Indoislamica: art and rare books relating to India, Central Asia and the Islamic world

Workman, Fanny Bullock and William Hunter Workman Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun. A Record of Pioneering Exploration and Mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya.

First edition, London 1909. Royal 8vo.

Colour frontispiece, 91 sepia and other gravure plates including 4 double-page panoramas. Large coloured folding map made by Dr. W. Hunter Workman from actual observation. Original pictorial cloth, top edges gilt. pp. xv, 204, one page publisher’s advertisement.

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Tod, Lieutenant-Colonel James Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India.

First Edition, London (1829 – 1832).

Volume I: Engraved frontispiece, 29 plates of views, tables, a section, and a large folding map on linen (as called for) pp. xxx, (i), 806, (i-errata leaf) Half-title present.

Volume II: Engraved frontispiece, 22 folding and other engraved plates (as called for). pp. xxxii, (i), 791. Half –title present. [Published 3 years after the first volume, by permission of King William IV ‘under the auspices of your Majesty’s name’].

Burgundy half-morocco by Bickers & Son, spines with raised bands, ruled in gilt, top edges gilt. Large quarto (2 volumes).

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Thornton, Edward. A Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the East India Company, and of the Native States on the Continent of India.

Volume I: ABO – COE. Volume II: COG – JYT. Volume III: KAB – OOG. Volume IV: OOJ – ZYN. First edition, London 1854.

Engraved folding map by John Walker, hand-coloured in outline. Pages uncut, unpaginated. (Each volume 700 pages approximately). Original cloth, 8vo (4 volumes).

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Honigberger, John Martin (‘Johann Martino’) Thirty-Five Years in the East.

First edition in English, London 1852.

Engraved frontispiece, tinted lithographed folding panorama of Lahore, 46 engraved plates and a map. Original cloth, pp. xxix, 206, xi, 448 (2 volumes in one), 8vo (2 volumes in one).

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Temple, Sir Richard. Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal.

First Edition, London 1887.

Volume I: Coloured lithographed frontispiece, 4 plates (one a mounted Woodburytype photograph), 4 coloured lithographed maps and plans, (3 folding, including a plan of the city of Srinagar).

Volume II: Coloured lithographed frontispiece, 3 coloured lithographed plates, folding panorama of Kashmir from the Takht-i-Sulaiman mountain range, 2 other plates, 3 folding maps of Kashmir, Nepal and Sikkim. 8vo.

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Pottinger, Lieutenant Henry. Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a Geograhical and Historical Account of Those Countries, with a map.

First edition, London 1816.

Hand-coloured frontispiece and a very large engraved folding map. Modern half-calf, spine gilt. pp. xxx, 423. 4to.

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Develin, Sergeant-Major, Royal Engineers Views in Chitral, Taken during the advance of the 3rd Brigade of the Chitral Relief Force under the command of Brigadier-General W.F. Gatacre, D.S.O.

No publication date but preface dated Bombay, March 12th, 1896.

127 fine gravure (phototype) plates, including 4 large folding panoramas. Original cloth, lettered in gilt, title-page printed in red and black, pp. 18, plus plates. Oblong folio.

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Leitner, G.W. The Languages and Races of Dardistan.

First edition, London 1876. Folio.

3 parts in one volume. Frontispiece with signed photographic portrait, inserted addendum slip, one full-page mounted photographic plate of a ‘Group of Dards’, 3 mounted photographs on one page showing Greco-Buddhist (Gandharan) sculptures excavated at Takht-I-Bahi on the Panjab (North-West Frontier), 15 engraved text illustrations on 7 pages, and 4 folding maps in pocket, one printed in colour, the rest handcoloured in outline, and another not called for in index.

One of only 100 copies of the first edition signed by Dr. Leitner.

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Cousens, Henry. Portfolio of Illustrations of Sind Tiles.

[London] 1906.

pp. [4], 50 fine chromo-lithographed plates, all but one in colour, 2 laid down, plate 40 supplied in facsimile, housed in original portfolio decorated and lettered in gilt with later cloth ties. Large folio. (Issued by the Government of India; Photo-Chromo-Lithographed by W. Griggs and Sons, Chromo-Lithographers to the King, 1906).

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Francke, Dr. A.H. Antiquities of Indian Tibet.

Part I: Personal Narrative. Part II: The Chronicles of Ladakh and Minor Chronicles.

First edition. Calcutta 1914-1926. Folio (2 volumes). Part I: 88 gravure photographic illustrations on 44 plates, large folding route map of Dr. Francke’s journey in the Indo-Tibetan borderlands, 4 text illustrations. pp. xiv, 133, iv. Part II: 5 coloured folding maps of (i) Central Ladakh, Nubra and Eastern Zanskar; (ii) Lower Ladakh and Purig; Zanskar; (iii) Zanskar; (iv) Lahul; (v) Baltistan. pp. viii, 310.

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Fraser, James B. (Baillie) Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, etc. With Sketches of the Character and Manners of the Koordish and Arab Tribes.

First Edition, London 1835.

Engraved frontispieces. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. pp. ix, 382, 477. 8vo. (2 volumes in one).

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Davidson. Lieut.-Colonel C. J. C. Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India.

First Edition, London 1843.

Original patterned cloth, pp. xv, 344, x, 349. 8vo. (2 Volumes).

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