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 6 Aug 2016 Rare Paintings
View of Bombay, from Malabar Hills, with the Island of Caranjah and part of the Indian Continent in the distance - 1813

Plate twenty-two from the first volume of James Forbes'"Oriental Memoirs". Forbes(1749-1819)had arrived in Bombay in 1766 and spent eighteen years of his working-life in this r... Read More
 6 Aug 2016 Rare Paintings
A Distant View of the Temple at Alla Bhaugh, with different natives in the Concan - 1813

Plate 26 from the first volume of James Forbes'"Oriental Memoirs", a work in the form of a series of letters richly illustrated, describing various aspects of nature, people and buildings he met with during ... Read More
 6 Aug 2016 Rare Paintings
A Mohamedan youth of distinction - 1813

Plate eighteen from the first volume of James Forbes' "Oriental Memoirs", a work based on copious notes and drawings made during his travels in India between the 1770s-80s. Forbes(1749-1819)spent most of his working life in Western India, particularly in G... Read More
 6 Aug 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Oriental Memoirs: A narrative of seventeen years residence in India
By James Forbes (1749-1819)
Revised by his daughter Countess Eliza Rosée Montalembert
Published by Richard Bentley, London - 1834
Volume 2

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 6 Aug 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Oriental Memoirs: A narrative of seventeen years residence in India
By James Forbes (1749-1819)
Revised by his daughter Countess Eliza Rosée Montalembert
Published by Richard Bentley, London - 1834
Volume 1

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 2 Jun 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Enugula Veera Swamaiah Gari Kashi Yatra Charitra
By Gidugu Venkata Rama Murthy
Published by D.Venkata Shiva Rao, Vijaywada - 1941
In Telugu

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Review:
Travelling was at Three Miles an Hour, but in t... Read More
 20 Feb 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
India and the frontier states of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma
By James Talboys Wheeler (1824-1897) and Edgar Saltus (1855-1921)
Published by Peter Fenelon Collier, New York - 1899
Volume 2

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 20 Feb 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
India and the frontier states of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma
By James Talboys Wheeler (1824-1897) and Edgar Saltus (1855-1921)
Published by Peter Fenelon Collier, New York - 1899
Volume 1

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 11 Feb 2016 Rare Paintings
Illustration from:
Voyages Dans l'Inde
By Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-1859)
Published by Garnier Freres, Paris - 1858
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 11 Feb 2016 Rare Paintings
Illustration from:
Voyages Dans l'Inde
By Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-1859)
Published by Garnier Freres, Paris - 1858
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 11 Feb 2016 Rare Paintings
Illustration from:
Voyages Dans l'Inde
By Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-1859)
Published by Garnier Freres, Paris - 1858
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 11 Feb 2016 Rare Paintings
Illustration from:
Voyages Dans l'Inde
By Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-1859)
Published by Garnier Freres, Paris - 1858
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 11 Feb 2016 Rare Paintings
Illustration from:
Voyages Dans l'Inde
By Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-1859)
Published by Garnier Freres, Paris - 1858
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 11 Feb 2016 Rare Paintings
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Voyages Dans l'Inde
By Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-1859)
Published by Garnier Freres, Paris - 1858
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 11 Feb 2016 Article/Essay
Essay:
The Russian Prince and the Maharajah of Travancore
By Richard R Walding, Helen Stone and Achuthsankar S. Nair
Published by The University of Kerala - 2009

In 1841, the Russian Prince Alexis Soltykoff made the first of two visits to India and published his observations upon his return to h... Read More
 10 Feb 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Voyages Dans l'Inde
By Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-1859)
Published by Garner Freres, Paris - 1858
In French

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Prince Aleksei Dmitrievich Saltykov (1806–59) was a Russian artist and traveller i... Read More
 18 Sep 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Wanderings of a pilgrim, in search of the picturesque, during four-and-twenty years in the East; with revelations of life in the Zenana
By Fanny Parkes
Published by Pelham Richardson, London - 1850

Invocation to Ganesha by Fanny Parkes in her 'Wanderings of a pilgrim, in searc... Read More
 22 Aug 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Modern Traveller - India
Volume 3
By Josiah Conder (1789-1855)
Published James Duncan, London - 1830

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Poona - 1809

This aquatint is taken from plate 13 of Henry Salt's 'Twenty Four ... Read More
 22 Aug 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Modern Traveller - India
Volume 2
By Josiah Conder (1789-1855)
Published James Duncan, London - 1830

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A View of the Island Fort of Seringapatam - 1792

Etching of Seringapatam (Srira... Read More
 22 Aug 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Modern Traveller - India
Volume 1
By Josiah Conder (1789-1855)
Published James Duncan, London - 1830

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View in the bed of the Gooree river looking down the stream (River Gori, Almora ... Read More
 21 Aug 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Arabia, Egypt and India - A narrative of travel
By Isabel Burton
Published by William Mullan and Son, London - 1879

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Isabel, Lady Burton (20 March 1831 – 22 March 1896) — née Isabel Arundell — ... Read More