ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS: IN PURSUIT OF THE PICTURESQUE (4-5 MAY 2022)

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Lot 10

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Anonymous The Indian Charivari Anonymous, The Indian Charivari [Volume I], Calcutta: [publisher not identified], 7, D' Acres Lane, 1875 378 pages illustrated with 84 of 91 full-page hand-coloured lithographic portrait plates [5-10, 26 missing] with accompanying text on facing leaf related to caricatures of British life in India; cloth boards with gilt title to the spine 30.5 x 25 x 2.5 cm 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 40,000 - 60,000 $535 - 800 Details	Winning bid Rs 31,500 \| $420 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 12

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Henry Thoby Prinsep (1793 - 1878) A Narrative of the Political and Military Transactions of British India : Under the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1813 to 1818 Henry T Prinsep, A Narrative of the Political and Military Transactions of British India: Under the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1813 to 1818, London: John Murray, 1820, 1st edition xxvi and 468 pages, portrait frontispiece; large engraved folding map; 9 engraved plates with tissue guards; full leather bound, spine lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,00,000 - 2,00,000 $1,335 - 2,670 Details	Winning bid Rs 95,400 \| $1,272 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 17

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Henry Richard Vizetelly (1820 - 1894) The Illustrated Times, Volume V, from July to December, 1857 Henry Richard Vizetelly, The Illustrated Times, Volume V. From July to December 1857: Containing many hundred engravings of the chief events of the day, London: George C Leighton, 1857 448 pages (issues numbered consecutively) with lovely black and white frontispieces and illustrations throughout; hardbound beige cloth with a magnificent gilt stamped illustration and pictorial gilt spine, gilt stamped decorative corners at the back boards. 39 x 27.5 x 3 cm 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,00,000 - 1,50,000 $1,335 - 2,000 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,35,900 \| $1,812 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 19

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Captain Oliver J Jones Recollections of a Winter Campaign in India: in 1857-58, with drawings on Stone from the Author’s Designs Captain Oliver J Jones, Recollections of a Winter Campaign in India: in 1857-58, with drawings on Stone from the Author’s Designs, London: Saunders and Otley, 1859 xiv, [ii], 213, [1] pages; lithographed portrait frontispiece and 14 plates, 2 maps; leather bound with gilt text to the spine 24.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 30,000 - 50,000 $400 - 670 Details	Winning bid Rs 18,900 \| $252 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 42

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Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Sleeman (1788 - 1856) Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Lieutenant Colonel W.H. Sleeman, Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1844 Volume I: xii and 478 pages including 1 colour chromolithographic frontispiece, 6 colour chromolithographic plates at the end Volume II: x and 459 pages including 1 chromolithographic frontispiece, 24 colour chromolithographic plates covered with tissue guards Publisher's fine-ribbed red cloth, blocked in gilt on front with rule border, elaborate tracery pattern enclosing circular medallion with seated figure, similarly in blind on back with circular tracery design in gilt instead of the medallion. Spine lettered in gilt within elaborate vignette architectural design in gilt (each) 24.6 x 18 x 3.7 cm (each) 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,00,000 - 1,50,000 $1,335 - 2,000 Details	Winning bid Rs 95,400 \| $1,272 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 20

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Charles Ball The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India (7 Volumes) Charles Ball, The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India, London: London Printing and Publishing Company, circa 1875 82 later hand-colured engravings; publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped red cloth (each) 28 x 20 x 4.5 cm (each) 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 75,000 - 1,00,000 $1,000 - 1,335 Details	Winning bid Rs 73,800 \| $984 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 21

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E H Nolan The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East: The Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859 E H Nolan, The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East: The Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859, London: James S Virtue, circa 1880 Red cloth bindings with elaborate gilt decoration on the spines and gilt vignettes on the fronts, blind embossed decoration on the boards, yellow endpapers 26 x 18 x 12 cm (each) 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 75,000 - 1,00,000 $1,000 - 1,335 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,18,800 \| $1,584 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 27

