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Books on Punjab (Set of 3) - Paul Sarrut, J Hutchinson and Jean Philippe Vogel - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Books on Punjab (Set of 3)

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J HUTCHINSON and JEAN PHILIPPE VOGEL, History of the Panjab Hill States, Lahore: Lahore Government Printing, 1933

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: ii; 372 pages
Volume II: ii; pp. 373-729; xiii appendix pages
Original brown cloth board
25 x 19 x 3 cm (each)

Limited edition of 500 copies only

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History of Delhi Coronation Durbar Held on 1st of Jan 1903 - Stephen  Wheeler - Antiquarian Books Auction
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History of Delhi Coronation Durbar Held on 1st of Jan 1903

STEPHEN WHEELER, History of Delhi Coronation Durbar Held on 1st of Jan 1903: To Celebrate the Coronation of King Edward VII, Compiled from the Original Papers by Order of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, London: John Murray, 1904

xiv; 347 pages including a Plan of the Amphitheatre; plate illustrating the Durbar medal; a folding panorama of the Durbar [equivalent to 4 pages]; large folding seating plan; large folding coloured plan of the camps; 30 full-page photogravure portraits by Walker & Cockerell after various photographers; 18 full-page half-tone illustrations from photographs
Bound in full white vellum with a monogram of royal arms in red on front and back cover
33 x 26.6 x 9 cm

Limited edition of 250 copies printed on handmade paper

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The History of The Imperial Assemblage at Delhi - James Talboys Wheeler - Antiquarian Books Auction
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James Talboys Wheeler (1824 - 1897)

The History of The Imperial Assemblage at Delhi

JAMES TALBOYS WHEELER, The History of The Imperial Assemblage at Delhi: Held on the 1st January 1877, to celebrate the Assumption of the Title of Empress of India by her Majesty the Queen. Including Historical Sketches of India and Her Princes Past and Present, London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1877

xix; 248 pages; three coloured maps (one double-spread), portraits of 11 Indian Maharajahs, Queen Victoria and Viceroy Lord Lytton and 12 views of Delhi and of the Durbar; one double-spread chromolithograph by Hanhart, depicting the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi; and medallions. (24 of the 26 photographs are by Bourne & Shepherd of Calcutta)
Bound in black leather with gilt rules on front and back panels and gilt title on spine
30.4 x 24.1 x 4.5 cm

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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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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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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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A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians - Henry  Lord - Antiquarian Books Auction
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A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians

HENRY LORD, A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians: Containing Their History, Law, Liturgie, Casts, Customes, and Ceremonies. Gathered from Their Bramanes, Teachers of that Sect: As the Particulars were Comprized in the Booke of their Law, called the Shaster: Together with a Display of their Manners, Both in Times Past, and at this Present, London: F Constable, 1630

Frontispiece; title pages; 14; 53 pages
2 parts in 1, first edition, additional engraved pictorial title by William Marshall, the second part with the separate title 'The Religion of the Parsees'.
Original leather bound with fresh spine along with contemporary slipcase
18.5 x 14 x 1.5 cm

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Ladak, Physical, Statistical, and Historical: with Notices of the Surrounding Countries - Alexander  Cunningham - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Alexander Cunningham (1814 - 1893)

Ladak, Physical, Statistical, and Historical: with Notices of the Surrounding Countries

ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM, Ladak, Physical, Statistical, and Historical: with Notices of the Surrounding Countries, London: W H Allen and Co., 1854

2 maps (one large folding, hand-coloured in outline, laid in linen in pocket at the end); 30 lithographed plates (16 coloured)
Half leather bound with leather corners and marbled boards
26 x 17 x 5.4 cm

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The Costume of Hindostan - Frans Balthazar Solvyns - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Frans Balthazar Solvyns (1760 - 1824)

The Costume of Hindostan

FRANS BALTAZAR SOLVYNS, The Costume of Hindostan: Elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engravings; with Descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799, London: Edward Orme, 1804

246 pages including 57 of 60 hand-coloured line and stipple engraved plates (3 missing), by Scott or T Vivares after Solvyns along with descriptions for each plate in English and French
Later quarter-bound leather with front and back blackboards
37 x 28 x 3.2 cm

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Sketches Illustrating the Manners and Customs of the Indians and Anglo Indians - William  Tayler - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sketches Illustrating the Manners and Customs of the Indians and Anglo Indians

