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JAPANESE SWORD BLADES.
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1974. Reprinted, 8vo.,pp. 73, paperback, b/w plates and figures; ownership address label to front free endpaper, light toning and foxing to margins, otherwise clean, wrappers lightly toned and foxed to extremities, with light creasing to spine, overall a very good copy.
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INNOVATION AS A SOCIAL PROCESS.
Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900.
Cambridge University Press, 1991. 8vo., pp.xxii,377, blue cloth, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; very slight foxing to edges, else near-fine, in a very good unclipped 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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THE BRITISH IN BENGAL 1756-1773.
A society in transition seen through the biography of a rebel: William Bolts (1739-1808).
Paris: Les Indies Savantes, 2002. 8vo., pp. 305, pictorial hardcover, gilt, with b/w fold out map to the rear; slight damp staining to spine, o/w a very good copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, with very slight creases to headband and in the adhesive covering (production defect).
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BRITISH INDIA AND ITS RULERS.
London: W.H. Allen & Co, 1881. 8vo.,pp. viii,323, 44, brown cloth, gilt, b/w tables; ownership address label and ownership autograph to front paste down endpaper, some ink underlining and annotation to margins and text, cracking to inner hinge with adhesive tape repairs to endpapers, light toning to margins, boards and spine covered in a clear adhesive covering which is quite roughly attached and a little frayed at edges, boards underneath are spotted with water damage and rubbed, overall a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE POWER OF THE FEMALE GAZE
Women Travellers in Colonial India
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.ix,196, pictorial hardback with pictorial end papers; very slight bruising to dust jacket corners and minor marking to one fore edge otherwise clean and very good indeed.
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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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THE DUTCH IN CEYLON.
An Account of their Early Visits to the Island, their Conquests, and their Rule over the Maritime Regions During a Century and a Half. With Maps and Illustrations and an Appendix Containing the Diary Kept During their Occupation of Kandy in 1765.
New Delhi/Chennai: Asian Educational Services, 2003. 8vo., pp.viii,198, pictorial red hardcover, gilt, folding map as frontispiece, b/w illustrations; a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket.
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THE POLITICS OF THE BRITISH ANNEXATION OF INDIA, 1757-1857.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. 8vo., pp.xvi,313, blue cloth, gilt, 3 b/w maps; a very good, clean copy, in vg 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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JAPAN IN THE VICTORIAN MIND.
A Study of Stereotyped Images of a Nation, 1850-80.
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987. 8vo., pp.xxiii,233, green hardcover, gilt, 25 b/w plates; light rubbing to extremities, a very good, fresh copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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THE OTTOMAN LADY.
A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Contributions to Women’s Studies, Number 70.
New York/Westport/London: Greenwood Press, 1986. 8vo., pp.xv,321, glazed hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE PEASANT ARMED: The Indian Revolt of 1857.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. 8vo.,pp. xvi,261, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w maps; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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A CLASH OF CULTURES.
Awadh, The British and the Mughals.
Riverdale, Maryland: The Riverdale Company, 1987. 8vo., pp.x,284, dark brown cloth, gilt; slight marking to cloth, a very good, internally fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SCOTTISH EXPERIENCE IN ASIA, C.1700 TO THE PRESENT.
Settlers and Sojourners. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 8vo., pp.xv,324, pictorial hardcover, b/w figures; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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COLONIAL LIVES ACROSS THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. 8vo., pp.xv,376, black hardcover, gilt, b/w figures and maps; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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PATRONS, CLIENTS, AND EMPIRES.
Chieftaincy and Over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.
Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xv,328, navy hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE CHIA-TING LOYALISTS.
Confucian Leadership and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century China. Yale Historical Publications, Miscellany, 126.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1981. 8vo., pp.xix,389, cloth-backed hardcover, front board lettered in gilt; a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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DISENCHANTED NIGHT.
The Industrialisation of Light in the Nineteenth Century.
Oxford: Berg, 1983. 8vo., pp.(vi),227, blue hardcover, silver, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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COLONIAL EDUCATORS.
The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1858-1983.
London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. 8vo., pp.xv,286, black hardcover, gilt; slight bruise to front lower corner, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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