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    The Costume and Customs of Modern India by Charles D’Oyly, c.1824, with 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates.
    The Costume and Customs of Modern India by Charles D’Oyly, c.1824, with 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates.
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    D’OYLY, Sir Charles (1781–1845), artist; WILLIAMSON, Captain Thomas (1758/59–1817)
    The Costume and Customs of Modern India

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    Modern Indian Artists: Asit Kumar Haldar, 1923 first edition with five colour plates and twenty photogravures.
    Modern Indian Artists: Asit Kumar Haldar, 1923 first edition with five colour plates and twenty photogravures.
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    COUSINS, James H. (1873–1956)
    Modern Indian Artists, Volume Two: Asit Kumar Haldar

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    Richard Francis Burton’s The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El Yezdi, 1914 Hutchinson edition in gilt faux-vellum binding.
    Richard Francis Burton’s The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El Yezdi, 1914 Hutchinson edition in gilt faux-vellum binding.
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    BURTON, Richard Francis (1821–1890)
    The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law

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    Richard Francis Burton’s Falconry in the Valley of the Indus, first edition 1852, with four tinted lithographic plates.
    Richard Francis Burton’s Falconry in the Valley of the Indus, first edition 1852, with four tinted lithographic plates.
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    BURTON, Richard Francis (1821–1890)
    Falconry in the Valley of the Indus

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    Richard Francis Burton’s Scinde; or, The Unhappy Valley, first edition 1851, complete in two volumes in original publisher’s cloth.
    Richard Francis Burton’s Scinde; or, The Unhappy Valley, first edition 1851, complete in two volumes in original publisher’s cloth.
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    BURTON, Richard Francis (1821–1890)
    Scinde; or, The Unhappy Valley

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    Richard Francis Burton’s Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, second edition 1857, illustrated with chromolithographs, tinted lithographs and folding maps.
    Richard Francis Burton’s Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, second edition 1857, illustrated with chromolithographs, tinted lithographs and folding maps.
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    BURTON, Richard Francis (1821–1890)
    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah

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    Delhi 1857 by Colonel Keith Young, first edition 1902, illustrated with 28 plates and two folding maps.
    Delhi 1857 by Colonel Keith Young, first edition 1902, illustrated with 28 plates and two folding maps.
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    YOUNG, Keith (1806–1862)
    Delhi—1857

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    Iqbal: Poet of the East and Chughtai, 1968, illustrated by Abdur Rahman Chughtai with 39 colour plates, photogravures, calligraphy and an original etching.
    Iqbal: Poet of the East and Chughtai, 1968, illustrated by Abdur Rahman Chughtai with 39 colour plates, photogravures, calligraphy and an original etching.
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    IQBAL, Muhammad (1877–1938); CHUGHTAI, Abdur Rahman (1894–1975)
    Iqbal: Poet of the East and Chughtai

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    William Lewis M’Gregor, The History of the Sikhs, first edition, London 1846, complete two-volume set in contemporary half-calf bindings.
    William Lewis M’Gregor, The History of the Sikhs, first edition, London 1846, complete two-volume set with lithographic portraits and folding maps.
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    M’GREGOR, William Lewis
    The History of the Sikhs

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    Original 1826 hand-coloured aquatint after James Baillie Fraser showing Loll Bazaar in Calcutta from opposite the house of John Palmer, with bullock carts, palanquins, pedestrians and colonial residences.
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    FRASER, James Baillie (1783–1856)
    A View of the Loll Bazaar, from opposite the House of John Palmer Esq.

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    Original 1825 hand-coloured aquatint after James Baillie Fraser showing Barrackpore House and its landscaped grounds overlooking the Hooghly River in Bengal, engraved by Robert Havell Jr.
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    FRASER, James Baillie (1783–1856)
    A View of Barrackpore House, with the Reach of the River

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    Hand-coloured aquatint by James Baillie Fraser showing Loll Bazaar and the Portuguese Chapel from the Circular Road in Calcutta, published in London in 1826.
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    FRASER, James Baillie (1783–1856)
    View of the Loll Bazaar and Portuguese Chapel, from the Circular Road

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        Original 1849 hand-coloured lithograph of Rhododendron Campbelliae by Joseph Dalton Hooker and Walter Hood Fitch, Plate VI from The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya, showing flowering Himalayan rhododendron branches and botanical details.
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        Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911)
        Rhododendron Campbelliae

        Original hand-coloured botanical engraving of The Superb Lily from Thornton's Temple of Flora, engraved by William Ward and published in London in 1799.
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        The Superb Lily

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        Original hand-coloured botanical engraving of The Persian Cyclamen from Thornton's Temple of Flora, published in London in 1804.
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        John Stevens Henslow after Dr. Robert John Thornton
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