Lot 72
Douglas, James
Bombay and Western India
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 1 to 78
Description
A Series of Stray Papers. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, 1893. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo, original red cloth gilt, numerous plates (nearly all heliogravures) and maps (all present as called for), ex Manchester Public Libraries with associated markings (including gilt shelfmarks to spines, library plate and lending slip to endpapers, blind stamps to plates, cancellation stamps to volume 1 library plate and recto of frontispiece);
Abercrombie, Patrik, Sydney Kelly & Arthur Kelly. Dublin of the Future. The New Town Plan. Liverpool: University Press, [1922]. First edition, 4to, later cloth, frontispiece by Harry Clarke, 5 folding lithographic maps, 37 plates (many folding), ink-stamps of Manchester Public Libraries, folding maps and plates backed on linen, original covers bound in;
Dunraven, Caroline Wyndham-Quin, Countess of. Memorial of Adare Manor. With Historical Notices of Adare, by her Son, the Earl of Dunraven. Oxford: for private circulation, 1865. First edition, presentation copy, the initial blank inscribed and with a tipped-in autograph letter signed by the author, 4to, later cloth, 31 plates (mainly tinted lithographs or etchings), ex Manchester Public Libraries with associated markings;
Quetelet, Adolphe. A Treatise on Man and the Development of his Faculties. Now first translated into English. Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1842. First edition in English, 8vo, modern quarter cloth, 7 lithographic plates to rear;
and 3 others (10)