328 Valladolid, 1604

Japan-continued. 8190 KÆMPFER'S History of Japan, its Government, Temples, Palaces, Castles, etc. its Natural History, Customs, Manufactures and Trade, translated by Scheuchzer, with Two APPENDICES, 2 vols. folio, 45 plates, old calf gilt, £2. 108 Still the best book on Japan. 1727-28 8191 LIJNDEN (Comte de) SOUVENIR DU JAPON, Vues d'après Nature, 4 parts atlas folio size, containing 8 beautifully coloured plates of the most picturesque scenery in Japan, with text, in a portfolio, 328 La Haye, 1860-61 8192 PERRY (Commodore) Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, 1852 to 1854, under the command of Commodore Perry, U. S. N. 3 vols. stout 4to. with numerous large folding maps, upwards of 100 tinted plates, representing Life, Manners, Portraits, Views, and Natural History in Japan, those of Natural History BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED, and several hundred Astronomical and other woodcuts, cloth, £2. 10s Washington, 1856

8193 HAWKS' Narrative of Perry's Expedition, 1852-54, stout roy. Svo. maps, plates, and woodcuts, cloth, 128 New York, 1857 8194 RENNIE'S (D. F.) British Arms in North China and Japan: Pekin, 1860, Kagosima, 1862, post 8vo. xvi. and 480 pp. (pub. at 12s) cloth, 8s 1864 8195 THUNBERG, Voyage en Afrique et en Asie, principalement au Japon, avec Vocabulaire, 1770-79, 8vo. bds. 7s 6d Paris, 1784 8196 TITSINGH'S (M.) ILLUSTRATIONS of JAPAN, roy. 4to. with 13 coloured plates after Japanese drawings, and a Japanese Vocabulary, neatly bound, 36s; or fine copy, hf. morocco, gilt top, uncut, £2. 5s

1822 PALESTINE. 8197 DE L'ISLE, Mémoires sur des Cartes de la Palestine, 2 parts in 1, 4to. sd. rare, 108 Paris, 1763-64 8198 EGERTON (Lady F.) Journal of a Tour in the Holy Land, 1840, 8vo. plates, cloth, PRIVATELY PRINTED, 78 1841 8199 FERGUSSON (James) The Holy Sepulchre and Temple at Jerusalem, Svo. portrait and woodcuts, cloth, 68 1865 8200 HESE. Joanis de Hese Itinerarius presbiteri a Hierusalē describea dispositiones terraru, insularu, montiu & aquaru, ac etia qdam mirabilis & pericula p diuersas ptes mūdi cōtingētia lucidissime enarrans, gothic letter, sm. 4to. crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, by Trautz Bauzonnet, £7.10s s. 1. et a. (circ. 1495) signatures, a (8 leaves); (4 leaves); c (6 leaves); and d (4 leaves); of which the last is blank.

Relation rare et très-précieuse.

VERY RARE, consisting of 22 leaves, without pagination, or catch words. It has 8201

another edition, sm. 4to. 21 leaves, gothic letter, fine large copy, with rough leaves, almost UNCUT, £5. s. 1. et a. (circ. 1495) COLLATION: a, 6 leaves; b, 4 leaves; c, 6 leaves; d, 5 leaves.

8202 MANDEVILLE. Tractato de le piu marauegliose cose e piu notabile che si trouino i le parte del mondo reducte e colte sotto breuita in lo psente compedio dal strenuissimo cavalier a speron doro Iohane de Mandauilla anglico nato nelo cita de sc'to Albano, sq. Svo. black letter, brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Mackenzie, £12.

Imp'ssuz bon. (BONONIE) per Ugone Rugeriu anno dni 1488 Fine copy of a VERY RARE edition. It consists of 82 leaves in signatures from a to k. 8203 JOANNE DE MANDEVILLA, qual tracta de le piu maravegliose cose, 12mo. title within woodcut border; 7 leaves of Table; and folios 1-120, maroon morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, £7. 78 Venetia, Sessa, 1521 "Edition peu connue.' Brunet. The the Cat.

Last leaf contains the colophon and the mark of

8204 IOANNE DE MANDAUILLA, nel quale si contengono di molte cose marauigliose, 12mo. woodcut bust of Cæsar on title, green_morocco extra, gilt edges, by Trautz-Bauzonnet, £3. 38 Venetia, MDLXVII

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