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Louis Rousselet (1845 - 1929) India and its Native Princes: Travels in Central India and in the residencies of Bombay and Bengal Louis Rousselet, India and its Native Princes: Travels in Central India and in the Residencies of Bombay and Bengal, London: Chapman and Hall, 1876 xviii and 579 numbered pages including 1 full-page later hand-colored engraved frontispiece, 12 later hand-colored black and white full-page engraved plates, 217 later hand-colored black and white plates, 6 black and white maps; original, ornamental red leather cover, intricately blind, gilt debossed, front cover with decorative gilt pattern at the spine with 5 raised bands 35.5 x 29.5 x 5.5 cm 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,00,000 - 1,50,000 $1,335 - 2,000 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,35,900 \| $1,812 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 66

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Emily Eden (1797 - 1869) Flowers from an Indian Garden: Hope Emily Eden, Flowers from an Indian Garden: Love, Dusseldorf: L Baumann & Co., 1846 [?] Tinted title page, 12 chromolithographic botanical plates: preface printed in gold with botanical border. Each with text leaf printed in gold; original moulded cloth boards with raised gilt tooling, watermarked silk endpapers, all edges gilt 37.5 x 29 x 1 cm 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,00,000 - 2,00,000 $1,335 - 2,670 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,22,400 \| $1,632 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 68

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Thomas C Jerdon (1811 - 1872) The Birds of India being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India (3 Volumes) Thomas C Jerdon, The Birds of India being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India: with Descriptions of the species, genera, families, tribes and orders, and a brief notice of such families as are not found in India, making it a Manual of Ornithology specially adapted for India, 1863-70 In 3 Volumes Volume I: 1870, half title, [18], [1], (ii-xlv), [1], [1], 2-535 pages; Cherrapoonjee: Printed by Griffith Hughes Volume II: part 1, 1863, half title, [8], [1], 2-439 pages; Calcutta: Printed for the author by the Military Orphan Press Volume III: [part 2], 1864, [7], [1], (ii-iv), [3], [1], [1], 442-876 pages, [1], (ii-xxx11); Calcutta: George Wyman and Co., Publishers Half leather bound with cloth boards, gilt title to the spine with 5 raised bands (each) 22 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm (each) 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 75,000 - 1,00,000 $1,000 - 1,335 Details	Winning bid Rs 90,000 \| $1,200 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 84

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Marianne Postans Western India in 1838 (2 Volumes) Marianne Postans, Western India in 1838. By Mrs. Postans, Author of “Cutch.” In Two Volumes, London: Saunders and Otley, 1839 In 2 Volumes Volume I: viii, frontispiece and 303 pages including 3 colour lithographs by W Walton after Captain Hart Volume II: frontispiece and 295 pages including a tinted lithograph and colour lithograph by W Walton after Lieutenant Postans Green clothbound with blind and gilt picture of a soldier with a camel (front and back), gilt embossed on the spine (each) 20.5 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm (each) 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 75,000 - 1,00,000 $1,000 - 1,335 Details	Winning bid Rs 82,800 \| $1,104 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 85

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Thomas Postans Personal observations on Sindh Thomas Postans, Personal Observations on Sindh; The Manners and Customs of its Inhabitants; and its Productive Capabilities: with a sketch of its history, a narrative of recent events, and an account of the connection of the British government with that country to the present period ..., London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 xv, [1], and 402 pages; with hand-coloured frontispiece, folding lithograph ‘Map of Sindh’ and 13 woodcut illustrations within text; full leather bound with spine lettered in gilt and 5 raised bands, marbled edges 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 60,000 - 1,00,000 $800 - 1,335 Details	Winning bid Rs 55,800 \| $744 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 98

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Lieutenant Colonel James Alexander Fullerton Views in the Himalaya and Neilgherry Hills, from drawings by Lieut.-Colonel Fullerton, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers. Taken during the years 1845-46-47 Lieutenant Colonel James Alexander Fullerton, Views in the Himalaya and Neilgherry Hills, from drawings by Lieut.-Colonel Fullerton, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers. Taken during the years 1845-46-47, [London: Dickinson & Co., Circa. 1848] [28] pages, 24 tinted lithographic plates with descriptive text, folding lithographic map, and list of subscribers; original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt 19.2 x 27.5 x 1 cm 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,00,000 - 1,50,000 $1,335 - 2,000 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,07,100 \| $1,428 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

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