A leather bound portfolio containing two folders titled 'Kanheri Caves in Salsette: Descriptions and Notes' and 'Kanheri Caves in Salsette: Sundires'.
West Edward William 1824-1905The portfolio contains three folders. These are titled: 'Ajanta Caves 1', 'Ajanta Caves 2', and 'Ellora Caves and Aurangabad Caves'.
West Edward William 1824-1905A leather bound portfolio containing three folders entitled: 'Ammarnáth Temple, near Kalian', 'Sundries' and 'Kanheri Caves duplicates'.
West Edward William 1824-1905A leather bound portfolio containing two folders titled 'Kanheri Cave Plans' and 'Kanheri Drawings and Sketches'. There is also a notebook of notes taken by Walter West, as well as some loose handwritten notes and letters.
West Edward William 1824-1905 Orientalist, EngineerA leather bound portfolio containing four folders entitled 'Minor Groups of Caves in Salsette (Kondati, Magathan, Montpesir, Jogeshwar, and Sundries)', 'Kondana Caves and Others near the Bhor Ghat', 'Karli', and 'Bedsa - Shailarwadi - Poona'.
West Edward William 1824-1905A leather bound portfolio containing four folders entitled 'Caves in the Satara Districts', 'Mahar and Kura Caves', 'Junnar Caves and Nana Ghat', and 'Nasik Caves South and North Series'.
West Edward William 1824-1905A white porcelain bowl, glazed, decorated with brown crack and painted with Chinese pictures, diameter 14cm. The bowl has significant repairs with glue and plaster. It is of unknown provenance.
"Popular Buddhism According to the Chinese Canon," by Samuel Beal concerning Chinese documents given by the Japanese government to the India Office in 1875. Printed pamphlet of article from unknown Journal, 1 item, [1875].
Beal Samuel 1825-1889 OrientalistDocuments relating to the Poona Caves. These are:
- No.1: A description written in 1855.
- No.2: A plan of the large Cave, scale 30 ft to an inch; unfinished drawings of a moulding and a column, scale 1/2 inch to a foot; and two photographs taken in 1856.
- No.3: An envelope containing three paper impressions of ornaments on a frieze under sculpture No.5.
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