Allen, Charles (edits). A GLIMPSE OF THE BURNING PLAIN. | £12.00 | |||||
Leaves from the Indian Journals of Charlotte Canning. 170pp. Charlotte Canning was wife of the Governor General who died in India in 1861. The book draws from her journals, letters, drawings and watercolours. Very good in very good dw. Owner's name. 1986 First edition, Michael Joseph. | ||||||
Allen, Charles (edits). A GLIMPSE OF THE BURNING PLAIN. | £14.00 | |||||
Leaves from the Indian Journals of Charlotte Canning. 170pp. Charlotte Canning was wife of the Governor General who died in India in 1861. The book draws from her journals, letters, drawings and watercolours. Bookplate. Otherwis fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Michael Joseph. | ||||||
Anjaria, Dhara, CURZON'S INDIA. | £16.00 | |||||
Networks of Colonial Governance, 1899-1905, 269pp. Index. The interactions and conflicts of a reforming Viceroy with the ICS and senior administrators. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2014 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. | ||||||
Baird, J.G. PRIVATE LETTERS OF THE MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE. | £14.00 | |||||
448pp. Index. In 2 vols. Facsimile reprint of 1910 original. Fine. 1972 Irish University Press, Shannon. | ||||||
Baird, J.G.A (edits). PRIVATE LETTERS OF THE MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE. | £25.00 | |||||
448pp. Index. 11 plates of b/w portraits. Dalhousie was Governor General from 1848-56. Labels on front endpapers which are sticking together. A well-used but complete copy. 1910 First edition, Blackwood. | ||||||
Bence-Jones, Mark. THE VICEROYS OF INDIA. | £8.00 | |||||
Full-size paperback edition. 343pp. Index, bibliography and references. 131 b/w illustrations. Fine. 1984, Constable. | ||||||
Buchan, John. LORD MINTO. | £22.00 | |||||
A Memoir. 352pp. Index. Minto was Viceroy from 1905-1910. Very good. Some spotting to edges. Inscription. 1924 First edition, Nelson. | ||||||
Butler, Iris (edits). THE VICEROY'S WIFE. | £12.00 | |||||
Letters of Alice, Countess of Reading, from India, 1921-1925. 190pp. Index. 13 b/w photographs. Very good in torn and repaired dw. 1969 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.. | ||||||
Connell, John. WAVELL: SCHOLAR AND SOLDIER. | £10.00 | |||||
574pp. Index. 6 maps and 23 b/w photographs. Ends with his appointment as viceroy. Very good but binding a little cocked. 1964 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Curzon, George Nathaniel. A VICEROY'S INDIA. | £12.00 | |||||
192pp. Edited by Peter King. Long extracts on Kabul, Chitral and Gilgit from Curzon's books. Many photographs from Curzon's time. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1984 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. | ||||||
Dilks, David. CURZON IN INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Volume Two, `Frustration'. 307pp. Index. 10 b/w illustrations. Identical dw and format to UK edition. Very good in very good dw. 1970 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. | ||||||
Forrest, Sir George. THE LIFE OF LORD CLIVE. | £67.00 | |||||
In 2 vols. 472 and 438pp. 16 illustrations and maps A very nice set in the original dustwrappers. 1918 First edition, Cassell. | ||||||
Fraser, Lovat. INDIA UNDER CURZON AND AFTER. | £25.00 | |||||
496pp. Index. Large folding map. 4 tissue-guarded plates. Long sections on Tibet, Persia and the Frontier. An adulatory record of Curzon's administration by the former editor of 'The Times of India'. Front endpaper removed. Private library label but no other library marks. Otherwise a nice copy. 1911 First edition, Heinemann. | ||||||
Ghosh, Suresh Chandra. DALHOUSIE IN INDIA 1848-56. | £14.00 | |||||
166pp. Index. Very good. 1975 First edition, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. | ||||||
Gilmour, David. CURZON. | £10.00 | |||||
