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Foundational work for the study of Indian ferns

BEDDOME, Richard Henry The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras Presidency.
Madras (now Chennai), printed by Gantz Brothers, 1863. Large 4to (31 x ca. 24.5 cm). With 272 lithographed line illustrations of Indian ferns, numbered I-CCLXXI plus XXVIIIA, all signed "Govindoo del. G. Winchester Lith. Madras". Contemporary half brown leather. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XV, [1 blank], 88, VII, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Two accounts of the Far East and the Malabar region in India

CARDIM, Antonio Francesco. Relation de la province du Japon.
Including: BARRETTO, Francesco. Relation des missions de la province de Malabar, de la comp: de Jesus.
Tournay, Adrien Quinqué, 1645. Small 8vo (14.5×9 cm). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, later endpapers. [10], 308 pp. Full description
€ 8,500
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Rare and important speech given in Goa in October 1641 on the occasion of the restauration
of Portuguese independence and the end of the Iberian Union

CRUZ, Manuel da. Fala que fes o P. Fr. Manoel da Crus, Mestre em S. Teologia, Deputado do S. Officio, & das Ordens Militares na segunda instancia, Vigairo Geral da Ordem dos Pregadores da India.
(Colophon:) Lisbon, Lourenço de Anveres for Andre Godinho, 1642. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With the woodcut crowned Portuguese coat of arms on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], [20], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Vibrant Indian miniatures of couples and "composite elephants"

[INDIAN MINIATURES - MUGHAL STYLE]. [Hand-painted miniatures inserted in a printed text in Urdu].
[India, late 19th- or early 20th century]. 8vo (ca. 18 x 12.5 cm). With 9 hand-painted miniatures, made with gouache and ink, with inscriptions on the back. Late 19th- or early 20th-century quarter red cloth, red decorative paper sides, red decorative paper endpapers. "45-118, 191-194, 197-204, 195-196, 205-250" [= 132] pp. Full description
€ 8,000
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East Indiaman voyage journal to Bengal - first-hand account of an earthquake at sea
off the coast of India in February 1823

[INDIA - SHIP JOURNAL - EAST INDIA COMPANY]. Journal of the proceedings of the hon[oura]ble(?) East India Company ship Winchelsea.
[Aboard the Winchelsea, written and drawn at sea, 1822-1823]. 3 volumes. 8vo. The two sketchbooks contain a total of ca. 100 pages of sketches of ships, done in pencil, including 1 page containing signal flags in colour. With: [Two sketchbooks with pencil drawings of ships]. Contemporary half gold-tooled brown calf. [1 blank], [1], [155]; [98]; [98] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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Vibrant Mughal-style full-page illustrations in a 19th-century Sindhi manuscript

[MANUSCRIPT - SINDHI]. [Sindhi manuscript with hand-painted Mughal-style miniatures].
[Early 19th century]. 4to (ca. 22 x 16.5 cm). With 10 full-page miniatures on paper, painted with gouache and ink, all full-page illustrations are surrounded by a 3-sided floral border (not present in the gutter margins). Further with and a painted headpiece on the verso of the second leaf. Sindhi manuscript in black ink on paper, rubricated throughout, in a small naskh/ruq'ah hand (13 lines per page). Modern blue floral cloth. [58] ll. Full description
€ 9,500
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"For Official Use Only."

PAGET, William Henry, MASON, A. H. & others (editors). Frontier and overseas expeditions from India. Compiled in the intelligence branch of the divisions of the chief of the staff army head quarters India. In six volumes. For official use only.
Simla, Government Monotype Press, 1907-1911. 8 volumes (6 plus 2 supplements). 8vo. With 43 maps and 8 plans.
Uniform contemporary half calf, green cloth sides, gold-stamped spine labels. Full description
€ 75,000
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Rare first and only edition of the biography of one of the most powerful viceroys Portuguese-India ever had

PEREIRA DE MACEDO, Francisco de Santo Agostinho. Vida del grande d. Lvis de Attayde, tercer Conde de Attogvia, y Virrey de la India dos vezes.
Madrid, Imprenta del Reino, 1633. 4to. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. [11] ,[1 blank], 168 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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