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Bombay: printed at the Government Central Press, 1908. First edition, small 4to (25 x 18 cm), pp.xii, 340, [2], 19 plates including frontis. A very good copy in original cloth, gilt. Professionally re-backed with original spine preserved. Corners and spine lightly bumped. Michael Kennedy (1859-1932) was the Deputy-Inspector General of Police, Railways and Criminal Investigation in the Bombay Presidency at the time he wrote this publication, and later became the Inspector-General of Police. He joined his brothers as a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1911, and retired in 1915 after thirty-two years service and earning three medals including the King's Police Medal. He compiled these notes as a practical aid for identification by police officers in India. Each criminal group is described in great detail, encompassing those within Bombay and those outside that infiltrate into Bombay. Kennedy identifies their areas of operation, type of criminal activity etc., but also more cultural… Read More

Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler, [1888]. Presumed first edition, second or third issue, pp.[viii], 114, vii [publishers adverts]. A good used copy, front section loose, but still held by stitching. Both wrappers worn and frayed. Text clean. This scarce early issue of the first edition has the apostrophe before "Rickshaw" in the title on front wrapper, and full stops after the A. and H. of publishers name. Livingstone 40

Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1911-12. First edition, three (of four) volumes, pp.xxiv, 413, 742, viii, 498, 20 plates, one in colour, 139 text illustrations, 4 folding maps. Text in German. A very good set in contemporary cloth, spines gilt, all edges speckled red. Light rubbing to extremities, neatly cancelled library bookplates on half-titles. Sijfert Hendrik Koorders (1863-1919) was a pre-eminent Dutch botanist who specialised on the flora of Java, and was authority for at least 648 taxa (a group of one or more populations of organisms). At the age of twenty-two he joined the Dutch East Indies Forest Service in Java, and by 1892 was curator at the Herbarium Bogoriense in Bogor, Java, where he was personally responsible for the acquisition of 40,000 specimens. In 1912 he founded the Dutch East Indies Association for Nature Protection. The separate volume of illustrations, published twenty-five years later in 1937, is not present here. This set weighs over 4kg, shipping price will be quoted… Read More