684pp. Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Card covers. Fine. 1995 Papermac. | ||||||
Gopal, S. BRITISH POLICY IN INDIA 1858-1905. | £16.00 | |||||
423pp. Index. Includes assessments of the Viceroys from Canning to Curzon. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1965 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Goradia, Nayana. LORD CURZON. | £12.00 | |||||
The Last of the British Moghuls. 309pp. Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Fine. Owner's name. 1994 Third impression, Oxford University Press, Delhi. | ||||||
Goradia, Nayana. LORD CURZON. | £16.00 | |||||
The Last of the British Moghuls. 309pp. Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. | ||||||
Hunter, Sir W.W. THE MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE. | £5.00 | |||||
And the Final Development of the Company's Rule, 228pp. Index. Folding map. `Rulers of India' series.In original green cloth. Ex-school library copy. Edges and extremities a little worn. 1905 Reprint, Clarendon Press. | ||||||
Khan, Syed Sirdar Ali. THE EARL OF READING. | £21.00 | |||||
A Sketch of a Great Career at the Bar, on the Bench, in Diplomacy, in India. 404pp. Index. Almost entirely concerned with his service as Viceroy. Ex-public library copy with bookplate, spine mark and minimal other markings. Very good. 1924 First edition, Pitman & Sons. | ||||||
Losty, J.P. SITA RAM'S PAINTED VIEWS OF INDIA.. | £35.00 | |||||
Lord Hasting's Journey from Calcutta to the Punjab, 1814-15. 255pp. 4to landscape. Over 200 illustrations in colour. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2015 First edition, Thames & Hudson. | ||||||
Lutyens, Mary. THE LYTTONS IN INDIA. | £12.00 | |||||
Lord Lytton's Viceroyalty 1876-1880. 206pp. Index. 17 b/w photographs. Lytton was Viceroy during the crisis of the Second Afghan War. A study based on previously unpublished family papers. Owner's name. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Murray. | ||||||
Lutyens, Mary. THE LYTTONS IN INDIA. | £14.00 | |||||
Lord Lytton's Viceroyalty 1876-1880. 206pp. Index. 17 b/w photographs. Lytton was Viceroy during the crisis of the Second Afghan War. A study based on previously unpublished family papers. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Murray. | ||||||
Lyall, Sir Alfred. LIFE OF LORD DUFFERIN. | £10.00 | |||||
571pp. Pocket edition. Biography of the Viceroy from 1884-1888. Very good. No date (1910s), Nelson. | ||||||
Mahon, B.M. (Military Secretary to the Viceroy). PROGRAMME OF THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEDDING OF LADY ANNE HOPE AND LIEUT.P.H.J.SOUTHBY, R.N. 1939. | £55.00 | |||||
38pp. Small 8vo. Bound in black leather. The Viceroy's daughter is married with pomp and ceremony in Delhi in Nov.1939. Very good indeed. 1939 privately published.. | ||||||
Mallet, Bernard. THOMAS GEORGE EARL OF NORTHBROOK. | £49.00 | |||||
A Memoir. 308pp. Index. 13 plates. He was Viceroy from 1872-1876. A free-trade liberal he resigned over Lord Salisbury's forward policy in Afghanistan. Very good internally. Front hinge cracked. 1908 First edition, Longmans, Green & Co. | ||||||
Mersey, Viscount. THE VICEROYS and Governors-General of India. | £28.00 | |||||
179pp. Essays on 33 figures with lists, chronologies and portraits. Very good indeed. 1949 First edition, John Murray. | ||||||
Mersey, Viscount. THE VICEROYS and Governors-General of India. | £22.00 | |||||
179pp. Essays on 33 figures with lists, chronologies and portraits. Very good. A little light spotting. 1949 First edition, John Murray. | ||||||
Minto, Mary, Countess of. INDIA MINTO AND MORLEY 1905-1910. | £15.00 | |||||
Compiled from the correspondence between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State. With extracts from her Indian Journal. 438pp. 8 b/w photographs. Folding map. Very good indeed 1934 First edition, Macmillan. | ||||||
Minto, Mary, Countess of. INDIA MINTO AND MORLEY 1905-1910. | £25.00 | |||||
