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The View of Hindoostan - Thomas  Pennant - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798)

The View of Hindoostan

THOMAS PENNANT, The View of Hindoostan: Western Hindoostan, London: Henry Hughs, 1798

(Set of 2 Volumes bound in 1)
Volume I: Western Hindoostan, frontis present, [2], [1], (ii-v), [11], [1], 2-263 pp, [1], [9] index, [1], 1 map (folding), 8 plates, 1 vignette
Volume II: Eastern Hindoostan, frontis present, [10], [1], 2-374 pp, [13] index, 13 plates, 1 vignette
Contemporary full diced leather boards, hardcover binding, title in gilt on spine
32.5 x 26 x 3.3 cm

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William Jones: Complete Set of Works - William Jones and Lord Teignmouth - Antiquarian Books Auction
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William Jones: Complete Set of Works

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WILLIAM JONES, The Works of Sir William Jones in Six Volumes, London: G G and J Robinson, 1799-1801

Volume I: Discourses, xv; 558 pages; frontispiece and plates
Volume II: Plants of India, Grammar of the Persian language, Poeseos Asiaticae, 656 pages and plates
Volume III: Charges to grand jury at Calcutta, Institutes of Hindu law, Mahomedan Law, 592 pages and plates
Volume IV: Speeches of Isaeus in law to property at Athens, 613 pages and plates
Volume V: L'histoire de Nader Chah, xxxviii; 610 pages
Volume VI: Hitopadesa of Vishnusarmen, 730 pages, table of contents
Featuring 59 engraved plates, and various illustrations throughout the text.
Original leather binding with black labels
30.5 x 20.5 x 5 cm (each)

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Monuments Anciens et Modernes de l'Hindoustan - Louis-Mathieu  Langles - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Louis-Mathieu Langles (1763 - 1824)

Monuments Anciens et Modernes de l'Hindoustan

LOUIS-MATHIEU LANGLES, Monuments Anciens et Modernes de l'Hindoustan: Decrits sous le double rapport archaeologique et pittoresque, et precedes d'une notice geographique, d'une notice historique, et d'un discours sur la religion, la legislation et les moeurs des hindou, Paris: P Didot, 1821

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Half-titles in each volume, folding table in Volume I, Atlas, engraved title with a large vignette after Henry Salt, 3 engraved maps hand-coloured in outline in Volume I
4 pages errata and 2 pages list of plates in rear of Volume II
143 engraved plates in all (12 hand-coloured in volume I including 24 plates after Thomas Daniell)
Quarter leather-bound with green cloth boards and gilt text at the spine.br.44 x 31 x 5.5 cm (each)

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An Historical Account of The Rise and Progress of The Bengal Native Infantry - Captain John Williams - Antiquarian Books Auction
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An Historical Account of The Rise and Progress of The Bengal Native Infantry

CAPTAIN JOHN WILLIAMS, An Historical Account of The Rise and Progress of The Bengal Native Infantry: From its first formation in 1757 to 1796 when the present regulations took place. Together with a detail of the Services on which the several battalions have been employed during that period. By the late Captain Williams, of the invalid establishment of the Bengal army, London: John Murray, 1817

387 pages including hand-coloured frontispiece and three hand-coloured plates of uniforms
Original brown half leather bound with marbled boards and leather corners, leather spine with gilt titles on a black plate
24 x 14 x 2.5 cm

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My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9 - William Howard Russell - Antiquarian Books Auction
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William Howard Russell (1820 - 1907)

My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9

WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL, My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: xiii; 408 pages including 1 black and white map and 5 tinted lithographs
Volume II: xi; 420 pages including 6 tinted lithographs
Original stamped publisher's cloth with fresh spines
20 x 13 x 3 cm (each)

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The History of Indian Mutiny - Charles  Ball - Antiquarian Books Auction
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The History of Indian Mutiny

CHARLES BALL, The History of Indian Mutiny: Giving a detailed account of the sepoy insurrection in India, and a concise history of the great military events which have tended to consolidate the British Empire in Hindostan, London: The London Printing and Publishing Company- Limited, 1858

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: vii; 648 pages including 1 black and white engraved frontispiece; 1 black and white engraved vignette title; 1 colour map; 45 black and white engraved plates; 1 plate after page 271 is missing
Volume II: viii + 664 pages including 1 black and white engraved frontispiece; 1 black and white engraved vignette title; 30 black and white engraved plates
Half leather bound with cloth covers
28 x 20 x 4.5 cm (each)

