Madras India: Signed (6 results)

1877 - Antique Print INDIA Prince Wales Tour Madras Races Levee Pets (117) For more info please ask seller a question. Royal Mail 2nd Class - £0.00 Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For - £4.50 Standard Int'l age - £4.00 Royal Mail International Signed - £8.00 No PICK UP OPTIONSorry, our items are NOT available for pick-up.PAYING VIA PAYPALWe accept on our all our items so you can shop with confidence.Simple choose the option when proceeding through the checkout.…

1876 Antique Print - INDIA Madras Banquet Hall Railway Station Guns (34) For more info please ask seller a question. Royal Mail 2nd Class - £0.00 Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For - £4.50 Standard Int'l age - £4.00 Royal Mail International Signed - £8.00 No PICK UP OPTIONSorry, our items are NOT available for pick-up.PAYING VIA PAYPALWe accept on our all our items so you can shop with confidence.Simple choose the option when proceeding through the checkout.…

1876 Antique Print - INDIA Madras Prince Wales Illumination Serapis Raleigh (32 For more info please ask seller a question. Royal Mail 2nd Class - £0.00 Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For - £4.50 Standard Int'l age - £4.00 Royal Mail International Signed - £8.00 No PICK UP OPTIONSorry, our items are NOT available for pick-up.PAYING VIA PAYPALWe accept on our all our items so you can shop with confidence.Simple choose the option when proceeding through the checkout.…

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Original grey wrappers. Inscribed By the Author on title page "With kindest regards A H Longhurst 10-11-39". Clean throughout but extremities quite worn. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Inscribed By the Author.…

First edition of a very scarce book on Indian ferns, published in Madras (now Chennai). It was a pioneering effort in documenting the rich pteridophyte flora of southern India. The 272 detailed lithographs are accompanied by succinct descriptions of the characteristics of the genera and species depicted. A second edition was published in 1873, an accompanying work titled The ferns of British India was published in 1866, and a supplement to the two works - Supplement to the ferns of southern India and British India with 45 additional plates, was published in 1876. With these works, the author provided a list of all then-known ferns from India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Burma (Myanmar), and the Malay Peninsula. The total number of illustrated species and varieties came to 660, solidifying Beddome's contribution to the study of Indian ferns.Richard Henry Beddome (1830-1911) was a British army officer and distinguished naturalist whose contributions to the botanical and zoological sciences were pivotal in 19th-century colonial India. Serving in the Madras Presidency, Beddome was appointed Conservator of Forests, a role through which he extensively explored and documented the flora of southern India. He is best known for his authoritative works on ferns, particularly the present work and its later supplement, both richly illustrated and foundational in Indian pteridology.With some contemporary pencil and ink annotations. The head of the spine has been restored, the edges of the boards are somewhat scuffed, internally very slightly foxed and browned. Otherwise in very good condition.l Jackson p. 386; Nissen BBI, 116; Pritzel 555; Stafleu & Cowan 391; WorldCat 6227464, 1437399073 (17 copies); cf. BMNH p. 121. Contemporary half brown leather and brown pebble-grained cloth, with the title (and "D.J.S. Macleod") lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. With 272 lithographed line illustrations of Indian ferns, numbered I-CCLXXI plus XXVIIIA, all signed "Govindoo del. G. Winchester Lith. Madras". Pages: [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XV, [1 blank], 88, VII, [1 blank] pp.…

CHAU4760 Antique 6" x 6" card housing an affixed antique autograph of the signature of Frederick Gell (1820?1902), who served as the Anglican Bishop of Madras under the British Raj from 1861 to 1899. It is signed using the centuries-old "episcopal" formatting traditionally required of senior colonial church leaders, where the signer omits their surname. In this specific configuration, "F. Madras" (or "F.M. Madras") combines his first initials (Frederick or Frederick Madras) directly with the legal Latin designation of his see (Madras). This exact styling was used exclusively on high-level official correspondence, ordination certificates, and ecclesiastical decrees throughout his historic 38-year tenure, providing clear confirmation of the document's official origin and authenticity. The autograph has its sides firmly fixed to the card so cannot be removed but in fairness the card has preserved the signature throughout time.? There is ageing and places to allow (see scan) so even though flat on a blue card I graded fair .You can see above the autograph there is also the Bishop's personal embossed stationery crested monogram at the head of the page for the ultimate in lifetime COA. ".Bishop Frederick Gell (1820?1902) was a highly revered British theologian who served as the Anglican Bishop of Madras (now Chennai, India) for an extraordinary 38 years, making him one of the longest-serving colonial bishops in the history of the British Raj. Educated at Cambridge, Gell arrived in India in 1861 during a critical period of post-rebellion imperial restructuring and quickly became known for his deep humility, structural administrative skill, and progressive approach to local leadership. Rather than maintaining a distant colonial oversight, he spent his decades-long tenure traveling extensively across Southern India, focusing heavily on expanding higher education, establishing native schools, and actively ordaining a significant number of indigenous Indian clergy to high-ranking leadership roles within the church. By the time of his retirement in 1899, Gell's legacy was defined by his profound cross-cultural respect and his dedication to building a self-sustaining, locally led Indian church network, earning him immense admiration from both the British administration and the local population.".…