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Ispahan about the same time as the Spanish envoy to the court of Shah
Abbas. He was an eye-witness to all that took place, and when he reached
Milan, received a royal order to publish this narrative.

The French narrative, which precedes, was chiefly from the Ambassador's own notes. Silva went from Goa to Ormuz in 1617, and thence to Ispahan. He returned in 1619, and was prevented by storms from voyaging to Europe in 1620, and on making a second attempt in 1624, died at sea.

30680 SPIEGEL (F.) Eranische Alterthumskunde, 3 vols. 8vo. hf. calf,

32s Leipzig, 1871-78 30681 TEIXEIRA (Pedro) Relaciones d' el origen, descendencia y succession de los Reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, 12mo. calf gilt, gilt edges, 288

Amberes, 1610

Obra curiosa e interessante por mais de um titulo, e os exemplares são pouco vulgares.-Silva.

30682 VARTABED (Elisée) Soulevement national de l'Arménie Chrétienne, au Ve siècle contre la loi de Zoroastre, sous Vartan, en français par l'abbé G. Kabaragy Garabed, 8vo. map, hf. calf, 6s

WAKHOUCHT-see Georgian.

Paris, 1844

30683 WILLIAMS (Charles) the Armenian Campaign of 1877, 8vo. large map and plan, cloth, 28 6d

1878 30684 WILSON'S (H. H.) Ariana Antiqua: a descriptive account of the Antiquities and Coins of Afghanistan; with a memoir on the Buildings called TOPES, by MASSON, 4to. 37 plates by Basire, hf. calf, rare, £3. 3s

1841 List of plates: Antiquities, 4-Topes, 9-Map, 1-Table of Characters, 1 -Coins, 22.

30685 WOOD (Herbert) the Shores of Lake Aral, 8vo. map, 78 6d 1876 30686 WOOD (Lieut. J.) Narrative of a Journey to the source of the River Oxus by the route of the Indus, Kabul, and Badakhshan, 1836-38, 8vo. map, cloth, 3s 6d

1841 30687 ZALESKI (B.) Vie des Steppes Kirghizes, large folio, 24 etchings, sd. £1. 4s Paris, 1865

IV. INDIA AND THE FRONTIER STATES

(including British Burma and Afghanistan).

"Be the road what it may, the defenders of India are of a different type from any encountered by Greck or Persian or Tartar, and Russia will make a ruinous mistake if she concludes from the feebleness of a passing Administration or the transient ascendancy of a doctrinaire fashion that Englishmen have lost the qualities which have made this little island the mother of nations and the mistress of an empire."-Times, January 5, 1885.

30688 ABD UL KERREEM, Memoirs, travels with Nadir Shah to Persia, and Baghdad, Aleppo, Medina and Mecca, with the History of Hindustan, 1739-49, translated by Gladwin, sm. 8vo. sd. 5s

Calcutta, 1788 30689 ACOSTA (C.) Tractado de las Drogas, y medicinas de las INDIAS ORIENTALES, con sus plantas debuxadas al bivo, sm. 8vo. portrait and woodcuts, slightly stained, vellum, £2. 16; Burgos, 1578

30690 AINSLIE's Materia Indica; or articles employed by the Hindoos in Medicine, second edition, 2 vols. 8vo. the names in Tamul, Cingalese, Arabic, Persian, Malay, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, bds. 13s

30691 30692

the same, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. calf, 14s
the same, 2 vols. 8vo. russia gilt, 16s

1826

1826

1826

30693 AITCHISON, Catalogue of the Plants of the Punjab and Sindh, 8vo. bds. 3s 6d 1869 30694 AKBAR'S Repudiation of Esllám and profession of his own religion,, passages from the Muntakhab al-Tawarikh of Badaoni, translated by E. Rehatsek, 12mo. hf. morocco, 5s

Bombay, 1866

30695 ALLEN (N.) the Opium Trade in India and China, 8vo. sd. 2s Lowell (Mass.), 1853 30696 AMEER KHAN: Memoirs of the Nuwab Ameerood Doulah Mohummud AMEER KHAN, translated from the Persian of BUSAWUN LAL by Prinsep, 8vo. plan and large map, bds. 5s Calcutta, 1832 1832

