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Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.

English courtesans being sold at auction to British and Asian men in a port controlled by the East India Company. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, ca. 1815, after J. Gillray.

Heads and faces of twenty men facing one another in pairs. Coloured aquatint with etching.

Clocks: a bracket clock formerly in the possession of the East India Company. Process print.

A sepoy in the service of the East India Company, with a woman (courtesan?) on the right. Gouache, 18--.

Mapping an empire : the geographical construction of British India, 1765-1843 / Matthew H. Edney.

Sir William Foster, 1863-1951 : a bibliography / [Anthony Farrington].

Unpathed waters : account of the life and times of Joseph Huddart, FRS, at one time a captain in the service of the Honorable East India Company and later an elder brother of the Corporation of Trinity House / William Huddart ; foreword by R.S. Porter.

Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, Anno. Dom. 1757 / William Watts ; edited by Bimal Kanti Ghosh.

The body of Tippu Sultan is laid out and mourned by a woman and servants. Stipple engraving by L. Schiavonetti, 1801, after R.K. Porter.

Vignette title to part one of Oriental Scenery. Aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel; containing descriptions and drawings of each species; together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons / By Patrick Russell. Presented to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company, and published by their order, under the superintendence of the author.

Papers respecting the negociation for a renewal of the East-India Company's exclusive trade

Report of the committee of warehouses, on a memorial from the Manufacturers of Gunpowder, and of other Commodities made from Saltpetre, presented to the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade

A letter from the secretary of the Honourable the directors of the East India Company, to Major General James Stuart. (17th September 1784) Together with the extract of the general letter from Fort Saint George. (Dated 30th September, 1783.)

A list of the names of those members of the United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East-Indies, Who stood Qualified as Voters on the Company's Books the 14th of April, 1789. Note, Those marked ****, have four Votes; ***, three Votes; **, t

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Papers respecting the negociation for a renewal of the East-India Company's exclusive trade

Report of the committee of warehouses, on a memorial from the Manufacturers of Gunpowder, and of other Commodities made from Saltpetre, presented to the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade

Papers respecting the negociation for a renewal of the East-India Company's exclusive trade

A letter from the secretary of the Honourable the directors of the East India Company, to Major General James Stuart. (17th September 1784) Together with the extract of the general letter from Fort Saint George. (Dated 30th September, 1783.)

A list of the names of those members of the United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East-Indies, Who stood Qualified as Voters on the Company's Books the 14th of April, 1789. Note, Those marked **, have four Votes; *, three Votes; **, t

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Papers respecting the negociation for a renewal of the East-India Company's exclusive trade

Report of the committee of warehouses, on a memorial from the Manufacturers of Gunpowder, and of other Commodities made from Saltpetre, presented to the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade

Papers respecting the negociation for a renewal of the East-India Company's exclusive trade

A letter from the secretary of the Honourable the directors of the East India Company, to Major General James Stuart. (17th September 1784) Together with the extract of the general letter from Fort Saint George. (Dated 30th September, 1783.)

A list of the names of those members of the United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East-Indies, Who stood Qualified as Voters on the Company's Books the 14th of April, 1789. Note, Those marked ****, have four Votes; ***, three Votes; **, t

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A list of the names of those members of the United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East-Indies, Who stood Qualified as Voters on the Company's Books the 14th of April, 1789. Note, Those marked **, have four Votes; *, three Votes; **, t