Prints and Ephemera

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Allen print of the 1843 Battle of Meeanee. B

Price: $40.00

Note: The Battle of Miani (or Battle of Meeanee) was a battle between forces of the Bombay Army of the British East India company, under Charles Napier and the Baluch army of Talpur Amirs of Sindh, led by Mir Nasir Khan Talpur. The Battle took place on 17 February 1843 at Miani, Sindh, in what is now Pakistan. This battle eventually led to the capture of parts of Sindh region, first territorial possession by British East India company in what is the modern-day country of Pakistan.

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Collection of 11 Punch cartoons relating to the Anglo-Pathan Border War 1897-1898. A small-scale border war on the Afghan-British frontier in 1897 grew into a substantial conflict as Pathan forces attacked many British installations (July), taking the Khyber Pass (August). A British autumn campaign took an army of 44,000 into Pathan-held territory, with inconclusive results. British forces managed to recapture the Khyber Pass in March. B

Price: $250.00

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Rare 1859 illustration of Indian coolies arriving in Guadeloupe, with complete text. B

Price: $35.00

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Two 19th century German steel engravings of life in India. B

Price: $90.00

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Collection of 8 magazines titled The British Empire, published by BBC TV Time-Life Books, 1972-1973. India, Burma, Ceylon and the North-West Frontier is the main theme. B

Price: $300.00

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1844 engraving originally by Captain Grindlay titled A Suttee, Preparing for the Immolation of a Hindoo Widow. B

Price: $40.00

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Rare 1929 issue of Turkish journal Akbaba featuring Pakistan and England strangling Afghanistan. Repaired. M

Price: $90.00

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Archive of correspondence from an English gentleman named Richard Aelwyn Ellis Williams of the Indian Civil Service. It includes a diary and two boxes of correspondence. The dairy begins at Tillbury November 13, t-sape047aSAPE 0471925 when he began his career in the Indian Civil Service and ends on December 4, 1925 at Bombay. It includes an appendix at the end concerning writing journals and other things. Nice handwritten maps of India as well. The diary is 108 legal sized pages of text. There are many letters (many with covers) to his wife/fiancée, Fay Boylan, in 1932-1935 from Arrah, Patna, Sambalpur and Sasaram, India. He signs his letters as either Dick or Ellis. There are also letters from him in India to others in India, his new wife, Mrs. R.A.E. Williams at the Medical College Hospital in Bankepore and later in Collector’s House at Arrah. t-sape047bSAPE 047There is also a considerable number of letters from his father in the 19th century, in Welsh. There are also some letters to Williams and his wife in the 1950’s. The bulk of the correspondence…well over 100 letters, are to his fiancé while posted in India. An excellent opportunity for research. B

Price: $1900.00

Note: Richard Williams was the son of Reverend Richard Ellis Williams of Aberystwyth. Fay Muriel Boylan was the daughter of John Dun Boylan of Miller’s Meadow, Benenden, Kent. In 1925 Ellis was appointed to the Indian Civil Service. During WW2 he was Commerce and Revenue Secretary to the Government of Bihar and at wars end he was Chief Secretary to the Government of Orissa.

 

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Complete illustrated narrative of child marriage in India, from the obscure English periodical Black and White, 1893. B

Price: $60.00

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1930’s - 1945 archive of notes and correspondence about trade in imports from Southern India Cochin and Ceylon from the firm Volkart Brothers. There is much detail on tests and their findings, export and import activity for a viariety of products. Correspondence is from both Switzerlan as well as the Sub-Continent. A great deal of detail on the intricacies of trade from the Sub-Continent to Europe, analsysis of post-war demand as well as correspondence during the war. Includes analysis and recommendations to Head Office in Switzerland from India, much more. Mt-sape046bSAPE 046t-sape046cSAPE 046

Price: $990.00

Note: The firm of Volkart Brothers was founded in 1851 at Winterthur, Switzerland, and. Bombay, India, by the brothers S. Volkart and J. G. Volkart. The intention of the brothers was to establish direct commercial relations between India and the continent of Europe. At the outset the firms business was confined to the import of raw cotton and the export of manufactured goods to the Indies. On the 1st October, 1857, a branch office was opened at Colombo. Its business activity embraced the export of coconut oil, coffee, cinnamon, cotton and pearls. This was later extended to all forms of Ceylon produce and a large Agency business for shipping and insurance. As their tokens indicate, they established two oil mills, one at Grandpass and the other at Maradana. In later years the Maradana mills were moved to Mutwal.

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