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b)
MAJOR HERBERT B EDWARDS, A Year in the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49, London: Richard Bentley, 1851

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: xxiii; 608 pages; half-titles; frontispiece portrait signed in the plate in Volume I
Volume II: xiv; 734 pages; chromolithograph frontispiece heightened in gilt in Volume II
Original publishers red cloth board with a gilt image of a man riding a horse along with a coconut tree on the front board and gilt text on the spine
23 x 15 x 4.5 cm (each)

c)
R MONTGOMERY MARTIN, ESQ., The British Colonies: Their History, Extent, Condition, and Resources, London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, circa 1851

Volume V
ii; 1 black and white frontispiece etching; 9 black and white etchings; 8 black and white folding maps by Tallis
Half leather-bound with marbled boards and gilt text at the spine with 4 raised bands
28 x 20 x 4 cm

d)
GEORGE WHEELER, India in 1875-76: The Visit of The Prince of Wales. A Chronicle of His Royal Highness's Journeyings in India, Ceylon, Spain, and Portugal with Map and Diaries, London: Chapman and Hall, 1876

xii; 396 pages including 1 folding black and white map of India showing the travel route of The Prince of Wales
Original publisher red cloth binding with gilt text at the spine
21 x 14 x 3.5 cm

e)
MAJOR W BROOK NORTHEY, M C AND CAPTAIN C J MORRIS, The Gurkhas: Their Manners, Customs and Country, London: John Lane at The Bodley Head Ltd., 1928

Folding coloured map of Nepal, 69 photo illustrations, xxvii (including a foreword by Major General C G Bruce, who introduced the use of Sherpas in mountaineering), 282 pages and 4 pages advertisements
Green cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a vignette of a plumed headdress in gilt on the front cover
22.5 x 15 x 4.2 cm


f)
FIELD MARSHALL LORD ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR, Forty-one years in India: From Subaltern to Commander-in-chief, London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1897

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: xi; 511 including 1 black and white frontispiece; 1 black and white engraved title page; 7 black and white engraved plates and 6 maps and plans
Volume I: xii; 522 including 1 black and white frontispiece; 1 black and white engraved title page; 11 b/w engraved plates and 3 maps and plans
Original navy-blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines; decorated in gilt on the upper covers with the gilt centre bordered in attractive blind stamping, with Bently's decorated endpapers, edges untrimmed
23 x 15 x 4.5 cm (each)

g)
BHAWANI SINGH, Travel Pictures: The Record of a European Tour, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912

xiv; 287 pages including 1 photogravure portrait and 96 illustrations from photographs by the author
Grey cloth boards with a gilt armorial plate and half leather bound with gilt text
26 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm

27 from a limited edition of 50. Inscribed "To Colonel C A Kendall from his very sincere friend Bhawani Singh Xmas 1912"

h)
CAPTAIN ROBERT ELLIOT, R N, Views in the East: Comprising India, Canton, and The Shores of the Red Sea. With Historical and Descriptive Illustrations, London: H Fisher, Son, and Co., 1833

(2 volumes bound in 1)
Volume I: 30 steel engravings with tissue guards, all engravings are on India
Volume II: 30 steel engravings with tissue guards, 21 engravings are on India, 6 on China, 2 on the Red Sea and 1 on Penang. The sketches were originally drawn by Elliot in 1822-24.
Leather bound with gilt text at the spine with raised bands and all edges gilt
26.5 x 18.5 x 4.5 cm

i)
LAXMICHAND DOSSABHAI SHAH, Prince of Wales: And the Princes of India, Rajkot: The Kathiawar Printing Works, 1923

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: 3 black and white frontispiece; 360 pages including 263 black and white illustrations from photographs
Volume II: xxvi; 448 pages including 2 black and white frontispiece; 191 black and white illustrations from photographs
Leather-bound with gilt text at the spine
26.5 x 24 x 4 cm (each)

j)
THE MARQUIS CURZON OF KEDLESTON, K.G, British Government in India: The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses, London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1925

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: frontispiece; xix; 259 pages including 46 illustrations and plans (some folding)
Volume II: frontispiece; x; 268 pages including 36 illustrations and plans
Uniform publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, Royal monogram in gilt to front cover along with dust jacket
29 x 23 cm x 2 cm (each)

k)
W S CAINE, Picturesque India, London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1898

662 pages. Many engraved illustrations by John Pedder, H Sheppard Dale and H H Stanton with 1 large colour-printed folding map of India in 2 sheets.
Red cloth with bevelled boards, decorative gilt lettering and black pictorial designs to front and spine. All edges gilt. Green endpapers.
22.6 x 17 x 4 cm

l)
SIR LEPEL GRIFFIN, Famous Monuments of Central India: Illustrated by a Series of Eighty-Nine Photographs in Permanent Autotype, London: The Autotype Company, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1886

xxii; 96 pages including 92 autotype photographs
Bound in full calf with 4 raised bands and gilt text at the spine
28.5 x 39.5 x 5 cm

"The present volume has been issued with the sole desire of placing, by the autotype process, on permanent record in public and private libraries, accurate representations of the more important architectural monuments of Central India, before time, neglect, or barbarous and greedy hands shall have destroyed the buildings which have so special an artistic value in relation to the ancient arts of building and sculpture in the east, and which possess a further interest as illustrating the history of the most highly cultured among the elder members of the Aryan family" (Preface). This book is splendidly illustrated throughout with 92 autotype plates after photographs by Lala Deen Dayal, including views of Sanchi Tope (27), Gwalior (20), Khajuraho (21) and miscellaneous (21).

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