Name: Auction: India General Report on the Operations of the Survey of India
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 2520 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 792Our June Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs auction featured a superb presentation copy of Ian Fleming's <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/280" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Casino Royale</a>, inscribed by the author, one of 500 hardback copies of the first edition of <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/262" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone</a><a href="/stories/rare-harry-potter-first-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">,</a> a complete deluxe set of <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/256" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A. A. Milne’s</a> Winnie-the-Pooh books, signed in each volume by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard and presented in exceptional condition throughout, an extensive single-owner collection of early photography including calotype prints by Hill and Adamson, important signed letters by historical titans including <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/219" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Oliver Cromwell</a> and <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/41" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Winston Churchill</a>, and a delightful collection of original sketches by Louis Wain.&nbsp;Sale Contact<a href="/about/specialists/cathy-marsden" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cathy Marsden</a> | 0131 557 8844 | <a href="mailto:cathy.marsden@lyonandturnbull.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cathy.marsden@lyonandturnbull.com</a>Buyers Guide

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Ian Fleming | British 1908 - 1964

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Fleming, Ian | Casino Royale | London: Jonathan Cape, 1953 | First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author

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Administered under the Government of India during 1908-9 [-1923-24]. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India [-printed at the Photo.-Litho. Office, Survey of India], 1910-25. 16 volumes, volumes 1-14 folio, 15-16 8vo, original cloth-backed printed boards, printed cloth labels to spines, numerous folding lithographic maps and plans, colour frontispiece reproducing a medallion portrait of Major James Jennell to volume for 1908-9, photogravure portrait frontispiece of Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, Surveyor-General to volume for 1923-24 &nbsp;ex-Manchester Public Libraries with bookplates and labels to front pastedowns, ink-stamps to versos of maps and plans, cancellation stamps to front free endpapers, collation slips tipped in at rear, occasional blind stamps to covers, lending slip to front free endpaper of volume for 1923-24, volume for 1914-15 with front free endpaper removed, volume for 1921-22 spine-label coming loose (16)

General Report on the Operations of the Survey of India

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General Report on the Operations of the Survey of India

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