Lot 45 , Grindlay, Captain Robert Melville - Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India, large qto, half green morocco, hand-coloured engraved general title vignette and 36 hand-coloured plates after

° Grindlay, Captain Robert Melville - Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India, large qto, half green morocco, hand-coloured engraved general title vignette and 36 hand-coloured plates after Grindlay, Westall, Stanfield, Robert’s, Daniel and others, coloured by J.B. Hogarth, R. Ackermann, and Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1826[-1830]
Pencil note to front fly leaf: From the library of the late Sir Thomas Brocklebank. Bart.

The work is known in three forms, bound from six parts, bound as two volumes without part titles , and finally as a single volume, with a single title. Cf. Abbey Travel 442.

£5,000-8,000

Condition:
Ribs on spine rubbed, boards a little scuffed, fly leaves spotted, page opposite title with title imprint, text and plates good

Sold for £5,500