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• A description of the port and island of Bombay : and an historical account of the transactions between the English and Portugueze concerning it, from the year 1661, to this present time. ([publisher not identified], 1724) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A description of the port and island of Bombay : and an historical account of the transactions between the English and Portugueze concerning it, from the year 1661, to this present time. ([publisher not identified], 1724) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Bombay in the days of George IV. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1907), by F. Dawtrey Drewitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of the Bombay Presidency. (J. Murray, 1881), by John Murray (Firm) and Edward Backhouse Eastwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gazetteer of Bombay city and island. (Printed at the Times press, 1909), by S. M. Edwardes, James MacNabb Campbell, and Bombay (India : State) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Presidency of Bombay, 1928-1929 (Atlas Pub. Co., 1928) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gazetteer of Bombay City and Island. (Gazetteer Dept., Govt. of Maharashtra], 1977), by Bombay (India : State) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Census of the city of Bombay, taken 21st February 1872. ([Bombay] : [publisher not identified], [1873], 1873), by Bombay (Presidency) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay (1841), by Emma Roberts (Gutenberg text)
• Sul limitare dell'India; ricordi di un viaggio a Bombay. (Casa editrice nazionale Roux e Viarengo, 1902), by Alfonso Lomonaco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ugheworutʻiwn i Pompēy Hndkatsʻ (S. Ghazar, 1887), by Hakobos Isavertentsʻ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bombay, past and present : a souvenir of the thirteenth meeting of the Indian Science Congress, held at Bombay in January 1926. (Times Press, 1926), by India) Indian Science Congress (13th : 1926 : Bombay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Municipal retrenchment and reform; preliminary report. (Times Press, 1924), by M. Visvesvaraya and Bombay (India) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Night in Bombay (c1940), by Louis Bromfield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Provincial series: Bombay presidency ... (Superintendent of government printing, 1909), by S. M. Edwardes and R. E. Enthoven (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Book of Bombay (Bombay: Printed at the Bombay Gazette Steam Press, 1883), by James Douglas (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Rise of Bombay: A Retrospect (reprinted from volume X of the "Census of India" series; Mumbai: Printed at the "Times of India" Press, 1902), by S. M. Edwardes
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Shells from the sands of Bombay; being my recollections and reminiscences, 1860-1875. ([K. T. Anklesaria], 1920), by Dinshaw Edulji Wacha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short sketch of the early history of the town and island of Bombay, Hindu period. (Times of India Press, 1902), by Purushottam Balkrishna Joshi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Book of Bombay, from A.D. 1661. (Bombay Gazette Office, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of Bombay. (Printed at the Bombay Gazette Steam Press, 1883), by James Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of the states of the Southern Maratha country (Printed for Govt. at the Education Society's Press, 1869), by Edward William West (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of Bombay (Society's library, 1900), by J. Gerson da Cunha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bombay in the making : some press notices & private opinions. (Sunderrao Krishnarao, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A description of the port and island of Bombay : and an historical account of the transactions between the English and Portugueze concerning it, from the year 1661, to this present time. ([publisher not identified], 1724) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Selections from the letters, despatches, and other state papers preserved in Bombay Secretariat: home series. (Government Central Press, 1887), by George Forrest and Bombay (India : State). Secretariat (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bombay civic journal. (Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay., 1954), by Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay (page images at HathiTrust)

• A biographical sketch of Sardar Mir Abdul Ali ... head of the detective police, Bombay. With an account of interesting criminal cases. ([B.E.S. Press], 1896), by Navarojī Manekjī Dumāsia (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rise and growth of Bombay municipal government. (G. A. Natesan & co., 1913), by Dinsha Edulji Wacha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and public service of Dr. Nadirshaw H.E. Sukhia ... ([S.H. Jhabvala], 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some unpublished & later speeches & writings (Commercial Press, 1918), by Pherozeshah Mehta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Bombay calendar and almanac. (Times Press., in the 1st century) (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the drainage and sewerage of Bombay, written at the request of the Bombay municipal corporation. (W. Clowes, 1896), by Harry Arbuthnot Acworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Feeding the City: Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2013), by Sara Roncaglia
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
• Workers and unions in Bombay, 1918-1929 : a study of organisation in the cotton mills (South Asian History Section, Australian National University, 1981), by Richard Newman (page images at HathiTrust)

• By-Ways of Bombay, by S. M. Edwardes (Gutenberg text)
• A Book of Bombay (Bombay: Printed at the Bombay Gazette Steam Press, 1883), by James Douglas (page images at Google; US access only)
• Bombay : an island city. ([National Board, Young Women's Christian Association], 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of a map of Hindoostan (London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author; and sold by G. Nicol, ... and W. Richardson ..., MDCCXCII [1792]., 1792), by James Rennell, William Richardson, G. Nicol, and William Bulmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangeres. (Chez J. Merigot le jeune, libraire, quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Pavée., 1780), by Jean-Gabriel Mérigot, Nicolas Maréchal, Louis Patouillet, J.-B. Du Halde, Charles Le Gobien, and Yves Mathurin Marie Tréaudet de Querbeuf (page images at HathiTrust)

• A faithful narrative of the capture of the ship Derby : (belonging to the honourable the East India Company, Abraham Anselm commander) by Angria the pirate, on the coast of Mallabar, December 26. 1735 ; with several affidavits, letters, &c. relating to the captain's conduct, before, in, and after the engagement ; also, a particular account of the force of Angria, both by land and sea ... the whole extracted from memoirs under Captain Anselm's own hand, and other papers. (printed and sold by S. Osborn, 1738), by Abraham Anselm (page images at HathiTrust)

• Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, geographiques, chronologiques et physiques : tirées des anciens livres chinois ou faites nouvellement aux Indes et a la Chine (Chez Rollin libraire ..., 1729), by Antoine Gaubil, E. Souciet, and Jesuits (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colloquios dos simples e drogas e cousas medicinaes da India : e assi de algumas fructas achadas nella (Varias cultivadas hoje no Brazil) compostos pelo doutor Garcia de Orta ... (Na Imprensa Nacional, 1872), by Garcia de Orta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dve libri dell'historia de i semplici, aromati, et altre cose. (Francesco Ziletti, 1582), by Garcia de Orta, Nicolás Monardes, Carolus Clusius, and Annibale Briganti (page images at HathiTrust)

• Buddhist records of the western world (Routledge, 2000), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang and Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Pilgrimage of Fa Hian: From the French Edition of the Fou Koue Ki of MM. Remusat, Klaproth and Landresse, With Additional Notes and Illustrations (Kolkata: Printed by J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, 1848), by Faxian, contrib. by Abel Rémusat, Julius von Klaproth, and C. Landresse
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, by Faxian, trans. by James Legge
  • Gutenberg text
  • PDF at buddhanet.net
• Voyages des pèlerins bouddhistes. (E. Leroux, 1894), by Yijing and Edouard Chavannes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Record of the Buddhistic kingdoms / translated from the Chinese by Herbert A. Giles. (Trübner, 1900), by Faxian and Herbert Allen Giles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an account by the Chinese monk Fâ-hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline, by Faxian, trans. by James Legge (Gutenberg ebook)

• Suhṛllekha; Brief des Nāgārjuna an König Üdayana. (Druck von Ġ. Kreysing, 1886), by Siddha Nagarjuna, H. Wenzel, and Heinrich Wenzel (page images at HathiTrust)

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