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Calcutta, The Government of India, 1865. Large 8vo. 154 pp.; frontispiece map and eight lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. = An important, early - perhaps first - paper on the rich faunas of the Spiti formations which, subsequently, where the subject of many palaeontological papers. In this work, however, the author already described and illustrated many invertebrates. The author is the Moravian zoologist and palaeontologist Ferdinand Stoliczka (Czech Stolicka (1838-1874). "Stoliczka studied geology and palaeontology at Prague and the University of Vienna under Professor Eduard Suess and Dr Rudolf Hoernes. . In 1862 Stoliczka joined the Geological Survey of India (GSI) under the British Government in India after being recruited by Dr Thomas Oldham (1816-1878). In Calcutta he was assigned the job of documenting the Cretaceous fossils of southern India and published them in the Palaeontologia Indica, along with William Thomas Blanford. By May 1873 this work was completed with four volumes totalling nearly 1500 quarto size pages with 178 plates" (Wikipedia). The first plate contains brachiopods, all others illustrate molluscs, in particular ammonites and bivalves, but also gastropods, etc. This is Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 5(1). According to the wrapper text, in the rear there should be a paper on gypsum from the same region, to start on p. 153, but Stoliczka's work runs beyond that, to page 154, and page numbers 153-154 are used twice. Boards much worn; spine cover perished and rear board detached; tear in the frontispiece map; explanatory text leaves foxed, otherwise, however, very good. …

Calcutta, The Government of India, 1865. Large 8vo. 154 pp.; frontispiece map and eight lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = An important, early - perhaps first - paper on the rich faunas of the Spiti formations which, subsequently, where the subject of many palaeontological papers. In this work, however, the author already described and illustrated many invertebrates. The author is the Moravian zoologist and palaeontologist Ferdinand Stoliczka (Czech Stolicka (1838-1874). "Stoliczka studied geology and palaeontology at Prague and the University of Vienna under Professor Eduard Suess and Dr Rudolf Hoernes. . In 1862 Stoliczka joined the Geological Survey of India (GSI) under the British Government in India after being recruited by Dr Thomas Oldham (1816-1878). In Calcutta he was assigned the job of documenting the Cretaceous fossils of southern India and published them in the Palaeontologia Indica, along with William Thomas Blanford. By May 1873 this work was completed with four volumes totalling nearly 1500 quarto size pages with 178 plates" (Wikipedia). The first plate contains brachiopods, all others illustrate molluscs, in particular ammonites and bivalves, but also gastropods, etc. This is Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 5(1). According to the wrapper text, in the rear there should be a paper on gypsum from the same region, to start on p. 153, but Stoliczka's work runs beyond that, to page 154, and only another, coloured map of the region, showing the gypsum distribution, is present. Uncut. Wrappers soiled and detached, otherwise very good.…

None. Condition: None. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x37 cm or 10 ¾ x 14 ½ in). 40 card stock leaves. With ca. 510 original mounted gelatin silver photos, including eight large images from ca. 19,5x28,5 cm (7 ¾ x 11 ¼ in) to ca. 13x19,5 cm (5 x 7 ¾ in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 11,5x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ¼ in) to ca. 3,5x5 cm (1 ¼ x 2 in). All photos with period ink captions on the mounts (some captions relate to several images). Period brown quarter sheep album with cloth boards. Gilt-lettered initials "J.R.C." and title "India" on the front board. With a printed program of an amateur theatre show, which lists J.R. Connor as one of the actors, mounted on the rear pastedown endpaper. Spine with tears on top and bottom, corners bumped, front board slightly loosened at the stub, several leaves at the back detached and loosely inserted, several images slightly faded, but overall a very good album. With a loosely inserted printed farewell address ca. 34,5x21,5 cm (13 ½ x 8 ½ in). Ca. 1942. 