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SALT, Henry.
Twenty-Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt. 1809
£50,000
First edition, with plates watermarked 1824. Having failed in his original ambition to be a portrait painter, Salt set out on an eastern tour in June 1802 as secretary and...
Large folio (751 × 534 mm). Original marbled boards, with red morocco patch title label to the upper, rebacked and recornered in red morocco to style, title gilt... Read more
TAVERNIER, Jean Baptiste.
Les Six Voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier … en Turque, en Perse, et aux Indes. Pendant l'espace de quarante ans … 1679
£10,000
The first small format edition, following the quarto firsts of Les Six Voyages (1676) and Recueil (1678). Beautifully presented set of this highly desirable edition of the voyages of...
3 volumes, duodecimo (153 × 92 mm). Late eighteenth-century crimson straight-grained morocco, title gilt direct to the spine, flat bands, triple fillet gilt... Read more
DANIELL, Thomas & William.
A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China. 1810
£10,000
First edition. Originally issued in ten parts, "the aquatints of India by Thomas and William Daniell have been continuously popular ever since their publication between 1795 and 1810...
Folio (348 × 250 mm). Nineteenth-century half calf on marbled boards, flat spine elaborately gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers, neatly rebacked... Read more
SAVILE, Albany Robert, & Ferdinand Henry Wheeler Milner.
The Anglo-Afghan War of 1878. 1878-81
£6,750
First and only editions, classified "Confidential." Rare, the only other set of these papers that we have been able to trace is that in the India Office Records...
Foolscap quarto (304 × 195 mm) Contemporary half calf on black moiré boards, black morocco label, ruled compartments, edges sprinkled red. 12 linen-backed,... Read more
FRUNEAU, René.
Collection of six scarce works on navigation, hydrography, meteorology, and astronomy published at Nantes. 1829-33
£6,000
First editions of a group of rather eccentric theoretical papers on a range of matters maritime by an "ancien marin Nantaise", based in his experiences as a ship's captain in the...
Octavo (198 × 124 mm). Contemporary quarter calf, imitation tree calf boards, black morocco label, edges stained yellow. Folding lithographed map and 3 folding... Read more
PENNANT, Thomas.
Outlines of the Globe. 1798-1800
£5,000
First editions. Pennant is best known for his tours through the British Isles and for his British and Arctic Zoologies, works which are "distinguished by his personal energy, a keen...
4 volumes, quarto (293 × 232 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, red and black labels, edges sprinkled blue. 21 engraved plates, 3 folding maps, and two vignettes,... Read more
BURTON, Richard F.
Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. 1852
£5,000
First edition of an early Burton title, nominally a record of the sport of falconry as practiced by the landed gentry in Sindh, but also a significant record of their culture as the...
Large duodecimo. Original brown ribbed cloth, titles to spine gilt, rules to boards in blind. Housed in a quarter red morocco solander box with marbled paper boards.... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston L[eonard]. Spencer.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force 1898
£4,750
First edition, home issue, only printing, first state, of Churchill's first book, this copy without the errata slip at p. 1, catalogue dated 12/97, but apparently in the variant...
Octavo, original green cloth with a pronounced white graining, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover with panel in blind lettered gilt, black endpapers. Frontispiece... Read more
[HARDINGE, Sir Charles]
The Viceregal Visit to Jodhpur. 1914
£4,500
Superb album commemorating the visit of Sir Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India 1910-16, to Jodhpur in 1914. The album contains an excellent range of...
Landscape folio (490 × 375 mm) red morocco album, elaborately gilt on the upper board with title as above, the arms of the Marwar Durbar, or Darbar, the regional... Read more
RICH, Captain E. T.
Views of the Bazar Valley Field Force, 1908, [1908]
£3,875
From the time of the end of the Tirah campaign in 1897-8 the Zakka Khel Afridis had "...remained the persistent enemies of tranquility and progress. Numerous raids in British...
Landscape quarto. Album leaves loose, housed in a blue cloth drop-back box, title - "Photographs" - from the original album mounted on the upper panel. 93 gelatine... Read more
LAL, Mohan.
Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul: 1846
£3,750
First edition. A remarkably well-preserved set of this highly desirable work. Perhaps the key source for political and diplomatic background to the First Afghan War. Mohan Lal was...
2 volumes octavo. Publisher's forest green fine combed cloth, title gilt to spines, blind panelling and central lozenge to the boards, mid-cream surface-paper... Read more
PENNANT, Thomas.
Outlines of the Globe. 1798-1800
£3,750
First editions. Pennant is best known for his tours through the British Isles and for his British and Arctic Zoologies, works which are "distinguished by his personal energy, a keen...
4 volumes, quarto (293 × 229 mm). Contemporary lightly sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco lettering piece and green morocco numbering piece, flat spine,... Read more
NIEBUHR, Carsten.
Beschreibung von Arabien. 1772
£3,750
First edition. Niebuhr trained as a surveyor in order to support himself into his majority, then receiving a small inheritance. He next studied mathematics at Göttingen before...
