Colonial India
A collection of 8 books
£938
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Ronaldshay, The Earl of Sport and Politics under an Eastern Sky. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. First edition, 8vo, 2 folding colour maps, 14 plates, black and white photographs through text, original green pictorial cloth; Gubbins, Martin Richard An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh and of the Siege of the Lucknow Residency. London: Richard Bentley, 1858. First edition, 8vo, 4 folding maps, 4 plates, contemporary red cloth with decorative blindstamping; Thurston, Edgar Ethnographic Notes in Southern India. Madras: Government Press, 1906. First edition, 8vo, 40 plates, original light blue gilt pictorial morocco; Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (translator) Thirty Songs from the Panjab and Kashmir. London: Old Bourne Press, 1913. Edition of 405, 4to, 2 plates, music and lyrics, owner's ink stamp to free endpaper, polychrome cloth; Holmes, R.B. (photographer) The North-West Frontier of India in Picture. Bombay: The Times Press, 1919. 25 x 32cm, black and white photographs through text, 2 colour illustrations, original grey card pictorial binding; Hayden, H.H. Memoirs of The Geological Survey of India, Volume 36. Calcutta: Government of India Central Printing Office, 1904 and 1907. 8vo, folding map and 2 folding geology surveys, 14 plates, contemporary brown cloth; Edwardes, S.M. and L.G. Fraser Ruling Princes of India. Junagadh: Being a Historical, Archaeological, Political and Statistical Account of The Premier State of Kathiawar. Bombay: Times of India Press, 1907. Colour plate of Map of the Junagadh State, 6 plates with coloured photographs of princes and views on blue paper, photographs through text, original red morocco binding with gilt art nouveau-style decoration. White, Lieutenant George Francis Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains. London & Paris: Fisher, Son, And Co., 1838. 38 illustrated plates including several by JMW Turner, contemporary quarter green morocco and green gilt moir (8)
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