30697

the same, 8vo. hf. calf, 7s 6d

A Pat'han or Afghan adventurer who in the first quarter of this century made himself independent ruler of certain districts ín Rajputana. 30698 ANGLO-INDIAN Domestic Sketch, a letter from an artist in India, roy. 8vo. illustrations, cloth, 38 6d Calc. 1849 30699 ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN INDIA, REPORTS, by JAMES BURGESS, 5 vols. impl. 4to. (published at £13. 138), hf. morocco, £10. 10s

1875-83

CONTENTS, with the prices at which the vols. are sold separately : I. REPORT of the first season's operations in the Belgâm and Kaladgi districts, 56 plates and photographs of Temples, Inscriptions and Sculptures (sells £2. 28)

1874

II. REPORT on the Antiquities of Kathiawad and Kachh, coloured map and 74 plates and photographs (sells £3. 3s)

1876

III. REPORT on the Antiquities in the Bidar and Aurangabad districts in the territories of the Nizam of Haidarabad, 66 plates and photographs of Caves, Idols, Rock-Temples and Inscriptions (sells £2. 28) 1878

**The above three volumes are offered for £5.

IV and V. The Buddhist Cave Temples, and their Inscriptions; and the Elura Cave Temples and the Brahmanical and Jaina Caves in Western India; 2 vols. containing 115 plates and numerous woodcuts of Buddhist and Hindu Cave Architecture in Western India, views, plans. sections, and elevation of façades of cave temples; drawings of architectural and mythological sculptures; facsimiles of inscriptions, etc.; with translations of inscriptions, £6. 6s 1883

30700 ARCHEOLOGICAL Survey of Western India: Report on the Architectural and Archæological Remains in the Province of KACHH, by Dalpatram Pranjivan Khakar, with five papers by Sir A. Burnes, sm. 4to. numerous plates, bds. 7s 6d

1879 30701 BURGESS (J.) Inscriptions from the Cave Temples of Western India, with notes, 4to. full of plates and facsimiles, sd. 20s 1881 30702 SEWELL (R.) Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Presidency of Madras, Vol. I, 4to. 400 pp. cloth, 24s 30703 ARCHITECTURAL and Archæological Remains in Khandesh in 1877,

Madras, 1882

4to. plates, sd. 28

30704 AUTHORITIES on Adoption by a Hindu Widow, roy. 4to. sd. 6s

Bombay, 1877

Madras, 1864

30705 AUTHORITIES against Adoption by Widows of the twice born classes, sm. folio, sd. rare, 7s Trichinopoly, 1876 30706 AYEEN AKBERY, or the Institutes of the Emperor Akber, translated from the original Persian by Francis Gladwin, 3 vols. 4to. calf, 368

30707

Calcutta, 1783-86 the same, 3 vols. roy. 4to. LARGE PAPER, a fine copy in calf gilt, by Kalthoeber, £4. 4s

another edition, 2 vols. 4to. calf, 12s

1783-86 1800

30708 30709 BABER. Memoirs of Zehir-ed-Din Muhammed Baber, written by himself in Jaghatai Turki, translated from the Persian version, by Leyden and Erskine, with notes, 4to. map, bds. £2.8s 1826

30710 BALDEUS, Beschrijving der Kusten Malabar, etc. (Description de Malabar et de Choromandel, aussi du grand Ile de CEYLON, avec la découverte des Superstitions des Payens des Indes Orientales, et Grammaire de la langue Malabare), sm. folio, text in Dutch, numerous curious plates, original stamped vellum, fine copy, 15s Amsterdam, 1672 30711 BALFOUR (Surgeon General Edward) CYCLOPEDIA OF INDIA, and of Eastern and Southern Asia, third edition, 3 vols. roy. 8vo. 3628 pp. containing 35,000 articles, with 16,000 Index headings, cloth, new, £5. 5s

1885

This work brings together, up to date, and makes available for ready reference, the widely dispersed and invaluable information, whether Commercial, Industrial, or Scientific, which exists relating to India, Further India, and the East Indies generally.

