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LORD DALHOUSIE’S ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONQUERED AND ANNEXED STATES.
(A Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the University of Nagpur).
Delhi: S. Chand and Co. First edition, 8vo., pp.ix,396, brown cloth, gilt; pencilled ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light mark to front board, a very good, clean copy, with the usual light toning to paper, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has 2cm closed tear to foot of lower flap-fold, a little rubbing and slight chipping to extremities, and is now in a protective cover.
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LOST MAPS OF THE CALIPHS.
Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo.
Oxford: The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018. 8vo., pp.349, red hardcover, gilt, 25 colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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MEMORIES OF LOYANG.
Yang Hsuan-chih and the lost capital (493-534).
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. 8vo., pp.xii,310, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w maps; very good, without dust-jacket.
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MERCHANTS, TRADERS, ENTREPENEURS: Indian Business in the Colonial Era.
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008. 8vo.,pp. xii,292, pictorial hardcover, b/w tables; slight indentation to head of spine, otherwise a near-fine copy.
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MUSSOLINI IN ETHOPIA, 1919-1935. The Origins of Facist Italy’s African War.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 8vo., pp. vii,228, hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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MUTINY AT THE MARGINS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE INDIAN UPRISING OF 1857, VOLUME 6: Perception, Narration and Reinvention: THE PEDAGOGY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE INDIAN UPRISING.
New Delhi: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2014. 8vo., pp.xxx, 217, black hardback, gilt, light indentation to top edge of front board, very slight creasing at head of spine, a very good, clean copy in very good dust-jacket.
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NEGRO. An Anthology.
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1970. Reprint, third impression, 4to., pp.xxxii,464, hardcover, gilt and black lettering, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations accompany the text throughout; paste-action (toning) to paste-down endpapers, foxing to edges and very lightly to prelims, corners bumped, an otherwise very good copy in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has 2.5cm closed tear to front upper margin, creasing and rubbing to extremities and a few light surface scratches to rear - now in a protective cover.
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ON THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AS A CATAGORY OF ASIAN HISTORY: Van Leur in Retrospect.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. 8vo., pp. 313, green hardcover, gilt, b/w tables; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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ORIENTALISM, EROTICISM AND MODERN VISUALITY IN GLOBAL CULTURES.
London and New York: Routledge, 2018. 8vo., pp.xv,234, paperback, b/w illustrations; small light ink bulletpoints to ‘Works Cited’ section of text, otherwise internally clean, very light surface scratches to wrappers, else a very good copy indeed.
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ORIENTALISM REVISITED:
Art, Land and Voyage.
London/New York: Routledge, 2013. 8vo., pp.xxv,288, paperback, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy, with just slight rubbing to head of spine.
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PROTEST AND SURVIVAL The Historical Experience
London: Merlin Press, 1993. 8vo., pp. viii,423, navy hardcover, gilt; presentation bookplate and ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a near-fine copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, lightly rubbed to extremities.
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PUBLIC HEALTH IN BRITISH INDIA.
Anglo-Indian Preventative Medicine, 1859-1914.
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.xviii,324, paperback, b/w figures; very good indeed.
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ROMANTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF BRITISH INDIA.
London: Routledge, 2012. 8vo.,pp. xii,290, paperback, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy.
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SLAVERY AND THE CULTURES OF ABOLITION.
Essays marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007. 8vo.,pp. viii,227, hardcover, gilt lettering, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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SLAVERY IN THE CIRCUIT OF SUGAR.
Martinique and the World Economy 1830-1848.
Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.xv,353, charcoal cloth lettered in silver; near-fine, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN COLONIAL INDIA.
India: Oxford University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.xl,395, pictorial hardcover; a very good copy indeed, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to the spine.
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THE BALFOUR DECLARATION.
London: Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 1961. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xiv,681, blue cloth, gilt; ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, light toning to spine, spine slightly rolled, otherwise a very good clean copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light rubbing to extremities and light sunning to spine.
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THE BERNARD COHN OMNIBUS. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AMONG THE HISTORIANS AND OTHER ESSAYS; COLONIALISM AND ITS FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE: The British in India; INDIA: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 8vo.,pp. xxiv,682; xii,189; xiii,164, pictorial hardcover; toning to edges of text block with light toning to margins, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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THE BLACK DEATH AND MEN OF LEARNING.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,210, red cloth, gilt, publisher’s device in gilt to front board; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper and contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, internally clean, rubbing and light marking to cloth, else a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE BRAHMO SAMAJ AND THE SHAPING OF THE MODERN INDIAN MIND.
Princeton University Press. 8vo., pp.xxiii,399, purple cloth, gilt; small ownership autograph to title verso, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities, with a couple of small closed tears to extremities, and with sunning to spine, else very good and now in a protective cover.
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