Indian Subcontinent
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First edition, inscribed by Cecil Beaton to Hugh Francis, 4to., [106]pp., 100 full-page black & white photographic plates, slight age-toning and minor dust-soiling to half-title, otherwise near-fine, modern half morocco over original boards, all edges gilt, a very good copy.
£675 -
First edition. 8vo, iv, 206, 18(ads, dated July 1858)pp., original reddish brown blind-stamped cloth gilt, spine faded, an excellent example.
£575 -
First edition. Folio (55.6 x 37.2 cm.), 26 lithographs on 20 sheets (including pictorial title), all hand-coloured as issued, short tears repaired to plates 13 & 18 not touching image, light finger soiling to a few margins, text and plates guarded throughout, original pictorial red cloth gilt, rather worn, corners repaired, neatly rebacked modern red half calf gilt, a very good copy of a scarce item.
£15,000 -
First edition. 2 volumes, folio (59.5 x 47.5 cm). Title and text in English and French. One engraved map, 48 aquatint plates by and after William Hodges, contemporary red morocco gilt, neat repairs to extremities, a most handsome example.
£19,500 -
5 parts in 3 volumes, 4to., xxxvi pp., (2) ll., 516 pp., 1 map, 38 plates; (4) ll., xvi pp., lxii pp., (1) l., 259 pp., (2) ll., pp. (261)-576 but numbered 596, (4) ll., pp. 577-578 but numbered 597-598, 2 maps, 3 tables, 10 plates; (5) ll., lxxxiv pp., 256 pp., 9 maps; viii pp., 240 pp., 16 pp., (3) ll., 2 maps, 6 plates, a total of 71 plates, maps, and tables, some folding (occasional tear to folds) green roan-backed marbled boards, a very good set.
£5,000 -
First edition. Landscape folio (80 x 57 cm), pictorial aquatint title, 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, engraved by D. Havell after Henry Salt, all without the slightest foxing, early watermarks all pre-publication, on Whatman paper ranging from 1794 to 1806. Originally bound in portrait format now re- arranged in landscape, rebacked and edged in leather retaining the original marbled boards, with a new morocco label.
£45,000 -
Landscape album 43.5 x 32cm., containing 40 original photographs typical size 28.5 x 21.5 cm including 1 railway panorama, only fair to good tonal range, mounts rather spotted, original black half morocco, rebacked.
£1,800 -
First edition. 8vo, [xii], 320, [8](ads)pp., folding map, title-page vignette, frontispiece, 5 wood-engraved plates, original purple fine wavy-grained cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, light wear, an excellent copy.
£675 -
6 parts in 2 volumes, landscape 4to (25.5 x 35.5 cm). Typographic titles to first and fourth parts serving as general titles to volumes. 158 engraved plates comprising 144 views, 6 title-pages and 8 plans. (Title and introductory leaf of text to vol. I creased and lightly soiled, tiny marginal worming to text-leaf to pl. II and pl. III, very short marginal tear to text-leaf to pl. VI, scattered spotting throughout). Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (rebacked, extremities rubbed).
£13,500 -
Quarto (31 x 24.5cm). xii, [2], 632p., half-title, final errata leaf. Original boards with marbled sides, paper label on spine, uncut (slightly worn).
£1,500