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
13.75 x 11.5 in
(35 x 29 cm)
Estimate
Rs 1,25,000 - 1,75,000
$1,790 - 2,500
Winning bid
Rs 1,50,000 |
$2,143
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
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
22.5 x 15 in
(57 x 38 cm)
Estimate
Rs 2,50,000 - 3,00,000
$3,575 - 4,290
Winning bid
Rs 3,00,000 |
$4,286
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
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)
11 x 8.75 in
(28 x 22 cm)
Estimate
Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000
$2,145 - 2,860
Winning bid
Rs 1,80,000 |
$2,571
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
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)
13 x 8.25 in
(33 x 21 cm)
Estimate
Rs 1,80,000 - 2,50,000
$2,575 - 3,575
Winning bid
Rs 2,58,000 |
$3,686
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
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
10.5 x 6.75 in
(26.5 x 17.2 cm)
Estimate
Rs 1,80,000 - 2,50,000
$2,575 - 3,575
Winning bid
Rs 2,16,000 |
$3,086
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
Books on Delhi (Set of two)
a) 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
9 x 6 in
(23 x 15 cm)
Estimate
Rs 35,000 - 50,000
$500 - 715
Winning bid
Rs 2,41,800 |
$3,454
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
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)
8.75 x 6 in
(22 x 15 cm)
Estimate
Rs 1,00,000 - 1,25,000
$1,430 - 1,790
Winning bid
Rs 1,70,400 |
$2,434
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
Books on Maps of India (Set of 2)
a) 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
23.25 x 14 in
(59 x 35.5 cm)
Estimate
Rs 1,00,000 - 1,25,000
$1,430 - 1,790
Winning bid
Rs 2,40,000 |
$3,429
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
(Set of 12)
a) 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)
0.5 x 0.5 in
(1 x 1 cm)
Estimate
Rs 1,25,000 - 1,75,000
$1,790 - 2,500
Winning bid
Rs 2,55,360 |
$3,648
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)