Edwardes, Herbert B.
A Year on the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49
£693
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
London: Richard Bentley, 1851. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked with original spines transposed, half-titles, engraved frontispiece to volume 1, chromolithographic portrait frontispiece of Nuwab Bhawul Khan and Dewan Moolraj to volume 2, 2 further chromolithographic plates, 3 engraved plates including folding panorama, 2 folding plans, folding manuscript facsimile, 24 pp. advertisements, bookplates of Herbert Charles Fanshawe ICS (1840-1923), ownership inscription to endpapers, covers soiled, light spotting to chromolithographic plates;
Napier, Sir William. The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier. London: John Murray, 1857. Second edition, 4 volumes, original green cloth, engraved portrait frontispieces (slightly spotted), bookplates and ownership inscriptions, spines faded;
Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis. With the Turks in Thrace. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, folding map, bookplates and ownership inscriptions;
Buxton, Noel & Harold. Travel and Politics in Armenia. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1914. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, folding map, plate facing p. 101 working loose, ownership inscriptions to endpapers;
Thornton, Edward. The History of the British Empire in India. London: Wm. H. Allen, 1859. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding map, loss to spine-ends, spotting;
and 15 others (these not collated), including Gregor Alexinsky, Russia and Europe, 1917, Henry Morgenthau, Secrets of the Bosphrous, 1918, Lord Roberts, Forty-One Years in India, new edition, 1900, R. G. D. Laffan, The Guardians the Gate: Historical Lectures on the Serbs, 1918, and similar, early-20th-century travel and Indian interest, original cloth