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Six travel and early reference books Seven books on coronations and the British imperial presence in India
1. FERGUSSON, JAMES. - Tree and Serpent 1. LAWSON, CHARLES ALLEN. Narrative of the Celebration of the Jubilee of He Most Gracious
Worship. London: India Museum, 1873. Orig Majesty Queen Victoria... London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. 4to (300 x 240 mm). Orig deluxe full
half mor gilt. With 2 hand colored maps, 57 morocco gilt. With approx 43 photographic illustrations. Covered slightly rubbed, partial tear to
mtd albumen photographs & 43 litho plates frontis. PRESENTATION COPY. With manuscript signed and dated 1887 by author gifting the copy to
on Amaravati and early Indian sculpture. Cover Viscount Gross, Secretary of State for India on behalf of Lord Connemara.
rubbed, minor spotting. 2. Coronation of their Majesties King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra, 9th August 1902. Ballygarth
Provenance: Colonel Alfred Capel Cure (bookplate) Castle [circa 1902?]. Oblong 4to. Bllue pebbled cloth with morocco onlays gilt, cloth scuffed. A
2. An album of 8 x 11 in. silver gelatin prints commemorative album, consisting of 17 ALBUMEN prints and 11 photogravures, several blank
commemorating a pageant celebrating leaves without a silhouette of a missing photograph suggesting the album was possibly personal
Maharaja Sahib Bahadur of Alwar. With 37 and unfinished. One loose photograph, minor edgewear.
prints of possibly on original 41. Split binding 3. WHEELER, STEPHEN. History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar. London: John Murray, 1904. Folio
and craquelure throughout. (360 x 290 mm). Vellum gilt, Royal Arms of Great Britain on red & gilt to upper cover. With 51
Provenance: Christie’s, London, 5 June 1996, photogravure portraits and plates after Bourne and Shepherd, Raja Deen Dayal and others, 3 maps
lot 306 and plans, one loose. Cover and edges scuffed and soiled. LIMITED EDITION, no. 65 or 250 copies
3. DUNSTERVILLE, F. Illustrated Guide to the on hand-made paper.
Madras Railway. Madras: Higginbotham and Co., 4. MENPES, DOROTHY & MORTIMER. The Durbar. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903. 4to (265
1898. Oblong 4to. (250 x 290 mm) Orig cloth x 200 mm). Orig deluxe CLOTH gilt. Copiously illustrated with color plates. Minor edgewear, fine
gilt. With 40 illustrated plates of landmarks and condition. LIMITED EDITION, no. 554 of 1,000.
people. Cover rubbed and stained, good overall. 5. The Historical Record of the Imperial Visit to India 1911. Compiled from the Official Records
4. HOME, ROBERT. Select Views in Mysore. under the Orders of The Viceroy and Governor-General of India. London: John Murray, 1914. 4to
London: Mr. Bowyer, 1794. Folio (340 x 265 mm). (270 x 215 mm). Orig cloth gilt. Complete and copiously illustrated with color plates, collortypes,
Early half calf. With 29 plates, 4 folding maps (1 and illuminated head and tail pieces. Worn upper hinge, minor edgewear.
hand-colored). Worn, upper cover detached. 6. Coronation Durbar, 1911: Being a Reprint of Articles and Telegrams Previously Published in the
Provenance: Christie’s, London, 5 June 1996, Pioneer. Allahabad, Pioneer Press, 1912. 8to (240 x 185 mm). Orig cloth. Edgewear, some wear to
lot 191 binding of early pages.
5. FURNEAUX, J. H. (ed.). Glimpses of India: 7. REED, STANLEY. The Royal Tour in India. A Record of the Tour of T.R.H. The Prince and Princess
A Grand Photographic History of the Land of of Wales in India and Burma, from November 1905 to March 1906. Bombay: Bennett, Coleman,
Antiquity, the vast Empire of the East. London: & Co., 1906. 4to (300 x 240 mm). Orig cloth. 2 photogravure frontispiece portraits, map,
C. B. Burrows, [poss. 1986]. Oblong folio (275 numerous illustrations after photographs by Bourne & Shepherd, and Raja Deen Dayal. Minor
x 340 mm). Orig cloth. Copiously illustrated. wear to cover edges and spine.
Covers stained and rubbed. FIRST EDITIONS UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE.
6. THOMSON, JOHN. Through China with a $1,500 - 2,500
Camera. London: A. Constable & Co., 1898.
8to (200 x 160 mm). Quarter morocco & cloth. Provenance:
Nearly 100 illustrations. Fine. The Paul F Walter Collection
FIRST EDITIONS.
$1,500 - 2,500
Provenance:
The Paul F Walter Collection
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