Lot 457
Forbes, James
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
Oriental Memoirs... written during a Seventeen Years Residence in India. London: for the Author, 1813. First edition, 4to, (303 x 239mm.), 4 volumes, half-title, 122 plates (95 uncoloured, 27 coloured), half-titles, 19th century maroon half morocco gilt, slight spotting and browning, slight dampstaining to some plates in volume 4, rubbed
Footnote
Note: Bohn's extra-illustrated remainder issue, collating almost identically with Abbey's copy. Originally issued in 1813 with 94 plates, upon the author's death in 1819, the unsold copies of "Oriental Memories' were deposited in a warehouse, where some 20 years later they were rediscovered and reissued in 1839 with an additional 27 plates. These plates come from remaindered stock of the quarto edition of the Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery'. There is one discrepancy between Abbey's copy and this one: Pl. 110 in the present work is 'Mausoleum of Kausim Solemanee at Chunar Gur', replacing 'The Charles Satoon on the Jumna Side of the Fort of Allahabad.' Abbey Travel 436. Many of the illustrations by Forbes, others by Thos. & William Daniell and W. Hooker.