WILLIAM TAYLER, Sketches Illustrating the Manners and Customs of the Indians and Anglo Indians: Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life by William Tayler Esq., London: Thomas McLean, 1842

Lithographed title and dedication page along with 6 lithograph colour plates by J Bouvier of the General Lithographic Establishment, 70, Martin's Lane, after watercolours by Tayler along with tissue guards
Publisher's moire fine ribbed brown cloth boards, title in gilt on upper cover, recent green leather spine
55.2 x 38 x 1.5 cm

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Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies - Allan  Hume - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Allan Hume (1829 - 1912)

Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies

ALLAN HUME, Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies, Calcutta: T Black and Co., 1872-99

(Set of 12 Volumes)
3 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 5 uncoloured lithographed plates (four folding); 10 folding maps (some hand-coloured); volume 2 lacks final five pages of index and here supplied in photocopy; volume 11 lacking preliminary leaves but with upper wrapper tipped in, occasional pencil marks and marginalia by Claude B Ticehurst and Martin Woodcock, bookplate of The Avicultural Society to front pastedowns on all the volumes. index by Charles Chubb
Each volume is original half leather-bound with marbled boards and gilt text at the spine with 5 raised bands
13.6 x 15 x 3 cm (each)

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Illustrations of Indian Botany or Figures Illustrative of Each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plant - Robert  Wight - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Robert Wight (1796 - 1872)

Illustrations of Indian Botany or Figures Illustrative of Each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plant

ROBERT WIGHT, Illustrations of Indian Botany or Figures Illustrative of Each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plants: Described in the Author's Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis with Observations, on their Botanical Relations, Economical Uses, and Medicinal Properties; Including Descriptions of Recently Discovered or Imperfectly Known Plants, Madras: J B Pharoah, 1840

Volume I: xi; ii; 212 pages including 97 hand-coloured lithographed plates (of 104); errata slip tipped-in; lacks 2 leaves of text at the end
Contemporary leather bound with gilt text on a black label at the front board and the spine
28.5 x 22.5 x 4.2 cm

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The Thanatophidia of India, Being a Description of Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula - Sir Joseph Fayrer - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Sir Joseph Fayrer (1824 - 1907)

The Thanatophidia of India, Being a Description of Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula

JOSEPH FAYRER, The Thanatophidia of India, Being a Description of Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula: With an Account of the Influence of their Poison on Life and a Series of Experiments, London: J & A Churchill, 1874

xii; half-title page; 166 pages including 28 chromolithograph plates and 3 lithographed plates by M & N Hanhart after Annoda Prosad Bagchee and others. The title page and the dedication pages are photocopies on a hard card paper and the appendix pages at the end are black and white photocopies of the original
Contemporary half leather bound with red cloth boards and gilt text at the spine
45 x 33 x 3 cm

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The Ruins of Gour - Henry  Creighton - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Henry Creighton (1764 - 1807)

The Ruins of Gour

HENRY CREIGHTON, The Ruins of Gour: Described and Represented in Eighteen Views, with a Topographical Map, Compiled from the manuscripts and drawings of the late H Creighton, London: Black, Parbury & Allen, 1817

[iv], iii, 12, [38] pages, includes half-title and list of views; 14 of 15 hand-coloured [1 tipped-in photocopy of the original plate] and 3 uncoloured aquatint plates by T Medland, large folding hand-coloured map etched by Thomas Fisher, East India House, after Creighton dated 1811
Contemporary polished leather-bound with decorative gilt border to the front and back boards along with the gilt text at the spine with 4 raised bands
29 x 23.5 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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Mooltan, a Series of Sketches, During and After the Siege - John  Dunlop - Antiquarian Books Auction
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Mooltan, a Series of Sketches, During and After the Siege

John Dunlop, Mooltan, a Series of Sketches, During and After the Siege: Being Twenty-one Drawings, from Sketches taken on the Spot, by John Dunlop, M.D. Assistant Surgeon H.M.'s 32nd Regiment. And lithographed in Tints, by Andrew Maclure. With a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege, London: Wm S Orr and Co, 1849

Tinted lithographed title and 21 tinted lithograph plates by Andrew Maclure
Quarter leather-bound with marbled boards and gilt title at the spine
37 x 26.5 x 3 cm

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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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