Lot 259
Ceylon
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 January 2012 at 11:00 GMT
Description
A collection of works, comprising: Heber, Reginald Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with notes upon Ceylon). London, 1828. First edition , 2 volumes, 4to, 10 engraved plates, one map hand-coloured in outline, contemporary red cloth, uncut, occasional light spotting, one leaf with repaired tear, map creased at edge, neatly rebacked, modern endpapers, corners bumped; Sir, Henry Charles Ceylon and the Cingalese. London, 1850. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half-title in volume 1 (not called for in vol.2), 2 tinted lithographed frontispiece views, plain lithographed map of Ceylon, 8 wood-engraved plates, advertisement leaf at end of each volume, original decorative cloth, spine heads repaired, some wear; Queyroz, Fernao de. The temporal and spiritual conquest of Ceylon. Colombo, 1930. First edition, 6 parts bound in 3 volumes, 8vo, near contemporary red cloth, bookseller's stamp on title and preliminary blanks; together with a quantity of Journals of the Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch (quantity)