TRADE CATALOGUE FOR BRITISH INDIA. Treacher & Co., Ltd. General Merchants. Bombay, Byculla & Poona [cover title]. Mumbay: The Times Press. 1906.
8vo. Original cloth lettered in gilt; pp. x, xxi, 800, xi-xviii, highly illustrated, including a few colour plates; wear to head and tail of spine, otherwise very good.
An unrecorded bulky trade catalogue advertising all conceivable goods for the British in India, ranging from medicine to toiletries, crockery, agricultural machinery, ammunition and alcoholic drinks, toys and jewellery. 'Treacher’s, a multistory emporium in Bombay, offered a plethora of products ranging from drugs, wine, and electromedical instruments to silver tea sets and rocking horses. Many goods were imported, but some local craftsmen had mastered traditional European forms for objects including furniture and silver' (Cleveland Museum of Art, on a photo of the interior).
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