SKEEN Andrew

Lessons in Imperial Rule Instructions for British Infantrymen on the Indian Frontier

Frontline Books, 2008. 9781848325074. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black buckram cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xii + 144 (residue of price sticker and tear on front free endpaper). .

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Book number: 141648

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: Military History

[INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY]. [G.W. LAWRIE & Co.; Francis FRITH & Co. W.L.H. Skeen & Co. (photographers)].

[Collection of photographs of India].[India], ca. 1880s-1890s. Photographs ca. 20 x 27 cm; boards ca. 34 x 27 cm. 80 albumen print photographs mounted on 56 boards, the majority with manuscript captions below the photographs. The photographs are mounted on paper boards, sometimes displayed in passe-partouts and kept in a blue-ish grey cardboard box and a large half red cloth and red and black decorated paper sides portfolio with red ties.

A detailed list of contents is available upon request.Large collection of photographs showing views of India. The majority of these photographs are of religious and other notable buildings in Delhi and major sites and cities in Uttar Pradesh, such as Benares (now Varanasi) and Agra in Uttar Pradesh, but also in the states Karnataka (Mysore), West-Bengal (Calcutta), Gujarat (Ahmedabad), and Tamil Nadu (Madras) and even Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). This collection gives a wonderful impression of the most important and most attractive sites in these regions of India at the end of the 19th century.Many of the photographs can be attributed to prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century photography studios in India, such as G.W. Lawrie & Co. and F. Frith. While only two photographs - of the stone bull and the juggernaut car in Mysore, Karnataka - are signed in the negative by Lawrie, many others have been attributed to this studio in the manuscript captions. The captions even mention the corresponding numbers of the albumen print photos which were commercially available to be collected and presented in albums or collections such as the present one. G.W. Lawrie was a Scottish photographer working in Lucknow, the capital of the state Uttar Pradesh in India, in 1880s and 1890s. Another photograph, showing a tomb in Delhi, is accompanied by a small label of Frith's photo-pictures, universal series. Frith (1822-1898) was an English photographer and founder of F. Frith and Co., a studio mainly known for publishing photos of the Middle East and the United Kingdom (then also including India).Some of the more notable sites and buildings appearing in the photographs are: the Qutb, including the Qutb Minar, the Red Fort, and Jama Masjid (or Masjid-i-Jehan-Numa, one of the largest mosques in India) in Delhi; the Taj Mahal, Red Fort, and Moti Masjid mosque in Agra; and the Golden Temple and surroundings, and the Durga Kund Mandir temple in Benares (Varanasi). Other photographs give an insight in the Indian culture surrounding religion and death as they show the Ghats along the Ganges river near Benares and a Ghat in Calcutta. Ghat is a term used in the Indian subcontinent which could, depending on the context, refer to a range of stepped hills with valleys or the series of steps leading down to a body of water or wharf. In this case the word specifically refers to the steps leading down to the different bathing and cremation places along the banks of the Ganges. The Ghats in Varanasi - 84 in total, the majority of which were rebuilt in the 18th century - are among the most important and famous ghats in India. Most of the ghats are bathing and puja ceremonial ghats (a worship ritual performed by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains to offer devotional homage and prayer to one or more deities, to host and honour a guest, or to spiritually celebrate an event), while two ghats - Manikarnika (pictured in this collection) and Harishchandra - are used exclusively as cremation sites.Almost all photographs have manuscript captions, contemporary with later additions, below the image or on the verso of the boards. The photographs and the contemporary boards are somewhat foxed and browned, but the images remain clear. Overall in good condition.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: ABC_47578

Keywords: [04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY|[04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY -> [035D43830D89] Photography|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA -> [2E35157B4164] India & Sri Lanka|

Mann, Chris. (Illus. Julia Skeen).

Home from Home. New and Selected Poems.