Quarto (249 × 186 mm). Modern pale tan half morocco on marbled boards, darker tan label to spine, floral devices gilt in compartments, red edge-stain. Title page... Read more
VALENTIA, George Annesley, Viscount.
Voyages and Travels 1809
£3,500
First edition, one of 50 large paper copies. "This work contains much information of a novel and important kind... It was read through the press by Mr. Salt, who was Secretary and...
3 volumes, quarto (300 × 238 mm) original boards with near contemporary sheep reback, red morocco labels to the spines. Half-titles, 3 engraved vignette... Read more
RISLEY, Herbert Hope.
The Gazetteer of Sikhim. 1894
£3,500
First edition. Uncommon and authoritative account of Sikkim, covering history, agriculture, natural history and geology, with a special paper of "Lamaism in Sikhim" by L. A. Waddell,...
Quarto, original brown ochre cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, gilt decoration. Two coloured folding maps in a pocket to the upper board, 21 plates, many of... Read more
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[?KÖHLER, Emil]
Ansichten von Calcutta. [Views of Calcutta] c.1880
£3,250
Fascinating collection of images of Calcutta around 1880, seemingly the work of a technically highly competent amateur. The images divide more or less in half, one part featuring the...
Quarto. Black cloth portfolio (325 × 248 mm), cloth from the upper panel of the original contemporary folder, with title as above gilt, mounted. 31 albumen... Read more
(WELLESLEY, Richard Colley, Marquess) MARTIN, Montgomery (ed.)
The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley, 1836-8
£2,500
First editions. "The most brilliant part of Wellesley's career was unquestionably his government of India. He must be regarded as one of the three men who consolidated the empire of...
6 volumes octavo (218 × 139 mm) Later dark red half morocco, matching linen, for Hatchards, raised bands, titles gilt in second and fourth compartments, the... Read more
[FELLOWES, Robert; as] “Philalethes”.
The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV; 1817
£2,500
First edition. A very timely production, published the year after the island was unified under British control following the fall of the kingdom of Kandy, offering a broad history of...
Quarto. Original brown diapered cloth, title in gilt to the spine. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 15 engraved plates, folding engraved map. Cloth somewhat... Read more
MacKINNON, Daniel Henry.
Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: 1847
£2,500
First edition of this extremely uncommon and highly desirable account of service in India and Afghanistan with the 16th lancers. Three copies only on COPAC; OCLC adds just five more....
2 volumes, octavo (199 × 119 mm). Twentieth-century maroon half morocco, linen boards for Hatchards, title gilt direct to spines, raised bands, single fillet... Read more
(INDIA)
The King of Oude, his Brother, and Attendants. [1840]
£2,250
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon: BL copy only on COPAC and OCLC; not in Abbey. The plates, which are signed in the stone "HJ", were the work of "a lady, then an invalid"...
Small octavo (179 × 142 mm) Original red cloth, elaborate panel in blind, title in gilt to upper board, neatly rebacked in burgundy morocco with title... Read more
SHADBOLT, Sydney H.
The Afghan Campaign of 1878-1880, 1882
£2,250
First edition, an extremely handsome publication and indispensable work of reference, containing a general history of the campaign and a series of detailed biographical accounts of...
2 volumes quarto. Neatly recased in the original green cloth, title gilt to spines and under boards, all edges gilt, brown surface-paper endpapers Mounted Woodburytype... Read more
MACGREGOR, C. M.; John Moubray Trotter, et al.
Central Asia. 1995
£2,000
Facsimile reprint of MacGregor's encyclopaedic intelligence resource on the region, originally published "confidentially" in Calcutta between 1871–75. The seven parts cover the...
7 parts in 10 sections, large octavo. Original plum cloth, title gilt to spines. Very good. Read more
HENSMAN, Howard.
The Afghan War of 1879-80, 1882
£1,875
Second and best edition, published just three months after the first, and containing an account of events following the disaster at Maiwand. This copy inscribed by the author on the...
Octavo (216 × 133 mm). Recent red half crushed morocco on matching linen boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, the original cloth bound in at the rear. 10... Read more
NEWLAND, A.G.E., Surgeon-Captain.
The Image of War, or Service in the Chin Hills. 1894
£1,875
First edition. Superb photographic record of the punitive expedition in the Chin Hills, 1891-2, as suggested in the blurb in Thacker & Co's catalogue bound in at the rear, "No work...
Quarto. Original plum cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, large and highly-detailed gilt block of a visit to a Chin chief on the upper board, top edge gilt,... Read more
FRASER, James Baillie.
Journal of a Tour through part of the Snowy Range of The Himala Mountains, 1820
£1,800
First Edition. Fraser came as a merchant to Calcutta in 1813 and remained in India until 1820. In 1815 he spent some time with his brother William, a political agent to General...
Large quarto. Modern blue morocco, spine with gilt devices in compartments, covers with double gilt rules, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. Large folding map.... Read more
