India by Henry Wilson (185 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS Rulers Of India: Albuquerque: Edited By Sir William Wilson Hunter This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a fresh and newly reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Cloth. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Christine Hanscomb, Henry Wilson (photography) (illustrator). Reprint. Indian food set in religious, historical and regional contexts by the well-known TV chef. Lavishly illustrated, 256pp. Maroon covers with gilt lettering to spine. Mild stain to fore edges which goes up to 1cm onto pages. DJ has only mild signs of wear and one tiny nick at head of rear. Overall a decent copy. Ref:071530.

Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9780500420744 N.A.

Condition: Very Good. 12mo (7 3/4"), 207 pp. + fold-out map. From private collection of Frederick A. Hagar. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown; name printed on ffep. Cloth shows some rubbing with minor wear to corners.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New condition polished red cloth boards with gold spine lettering, contained in a new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Sources; Index; and Author's Acknowledgments. Profusely illustrated throughout the volume with color photographs. "India has an immediate visual resonance, with a style reflecting the vibrance and diversity of its people, traditions, and design. It has survived a turbulent history, and yet retains a sense of originality and cultural identity that is enriched by, and yet also transcends, the diverse influences that it has absorbed - from the Mughal invasion in the twelfth century AD to the arrival of the British in the eighteenth century. This book is a celebratory overview of Indian style and interior influence, focusing on the north-west area of Rajasthan and Gujarat. Specially commissioned photographs explore the colors, architecture, furniture, wall decorations, textiles, and rugs within Indian homes across the social spectrum. Each section of the book is devoted to homes of a specific type - merchant houses, forts and palaces, tribal, revival, and modern - but in all of them attention is paid to the details, patterns, and motifs that define the distinct styles of decoration, as rich in significance as they are beautiful. Decorative artworks translated from the designs in the photographs are integrated throughout, giving life to the details within the overall view and drawing inspiration from them. The final modern section looks at contemporary Indian homes, showing how this rich artistic heritage has been adapted and updated. They range from Faith Singh's home in Jaipur, which integrates the traditionally block-printed fabrics that she has produced for her international Anokhi shops, to Raseel Gujral's home in Delhi, on of Delhi's top interior designers. Whether you are fascinated by the culture and design of India, or whether you are seeking ideas for translating the Indian influence into a contemporary interior, then this provides a rich visual reference of styles from traditional to contemporary, presented with integrity and panache." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 190 pages. tidy ex reference library -d/j plastic protected -heavy book check postage withus.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. A nice, bright copy. ; Color Illustrations; 4to ; 256 pages.

Condition: New. pp. 3605.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Thus. HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1900, Revised Edition Stated, GOOD+/GOOD, AS-IS, NOJACKET, 467 pgs, Beige Brown Tweed Cloth Stain on Front Sunning, Titled on Spine with Label with Gilt Lettering, Interior NICE tight clean light Wear , FOX, rough cuTpages edges by Publ., .B/W Sepia Frontispiece Designed by Isa Mohammed, of Taj-Mahal Built by Emperor Shah Jehan as a Mausoleum for Empress, Mumtazi Mahal, who Died in Giving Birth to Princess Jehanava in Year 1630 in India.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.75.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Language: English. About the Book : The aim of this series of volumes is to present a continuous narrative of the history of India from the dim ages of the past down to the present time, combining into an organic whole a succession of standard works by recognized authorities, each a master of the special period with which he deals, thus providing a complete picture of the development of the country. This series of volumes deal with the following topics, namely, Vol-1 From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, B. C., Vol-2 From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great, Vol-3 Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the reign of Akber the Great, Vol-4 From the Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of the Moghul Empire, Vol-5 The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians, Vol-6 From the first European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company, Vol-7- The European Struggle for Indian Supremacy in the Seventeenth Century, Vol-8- From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time, Vol-9 Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers Classic, Oriental, and Occidental. About The Author : Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (1840 -1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service.He is most known for The Imperial Gazetteer of India on which he started working in 1869, and which was eventually published in nine volumes in 1881, then fourteen, and later as a twenty-six volume set after his death. He reached Bengal Presidency in November 1862 and was appointed assistant magistrate and collector of Birbhum, in the lower provinces of Bengal, where he began collecting local traditions and records, which formed the materials for his publication, entitled The Annals of Rural Bengal, which influenced among others the historical romance Durgeshnandini of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.He also compiled A Comparative Dictionary of the Non-Aryan Languages of India, a glossary of dialects based mainly upon the collections of Brian Houghton Hodgson, which according to the Encyclop¾dia Britannica Eleventh Edition, "testifies to the industry of the writer but contains much immature philological speculation". The Title 'History of India written/authored/edited by Edited by A.V. Williams Jackson, Romesh Chunder Dutt, VINCENT A. SMITH, Stanley Lane Poole, Sir Henry Miers Elliot, Sir William Wilson Hunter, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121267809 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 3605 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: Volume In 9 Vol. Volume In 9 Vol. 3605.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in tan cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. No dustjacket. 276pp + 40pp book catalogue to rear. Not library copy, no inscriptions. SOme page foxing. (4/3).

