£630
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
comprising India, Canton, and the Shores of the Red Sea. London: H. Fisher, Son, & Co., 1833. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary maroon quarter morocco, 60 engraved plates, hand-coloured, tissue-guards, variable spotting and browning to plates, contemporary ownership inscription and related monogrammed blind stamps to title pages;
[India]. The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India [and:] Lives of the Moghul Emperors. London: for the proprietor, by Charles Tilt, 1834-7. 2 volumes, 8vo, original morocco, pictorial vignettes gilt to spines and covers, vignette title-pages and 45 engraved plates after William Daniell (of 46: lacking plate 15 in volume for 1834), plates hand-coloured and spotted, frontispieces and vignette title-pages damp-stained, volume for 1837 with bookplates and ink-stamp of Prince Konrad of Bavaria, volume for 1834 with endpapers renewed and Konrad's bookplate re-imposed;
[India]. Pictorial Tour Round England [bound with:] Pictorial Tour Round India. Madras: Christian Vernacular Education Society, 1888-90. 2 works in 1 volume, 4to, modern half leather, [2] 52, [2] 64 pp., wood-engraved frontispiece to each work, wood-engraved illustrations throughout the text, colour lithographic vignette mounted to title-page of first work (concomitant repair verso), browning, repairs to last few leaves;
Barlett, W. H. (illustrator). Canadian Scenery Illustrated. From Drawings by W. H. Bartlett. The Literary Department by N. P. Willis. London: George Vertue, 1842. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional vignette title pages, map, 117 plates, bookplates (Colonel C. A. G. Wallington), effaced ink-stamps to front free endpapers and verso of volume 2 frontispiece, wear to spines, mottling to covers, variable spotting to plates [Sabin 3786];
and 2 others (these not collated, in similar condition: Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Eighty Views from Drawings by John C. Brown, 1845, 4to; Finden's Views of the Ports, Harbours and Watering Places of Great Britain, continued by W. H. Bartlett, 1839, 2 volumes, 4to
Note: Library Hub traces three copies of this edition of Pictorial Tour Round India (in addition to two of an 1888 edition), and no copies of the Pictorial Tour Round England.