Antiquarian Books on India (ASN0039)

VIEWS IN INDIA, CHIEFLY AMONG THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS. BY LIEUT. GEORGE FRANCIS WHITE, OF THE 31sT REGT. &c. &c.
Edited by Emma Roberts. Published by Fisher, Son and Co, London & Paris, 1838
pp. 94 including 1 black & white steel engraved frontispiece; 1 black & white steel engraved vignette title; 35 steel engraved plates with tissue guards
Dimension: 12.1 x 9.4 in

THE GRAND MASTER OR THE ADVENTURES OF QUI HI? IN HINDOSTAN. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz. Illustrated with engravings by Rowlandson, London. Printed by Thomas Jegg, 1816
pp. 252, 1 folding hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece (map), 1 hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title, 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates + 1 plate with sepia tone
Half leather bound with marbled boards and raised bands on spine and gilt designs and title in compartments

Dimension: 9.5 x 6 in

SKETCHES & INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW; From Drawings made during the Siege by Clifford Henry Mecham, Lieutenant Madras Army, with Descriptive Notices by George Couper, Esq. late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude. London, Published October 1st 1858, By Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, complete with 27 tinted lithographs (including title page) on 18 sheets

Dimension: 22.4 x 14.7 in

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ROCK-CUT TEMPLES OF INDIA; Selected from the best examples of the different series of caves at Ellora, Ajunta, Cuttack, Salsette, Karli, and Mahavellipore. Drawn on stone by Mr T C Dibdin, from sketches carefully made on the spot, with the assistance of the Camera-Lucida in the years 1838-39, by James Fergusson, Esq., London: Published by John Weale, M.DCCC.XLV (1845), 49 High Holborn, M and H Hanhart, Lithographic Printers

Contemporary binding in brown leather with gilting, with gilt text at the spine with 6 raised bands, this work has been dedicated by James Fergusson "To the President and Fellows of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland"

Dimension: 21.5 x 14.7 in

TWELVE VIEWS OF PLACES IN THE KINGDOM OF MYSORE, THE COUNTRY OF TIPPOO SULTAN.
From Drawings Taken on the Spot. To Which Are Annexed, Conci(f)e De(f)criptions of the Places drawn, with a brief Detail of Part of the Operations of the Army under the MARQUIS CORNWALLIS, during the late War, And a few other Particulars. BY R. H. COLEBROOK, LIEUTENANT in the Service of the Honourable EAST-INDIA COMPANY, who attended the Army in the Capacity of Surveyor. LONDON: PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1794.

First Edition, 12 original hand-coloured aquatint plates by John William Edy engraved in 1793, with tissue guards (slightly worn out), has list of subscribers published, bound in later saffron-coloured cloth with Indian design, lettered in gilt against red background

Dimension: 21 x 28.8 in

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, Published: London, R. Ackermann, July 1, 1824

pp.192 (last page not numbered), the hand-coloured aquatint plates by Thomas Sutherland and G Hunt after Forrest, original cloth binding in red, with title gilted in between floral pattern, gilting on the edges, rebacked

Dimension: 16.3 x 12.8 in

PROVENANCE
Lot 78, Bloomsburys Auctions, 'Travel Books from the collection of Robert & Maria Travis', 2007
Acquired from the above
Important Private Collection, New Delhi

VIEWS IN INDIA, SAINT HELENA, AND CAR NICOBAR, DRAWN FROM NATURE AND ON STONE by Major John Luard, Published by: J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty (c.1832 - 38)
pp. 244, with 1 hand-coloured lithograph frontispiece; 1 hand-coloured lithographed title page; 59 hand-coloured lithograph plates having a descriptive text for each plate
A hard to come by complete set, modern leather-bound in deep blue with gilt text

Dimension: 14.4 x 9.8 in

INDIA AND ITS NATIVE PRINCES: Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal; carefully revised and edited by Lieut. Col. Buckle, containing 317 illustrations and 6 maps, Published: London, Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1876
pp. 579, numbered, all plates (excluding maps) are COLOURED, original hard-bound contemporary binding, gilt edges and 5 raised bands on spine with gilt text

Dimension: 13.8 x 10.25 in

NOTES
Non-Exportable

SELECT VIEWS IN MYSORE, THE COUNTRY OF TIPOO SULTAN; From Drawings Taken on the Spot by Mr. Home; with Historical Descriptions, London: Published by Mr Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, the Letter-Press by T. Bensley, from Figgins's Types, 1794
29 etchings with line-engraving by James Fittler, Thomas Morris, William Byrne, Stricklan Lowry and others after Robert Home; pp. 48, with descriptive text for each plate in English and Urdu, modern leather binding in red with gilt text including on the spine

Dimension: 13.3 x 10.7 in

THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON, 3 Volumes, 1879-81, with wood-engraved title-pages;
Vol. I: pp. 279, 36 chromolithographic plates, published 1879; Vol. II: pp. 264, 38 chromolithographic plates, published 1880; Vol. III: pp. 438, 45 chromolithographic plates + 4 egg plates, published 1881
Modern leather binding in bottle-green with gilt text including on the spine raised in 4 bands

Dimension: 10 x 5.8 in (each)

A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH THE COUNTRIES OF MYSORE, CANARA AND MALABAR, 3 Volumes, Published by T. Caddell & W. Davies, London, 1807;

half-title in Vol. I, 34 engraved plates, 5 folding tables; hard bound in brown leather and raised bands on spine with text in gilt, with marbled edges

Dimension: 11.1 x 8.8 in (each)