£688
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 659
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Baddeley, P.F.H. Plates. Whirlwinds and Dust Storms of India. An Investigation into the Law of Wind and Revolving Storms at Sea. London: Bell and Daldy, 1860. First edition, oblong 4to, 19 black and white lithographed plates of illustrations and diagrams. one folding, original brown cloth, gilt text and wind card diagrams; Hull, Edmund C. P. and Mair, R. S., M.D. The European in India; or, Anglo-Indian's Vade Mecum. with Medical Guide for Anglo-Indians. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878. Third edition, 12mo, original brown buckram; Kaye, John William Lives of Indian Officers, Illustrative of the Civil and Military Services of India. London: A. Strahan & Co., 1867. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, marbled endpapers, contemporary blue calf binding, decorative gilt spine with red and brown inserts; Anderson, Col. William and Parbly, Lieut. Col. Samuel Sketch of the Mode of Manufacturing Gunpowder at the Ishapore Mills in Bengal. London: John Weale, 1862. First edition, 8vo, 10 plates [5 fold out], original blue cloth with gilt canon illustration and decorative blindstamping; Owen, T.C. The Tea Planter's Manual. Colombo: A.M. & J. Ferguson, 1886. First edition, 8vo, 2 fold-out coloured plates illustrating tea factory, planters' advertisements, contemporary orange morocco binding, calf spine, pasted title; Hutchison, J. and L.R.C.P. & S.E. Chamba Guide to Dalhousie, Chamba and The Inner Mountains between Simla and Kashmir. Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette, 1923. 8vo, 3 fold-out maps, ink stamp on free endpaper, grey boards (7)
Note: Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Parbly was an Artillery officer who acted as agent for the Manufactory of Gunpowder and War-Rockets at Allahabad, Bengal. Parlby was co-inventor of the Parlby Rocket used by the East India Company.