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.

Report of the smallpox commissioners, appointed by government : with an appendix, Calcutta, 1st July 1850.

Dorjé-Ling.

Posthumous papers bequeathed to the honorable the East India Company. And printed by order of the government of Bengal ... Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and the neighbouring countries ... / By the late William Griffith ... Arranged by John M'Clelland.

Reports on civil dispensaries at the Presidency and in the provinces of Madras, during the year 1852.

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Report of the smallpox commissioners, appointed by government : with an appendix, Calcutta, 1st July 1850.

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

Dorjé-Ling.

Posthumous papers bequeathed to the honorable the East India Company. And printed by order of the government of Bengal ... Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and the neighbouring countries ... / By the late William Griffith ... Arranged by John M'Clelland.

Reports on civil dispensaries at the Presidency and in the provinces of Madras, during the year 1852.

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Report of the smallpox commissioners, appointed by government : with an appendix, Calcutta, 1st July 1850.

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

Dorjé-Ling.

Posthumous papers bequeathed to the honorable the East India Company. And printed by order of the government of Bengal ... Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and the neighbouring countries ... / By the late William Griffith ... Arranged by John M'Clelland.

Reports on civil dispensaries at the Presidency and in the provinces of Madras, during the year 1852.

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