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THOMAS HOLBEIN HENDLEY. 1847-1917. TOD, LIEUT. COL. JAMES (1782-1835)
The Rulers of India and The Chiefs of Rajputana, 1550-1897. London: W. Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han. Cornhill: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1829-32.
Griggs, 1897. 2 vols. 4to (295 x 240 mm). Half morocco and ribbed cloth. With 49
Folio (370 x 275 mm). With 26 plates, 17 in color. Original cloth gilt. plates on 48 sheets, 3 fold out genealogical charts and 1 fold out page
Hinges weak, minor edgewear, near fine copy overall. Library stamp from with devanagari. Folding plates faintly foxed, occasional minor offsetting,
an Indian museum. FIRST EDITION. spines and corners rubbed.
$2,000 - 4,000 Provenance: Jonathan Mason (bookplates with manuscript notes to the
effect that the volumes were presented by the author in 1834).
Provenance: FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. With two page manuscript
The Paul F Walter Collection biography of James Tod bound in.
$1,500 - 2,500
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Two books on Indian rulers Provenance:
1. ROUSSELET, LOUIS. India and its Native Princes. London: Chapman and The Paul F Walter Collection
Hall, 1875.
Large 4to (335 x 240 mm). Frontispiece and over 300 illustrations and 244
maps. Deluxe gilt red morocco binding. Upper joint starting but sound, A personal scrapbook of M. de P. Webb commemorating the Delhi
minor edge-wear and minor marginal spotting throughout. coronation durbar of 1903
Provenance: Rosetta Sotheran (manuscript presentation label dated 1875 Folio (360 x 260 mm). Half sheep & cloth. Approx. 69 leaves with
from Henry Sotheran laid in). programs, entrance tickets, letters, press communiques and cuttings, a
2. WHEELER, J. TALBOYS. The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi. dance card, and approx. 62 photographs, 16 of them 8 x 11 in. gelatin
London: Longmans, [1877]. silver prints, and 37 photographs signed in neg. F. Bremner. Spine and
4to (300 x 245 mm). 7 lithographed plates and maps (including one corners dry and worn with some loss, approx. 5 loose items.
chromolithographed double-page view), 28 woodburytypes after $2,000 - 4,000
photographs by Bourne and Shepherd. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt. Hinges
cracked, extremities worn. Of the three durbars held in Delhi during the height of the British Empire,
FIRST EDITIONS. the durbar of 1903 was the most lavish and dazzling of all. Meticulously
$1,500 - 2,500 choreographed by Lord Curzon, the two week pageant celebrated the
coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as Emperor and
Provenance: Empress of India. M. de P. Webb, who compiled this personal and intimate
The Paul F Walter Collection record, was the editor of Karachi’s Sind Gazette covering the festivities.

Provenance:
The Paul F Walter Collection

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