1 p. Text printed in gold. A very good copy. With an album of Connor's family photos. Oblong Folio (ca. 22x31 cm or 8 ¾ x 12 in). Ca. 1930s-1940. With ca. 330 original mounted gelatin silver photos, from ca. 8,5x14 cm (3 ½ x 5 ¼ in) to ca. 4x6,5 cm (1 ¾ x 2 ½ in). Most photos with period white ink captions on the mounts (captions mostly relate to several images). Period black full cloth album. Several images previously removed, several images slightly faded, but overall a very good album. Historically significant album with an extensive collection of ca. 510 original gelatin silver photos from the private archive of a notable military officer of British India and later Pakistan, Colonel John Richard Connor, who for over a decade served in King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners in Roorkee (modern-day Bengal Engineer Group of the Indian Army) and later became the founder and first Commandant of a training centre of the Royal Pakistan Engineers in Sialkot (modern-day Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers). Over fifty images show the Bengal Sappers and Miners' headquarters, officers and various operations in Roorkee, including two large group portraits of "The Officers K.G.O. Bengal S. & M., Roorkee" in 1932 and 1933 (all names thoroughly recorded, Connor presents on both photos), views of Royal Engineers Mess, "No. 9" and "No. 10 Bungalow," "my room in No. 10 Bungalow," the regiment's camp in "the jheels," scenes from the "Corps Sports, Mar. 1932" (obstacle and mule races, long jump competitions, &c.), panoramic views of "the Hills from Roorkee, Aug. 1932," two photos with "the last Corps elephants, demobbed 1932," &c. Numerous images illustrate tiger hunting and leisure trips of Connor and his fellow officers in "Chilkia, April 1932" and Malani ("Xmas 32," "Feb. 1933"). Very interesting are ca. 190 photos of the Hindustan-Tibet Road, taken during two trips in 1932-1933. The images show various rest houses, settlements, road tunnels, bridges, Himalayan hills, peaks, glaciers and valleys, local villagers and mule men, Connor and his travel companions, &c. The images are grouped according to the following route stretches and stops: "The H.-T. Road, Aug. 1932," "Narkanda - Khadrala," "Khadrala - Bahli," "Taklech - Daranghati," "Sarahan - Wangtu," "Wangtu - Urni," "The Chini Cliffs," "Chini," "Chini - Jangi," "Jangi - Shasu," "Rupa Valley," "Shivi Valley," "H.-T. Road, 1933," "Jangi - Shiasu," "Poo - Namgea," "Tashigang," "Tashigang - Nako," "Chango," "Beyond Changar," "Changarezing," "Shivi Valley," &c. About twenty photos show the construction of bridges in Jehangira and Akora in 1934 (modern-day Khyber Pashtunkhwa, Pakistan), Attock Bridge and "boat bridge & railway bridge, Nowshera." There are also over fifty photos from Connor's travel to Kashmir in 1934, showing Jhelum River, Srinagar, mountain valleys, Razdani Pass, Burzil Pass, Rupal Valley, a series of views of Nanga Parbat (the peak, glaciers, slopes, "my tent and the side of a glacier"), portraits of Connor, his guides and local people. Over twenty photos document road construction near Haryankot (North-West Frontier Province, now Khyber Pashtunkhwa, Pakistan) in October-December 1934: digging and pouring bridge foundations, "building the abutments," "fixing reinforcements," "preparing shuttering for 6' span culvert," "Haryankot Camp," "view from my tent," &c. There are also six interesting images from the "Loe Agra Operations, 1935" - one of the military campaigns of British forces in the North-West Frontier Province. The images show "Kot Camp," "Barghai from top of Waruki Kandao," "S. & M. working on mule track," "2nd/15th Punjabis on the new mule track," &c. The "Indian" part of the album closes with five large excellent photos, taken on the "H[industan]. T[ibet]. Road," showing "Nanga Parbat, 1934," "View from Narkanda Bungalow," two stunning panoramas of the Himalayan ridges and "mules and driver on H.T. Road." The album also contains over thirty snapshot photos, taken during Connor's voyage to India in November 1931 (H.M.T. "Somersetshire," scenes on board and other British military men, views of Malta, Suez Canal, and Aden), and several images from one of the trips back to England (Port Said, scenes on board a ship). Ca. 26 photos at the rear show England during Connor's leave in 1932: the town of Hythe ("views from Uplands, drawing room," portraits of Connor, his parents, sister and friends), "Uplands" estate, King's College, Emmanuel College, &c. The rear pastedown endpaper of the album has a mounted program of a performance of "The Fourth Wall by A.A. Milne," which lists "J.R. Connor" playing "Sergt. Mallet." The gold-printed farewell address was presented to Connor by one "Subedar Mela Ram and Clerical Staff, Orderly Room, K.G.V.'s O. Bengal S. & M. Group, I.E." on his departure from service as S.O.R.E. (Staff Officer, Royal Engineers), and is dated "Roorkee, 15th Aug. 1942." The family album is mostly dedicated to the early years of Connor's niece Elizabeth R.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book discusses the determinant factors which are at work in the Himalayas. Its spatiality, legends and myths, religious beliefs, rituals and traditions.Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in South Asia.…