Babur; Leyden, John, translator Memoirs of Zehir-Ed-Din Muhammed Baber, Emperor of Hindustan, written by himself, in the Jaghatai Turki, and translated, partly by the Late John Leyden, Esq., partly by William Erskine, Esq. with notes and a geographical and historical introduction: together with a map of the countries between the Oxus and Jaxartes, and a memoir regarding its construction, by Charles Waddington, Esq. of the East India Company's Engineers. London Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1826
First edition, 4to, pp.lxix, 432, errata leaf, folding map. Added engraved portrait of Babur at first page after prelims. A very good copy in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered to style. Title page and map are foxed. Otherwise clean. Armorial bookplate of Charles Mills. Sir Charles Mills (1792-1872) was a Director of the East India Company from 1822, and Member of the Council of India, 1858-68. Ownership signature (1900) of A.G. Ellis. Alexander George Ellis (1858-1942) was an Arabist employed by the British Museum.

Baldaeus, Philip A True and Exact Description of the most celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the Isle of Ceylon: With all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures: The manners, habits, oeconomies and ceremonies of the inhabitants. As likewise the most remarkable warlike exploits, sieges, sea and field-engagements betwixt the Portuguese and Dutch; with their traffick and commerce. The whole adorned with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, &c. of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. Also a most circumstantial and compleat account of the idolatry of the pagans in the East-Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans, &c. Taken partly from their own Vedam, or law-book, and authentick manuscripts; partly from frequent conversation with their priests and divines: With the draughts of their idols, done after their originals. London [John Churchill] [1732]
Second edition in English, from volume III of A. & J. Churchill's Collection of Voyages and Travels, folio, 35 x 21.5 cm., engraved title, frontispiece portrait of the author, title, pp.(503)-822, [16, index], 33 (of 34) folding plates, maps & plans, (lacking only an audience of the King of Kandy), two portraits, 53 text illustrations. Signatures are 6M–9Z1. The letterpress title (p.[501]) has signature mark 6M at foot, and 'Vol. III.' Preface begins on p.503. An excellent copy bound in full contemporary speckled calf, neatly re-cased. Lacking only the plate of the audience with the King of Kandy.
Mitter p.57; Landwehr 260 (556)

Bertolacci, Anthony A view of the agricultural, commercial and financial interests of Ceylon. With an appendix; containing some of the principal laws and usages of the Candians; port and custom-house regulations; tables of exports and imports, public revenue and expenditure, &c.&c. London Black, Parbury, and Allen 1817
First edition, 8vo, pp.[xvi], 577, [1], blank, 26 tables, large hand-coloured folding map, 51 x 32 cm. A good complete copy bound in modern imitation leather. Text foxed, final leaves preserved in Japanese tissue. Map in very good condition, with one short split and a few paper repairs to reverse.

Brown, Charles Philip A Dictionary, Telugu and English, explaining the colloquial style used in business and the poetical dialect, with explanations in English and in Telugu. [with] A Dictionary of the Mixed Dialects and Foreign Words used in Telugu. With an explanation of the Telugu alphabet. Madras printed at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press 1852, 1854
First editions, two works bound in one. Small 4to, 25 x 17 cm; pp.[iv, half-title and advertisements], xvi, 1303, [1, blank]; [iv, half-title and advertisements], xxviii, 131, [1, blank]. With contemporary advertisements. A very good set bound in modern half speckled calf over marbled boards. Spine label and compartments in gilt. Appendix of the first volume has 'APPENDIX' faintly printed on fore-edge. Discreet binders ticket to rear end-paper. Half-title of first volume spotted with 1cm tear to upper inner margin. Single wormhole to outer margin pp.75-131 of second volume, not affecting text.

Cunningham, Joseph Davey A History of the Sikhs, from the origin of the nation to the battles of the Sutlej. London John Murray 1853
Second edition, with the author's last corrections and additions, pp.xliii, 473, 2 maps, 1 partially hand coloured and folding, the other coloured in outline, genealogical chart. A very good copy in original cloth, spine title in gilt. Spine faded, and with minor wear to head and foot. Armorial bookplate of Earl of Ellenborough, Southam de la Bere. Stamp of Earl of Ellenborough's Heirlooms. Signed Ellenborough, 1853.

Gimlette, J.D. A Dictionary of Malayan Medicine. Edited and completed by H.W. Thomson. With a Foreword by Sir Malcolm Watson. London Oxford University Press 1939
First edition, 8vo, pp.xvi, 259, 2 plates. A very good copy in lightly soiled original cloth. Corners and spine slightly bumped.

Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham, Captain Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladak, Zaskar, &c. Calcutta Asiatic Society of Bengal 1865
First edition, published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume XXXIV, Part I, No.II; pp.(71)-79, ten mounted photographs, each approximately 7 x 6.5 cm. Whole issue present. A very good copy in later card wrappers, original front wrapper bound in. Photographs a little faded.
Moorehead, Catherine, The K2 Man (and his molluscs). The extraordinary life of Haversham Godwin-Austen, 2013.

Kennedy, Michael Notes on Criminal Classes in the Bombay Presidency. With appendices regarding some foreign criminals who occasionally visit the Presidency. Including hints on the detection of counterfeit coin. Bombay printed at the Government Central Press 1908
First edition, small 4to (25 x 18 cm), pp.xii, 340, [2], 19 plates including frontis. A very good copy in original cloth, gilt. Professionally re-backed with original spine preserved. Corners and spine lightly bumped. Bookplate, ownership inscription, dated 22 April 1910, and notes to endpapers, of Robert A. Scott Macfie.

Kipling, Rudyard The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Tales. Indian Railway Library No.5. Allahabad A.H. Wheeler [1888]
Presumed first edition, second or third issue, pp.[viii], 114, vii [publishers adverts]. A good used copy, front section loose, but still held by stitching. Both wrappers worn and frayed. Text clean.
Livingstone 40

Malcolm, John, Brigadier General Sketch of the Sikhs. Calcutta printed by A.H. Hubbard, at the Hindoostanee Press 1810
First edition, an extract from Asiatick Researches, Volume 11. 4to (27 x 22 cm), pp.[ii], (197)-292. A very good copy professionally bound in yellow morocco, with title page supplied.

Marshall, Sir John & Foucher, Alfred The Monuments of Sanchi, with the texts of inscriptions edited, translated and annotated by N.G. Majumdar. Calcutta [His Highness the ruler of Bhopal] 1940
First edition, three volumes, large folio, pp.xxv, 396, xxxii, i,[70], i,[71], 141 plates. This set weighs approximately 25 kg and may incur additional shipping charges. A very good set in original cloth. Spines professionally repaired, edges a little rubbed.

Raffles, Stamford, Sir Report on Japan to the Secret Committee of the English East India Company. With preface by M. Paske-Smith. Kobe J.L. Thompson & Co 1929
First edition, pp.xv, 252, frontispiece, 9 plates & maps including a large folding map of Nagasaki in colour. A near fine copy in original cloth, some faint rubbing to edges. Preserved in cloth solander case. Some offsetting to last page of text from map. Small ex-libris sticker from the library of R.A. Scoales, and small label of a Tokyo bookseller, both on front paste-down.

[Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess Wellesley] Notes relative to the late transactions in the Marhatta Empire. [with] Appendix to the notes relative to the late transactions in the Marhatta Empire. Calcutta Fort William 1803
First edition. 4to (32 x 19 cm), pp.[ii], [ii, contemporary manuscript contents], 102, [ii], 28, [2], 12*, 126, [1], [1, blank], [1, errata], [1, blank], with 5 large folding plans, all with contemporary hand colour, 4 signed "F. Dormieux Sculp. Calcutta 1803". A very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, gilt. The leather somewhat worn, particularly at the spine, with small areas of loss, but still handsome. A handful of contemporary manuscript corrections and annotations to text.
We locate copies of this work and the two supplementary volumes at four institutions: British Library, Oxford, Royal Library (UK), and UCLA. Cambridge holds a copy of this work and the second supplementary volumes.

Workman, Fanny Bullock, and Workman, William Hunter, M.A., M.D. Through Town and Jungle. Fourteen Thousand Miles A-Wheel Among the Temples and People of the Indian Plain. With map and two hundred and two illustrations. London T. Fisher Unwin 1904
First edition, pp.xxiv, 380, folding map, 202 illustrations (mostly plates). A very good copy in original gilt decorated cloth, top edge gilt. Slightly rubbed and bumped, cloth shows light soiling from age, edges lightly foxed. Map has a repaired 3cm tear at join, affecting only border.

Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus Genealogie der Malabarishen Gotter. Genealogy of the Malabar Gods from native writings and letters. Now first published in the original text with notes and explanations by Rev. W. Germann. Madras printed for the editor at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press. 1867
First edition, pp.xii, 288. Text in German, despite the English title. A very good copy bound in contemporary or slightly later half cloth, marbled boards, spine gilt.
COPAC shows only 1 copy, in BL.