"

The Geographical Review, in noticing the Second Edition, said :—" There has, indeed, hitherto been no way of learning anything of India, except by accumulating a large library. . . . It is not too much to say that Dr. Balfour has now supplied this want.' 30712 BANESS (J. Fred.) Index Geographicus Indicus; a list of the principal places in the Indian Empire, with notes, statistical, political and descriptive, 8vo. numerous coloured maps, hf. bd. 14s Calcutta, 1881 30713 BARTH (A.) les Religions de l'Inde, roy. 8vo. sd. 2s 6d Paris, 1879 30714 BEHR (J. von der) Diarium, oder Tage-Buch über neun-jährigen Reise im Dienst der Vereinigten geoctroyrten Niederländischen Ost-Indianischen Compagnie: Ost-Indianische Reyse-Beschreibung, small 4to. portrait and plates, calf extra, gilt edges, by C. Lewis, scarce, £3. 3s Jena, 1668 33715 BELL (Major Evans) the Annexation of the Punjaub, and the Maharajah Duleep Singh, 8vo. cloth, 2s 1882 30716 BELNOS (S. C.) The Sundhya, or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins, atlas folio, 24 fine coloured lithographs, with the prayers in Sanscrit-English, half morocco extra, gilt edges, £2. 2s Privately printed, 1851

Portraits of Brahmins and their attitudes and signs performed during their morning devotions, and likewise their Poojas.

30717 BENARES MAGAZINE (The) Vols. I-VII and Part 1 of Vol. VIII in 34 numbers, 8vo. sd. £2. Mirzapore and Calcutta, 1848-52 Including articles on the languages of India, the Aborigines, and their systems of Philosophy.

30718 BENGAL. Remarks on the present State of the Husbandry and Commerce of Bengal, roy. 4to. calf, 78 6d

Calcutta, 1795

30719 BERNIER (F.) Voyages, contenant la Description des Etats du Grand Mogol, de l'Hindoustan, de Kachemire, etc. 2 vols. 12mo. maps and plates, calf, 10s

30720

Amst. 1699 First complete and homogeneous edition of this invaluable work, still indispensable for acquiring a knowledge of the history of the Mogul Empire. Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogol, with particular Events for 5 years following, Englished, 2 vols. in 1, 12mo. map, russia, 14s

see also, post, under TAVERNIER.

1671

30721 BIDDULPH (Major J.) Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh (with appendices of 169 pp. on the languages), roy. 8vo. large map, Views and other illustrations, cloth, 10s 6d

Calcutta, 1880 30722 BIERVILLAS (Innigo de) Voyage à la côte de Malabar, Goa, Batavia, etc. description des mœurs, coutumes et religion des Indiens, 2 vols. in 1, 12mo. calf, 5s Paris, 1736 30723 BJÖRNSTJERNA, die Theogonie, Philosophie und Kosmogonie der Hindus, aus dem Schwedischen übersetzt, 8vo. sd. 2s

Stockholm, 1843 30724 BOILEAU (Lieut.) Personal Narrative of a tour through the western states of Rajwara in 1835, comprising Beekaner, Jesulmer and Jodhpoor, etc. roy. 4to. plates, bds. 20s Calc. 1837 30725 BOMBAY, Baroda, and Central India Railway; sketch map of the Line, very neatly drawn in indian ink and colours, scale 3 miles to an inch, on glazed linen, about 3 yards by 16 inches, 2s 6d

cir. 1865 30726 BOTANICAL TRACTS, chiefly relating to India; 14 tracts, 8vo. 7s 6d

Florula Adenensis by Th. Anderson, 1860-Tea Cultivation in Kumaon, Gurwahl and Darjeeling, 1847-Thwaites, Planta Zeylaniæ, part 1, 1858Cantor, Flora and Fauna of Chusan, 1842-Flora of Lucknow, Th. Anderson -Meyer (E. H. F.) de Houttuynia atque Saurureis, 1827-Decaisne, Flore du Japon, d'Egypte et de la Palestine ; etc.

