Dear Listers, If you visit www.archive.org, go to 'Texts' and enter the search word Bombay you will get a long list of books spread over several pages. The first 3 or 4 pages contain several rare books about Bombay, such as James Douglas's book on Bombay (2 vols), several books by Edwardes on Bombay Police, Bombay Place-names and Street-names by Sheppard etc. You can browse through and select what interests you. On a given topic this site does not give as many links as books.google.com but what it gives is complete. All books are available in several formats, including .pdf and the downloads are fast. I found the format DiVu very user-friendly for online reading. The books that appear after the first 3 or 4 pages do not seem to have anything to do with Bombay. For example, what would Omar Khayyam be doing here? Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, April 25, 2008.