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Bourne & Shepherd's Royal Photographic Album of Scenes and Personages - Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd - Antiquarian Books Auction
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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

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Views of Calcutta Environs - Sir Charles  D`Oyly - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sir Charles D`Oyly (1781 - 1845)

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

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A Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges And Jumna in India - Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest - Antiquarian Books Auction
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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

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Des Prinzen Waldemar Von Preussen Nach Indien - Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar - Antiquarian Books Auction
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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)

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