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The Indian Mutiny of 1857 - Colonel G B Malleson - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Colonel G B Malleson (1825 - 1898)

The Indian Mutiny of 1857

COL. G B MALLESON, The Indian Mutiny of 1857, London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1906

xiv; [2] blank; 421 pages including 1 black and white frontispiece; 3 black and white portraits; 3 black and white plans and sketch
Beautifully bound in full leather
19.1 x 14 x 3.8 cm

Rare Fore-Edge Painting of Taj Mahal

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Books on the Mutiny (Set of 7) - Sir Colin Campbell, J W Shepherd,  Colonel G B Malleson et al - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Books on the Mutiny (Set of 7)

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SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, Narrative of Indian Revolt from Its Outbreak to the Capture of Lucknow, London: George Vickers, 1858

iv; 452 Pages; many full-page plates; 1 folding map with plates after Soltykoff. Illustrated with nearly 200 engravings from authentic sketches
Recently rebound in marbled boards
27 x 19.5 x 3 cm

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Books on Military Costumes (Set of 4) - Richard Simkin, John Charlton, Major A C Lovett and Major G F MacMunn - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Books on Military Costumes (Set of 4)

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MAJOR A C LOVETT AND MAJOR G F MACMUNN DSO eds., The Armies of India, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911

Vellum-effect cream cloth with blind patterning and gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt
242 including 72 tipped colour plates painted by Major A C Lovett
27.5 x 22 x 5 cm

Deluxe edition limited to 500 copies, numbered 12/500. Signed by A C Lovett.

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A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun - Alexander  Beatson - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Alexander Beatson (1758 - 1830)

A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun

ALEXANDER BEATSON, A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun: Comprising a Narrative of the Operations of the Army under the command of Lieutenant General George Harris, and of the Siege of Seringapatam, London: G and W Nicol, 1800

xxiii, [1], 265, [1], clxxii pages with 6 plates including copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Tippoo Sultan; 3 folding copper-engraved maps and plans (1 of them hand-coloured); folding copper-engraved order of battle of the British troops; folding aquatint view of Seringapatam; 2 folding printed table
Contemporary leather bound with gilt title on the front board and at the spine
30 x 24 x 4 cm

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Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow - Lieutenant Clifford Henry Mecham - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow

LIEUTENANT CLIFFORD HENRY MECHAM, Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow: From Drawings made during the Siege by Clifford Henry Mecham with Descriptive Notices by George Couper, Esq. late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude, London: Day and Son, 1858

[12] pages; tinted lithographed title page with vignette and 26 fine tinted lithographed views on 17 plates, with tissue new guards
Publisher's dark brown cloth-covered boards, tooled in blind and title embossed in gilt on the boards with fresh spine
57 x 38.5 x 1.2 cm

Author's presentation copy.

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Memoirs of the Operations of the British Army in India - Lieutenant Colonel Valentine Blacker - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Memoirs of the Operations of the British Army in India

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL VALENTINE BLACKER, Memoirs of the Operations of the British Army in India: During the Mahratta War of 1817, 1818, & 1819, London: Black, Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1821

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: 1 folding black and white aquatint frontispiece engraved by W Daniell; title page; xxxiii; [3] blank; 494 pages including 6 folding tables
Half leather-bound with marbled boards and gilt text at the spine with 5 raised bands
28 x 22.5 x 3.5 cm

Volume II: 1 folding black and white aquatint frontispiece engraved by W Daniell; title page; iv; 8 engraved double-page maps; 37 partially hand-coloured engraved plans
Half leather-bound with marbled boards and gilt text at the spine with 5 raised bands
28 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm

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The Campaign in India. 1857-58 - Captain George Francklin Atkinson - Antiquarian Books Auction
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The Campaign in India. 1857-58

CAPTAIN GEORGE FRANCKLIN ATKINSON, The Campaign in India. 1857-58: From drawings made during the eventful period of the great mutiny, illustrating the military operations before Delhi and its neighbourhood with descriptive letterpress, London: Day & Son. Lithographers to The Queen, 1859

42 pages including 1 tinted lithograph title plate and 25 tinted lithographs, including 6 plates with two scenes, each with descriptive letterpress
Original red clothbound with elaborate gilt text and illustration on the front cover
57.5 x 38 x 2 cm

