India rare books

First edition. 26.5 x 18 cm., 8 leaves printed on recto only, original printed wrappers, text and wrappers on thick cream paper, printed in blue with fancy gold borders, 12 original sepia photographs arranged 2 per page with text beneath, original tissue guards, a fine copy well preserved in original captioned envelope (this soiled).

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, an excellent set.

First edition. 8vo, xxii, 342 pp., frontispiece and numerous illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, light foxing to title and occasionally elsewhere, an excellent copy.

Hand-coloured zincograph map, (67 x 103.5 cm), dissected into 24 sheets and mounted on linen, yellow publisher's advertisements at endpapers, folding into original green boards, yellow label; a fine example.

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.

First edition. 8vo (23 x 15cm), 3-184pp., 24 illustrations after photographs (some coloured), signed by Tenzing on front free endpaper, small mark on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in silver; original pictorial dust-wrapper, a little wear to the corners; a very good copy.

First edition. 8vo, xx, 464 pp., 24 pages ads at end, tinted lithograph frontispiece and numerous other illustrations both full-page and in the text, original pictorial green cloth gilt, large pictorial gilt vignette to upper cover, an exceptionally fine example.

First edition, 8vo xvi, 528 pp., 25 illustrations, map, original grey-blue cloth gilt, corners bumped, light wear, a very good copy.

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.

First edition in English. Folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm), [2], 2, [18], 184, 195-264, [2], 214, [8], 119, [3] pp., 24 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 with short split to fold), contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked preserving old red morocco lettering piece, lower outer corner upper board repaired, a very good copy.