Couverture rigide. Condition: Assez bon. Edition originale. Octavo; publisher's cloth binding, wear at edges, some spotting on boards; stamp of a previous owner on pastedown; inside good, 276 pages followed by the publisher's catalogue 40 pages; INSCRIBED by Francis Henry Skrine on a separate paper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Arthur William Devis; Georgiana Keate; J. Platt; John Russell; T. Malton; J. Wedgebrough; Robert White; H. Wilson, jr. Plus engravers H. Kingsbury; Thomas Landseer; T. Medland; W. & J. Walker (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. Hard cover, 4to, in original unsigned tree calf fine binding, the spine rebacked, with 5 raised bands. The second compartment bears a red morocco label with gilt title: WILSON/AN ACCOUNT/ OF THE /PELEW ISLANDS." Bands are double ruled in gilt, with remnants of gilt rolled to board edges. Cream endpapers, letterpress-printed upon mould made paper. Stiple-engraved frontispiece portrait engraving of Capt. Henry Wilson (1740-1810) with 2 engraved fold-outs (one map, one landscape elevation), and additional 15 engraved full page plates; i.e.17 illustrations, as called for in the First Edition. With twenty-seven chapters, Directions to Binders, Dictionary of the Pelew Language and errata page. Title page with one illegible owner signature in old ink, with another below in the name of TH-- TWYSDEN. Engraved armorial bookplate of Viscount Falmouth. (see below).*CONDITION: Very Good. Professionally rebacked, but now featuring some superficial scuffs to the spine, some heavy scratches to the rear board. Light wear to finish and edges with some later color correction. Corners repaired, and rubbed. Both hinges with old paper repairs. Front hinge having about a two inch rend at center of same. Inside, earlier quires with some toning, odd spots of fox or soiling. Offset from only a couple of the engravings upon text. Map with mild fold creasing, small polish offset. One small paper repair at fold on foldout landscape. COLLATION:[2] pp.,[i]-xxvii [xxviii is Direction to binders], [1] - 378pp. [379 pp. eratta].**SUBJECT: The British and Chinese crew aboard the East India Company's packet ship Antelope comes to harm in July, 1783 as their ship is blown off course in a gale off of Macau, stranding them upon the coral banks of a hitherto unexplored group of South Pacific (now Micronesian) islands between Guam and the Phillipines. The Captain, Henry Wilson, and crew pull off a remarkable feat of salvaging the remains of the ship to build a sloop, enabling the crew to set sail via Canton to England after only four months on Oroolong, the island gifted them by the Pelau King Abba Thulle. Compiler George Keate uses journals, interviews and the log to tell the human story of an unplanned yet remarkably fruitful voyage of exploration and anthropological discovery. The Pelew (Pelau, or Belau) kingdom of the chief Abba Thulle extends generous hospitality and friendship to the travelers, inviting mutual respect and kindness. In return, the British aid them in medical matters and several battles against rival islanders. They are gifted various Pelauan "ornaments"( which make up some of the illustrations) as they set off four months later to return to England, also bringing with them the King's nephew, Prince Lee Boo, who lives for a time with Mr. Keate and his family. Keate wrote a second title about Lee Boo's time in England, and his daughter Caroline provides a portrait from memory used here, when Lee Boo died from smallpox in Dec., 1784. **ILLUSTRATIONS: Arthur William Devis (1762-1822 ) shipped out as the official East India Company Artist in 1782, and by 1783 was aboard the shipwrecked "Antelope" in Palau. Trained as an academic painter and portraitist, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and other galleries. The British Museum has