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

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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 18

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Lieutenant C W Crump A Pictorial Record of the Cawnpore Massacre a) Lieutenant C W Crump, A Pictorial Record of the Cawnpore Massacre, London: Henry Graves and Company, 8 February 1858 3 tinted lithographs by Vincent Brooks after Lieutenant C W Crump; rebound in half leather bound with gilt leather title ticket pasted on the front marbled board 54.5 x 38.2 x 1 cm 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000 $2,000 - 2,670 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,53,000 \| $2,040 (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 72

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Allan Hume (1829 - 1912) The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon (3 Volumes) Allan Hume, The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Calcutta: A O Hume and C H T Marshall, 1879-1881 (Set of 3 Volumes) Volume I: ii and 279 pages including 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Published in 1879, this volume is dedicated to ducks, swans and geese Volume II: 264 pages including 44 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Published in 1880, this volume is dedicated to snipe, bustards and sand-grouse Volume III: 438 pages including 54 hand-coloured lithographed plates; 4 famous colour egg plates and 6 index pages. Published in 1881, this volume is dedicated to pheasants and bustard-quail In original green boards with gilt-stamped peacock illustrations on front boards of each volume; gilt lettering and ruling on front boards and spines; blind-stamped on rear boards. 26.5 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm (each) 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000 $2,000 - 2,670 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,55,700 \| $2,076 (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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