British India from Victor Sutcliffe

London: Frederick Warne, 1885. 185 pages. 2 maps, 5 portraits. Attractively bound in quarter cloth and marbled boards, some light foxing. In 1878 Marvin, while employed as a copying clerk at the Foreign Office, had leaked the text of an Anglo-Russian treaty to The Globe. He was arrested but released when it was realised that he had commited no offence in… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Smith Elder, 1843. xxx and 575 pages.12 plates. A good copy in the publisher's salmon cloth with the regimental crest in gold on the front board and a stand of arms in gold on the spine; the headcap is chipped and there is a small tear and other minor wear to the outer hinges, but the binding is still… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: RUSI, 1933. 2 volumes. 25 plates, 24 maps. 4to. Publisher's half mauve and green cloth with regimental crest in gold on the front boards; minor fading. Volume 1. 1817-1913. Part 1 by Major M H Anderson and Lt Colonel E S J Anderson. Part 2 by Colonel G M Molloy. xxxiv and 276 pages; 12 plates, 11 maps. Volume 2. 1914-1931.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Longmans Green, 1888. vi and 214 pages. 3 views, 1 folding map. Later green rexine. Sorsky 962. Ladendorf 375. Aiming to justify his conduct particularly in pursuit of the Neemuch mutineers. This interesting association copy has a single neat ink ownership stamp of the Mewar Residency and a four page typed 'copy of a note suplied by Mrs Showers,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Edward Moxon, 1836 second edition. 2 volumes. Ix and 499 pages; vii and 524 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Full black calf compartmented in gold. Scottish jurist. Judge of Bombay from 1804 to 1811. Later an MP and a historian.

London: Henry Colburn, 1840 second edition. In which are contained the campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in India, and his last in Spain and the South of France. 2 volumes. xv and 403 pages; xi and 381 pages. Publisher's cloth, spines slightly faded, corners bumped. Trail of neat signatures and book plates of past owners (see photos 5… Saber más sobre este artículo

Kabul: Afghan Tourist Organisation, 1965. 171 pages. Folding coloured map and text illustrations. Paperback, passepartout backstrip beginning to come adrift at the base of the spine, very good otherwise.

London: Macmillan, 1958. xxii and 521 pages. 12 plates, 6 maps. Publisher's blue cloth.

London: Saunders Otley, 1862. xv and 153 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Peel, folding maps of the Ganges and the area around Lucknow, 4 plans, 3 views and 2 text illustrations. Tall 8vo. Later half black calf with cloth sides, occasional neat blind stamps of the Royal United Service Institution (see eg image 2), small marginal dampstain on one corner… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: J B Hayward, 1973 facsimile reprint of the 1882 edition. 2 volumes in 1. 352 pages (Historical Division) and 274 pages (Biographical Division). 6 maps, 140 small oval portraits on 20 plates. Large 4to. Publisher's cloth with dustwrapper.

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1940. xxi and 584 pages. 14 colour plates and many other illustrations. Small square 8vo. Publisher's yellow cloth slightly faded. First edition of this useful crib containing short histories of all the Indian regiments and corps with supporting chapters on the evolution of the Indian Army, its order of precedence at different dates, medals etc'.

London: Wm H Allen, 1852. xvi and 592 pages. 6 pages of illustrations of carriages and waggons, other illustrations of medals and medallions in the text. Publisher's plain red cloth, spine slightly faded and soiled, bottom corners bumped. Perkins page 426.

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866. 2 volumes. xiii and 403 pages; x and 434 pages. 2 frontispiece portraits, 2 titlepage vignettes, plan of the siege of Bhurtpore. Handsomely bound in modern half plum calf and marbled boards, first volume titlepage slightly soiled. Stapleton Cotton served in Flanders and against Tippoo, commanded the cavalry in the Peninsula and in France,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Edward Arnold, 1928. 316 pages. 8 illustrations, folding map of the North West Frontier and text map of Assam. A very good copy rebound in half green and red cloth. Concerns his time in India including service with the Kabul River Survey 1890, Waziristan in the 1890s, and Assam in 1911.

London: John Murray, 1895. xix and 269 pages. 72 plates from photographs, 21 drawings in the text, Publisher's half white and red cloth. The author travelled to Kulu with his brother Colonel St George Corbett Gore who was in charge of a Himalayan Survey party. Next year he visited the North West Frontier and travelled up the Kurram with… Saber más sobre este artículo

Woolwich: R A Institution, 1896. 6 pages. Publisher's offprint bound in blue cloth with blue paper covers enclosed; the original back cover has been neatly repaired. Stewart of the RA was picked up at Gupis to take command of the two guns Colonel Kelly had brought from Gilgit. His account was also publisged in Proc.R.A.I. volume 22 number 8.

London: without imprint, 1891. Each section separately paginated - 472 pages altogether. Frontispiece portrait and 38 zincographs. Full red leather carefully restored and sympathetically rebacked. Extremely scarce. This copy is signed and dated November 1891, Blickling Hall, Aylsham. It was presented to the Officers Library at the Depot of the Somersetshire Light Infantry, Kerr's old regiment which he led in… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Edward Arnold, 1896. 160 pages. 8 plates, folding map. Publisher's red cloth with gilt vignette, recased and with new endpapers. Beynon was an officer of 3rd Gurkha Rifles detached to Colonel Kelly's staff. His is the only book that deals with Kelly's Column as distinct from the main relief force under General Low.

London: Richard Bentley, 1858. xi and 168 pages. 3 coloured lithographs of uniform, 1 uncoloured lithograph, 6 wood engravings. Publisher's red cloth decoratively stamped in gold, covers a little soiled (see photos 2 and 3), cloth joints weak (see photo 1), inner front hinge beginning to break (see photo 4), but overall a good copy of the first edition. Sorsky… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: HMSO, 1908. 168 pages. Folio. Later quarter leather with cloth sides. Parliamentary paper 4201 printing correspondence between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State and telegraphic reports from the officers commanding the Bazar Valley Expedition and the Mohmand Field Force. The appendices include a nine page tabulation of raids and outrages on the North West Frontier from July… Saber más sobre este artículo