several of his original portrait drawings from the voyage which appear in the book, including that of the Prince Lee Boo (Lebu) and his father, Arra Kook (Arra Kooger), as well as a portrait of a Chinese lady drawn after the crew regrouped in Macau and Canton in 1784. (British Museum online). Luckily, there were numerous artistically-inclined sketchers on this voyage, including the Captain himself, making possible a thoroughly facinating pictorial record of the events, cultural history and people. The brother of artist Edwin Landseer, the engraver Thomas Landseer was also employed on this work, as prepared back in London. BIBLIOGRAPHERS cite five editions by 1804, including a pirated Irish edition and one in French; it has been an enduringly popular narative, variously abridged and translated into many languages in the ensuing years, due to the particularly well-told tale on a very human scale. **PROVENANCE: Viscount Falmouth, Mereworth Castle, Kent (engraved bookplate). This stunning early eighteenth-century Palladian home, designed by Scottish architect Colen Campbell, appeared in film as the residence of Agent 007, in the 1967 Sean Connery/ James Bond film, "Casino Royale," immortalized from the 1953 Ian Flemming novel. The book is presumed to have belonged to the 3rd Viscount Falmouth, George Evelyn Boscawen, (d.1808) whose family crest upon the bookplate features distinctive heraldry of lions rampant with the tail of a fish. (His father, the 2nd Viscount Falmouth, Hugh Boscawen, (d. 1782) was a naval Admiral. Also, THOMAS TWYSDEN, (d. 1801) whose name appears signed in old ink to the title page, also had a distinguished and lengthy naval career, entering service in 1781 as Fourth Lieut. of the 74-gun ship of the line, The Defense, in 1793. REFS: BDNB. J.-Ch. Brunet, "Manuel du Libraire et de L'Amateur de Livres." Vol.III, (Paris: Libraire de Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Co., 1862) No. [21153], p. 647. J.R. Abbey, "Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 (Stoors-Mansfield, CT: M. Martino Publisher, 1995), note to No. 546. Cotton and Fawcett, "East Indiamen" (London: Batchworth Press, 1949), p. 138. Three Decks' dot org. (4.7 lbs.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Second edition. Tree calf, handsomely rebacked, with gilt-stamped ornate rules and details on spine, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label; 4to (9.5 x 12 inches); pp. xxvii, [1] (directions to the binder), 378, plus frontis., folding map, and 12 plates (one of which is folding). Spine, corners, and edges of boards a bit scuffed. Some off-setting of the plates onto facing pages, some interesting marginalia (see below), and a little worming in the gutter; otherwise, text block is nice and clean, with side margins. Armorial bookplates of John Thurlow Dering (front paste-down) and Sir Samuel Hoare, Baronet (FFEP). Ticket of "Pigge Binder, Lynn" on front paste-down. A feather has been laid-in at pp. 364-5, marking the beginning of "A Vocabulary of the Pelew Language," and a lengthy manuscript addition across the bottom margins of both pages -- an early hand, and trimmed close along the bottom edge, it records an account from an officer on board the Panther, describing the Pelew monarch's devastated response to the news of the death of his son, Le Boo. A few more instances of discreet notations alongside the printed marginalia, all of it tidy (even pleasing), in black ink. An unique, handsome copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Published by Thames Hudson 2011, 256 pp with 223 ill. in colour , 89 drawings.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 296 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.66 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 296 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.66 inches. This item is printed on demand.