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--.

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.

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The effects to be expected from the East India Bill, upon the constitution of Great Britain, if passed into a law. By William Pulteney, Esq.

The adjourned debate, which took place at the India-House in Leadenhall-Street on Thursday, October 23, 1794. On the question for presenting an address to His Majesty, offering to raise three regiments for the publick service. Reported by William Woodfall.

The debates at the East-India-House, on Wednesday, the 17th of December, 1794, on the adjourned consideration of Mr. Twining's motion, "that no director be allowed to carry on any trade or commerce to or from India, directly or indirectly, either as principal or agent." Reported by William Woodfall,

Report from the Committee of proprietors, appointed on the 1st of December, 1772, by the general court of the United East-India Company, to enquire into the present state and condition of the Company's affairs.

A caution to the directors of the East-India Company, with regard to their making the midsummer dividend of five per cent. without due attention to a late Act of Parliament, and a by-law of their own.

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

<p>In the centre is a large rock with lettering and dedication. Surrounding it are palm trees and vegetation, with an architectural fragment in the foreground. To the lower right is a cliff top over a distant waterscape</p>

Oriental scenery

1 print : line-etching and aquatint printed in sepia ; platemark 49 x 65.6 cm.

6 unnumbered pages, 57, iv, x, viii, xxxi, xiv, iii, v pages, 3 unnumbered folded plates : color maps ; 24 cm

Dorjé-Ling.

2 volumes : frontispiece (portrait), plates (1 folded), 2 maps (1 folded), 3 folded tables ; (8vo)

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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The effects to be expected from the East India Bill, upon the constitution of Great Britain, if passed into a law. By William Pulteney, Esq.

The adjourned debate, which took place at the India-House in Leadenhall-Street on Thursday, October 23, 1794. On the question for presenting an address to His Majesty, offering to raise three regiments for the publick service. Reported by William Woodfall.

The debates at the East-India-House, on Wednesday, the 17th of December, 1794, on the adjourned consideration of Mr. Twining's motion, "that no director be allowed to carry on any trade or commerce to or from India, directly or indirectly, either as principal or agent." Reported by William Woodfall,

Report from the Committee of proprietors, appointed on the 1st of December, 1772, by the general court of the United East-India Company, to enquire into the present state and condition of the Company's affairs.

A caution to the directors of the East-India Company, with regard to their making the midsummer dividend of five per cent. without due attention to a late Act of Parliament, and a by-law of their own.

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The effects to be expected from the East India Bill, upon the constitution of Great Britain, if passed into a law. By William Pulteney, Esq.

The adjourned debate, which took place at the India-House in Leadenhall-Street on Thursday, October 23, 1794. On the question for presenting an address to His Majesty, offering to raise three regiments for the publick service. Reported by William Woodfall.

Report from the Committee of proprietors, appointed on the 1st of December, 1772, by the general court of the United East-India Company, to enquire into the present state and condition of the Company's affairs.

A caution to the directors of the East-India Company, with regard to their making the midsummer dividend of five per cent. without due attention to a late Act of Parliament, and a by-law of their own.

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