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A DISTANT VIEW OF INDIA: BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 17TH TO 20TH CENTURY (6-7 AUGUST 2025)

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Asiatic Costumes; A Series of Forty-Four Coloured Engravings, from designs taken from Life: With a description to each subject - Captain Robert Smith - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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Captain Robert Smith (1787 - 1853)

Asiatic Costumes; A Series of Forty-Four Coloured Engravings, from designs taken from Life: With a description to each subject

 Captain Robert Smith, Asiatic Costumes; A Series of Forty-Four Coloured Engravings, from designs taken from Life: With a description to each subject, London: R Ackermann, 1828

[iv] and 88 pages; 44 fine later hand-coloured engraved plates; finely rebound in early 20th-century half brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, corners neatly capped in matching calf. Spine with simple gilt lettering in the second compartment. Marbled endpapers, with the armorial bookplate of noted collector J. R. Abbey to the front pastedown. Housed in a modern bespoke slipcase in quarter brown morocco and yellow-grey marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered to the spine with decorative fleurons and double gilt fillets.
7.25 x 4.25 x 1 in (18.5 x 11 x 3 cm)

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