Annotated by an officer of the bengal army. Rare. The Bengal Directory contains details of the 'British and Indian Governments', 'Supreme Court Bri...

Important early iconography of Jakarta. Heydt's Ost-Indien provides us with an extensive and important work with regard to the town planning and ge...

On the road to Mandalay, where the flyin'-fishes play, an' the dawn comes up like thunder.... Moore's views of Rangoon constitutes the finest depic...

Hakluyt Society First Series, no. 19.Important early East India Company voyage to theEast Indies.The appendix includes commissions, letters of Ja...

'An important glimpse of the activities of the East IndiaCompany in the period 1682 to 1684' (Riddick). Hedges was a director of the Company and p...

Author's wife's copy. Hugh Lindsay's Report of Proceedings contains reports by Lindsay, an East India Company man, and Charles Gutzlaff on trade wi...

Rare. ESTC lists only BL, Advocates Library, and Birmingham Central Library in U.K., adding College of William and Mary and University of Minnesot...

Calcutta imprint - very rare. One of three known copies of a Calcutta-printed treatise on the history and 'Science of War'. The words, taken from a...

Watercolours of Singapore and the West Indies. A richly illustrated record of service in the Royal Navy at the height of British maritime supremacy...

Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was ...

Attractive copy of Tavernier's account of his travels to the East. One of the most popular works of its time and translated into several European ...

Hakluyt Society, first series 56. The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Middleton, Love, Downton, and Cross. Calen...

A defence by Harry Verelst (1734-1785) of the British administration in Bengal during his governorship. 'Verelst became a loyal supporter of Clive...

Sleeman (1788-1856), an officer in the East India Company, achieved some renown for his part in the anti-Thugee campaign in the 1830's and 40's, b...

The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Vi...

By paddle steamer up the Irrawaddy river. Crawfurd was sent on an envoy mission to Burma in 1826, by Hastings's successor Lord Amherst, in the afte...

Chase (1823-1860) was stationed in Burma from 1847 until his death in 1860. He joined the 46th Bengal Native Infantry in India in March 1842, arr...