The Overland Guide-book: A Complete Vademecum for the Overland Traveller, to India Viâ EgyptW.H. Allen, 1850 - 114 oldal |
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11. oldal - With Tables of Distances between the principal Towns and Military Stations On one sheet — size, 2 ft. 3 in. wide ; 2 ft. 9 in. high, 9s. ; or, on cloth, in a case, 12s. Map of the Western Provinces of Hindoostan, The Punjab, Cabool, Scinde, Bhawulpore, &c., including all the States between Candahar and Allahabad.
5. oldal - Mounts of the Jains, and the most Celebrated Shrines of Hindu Faith between Rajpootana and the Indus, with an account of the Ancient City of Nehrwalla. By the late Lieut.- Col. JAMES TOD, Illustrations.
11. oldal - On one sheet — size, 2 ft. 3 in. wide; 2 ft. 9 in. high, 9s."; or, on cloth, in a case, 12s. Map of the Western Provinces of Hindoostan, The Punjab, Cabool, Scinde, Bhawulpore, &c., including all the States between Candahar and Allahabad. On four sheets — size, 4 ft. 4in. wide ; 4 ft. 2 in. high, 30s. ; or, in case, £2 ; rollers, varnished, £2 10s.
11. oldal - Compiled chiefly from surveys executed by order of the Government of India. On six sheets — size, 5 ft. 3 in. wide ; 5 ft. 4 in. high, £2 ; or, on cloth, in case, £2 12s.
5. oldal - The minutiae of domestic life, all the various usages of the presidencies, together with spicy military detail, which supply us with a very welcome and agreeable view of the way in which our fellow-subjects contrive to make themselves happy under the warm sunbeams of the Orient. There is a constant succession of new scenes, a great diversity of actors, and much new matter in this work ; the whole enlivened by a bonhomie which gives it its most interesting aspect."— Metropolitan Magazine.
3. oldal - Oriental Penmanship; An Essay for facilitating the Reading and Writing of the Ta'lik Character, as generally used in the East in Persian and Hindustani Manuscripts and Printed Works.
6. oldal - ... travelling throughout the Empire and the expense attendant thereon ; the condition of the European (English) Society; the Rules and Regulations of the various branches of the Executive ; the cost and manner of proceeding to India ; the Sports, Ceremonies, and Pageants common to the Country, &c. &c. "There can be no hesitation in saying that the plan and execution of this Hand-Book are equally excellent ; that it is the most complete and accurate Vade-Mecum which has yet appeared, and cannot fail...