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Select Views in Mysore - Robert  Home - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Robert Home (1752 - 1834)

Select Views in Mysore

ROBERT HOME, Select Views in Mysore: The country of Tippoo Sultan; from drawings taken on the spot by Mr Home; with historical descriptions, London: Mr Bowyer, 1794

vii; 29 copper-engraved plates by Fittler, Byrne and others after Robert Home; 48 pages with descriptive text for each plate in English and Urdu
Quarter leather binding with marbled boards and gilt title at the spine
35 x 29 x 2.5 cm

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General Views and Special Point of Interest of the City of Lucknow - Lieutenant Colonel D S Dodgson - Antiquarian Books Auction
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General Views and Special Point of Interest of the City of Lucknow

LIEUTENANT COLONEL D S DODGSON, General Views and Special Point of Interest of the City of Lucknow: From drawings Made on the Spot by Lieut Col D S Dodgson, A A C, with descriptive notices, London: Day and Son; Lithographers to the Queen, 1860

34 pages including 29 colour plates in all; 2 pages with 1 drawing; 2 pages with 4 drawings; 4 pages with 2 drawings; 3 pages with 3 drawings
Hardened Buckram in dark brown, with gilt title on the front board
57 x 38 x 1.5 cm

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A Description of Ceylon - James  Cordiner - Antiquarian Books Auction
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James Cordiner (1775 - 1836)

A Description of Ceylon

JAMES CORDINER, A Description of Ceylon: Containing an Account of the Country, Inhabitants, and Natural Productions; with Narratives of a Tour Round the Island in 1800, The Campaign in Candy in 1803, and a Journey to Ramisseram in 1804, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: 1 black and white engraved frontispiece; xii; 445 pages including 19 black and white engravings (2 folding) and 1 black and white map
Volume II: 1 black and white engraved frontispiece; vi; 360 pages including 3 black and white engravings; 2-page advertisements bound at the end
Full leather bound with the original spine
28 x 22 x 4 cm (each)

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A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel - Philippus  Baldaeus - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Philippus Baldaeus (1632 - 1671)

A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel

PHILIP BALDAEUS, A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel: As also of the Life of Ceylon, with all the adjacent Kingdom, London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704

(IIIrd part of IIIrd volume)
338 pages (pp. 563-901) including engraved frontispiece; engraved title page; 78 black and white engraved plates; 20 black and white engraved maps and plans (all but three double-page) and index pages
Contemporary half leather-bound with leather corners, spine with raised bands and red and green Morocco label
33 x 21 x 4 cm (each)

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Lahore to Yarkand - George Henderson and Allan O Hume - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Lahore to Yarkand

GEORGE HENDERSON AND ALLAN O HUME, Lahore to Yarkand: Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition of 1870, under T.D. Forsyth, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1873

xvi; 370 pages; 32 ornithological and 6 botanical hand-coloured lithographed plates; 26 heliotype illustrations on 16 plates; 3 plans (2 in colour)
Contemporary leather bound with leather corners and marbled boards along with the gilt text at the spine with 5 raised bands
26.5 x 17.2 x 4 cm

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Books on Delhi (Set of two) - H C Fanshawe and Fanny Peile - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Books on Delhi (Set of two)

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H C FANSHAWE, Delhi Past and Present, London: John Murray, 1902

xx; 337 pages; frontispiece; illustrated with 49 black and white views of Delhi; 10 black and white plans of Delhi; 1 black and white folding map in the pocket along with a 7-page leaflet
Original blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt title on the front board and on the spine
23 x 15 x 4.5 cm

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Himalayan Journals - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 - 1911)

Himalayan Journals

JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, Himalayan Journals: Or Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, & c., London: John Murray, 1854

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: xxvii; [3]; 408 pages including 4 colour lithographic plates and 45 black and white wood-engraved in-text illustrations along with 2 black and white folded maps at the end
Volume II: xii; 487 pages including 12 coloured lithographic plates; 35 wood-engraved in-text illustrations
Bound in full polished calf, spines with five raised bands, gilt decoration, marbled edges and endpapers
22 x 15 x 4 cm (each)

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Books on Maps of India (Set of 2) - Trelawney  Saunders - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Trelawney Saunders (1808 - 1886)

Books on Maps of India (Set of 2)

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TRELAWNEY SAUNDERS, An Atlas of Twelve Maps of India: Illustrating the Mountains and River Systems; the Irrigation; Civil Divisions, Population and Languages; Railways, Roads, Telegraphs, Post Offices, Ports, etc. Military commands and posts, famines, meteorology; crops; forests, and one-inch surveys. Accompanied by tables and notes, London: Edward Stanford, 1889

377 pages including 12 Maps with tables and notes including one double-page folding map
Original cloth board with fresh spine
59 x 35.5 x 1.5 cm

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(Set of 12) - Joseph Conder, R Montgomery Martin,  Sir Lepel Griffin et al - Antiquarian Books Auction
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(Set of 12)

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JOSEPH CONDER, The Modern Traveller: A Popular Description. Geographical, Historical, and Topographical of the Various Countries of the Globe, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dublin: Printed for James Duncan; Oliver and Boyd, M Ogle and R M Tims, 1828

(Set of 4 Volumes)
Volume I: 359 pages and folded map
Volume II: 372 pages and 3 plates
Volume III: 390 pages and 5 plates
Volume IV: 376 pages and 7 plates
Half leather bound
15 x 9.5 x 3 cm (each)

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