30727 BRANDIS (D.) and STEWART (J. LINDSAY) the Forest Flora of North-West and Central India, 8vo. 608 pp. with royal 4to. Atlas of 70 plates-2 vols. hf. morocco, 258

1874

30728 BREEKS (J. W.) Account of the Primitive Tribes and Monuments of the Nilagiris, impl. 4to. coloured map and 81 fine photographic plates of the Irulas, Badagas, Todas, Kotas and Kurambas, and their Monuments, hf. morocco, uncut, rare, £4. 4s

India Office, 1873

30729 BRIGGS (H. G.) Cities of Gujarashtra, their topography and history illustrated, 4to. hf. bound, 25s Bombay, 1849

This work contains a history of the rise of the British Factories at Surat, the transactions of the East India Company, description of numerous Mogul and other monuments, etc.

30729* BRIGGS (H. T.) the Nizam, his history and relations with the British Government, 2 vols. 8vo. map and portraits, cloth, 24s 1861 30730 BRIGGS' (John) Land Tax in India, 8vo. bds. 10s

30731

the same, 8vo. calf neat, 12s

1830

1830

RARE. This work is the great text-book of legislators on the important Land-question in India, and the proper relations between the British Government, the Zamindars, and the Ryots.

BRIGGS (Col.)-see Ferishta.

30732 BRITISH BURMA Gazetteer, 2 vols. thick roy. 8vo. cloth, 24s

Rangoon, 1880 30733 BROOME's History of the rise and progress of the Bengal Army down to 1767, 8vo. maps, cloth, 5s

Calcutta, 1850

30734 BROWN (Charles Philip) Cyclic Tables of Chronology of the history of the Telugu and Kannadi countries, large 8vo. sd. 1s 6d

30735

30736

Madras, 1850

Ephemeris showing the corresponding dates according to the English, Hindu and Musulman Calendars, 1751-1850, roy. 8vo. hf. bd. 10s

Madras, 1850

Carnatic Chronology, the Hindu and Mahomedan Methods of reckoning Time explained, with symbols, historic records, etc. royal 8vo. cloth, 5s

1863

30737 BUCHANAN'S (Francis) Journey from Madras to Mysore, Canara and Malabar, in the dominions of the Rajah of Mysore, to investigate the Arts, Religion, Manners and Customs, History, Natural and Civil, and Antiquities, 3 vols. 4to. maps, plates (some coloured), and folding tables, hf. russia, uncut, 18s

30738 30739

30740

the same, 3 vols. 4to. plates, calf gilt, 20s
the same, second edition, 2 vols. 8vo.

portraits and plates, cloth, 7s 6d

1807

1807

coloured map,

Madras, 1870

"The only Archæological Survey that has ever been done in even a part of the South of India."-A. C. Burnell, 1874.

Description of Dinajpur, in Bengal, 8vo. bound, 18s

Calcutta, 1833

30741 BUIST (Geo.) Operations of the British Troops in Scinde and Affghanistan, 1838-41, 8vo. plates, cloth, 98

30742 30743

Bombay, 1843

Manual of Physical Research for India, part 1 (Physical Geography, Meteorology, etc.), 8vo. sd. 2s 6d Bombay, 1852 Index to Books, etc. on the Physical Geography, Antiquities and Statistics of India, 8vo. sd. 2s 6d Bombay, 1852 30744 BURGESS (J.) the Rock Temples of Elephanta or Ghârâpuri, described and illustrated, roy. 8vo. plans and plates, cloth, 6s Bombay, 1871 30745 BURT, Miscellaneous Papers, on the Inscriptions and Antiquities of Central India, Pehlvi, etc. sm. 8vo. plates, cloth, 7s 6d 1868 30746 [BUTLER] Sketch of Assam, 8vo. map and coloured plates, cloth, 7s 6d 1847 30746* BUYERS (Rev. W.) Recollections of Northern India, observations on the Hindoos, remarks on the country, etc. 8vo. cloth, 3s 6d 1848 30747 CALCUTTA JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, containing the discoveries in Indian Geology, Zoology, Botany, etc. conducted by JOHN MCCLELLAND, W. GRIFFITHS, and others; COMPLETE from the beginning in April, 1840, to its termination in July, 1847, with General Index, 30 nos. forming 8 vols. 8vo. numerous plates, hf. morocco neat, uncut, £8. 10s Calcutta, 1841-47

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