– Green binding with gold title
– Binding in Good+ condition
– Overall condition of the book: Average+
– A couple of pages in Volume III have come loose from the binding
– Bird illustrations inside are intact
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A grand photographic history of The land of Antiquity, the vast Empire of the East. With 500 superbly reproduced Camera Views of her cities, Temples, Towers… Natural Wonders, and pictures of the various types of people, also, supplementary Photographic Views of Burmah, Ceylon, Cashmere and Aden PUNDOLES
Made by: Historical Publishing Company, Philadelphia Published by: C.B. Burrows, Bombay, c.1895.
Illustration: 500 photo prints duotone in purple and brown, vignettes and full pp., yellowed pp.
Condition: Good.
Binding: 26.7×32.5cm., pp. xv, 542; oblong, new binding, sl. foxing throughout.
Arranged In Verses By Laurence Hope. Illustrated by Byam Shaw
Illustration: 24 full pp. colored prints with printed tissue guards incl. Frontis and title pp.
Condition: Very Good.
Binding: 31x23cm, pp.158; orig. red cl. with black title to cover and a gilt image of Kamadeva to cover, black title to sp. with gilt dec., sp. ends thumbed and sl. torn, teg.
Illustration: Stipple engraved frontis., sepia toned photo image, few clrd. illus.
Condition: Average+.
Binding: 9×6”, orig. blue cl. with image of a man in gilt to cover, gilt border, dec. gilt sp. with title, sl. foxing, edges sl thumbed, teg
Illustration: Signed on front inside pp. Several b/w full pp. and vignettes prints throughout, 1 folded map with clrd. Outlines but brittle.
Condition: Average
Binding: 25×16.5cm., pp. xxviii, 709, 1pp. of adverts.; full brown cl. with image of mountain-climbers in black. And white to cover with black title, gilt title to sp. with image, minor wormholes, cover frayed and binding loose, title pp. missing, sl. underlining in color pencil by previous owner.
Illustration: Set 4: 17+7+4 full pp. woodcut engravings, sl. foxing.
Binding: Set 4 : 8.5×5.5”, new binding, all edges marbled, , certain prtions of the cpver are orig., edges thumbed, occasional foxing.
Binding Set 4: Average+
Illustration: Set 3: 17+7+4 full pp. woodcut engravings, sl. foxing.
Binding: Set 3: 9×5.5”, half calf over marbled boards, orig. sp. rebacked, 5 raised bands to sp. with gilt title, marbled epps., all edges marbled, all edges thumbed, sl. foxing, text bright and clean, ex libris stamp to inside cover.
Binding Condition: Set 3: Good
Illustration: Set 2: 17+7+4 full pp. woodcut engravings, sl. foxing, numbering to pl. with pen.
Set 2: Average+
Binding: Set 2: 22×13.5cm, paper marbled boards with part of sp. being orig., most of the sp. is new leather, ex libris stamps to inside cover, sl. foxing, cover frayed, text clean and bright.
From Calcutta To Bombay, 1824 –1825 (With Notes Upon Ceylon) PUNDOLES
Illustration: Set 1: 17+7+4 full pp. woodcut engravings, sl. foxing.
Condition: Set 1: Good
Binding: Set 1: 8.7×5.3”, orig. brown calf, sp. and cover rebacked, gilt border to cover, gilt dec. sp. with gilt title to new black leather labels, sp. and cover chipped in parts, marbled epps, all edges marbled, inner dentelles, sl. foxing, text clean and bright.
Ajanta, The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta frescoes based on Photography
Volumes:1,2,3 and 4 of the “Plates” available. (to be Updated)
explanatory text by G. Yazdani, M.A., Intro by Laurence Binyon Colour pl. by Henry Stone & son, banbury & F. Bruckmann, Munich. Text and collotypes by John Johnson, Oxford. .
Binding: 8.2×5.5”, pp. xxvii, 227,31; full brown cl. with self-design to cover, gilt title to sp., cover and sp. rebacked, spotting to sp., edges thumbed, cover frayed, pp. yellowing, insert from pp.105 to 112, 137 to 141, 201 –224 of the Shakuntala play with border and decorations to each of these pages.
