Lot 261 , Russell, William Howard - The Prince Of Wales' Tour: a diary in India; with some account of the visits ... to the courts of the Greece, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal. mounted photo. portrait frontis., num. engraved plates a

° Russell, William Howard - The Prince Of Wales' Tour: a diary in India; with some account of the visits ... to the courts of the Greece, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal. mounted photo. portrait frontis., num. engraved plates and text illus., publisher's gilt cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down (ex library copy), roy. 8vo. 1877; Buck, Edward J. - Simla Past and Present. folded map, 51 photo. and other plates; publisher's gilt lettered pictorial cloth, patterned e/ps. Calcutta 1904; Atkinson, Capt, George Francklin - 'Curry and Rice' ... or, the Ingredients of Social Life at 'Our Station' in India. pictorial lithographed and printed titles and 38 (ex 39) other tinted litho. plates; rebound half calf and cloth, panelled spine and gilt top, 4to. ( ); together with 5 other titles on the Subcontinent (9)
£160-200

Condition:
Russell - w/drawal stamp on title, Kensington Pl. ownership most plt. verso and a few elsewhere, new e/ps., good cond.; Buck - sl. wear on spine , few marks on cloth, 2 plts. with light foxing, gen. good, xiv,, 270pp. (incl. half title) and advert leaf, author's presentation copy; Atkinson - lacks plt.34 (Our Cook Room), a gutter stain mid book just encroaches on 7 plts.; foxing taken by guards, e/ps. replaced, final leaf with marginal worming; Others - Lawsons Memories of Madras (1905); Newall's The Highlands of India (2 vols, 1882-87), many plates and other illus., but harlequin binding - vol. 1 publisher's cloth, vol.2 newly rebound cloth (v1 folded map present); Wright's Lectures on India (Boston, 1849); Wright's India and its Inhabitants (Cincinnati, 1855); Temple's India in 1880 (1881) and Frere's Old Deccan Days (1868)

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