Lot 75
India
Collection of works on Indian archaeology, architecture and similar
£404
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
North-West Provinces and Oudh Public Works Department. Annual Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey Circle, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, for the Year ending 30th June, 1893 [cover-title]. Roorkee: Thomason College Press, 1893. Folio, original cloth-backed printed boards, 47 pp., folding lithographic plan of Fatehpur Sikri, 6 large albumen print photographs (24 x 17cm, mounted), 3 folding lithographic plates of antique frescoes, front inner hinge cracked;
Delhi Public Work Department. Completion Reports in Durbar Works, P. W. D., Delhi, 1911 [cover-title]. Delhi: I. M. H. Press, [1912]. Folio, original cloth-backed printed boards, 36 parts in one volume, separately paginated and evidently first issued as separate works, continuous pagination ink-stamped to foot of each page, inscribed on the front free endpaper 'With compliments S D'A. Crookshank, Major R.E., Supet. Darbar Works, Delhi, 16 4/1912', occasional editorial annotations, text-block near loose in binding, closed tear in pp. 163-4;
Burgess, James. Archaeological Survey of Western India, Vol. I. Report on the Elura Cave Temples and the Brahmanical and Jaina Caves in Western India. London: Trübner & Co., 1883. First edition, 4to, contemporary half morocco, recornered, 51 plates including autotypes from photographs, toning, occasional spotting, probable library inscription effaced from title-page, ink-stamp to margin of p. 49;
Burrard, S. G., and H. H. Hayden. A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1907-8. 4 parts in 1 volume, 4to, recent cloth, 2 photogravure plates, lithographic chart as frontispiece, 50 further charts numbered 1-49 (with two plates numbered 6), large folding geological map, withdrawn from University of Bristol library with associated plates and stamps to front endpapers, verso of title-page and a few plates, intermittent damp-staining to lower fore corners;
Rose, Archibald, and J. Coggin Brown. Lisu (Yawyin) Tribes of the Burma-China Frontier [caption-title]. [Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1910. Possible offprint, 4to, modern half leather, 249-276 [1] pp., 9 phototype plates;
and 1 other (Anderson, Anatomical and Zoological Researches: comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875, plate volume only, 1878, lacking several plates)
