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WAKEFIELD, W[illiam] [b. 1840].
The Happy Valley: Sketches Of Kashmir & the Kashmiris.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879..
8vo. pp. xii, 300. folding map & 8 tinted lithographed plates (incl. frontis.). original cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (some light spotting to plates). First Edition. The author was a medical officer to the British forces in India. The present work recounts a visit made to Kashmir in the summer of 1875. Yakushi W11a.
$513 USD Book Number: IKEeWAKE85 Order / Enquire
WALLACE, Robert [1853-1939].
India In 1887.
Edinburgh: Oliver And Boyd., 1888..
8vo. pp. xxiv, 363. with half-title. 71 plates (incl. frontis. & 2 chromolithographs of mangoes) & 3 folding coloured maps. text illus. original cloth, t.e.g. (spine faded & chipped at ends). First Edition? (Apparently the same as Wallace's Indian Agriculture). The author was professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy at the University of Edinburgh. Included are chapters on cattle and other livestock, soils, native implements, irrigation, crops and crop rotation, currency, grasses and grass land, forestry, chemistry, veterinary science, and agriculture.
$231 USD Book Number: ILLdiWAL44 Order / Enquire
WARD, William [1769-1823].
A View Of The History, Literature, And Religion Of The Hindoos: Including A Minute Description Of Their Manners And Customs, And Translations From Their Principal Works.Third Edition, Carefully Abridged And Greatly Improved.
London: Printed, by Order of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society, for Black, Parbury, And Allen, Booksellers To .
4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xiii, cvii, 288; vii, 344; lv, xxvi, 354; 1 p.l., [v]-ix, [1 leaf]errata, xlviii, 505. with half-title in Vol. III only. contemporary sprinkled calf (Vol. IV headpiece chipped, joints cracked, corners worn, a few gatherings in Vol. I foxed). The author was a Baptist missionary in India for many years, dying of cholera at Serampore in 1823. A printer by trade, his primary task from his arrival in 1799 until 1818 was superintending the Baptist missionary press in Bengal, by means of which the scriptures, translated into Bengali, Mahratta, Tamil, and twenty-three other languages, were disseminated throughout India. From 1818 to 1821 he travelled in Great Britain, Germany and the United States to raise funds for the Baptist college at Serampore. The present authoritative work was first published at Serampore in 1811.
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