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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARCO POLO
Written by Clarence Dalrymple Bruce.
Stock no. 1711750
Published by William Blackwood and Sons. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles and vignette. B/w plates. Map to end of volume. Being the account of a journey overland from Simla to Pekin. Spine faded. Corners bumped. Some mottling to covers. A little foxing to contents. All plates present. Map has some edge-creasing but generally very good. Name in ink to front free endpaper. Front and rear joints just starting to crack.

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FLOWERING SHRUBS IN INDIA
Written by S.L. Jindal.
Stock no. 1809035
Published by Publications Division, Ministry Of Information And Broadcasting. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth boards, white titles. B/w & colour plates. 178 pages. Front board bowed. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn and grubby to rear panel.

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A SKETCH OF THE SERVICES OF THE BENGAL NATIVE ARMY TO THE YEAR 1895
Written by F.G. Cardew.
Stock no. 1710748
Published by Picton Publishing. 1992. Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Facsimile of the 1903 edition ISBN: 0948251689.

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A PICTORIAL GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
Written by Salim Ali; S. Dillon Ripley. Illustrated by John Henry Dick.
Stock no. 1808830
Published by The Bombay Natural History Society; Oxford University Press. 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Map to front endpapers. ISBN: 0195616340. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge-creased and faded at spine.

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MILITARY ENGINEER SERVICES HANDBOOK VOLUME III ROADS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1808312
Published by Government Of India. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Sixth Edition, 1925. Green cloth spine, light green paper boards. Black titles. viii and 253 pages. Military roads in India. Boards grubby and worn, top & tail of spine worn. Front joint just starting to crack. Name in pencil to front endpaper. One or two instances of annotation.

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PLENTY SALAAMS
Written by Cathleen Ballantyne. Illustrated by William Randell.
Stock no. 1501710
Published by The Ettrick Press. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of a young woman who goes out to India in the 'eighties for a vacation, marries, and stays for fifty years. Dark orange cloth, yellow titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 158 pages. Minimal bumping and wear to spine and corners. Very slight browning to endpapers. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn, rear panel is grubby.

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THE INDIAN ARMY
Written by Boris Mollo.
Stock no. 1605311
Published by Blandford Press. 1st 1981. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The history of the Indian army. Colour & b/w illustrations of the more significant uniforms. ISBN: 0713710748. Spine and corners bumped with small split at base of spine. Endpapers browned. Wrapper edge creased and scuffed.

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THE TALKING THRUSH AND OTHER TALES FROM INDIA
Written by W.H.D. Rouse; W. Crooke. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1310971
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st 1899. Good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. Collected by W. Crooke and retold by Rouse. Indian folk-tales. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Covers grubby and marked, red ink marks to front cover. Child's red ink writing to front endpaper. Endpapers browned, foxing to page edges. Front joint cracked. Lower corner of rear free-endpaper torn off (only a small piece).

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FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYA
Written by Oleg Polunin; Adam Stainton. Illustrated by Ann Farrer.
Stock no. 822679
Published by Oxford University Press. 2000. Fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Colour photos. B/w illustrations. 580 pages + 2 page colour map of the region. ISBN: 0195641876. Slight remains of label to inside of front cover.

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FESTIVALS OF INDIA
Written by Brijendra Nath Sharma.
Stock no. 587906
Published by Abhinav Publications. 1st 1978. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w photos. Wrapper edge-creased with rubbed corners.

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THE DAUGHTERS OF INDIA
Written by Edward Jewitt Robinson.
Stock no. 693811
Published by Thomas Murray And Son. 1st 1860. Good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles. The social condition, religion, literature, obligations and prospects of women in India. Contents very good. A few foxspots to prelims and endpapers. Corners worn. One text page missing.

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THE WORLD DISPLAYED OR A CURIOUS COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS VOL VIII
No author listed.
Stock no. 560449
Published by T. Carnan. 1762. Fair condition.

Small format. Full brown calf binding. 9 b/w plates. This volume is concerned with India. 3rd edition. Contents browned but very good with all plates presemt. Spine badly worn with slight loss at top and tail. Corners rubbed.

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