King mrs robert moss (6 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. 1896. Text unmarked. Bookplate to endpaper. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

First edition, inscribed in a secretarial hand on the front free endpaper, "Presented to the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society in memory of W. S. W. Vaux M.A. by R. Moss King 1887." Expressive of her enthusiasm for travel, Elizabeth King's diary also "provides a superb account exploring the hazards of running a household" in the challenging climate and conditions of British India (Riddick). King (née Egerton, 1843-1917) married Robert Moss King (1832-1903) in 1869, 13 years after his appointment to the Indian civil service. During her husband's posting in Meerut, King indulged an enthusiasm for adventure. In 1878, she travelled to the nearby Missorie hill station by train, coach, and pony, and she visited Naini Tal, Ranikhet, and Almora the following year. "In 1880 she returned to Mussoorie, or more precisely Landour, where she rented a house from March to November and took a trek into the Himalayan interior that included a stay at the hill cantonment of Chakrata. During the summer of 1881 she traveled via Murree to Kashmir, spending two months at Srinagar and its environs. Although her husband accompanied her on some of these journeys, just as often she led her children and an entourage of servants on her own" (Kennedy, p. 120). As revealed in her book, "the coordination of thirty-two servants required a bit more effort than the five she had in England. Associated with various seasons of the year were storms of dust, locusts, and rain. King's diary indicates that despite all of these problems and uncertainties, she held a positive outlook, raised a child, and projected a sense of respect for the Hindu and Mohammedan cultures in which she lived" (Riddick). A numismatist and specialist in Eastern antiquities, William Sandys Wright Vaux (1818-1885) served as secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1875 to his death. Riddick, p. 369; not in Theakstone or Robinson. Dane Kennedy, The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj, 2023. Two vols bound in one, octavo (180 x 120 mm). Bound without single-leaf list of illustrations in each vol. With 32 autotype plates after sketches by the author, including 2 bound as frontispiece for each vol., 2 maps. Contemporary dark purple calf, raised bands, black spine label, compartments lettered and with zigzag tools in gilt, brown cloth sides, edges sprinkled red. February 1928 ownership inscriptions of one Herbert Wrede on front free endpaper and half-title of vol. I; early 20th-century ownership signature of A. Thiele, perhaps the German engineer based in China, on half-title. General marking, spine sunned, extremities lightly worn and retouched, contents clean: very good.…