Echoing Green 2010. 182pp illustrated paperback. A Fine unread copy. ISBN: 9780980250176 Beautifully inscribed on title page thus: "To Bridget Grogan, With many thanks for your help, in the preparation of this book, Chris Mann, Grahamstown 2010". All of us experience moments in our lives when the ordinary is charged with significance. Lingering in the memory these 'homes from home' tell us much about ourselves. In this collection of poems about animals and art to love, science and spirituality, the reader could discover some of their homes from home.

Fables BookhopProfessional seller

Book number: 23640

Keywords: poetry verse africa african south southern signed inscribed

Mann, Chris. (Illus. Julia Skeen).

Home from Home. New and Selected Poems.

Echoing Green Press 2010 stated 1st edition. 182pp illustrated paperback. A Fine unread copy. ISBN: 9780980250176 All of us experience moments in our lives when the ordinary is charged with significance. Lingering in the memory these 'homes from home' tell us much about ourselves. In this collection of poems about animals and art to love, science and spirituality, the reader could discover some of their homes from home.

Fables BookhopProfessional seller

Book number: 24120

Keywords: poetry verse africa african south southern

Cold Mountain Press; Reginald Gibbons; Anita Skeen; Nancy Willard; Gretchen Reed (ill.)

Cold Mountain Holiday Postcards

Austin, TX: Cold Mountain Press, 1975. 18mo. Letterpress On Card, Very Good with minor creasing. Illustrated. All three post cards signed by the poet. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 15-7396

Catalogue: Ephemera

SKEEN, C. Edward

Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812.

Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1999. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. [10],229 pp. Clothbound with dustjacket. lllustrated in b/w. - Good copy

kAdeBoeken AntiquariaatProfessional seller

Book number: 13861

Catalogue: geschiedenis; amerika

Keywords: 9780813120898

SKEEN, ANDREW

Lessons in Imperial Rule: Instructions for British Infantrymen on the Indian Frontier

London, Frontline Books. 2008. (ISBN: 9781848325074). Hardcover. Used, Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, no notable flaws. AD. Very Good.

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Book number: 519527

Catalogue: History - Warfare

Keywords: 9781848325074

SKEEN, BRIGADIER ANDREW.

Prelude to Independence. Skeen's 115 Days.

Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel, 1966. 1st edition. Pp.219,4 pages of black & white photos + 7 cartoon illustrations by Cummings (from the Daily Express), owner's name to front free endpaper, occasional light spottinng mainly affcting closed page edges. Orange cloth, dustwrapper has edge tears with small losses. G+/G.** Brigadier Andrew Skeen ICD OBE was a British Indian Army officer, and Rhodesian politician who served as the last High Commissioner from Rhodesia to the United Kingdom from 22 July to 12 November 1965. His total tenure lasted 115 days..On 11 November 1965, when Rhodesia announced its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), Skeen was summoned by the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Arthur Bottomley, for a meeting at 1.15pm, who ordered Skeen to denounce the UDI or face being declared persona non grata with the removal of all privileges and expulsion from 13 November. Skeen refused and departed London voluntarily the following day. (wiki).

Chilton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 48273

Catalogue: History: : Africa

Keywords: Brigadier Skeen Prelude Independence 115 Days Rhodesia Unilateral Declaration Independence Udi Diplomacy Diplomat London Salisbury Politics Ian Smith History Africa 49720 History: : Africa

Skeen, Andrew

Prelude to Independence : Skeen's 115 Days

Cape Town : Nasionale Boekhandel 1966. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered. ; 219 pages; Physical desc. : 219p. [4]p of plates ; 22cm. Subject: Skeen. Andrew. Zimbabwe - Politics and government - 1965-1979. Great Britain - Foreign relations - Zimbabwe.

MW BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 120775

Skeen, Andrew (1906-)

Prelude to independence: Skeen's 115 days

[Cape Town]: Nasionale Boekhandel 1966. 1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 219 pages: illustrations. portraits; 22 cm. Subjects: Skeen. Andrew 1906- Zimbabwe History. Zimbabwe Histoire 1890-1965. Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Politics and government 1965-1979. Great Britain Foreign relations Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Foreign relations Great Britain. Zimbabwe Foreign relations 1965-1980. Southern Africa 19th century. Genre: History. Illustrated.

MW BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 317084