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  1. First deluxe limited edition. 4to, 210 pp., 100 colour illustrations, original cream cloth gilt, decorated in blue, red, and gilt, bevelled boards, top edge gilt, small mark to uper cover, a very good copy.

    £850
  2. First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; numerous photogravure illustrations, including frontispieces, captioned tissue guards, folding map in volume II; publisher's blue cloth, richly gilt, slight offsetting to endpapers, top edge gilt, with original blue linen dustjackets, slightly marked, housed in original blue linen slipcase, a very good set.

    £375
  3. Third edition. 3 vols, 8vo, 28 wood-engraved plates, near contemporary polished calf gilt, covers with double gilt fillets, spines in six compartments, green and tan labels in second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, marbled edges, a fine set.

    £1,250
  4. First edition, 8vo; with initial and final blanks, neat repair to blank upper margin of title, modern half morocco, gilt morocco spine label, a very good copy.

    £2,000
  5. First edition. 2 parts in 1 vol., large landscape folio (43.3 x 52.6 cm), additional stipple-engraved frontispiece 'taken from the pediment of the portico to the East-India-House' by James Godby after E. Orme, letter-press title, hand-coloured stipple-engraved group portrait of 'The Native Judges and Officers of the Court of the Recorder, Bombay'; engraved title (24 Views in Hindostan Drawn by William Orme from the Original Paintings by Mr. Daniell), 24 hand-coloured aquatint views by J.C. Stadler, H. Merke, J. B. Harraden and others after F. S. Ward, T. and W. Daniell and others; HUNTER (JAMES) Picturesque Scenery from the Kingdom of Mysore letter-press title, hand-coloured stipple-engraved portrait of Tippoo Sultan, 40 hand-coloured aquatint views by H. Merke, J. C. Stadler, J. B. Harraden and others after Hunter, [watermarks 1801-1802], light off-setting, some spotting to first leaves and to some internal margins, contemporary red morocco gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, a very handsome example.

    £25,000
  6. First edition. 8vo, xxii, 342 pp., frontispiece and numerous illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, light foxing to title and occasionally elsewhere, a very good copy.

    £250
  7. First edition. Folio. Inscribed presentation copy. Tinted lithograph title with portrait of General Napier, his printed signature and printed text and 10 hand-coloured lithograph views by Haghe after Edwards, heightened with gum arabic, mounted on card as issued (sheets size: 45 x 55.5 cm.; image size: c.27.5 x 38 cm.), leaf of text printed in blue with dedication to Napier and description of the plates. Loose as issued in original red morocco-backed ochre board portfolio, gilt title and large vignette to upper board, yellow paper pastedowns and brown cloth ties.

    £18,000
  8. Small 4to (20.5 x 16 cm), [vi], 56 pp., initial blank, title with woodcut of Coryate on an elephant, 5 other large woodcut illustrations including 2 duplicates of the elephant and one of a unicorn, woodcut initials and ornaments, lightly browned, contemporary calf, covers with diamond formation and central decoration in gilt, a little worn, rebacked, new red morocco label, a very good copy.

    £2,250
  9. First volume only [all published]; 8vo; 6 folding maps and plans at rear, plan of Calcutta is a little frayed along fore-edge, some minor toning; twentieth century half maroon morocco over red cloth boards by Henderson and Bassett, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, overall a very good copy.

    £675
  10. First edition. Small 8vo, x, 214 pp., four pages ads dated May 1852 at end, frontispiece map, original red printed boards lettered in black, rebacked red calf, a very good copy.

    £480
 

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