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India India, Including campaigns on the North-West Frontier, Afghanistan and Burma, the Indian Mutiny and Anglo-Indian colonial life   103 Books
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Manual of Operations on the North-West Frontier of India. Army Headquarters, India. 1925. [iii]+v+88pp. Calcutta: Govt. of India, Central Publication Branch. 1925  #68615
Pocket manual on characteristics of fighting on the frontier: attack, withdrawal, camp discipline &c. Orig. red printed cloth covd. boards, VG with contemp. ownership inscrip. of C.R. Buchanan, Royal Scots Fusiliers. See illustration on our website.   £75
The India List, Civil & Military, January 1887. Issued by Permission of the Secretary of State for India in Council. xcv+636pp. W.H. Allen & Co. Contemp.  #68059
[HLMainPic] Expanded format. Forerunner to the Indian Army List, these contains civil & military officers of all arms, including IA, British Army regiments in India & their date of arrival, location &c., surgeons, ecclesiastical department and invalid establishments, retired lists &c. for the three Presidencies. Also various listings, holders of awards such as OBI & IOM. They were issued twice annually & are fully indexed. Later maroon cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
Government of India, Military Department correspondence, 1897. Approx. 300pp., foolscap. Govt. Central Press, Simla. 1897  #68061
[HLMainPic] A volume of printed copies (mostly around 100-130 printed) relating to administrative matters in the Indian Army, largely relating to accounts & pay, officers' claims for allowances (some granted, many not), purchase or requisition of equipment &c. Chiefly of value in demonstrating the immense burden of official 'red tape' that kept large numbers of staff officers gainfully employed. Take, for instance, the dispute over payment for a typewriter obtained by the Mathematical Instrument Department: "The Military Accounts Department have refused to accept the debit raised by the Mathematical Instrument Department against the Military estimates on this account, on the ground that the transaction is not covered by the sanction of Government as laid down in the resolution of the Government of India in the Finance Department, No. 185, dated 10th January 1883, as modified by the orders in Finance Department Resolution No. 2586, dated 23rd May 1889, and the correspondence is now submitted for the orders of Government." In other words: the typewriter should not have been obtained without prior sanction, but, as the typewriter had already been obtained the Government of India sanctioned - "as a special case" - the cost being met from the contingent grant of the QMG's Department. Spellbinding stuff. Modern three-qtr. Indian calf, a little wormed, generally VG. See illustration on our website.   £60
The Wellesley Papers: The Life & Correspondence of Richard Colley Wellesley Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842. By the Editor of "The Windham Papers." 1st Ed., 2 Vols., xix+325pp., portrait frontis., 16 plates & vii+415pp., portrait frontis., 16 plates. Herbert Jenkins. 1914  #64997
[HLMainPic] An important & rare record of the British administration of India, reproducing much original correspondence, &c. Wellesley was Governor of Madras, 1797-98; Governor-General of India, 1798-1805, & much involved in the Mahratta Wars (Seringapatam) &c. In 1809, Wellesley was appointed ambassador to Spain, landed at Cadiz just after the Battle of Talavera, & tried unsuccessfully to bring the Spanish government into effective co-operation with his brother (The Duke of Wellington), who, through the failure of his allies, had been forced to retreat into Portugal. Later Lord Lieutenant of Ireland among other senior public offices. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG, ex-lib. Trinity College, Oxford, with presentation bookplates (gifted in memory of William Hunt) & loosely inserted round TC library labels which were previously affixed to the front boards, leaving traces of their removal. VG thus. See illustration on our website.   £165
One-inch Sheet No. 38 O/13. N.W. Frontier Province. Cherat. Scale. 1 Inch to 1 Mile. Coloured fldg. paper map, 44x58cm approx., buff card covs. to front & rear, the front with title as above. Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Calcutta, Published under the direction of Col. S.G. Burrard, CSI, RE, FRS, Surveyor General of India. 1913  #66242
[HLMainPic] Good scale map of the Cherat region (Peshawar District & Tribal Territory) from Aza Khel Bala & Nowshera in the north, down to Spela Mela &c. in the south. VG, nice clean example. See illustrations on our website.   £65
Standing Orders, British Military Hospital, Rawalpindi. 1935. [ii]+74pp., printed on versos only, Rawalpindi: Commercial Union Press. 1935  #64818
[HLMainPic] Very interesting work including duties & organisation of Assistant Surgeons; Indian Hospital Corps; Military Nursing Service; RAMC, &c., with much unusual detail on the running & arrangements of the hospital. Orig. printed paper covd. boards with red cloth backstrip, somewhat serviceworn, generally VG with loosely inserted Fire Orders for the hospital, 60x30cm approx., dated May 1936. See illustration on our website.   £75
Government of India. Army Department. Dress Regulations (India). 1931. Orig. printed paper covd. boards, [vii]+124pp. Calcutta: Govt. of India Central Publications Branch. 1932  #66191
[HLMainPic] Details of dress & uniform, distinctions &c. for all arms (infantry, cavalry, various corps, bodyguards, staff &c.). Orig. printed paper covd. boards, VG with several loosely inserted Amendment slips. See illustration on our website.   £125
Army Regulations, India, Volume I. Pay & Allowances & Non-Effective Pay. (This book is corrected up to 1st April 1915.) Govt. of India, Finance Dept. 1915. ix+317pp). Calcutta: Office of the Supt. of Govt. Printing, India. 1918  #68543
[HLMainPic] 1918 reprint of 1915 edition. Detailed statements of pay & allowances for various arms of both Indian Army & British Army serving in India. Orig. dec. printed wraps., some staining, sound, VG thus. See illustration on our website.   £100
Army Regulations, India, Volume II. Regulations & Orders for The Army. Govt. of India, Army Dept. [v]+viii+336pp. Printed by the Superintendent, Govt. Press, Calcutta. 1917  #68544
[HLMainPic] This edition corrected to 1st October 1917. Including Discipline, Correspondence, Reports & Returns, Responsibilities of Commanding & Other Officers, Precedence of Corps, Standards & Colours, Guards of Honour, Honours & Salutes, Interior Economy inc. Indian Officers & mens' duties, Guards & Orderlies, Escorts, Bands, Messes, Recruiting, Ordnance Equipment, Military Education, Engineers, the Indian Army Reserve &c., plus various Appendices. Great body of material on the organisation of the IA during the Great War. Orig. limp printed wrps., minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.   £100
Regulations for Care & Preservation of War Materiel & for Magazines in India. 1904. [ii]+iv+98pp., several illus. inc. fldg. table of Distinguishing Marks for Projectiles. Calcutta: Supt. of Govt. Printing, India. 1904  #68545
[HLMainPic] Orig. green cloth covd. boards, gilt, markings of the Military Dept. Library & a large number of revisions & amendments pasted in throughout the text & at the end. Somewhat service worn, sound, VG thus. See illustration on our website.   £85

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