Bourne & Shepherd's Royal Photographic Album of Scenes and Personages
SAMUEL BOURNE and CHARLES SHEPHERD, Bourne & Shepherd's Royal Photographic Album of Scenes and Personages: Connected with the Progress of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales, through Bengal, the North-West Provinces, the Punjab and Nepal with some descriptive letterpress , Calcutta, Bombay and Simla: Bourne and Shepherd, 1876 79 pages of descriptive text for the Photos; 140 photos plus frontispiece (141) by Colin Murray depicting rulers, military costumes, ethnic, maharajas, shikar etc.br.Original blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt text on the front board and all edges gilt 37.6 x 29 x 4.2 cm
14.75 x 11.5 in
(37.6 x 29 cm)
Estimate
Rs 6,00,000 - 7,00,000
$8,575 - 10,000
Winning bid
Rs 13,92,720 |
$19,896
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
Views of Calcutta Environs
SIR CHARLES D'OYLY, Views of Calcutta Environs , London: Dickinson & Co, 1848 26 lithographs including 1 lithograph title page; 23 lithograph plates and 2 plates with 2 illustrations in each Later dark brown leather-bound with gilt border on the front and back covers 68 x 48 x 2.5 cm
26.75 x 19 in
(68 x 48 cm)
Estimate
Rs 9,00,000 - 11,00,000
$12,860 - 15,715
Winning bid
Rs 9,33,240 |
$13,332
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A Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges And Jumna in India
LIEUTENANT COLONEL CHARLES RAMUS FORREST, A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India: Consisting of twenty-four highly finished and coloured views, a map, and vignettes, from original drawings made on the spot; with illustrations, historical and descriptive by Lieutenant-Colonel Forrest, late on the staff of His Majesty's service in Bengal , London: R Ackermann, 1824 iv; title page with hand-coloured aquatint vignette on title; folding engraved map, 192 pages including 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Thomas Sutherland and G Hunt after Forrest (plate no.3 is a photocopy); hand-coloured aquatint vignette at end of the text Contemporary leather bound with blind-tooled floral pattern at the front and back boards along with gilt title on the front board and at the spine with 5 raised bands 37 x 30 x 4 cm
14.5 x 11.75 in
(37 x 30 cm)
Estimate
Rs 7,00,000 - 9,00,000
$10,000 - 12,860
Winning bid
Rs 8,40,000 |
$12,000
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Des Prinzen Waldemar Von Preussen Nach Indien
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, Des Prinzen Waldemar Von Preussen Nach Indien , Berlin: Deckerschen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei, 1853 (4 parts in 2 volumes) Large folio; tinted lithographed portrait of Waldemar; 2 pictorial tinted lithographed additional titles by Bellermann after Kretzschmer after Prince Waldemar; 4 divisional half-titles; 9 hand-coloured engraved maps and plans on 6 sheets and 104 fine tinted lithographed plates by Bellermann and others. A. Haun and others after sketches and drawings by Prince Waldemar and others (one double-page). Original brown cloth by Leisegang of Berlin, upper covers decorated in gilt with large Prussian eagle and lettered in gilt 59 x 45 x 4 cm (each)
23.25 x 17.75 in
(59 x 45 cm)
Estimate
Rs 8,00,000 - 10,00,000
$11,430 - 14,290
Winning bid
Rs 9,60,000 |
$13,714
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)