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Eighteen Views Taken at And Near Rangoon (Views...In the Birman Empire) - Joseph Moore and Frederick Marryat - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Eighteen Views Taken at And Near Rangoon (Views...In the Birman Empire)

JOSEPH MOORE AND FREDERICK MARRYAT, Eighteen Views Taken at And Near Rangoon: Views...In the Birman Empire, London: Thomas Clay, 1825-26

Engraved allegorical title incorporating the dedication leaf to the directors of the East India Company, 6 lithograph list of subscribers in India and England, with large mezzotint vignette by J Bromley after T Stothard, 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates (first series G Hunt after Moore, second series by H Pyall after Thornton and Marryat)
Dark half brown Morocco, over marbled boards, gilt and green title label to upper board, marbled endpapers and one edge gilt.
53 x 39 x 1.2 cm

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Plans and Views Illustrating the Journals of the Sieges of Madras Army in India - Edward  Lake - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Plans and Views Illustrating the Journals of the Sieges of Madras Army in India

EDWARD LAKE, Plans and Views Illustrating the Journals of the Sieges of Madras Army in India, in the Years 1817, 1818 and 1819, London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, 1825

iv; 22 plates (4 folding) including views and battle plans
Newly rebound in half calf with marbled boards
30.4 x 24.3 x 1.5 cm

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A History of Sepoy War in India. 1857-1858 - Sir John William Kaye - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sir John William Kaye (1814 - 1876)

A History of Sepoy War in India. 1857-1858

JOHN WILLIAM KAYE, A History of Sepoy War in India. 1857-1858, London: W H Allen & Co., 1865-1876

(Set of 3 Volumes)
Volume I (1865): xiv; 656 pages
Volume II (1870): xvi; 686 including 3 folding maps
Volume III (1876): xiv; 1 errata page; 684 including 3 folding maps
Half leather bound with leather corners, decorative gilt spine with 5 raised bands and gilt title on a black plate along with marbled edges
22 x 15 x 5 cm (each)

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Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal - Edward Tuite Dalton - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Edward Tuite Dalton (1815 - 1880)

Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal

EDWARD TUITE DALTON, Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1872

vi; 12 index pages; 327 pages. Illustrated by lithograph portraits copied from photographs by Tosco Peppe and W Simpson. Single frontispiece (MISSING) and 37 lithographed portraits
Contemporary leather-bound with gilt text on the front board and spine with 5 raised bands
35.5 x 26.5 x 5.5 cm

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Twenty-four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal - Sophie Charlotte Belnos - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sophie Charlotte Belnos (1795 - 1865)

Twenty-four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal

SOPHIE CHARLOTTE BELNOS, Twenty-four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal: Drawn on the stone by A. Colin from sketches by Mrs Belnos, London: Smith & Elder Cornhill, 1832

Lithographed hand-coloured title page, 21 of 24 (3 missing) hand-coloured lithographs after Mrs Belnos by A Colin and J J Belnos. Leaf of descriptive text to each plate, recto in French, verso in English.
Descriptive text in French and English missing for plates 1,2,3 and 9. Descriptive text in French missing for plates 4, 19, 20 and 22
Original pictorial boards
47.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm

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Indian Jewelry - Thomas Holbein Hendley - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Thomas Holbein Hendley (1847 - 1917)

Indian Jewelry

THOMAS HOLBEIN HENDLEY, Indian Jewelry, London: The Journal of Indian Art, 1909

[6], 189, [2], iv pages with 167 plates of which 32 are in colour, some heightened in gilt, the others mostly photographic, 135 in monochrome
Original leather-backed boards
37.5 x 28 x 2.6 cm

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Europeans in India - Thomas Williamson and  Francis William Blagdon - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Europeans in India

F W BLAGDON AND CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLIAMSON; RESPECTIVELY. ARTIST: CHARLES DOYLEY, Europeans in India: From a Collection of Drawings, by Charles D'Oyly, London: Edward Orme, 1813

xviii; 188 pages including 20 fine colour aquatint plates, each accompanied by descriptive letterpress (mostly on two leaves)
Contemporary blue straight-grained Morocco binding with gilt decoration on the front and blackboards along with gilt edges and spine of raised bands
29 x 23.6 x 2.5 cm

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