Two circa 1870s carte de visite photographs from a Brooklyn photographer, probably copy prints from a returned missionary or traveller to India. The first image is a portrait of a seated woman with two young children. On the back (verso) someone has written in a contemporary hand, "A Zenana Lady.....
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First Edition. The plants discussed include grains, lentils, animal feeds, cotton, jute, sugarcane, tobacco, pumpkins, ginger, turmeric, and pineapple, among many others. 184 pages. Hinges weak, else very good in publisher's cloth. No jacket.
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First Edition. A first novel set in California and the island of Goa, places where the author splits her time. A paperback original. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). With a letter from the publisher to the author Simon Schama laid in.
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First Edition. An early 20th century collection of police procedural stories told from the point of view of Krishna, an Indian police officer based on a real officer of the same name. Many of the stories involve a fictional bandit (or dacoit). Edmund C. Cox was a British police officer.....
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![Two Portraits of Dr. Pauline Root [Cabinet Cards]. Abell, Priest, photographers](/pictures/thumb/307182.jpg?v=1604707212)
Two fine images of pioneering physician Pauline Root dressed in a sari, presumably one she wore while in Madurai, India, while working as a doctor for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). In one photograph, Root wears the sari in traditional style, over her left shoulder and.....
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A scarce 19th century European view of India, notable for its reports on drugs. One of the plates depicts three types of drug use: a b'hangee, or hemp-plant drinker; a chursee bhistee, or a person smoking cannabis resin; and a faqueer postee, an opium "poppy-head drinker." This is the first Indian.....
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First Edition. viii, iii, 208 pages. Lists of plants, organized by use, followed by questions sent by regional British officials in India to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, followed by the society's responses. First edition (first printing). Some worming, else very good in modern cloth-and-paper-covered boards. Old ownership ink stamp partially.....
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First Edition. 14 pages. A table of drugs, mostly plant-based, in use in India, with the scientific or English name, the provincial name, and notes by the author. Dey was an early proponent of indigenous medicine. Pepared for the world's fair at the Crystal Palace. The printed leaves of this copy.....
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First Edition. xi, 161 pages, including indexes in English, French, German, Hindustani, and several other Indian languages. "Printed and published by order of the Madras government, at the recommendation of the Madras working committee, Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883–1884. A listing of plants, with descriptions of their medical use, often citing earlier.....
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First Edition. Government of India, Ministry of Health, Pharmacognosy Laboratory Bulletin No. 2. vi, 124 pages. 7 by 10 inches. 51 half-tone plates, most reproducing four photographs of plant specimens, plus a folding map, "Distribution of Leaf Drug-Yielding Plants in India." Information on "a number of useful drugs of the indigenous.....
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First Edition. [1], 59-140, iii (index). With a large, folding map of Sikkum, printed in black. A report on a plant-gathering expedition. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers. Map near fine.
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First Edition. v, 40 pages, including an index. Published as the Botanical Survey of India, no. 3. Based on the coding at the base of the last page, probably issued in an edition of 1000 copies. 152 plants are listed, with scientific name, family, common name, habitat, parts used, distribution, and.....
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First Edition. xiv, 403 pages, plus ads. Includes a chapter on hemp (cannabis sativa), about which the author writes, "The Hemp plant likewise secretes a resinous principle in its leaves, on which account these, as well as the churrus collected from off the young tops of the stem and flowers, is.....
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