Condition: Average
Illustration: With maps and illustrations, pp. brittle, map torn at folds.
Condition: Poor
Binding: 23×14.75cm, pp. xviii, 572; green buckram rebacked, gilt crest to cover, gilt title to sp., edges thumbed.
Illustration: B/w frontis print of orig. painting.
Condition: Good+
Binding: 9×6”, pp. xii, 542; orig. green cl. with gilt bison head to cover with title, gilt title to sp. with reindeer head, sl. foxing, pp. sl. yellowed, inscription of ‘Mary O.A. Boreham’ to inside pp., ex libris of Mary O.A. Boreham.
Illustration: Several b/w photo prints, colored frontis.
Condition: Good
Binding: 9×6”, pp. xiv, 383; orig. maroon cl. with gilt title to sp., foxing throughout, edges thumbed, pp. yellowed, binding loose.
Illustration: b/w prints of photographic images, both full pp and vignettes
Condition: Average+.
Binding: 9x 6”, pp. 640; orig. green cloth with gilt title to sp., label of previous owner to spine, self embossing to cover, deco. Epps., pp. brittle, top edges blue
Illustration: numerous b/w diagrams along with text and 1 folded map, occasional foxing.
Condition: Good
Binding: 23×14.5cm, pp. errata, lxv, 627,xxxv, errata, 382; orig. red cl. with gilt title to sp., edges thumbed, sl. foxing throughout mainly to pp. ends.
Publication: Adam & Charles Black, London, 1911.
Illustrations: 72 full pp. clrd. prints from photographs with printed tissue guards, frontis., title pp.
Condition: Good
Illustration: 1 outlined folded map.
Condition: Average
Binding: 22×13.8cm., subscr. list, xxxvi, xxxiii-cccvlxii, 83, 507; full brown marbled boards with spine chipped off, covers loose, front cover of Vol.2 separate from spine but intact, text clean, stamp of ‘Eliza Peavey’ bookseller to inside cover, edges thumbed.
Illustration: 4 clrd. full pp. printed pl., 26 text figs., 58 b/w full pp. printed pl.
Condition: Good+
Binding: 29x23cm., pp. xiii, [3], 212, xlviii of plates; full sky blue cl. with black title to cover and sp., dj torn and frayed.
Illustration: 18 full pp. clrd. reproductions of orig. paintings with tissue guards.
Condition: Good+
Binding: 8.9×6.5”, pp.xii, 216, adverts [4]; full red cl. with elaborate dec. to cover and sp. with gilt peacock and tree in blue and pink, cover and sp. faded in parts, pp. sl. yellowed, edges sl. thumbed, teg.
Jawaharlal Nehru An Autobiography with Musings on recent Events in India
Illustration: 13 full pp. b/w prints from photos, sl. foxing.
Condition: Average
Binding: 8.6×5.5”, pp. iv, 618; orig. green cl. with gilt title to sp., light foxing throughout, pp. yellowed.
Ajanta, The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on Photography….4 Volume Set
With explanatory text by G. Yazdani, M.A., Intro by Laurence Binyon Colour pl. by Henry Stone & son, banbury & F. Bruckmann, Munich. Text and collotypes by John Johnson, Oxford.
Published under the special authority of his exalted highness the Nizam, Oxford University Press, London, 1930 –55
Part 1: 16 Colour and 24 monochrome Plates of Cave 1
Part 2: 18 Colour and 31 Monochrome Plates of Cave 2
Part 3: 17 Colour and 37 Monochrome Plates pf Caves 6,7.9.10.11.12.15.16 & 17
Part4: 17 Colour and 65 Monochrome Plates of Caves 17-27
full pp. plates , several clrd., collotypes. , loose portfolio containing loose sheets. Condition: Good+. Binding: 32x25cm, some of the text vols. with sl. foxing, teg of text vols., Condition: Text vols.- Good
