the first detailed account of Afghanistan by a western observer. Elphinstone collected important information on the geography, government, languag...

Rare: only 500 copies were printed. 'Burton's Falconry is today considered a classic, although it created little stir at the time of its appearanc...

A beautifully bound set of Beveridge's history of India, profusely illustrated.3 vols, large 8vo, engraved titles, frontispieces, 19 coloured maps...

Aquatint by J.C. Stadler, with original hand-colour.

The Abbey copy. Rare. Robert Smith, a Scot, served in India. The plates are of a high quality, depicting a full range of Indian trades and society,...

Isabel Burton's second book detailing a journey made with her husband to India, via Arabia and Egypt between 1875 and 1876. Although the work is p...

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

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

Younghusband narrates the story of the corps of the guides as a fighting unit in Kashmir. Includes accounts of the Cavagnari Mission to Kabul, Sec...

Well illustrated account of White's tours in the direction of Mussoore, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, etc.Second edition. 4to, x, 84...

'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...

Maria Graham's India was her first book. Graham was an artist who visited India and married the ship's captain shortly afterwards. Together they m...

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

Inscribed by the author. Rare. Estridge was collector of taxes in the British colonial administration in the early 1880's, serving as Collector of ...

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...

One of the earliest comprehensive accounts of Nepal. Buchanan accompanied Knox to Nepal and later spent two years on the Nepalese frontier collect...

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