Compiled from the correspondence between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State. With extracts from her Indian Journal. 438pp. 8 b/w photographs. Folding map. Very good indeed 1934 First edition, Macmillan. | ||||||
Morris, Henry. THE GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF INDIA. | £24.00 | |||||
Volume I. First series. 189pp. In the original olive cloth. Engraved portraits of each of the first six Governors-General to 1823 Very good indeed, 1907 First edition, The Christian Literature Society for India. | ||||||
Nicolson, Nigel. MARY CURZON. | £10.00 | |||||
A Biography. 228pp. Index. 29 b/w photographs. 100pp on their 6 years in India. Biography of the Viceroy's American wife, born Mary Leiter in Chicago. Fine in fine dw. 1977 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. | ||||||
Pottinger, George. MAYO. | £10.00 | |||||
Disraeli's Viceroy. 224pp. Index. Viceroy 1869-1872. He was assassinated on a visit to the Andaman Islands penal colony. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Michael Russell. | ||||||
Raleigh, Sir Thomas (edits). LORD CURZON IN INDIA. | £28.00 | |||||
Being a Selection from his Speeches as Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1898-1905. 597pp. Index. Poor. Spine cloth splitting but binding sound. 1906 First edition, Macmillan. | ||||||
Reading, the Marquess of. RUFUS ISAACS 1914-1935. | £10.00 | |||||
First Marquess of Reading. 384pp. Index. 12 b/w photographs. 196pp on his father's experiences as Viceroy. Very good indeed in complete but torn dw. 1945 First edition, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Rizvi, Gowher. LINLITHGOW AND INDIA. | £12.00 | |||||
A Study of British Policy and the Political Impasse in India, 1936-43. 261pp. Index. Fine. 1978 First edition, Royal Historical Society. | ||||||
Ronaldshay, The Earl of. THE LIFE OF LORD CURZON. | £58.00 | |||||
In 3 vols. 318pp (10 plates), 424pp (12 plates) and 457pp (13 plates). Index. Printed from the same sheets as the UK edition. The authorised biography. Very good indeed in chipped dws. Some edge-spotting to vol 2. 1928 First US edition, Boni & Liveright, New York. | ||||||
Salisbury, The Marquis of, et al. JOINT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN CONTITUTIONAL REFORM. | £12.00 | |||||
Statement Representing Minority Recommendations. 52pp. The statement of 'Conservative Members of the India Committee opposed to the White Paper and the Majority Report'. Very good. Private library rubber stamp marks. 1934 The St. Catherine Press. | ||||||
Schofield, Victoria. WAVELL: SOLDIER AND STATESMAN. | £12.00 | |||||
512pp. Index. 37 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, John Murray. | ||||||
Singh, Bawa Satinder (edits). THE LETTERS OF THE FIRST VISCOUNT HARDINGE OF LAHORE TO LADY HARDINGE | £12.00 | |||||
and Sir Walter and Lady James 1844-1847. 254pp. Index. Letters written by the Governor General from India to his wife in England. Fine. 1986 First edition, Royal Historical Society. | ||||||
Singh, Bawa Satinder (edits). MY INDIAN PEREGRINATIONS. | £28.00 | |||||
The Private Letters of Charles Stewart Hardinge 1844-1847. 232pp. Index. 17 b/w reproductions of drawings by C S Hardinge. 1 map. He went to India aged 21 as the private secretary to his father, Sir Henry Hardinge, the Governer-General. His letters include eye-witness accounts of the Sikh War and the Kashmir insurrection. His second son became Viceroy 1910-16. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2001 First edition, Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock. | ||||||
Wasti, Syed Razi. LORD MINTO AND THE INDIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT 1905-1910. | £21.00 | |||||
254pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1964 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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