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Lot 139 |INDIA (Lots 139-176)
JAMES FORBES (1749-1819)
Closed10 October 2013
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GBP 2,000
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JAMES FORBES (1749-1819)
Oriental Memoirs... including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America. London: for the author by T. Bensley, 1813. 4 vols, 4° (298 x 234mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait, 8 lithographic plates of which 5 hand-coloured, and 85 engraved plates of which 23 hand-coloured. (Half-titles lightly creased, very occasional light spotting; II: p.163 with tiny hole and p.447 with marginal repair; IV: p.25 with clean tear.) Contemporary green half calf gilt, marbled edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Benjamin Harding (book labels to vols I and II) -- George Williams (book labels to vols III and IV).
FIRST EDITION OF A 'MAGNIFICENT PUBLICATION' (Borba de Moraes). The plates agree in number and position to the bookbinder's list in volume I. In 1819, at the author's death, the unsold copies were deposited in a warehouse where some twenty years later they were rediscovered and reissued with an additional 27 plates. Abbey Travel, 436 (later issue with the additional plates); Borba de Moraes I, p.315. (4)
Oriental Memoirs... including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America. London: for the author by T. Bensley, 1813. 4 vols, 4° (298 x 234mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait, 8 lithographic plates of which 5 hand-coloured, and 85 engraved plates of which 23 hand-coloured. (Half-titles lightly creased, very occasional light spotting; II: p.163 with tiny hole and p.447 with marginal repair; IV: p.25 with clean tear.) Contemporary green half calf gilt, marbled edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Benjamin Harding (book labels to vols I and II) -- George Williams (book labels to vols III and IV).
FIRST EDITION OF A 'MAGNIFICENT PUBLICATION' (Borba de Moraes). The plates agree in number and position to the bookbinder's list in volume I. In 1819, at the author's death, the unsold copies were deposited in a warehouse where some twenty years later they were rediscovered and reissued with an additional 27 plates. Abbey Travel, 436 (later issue with the additional plates); Borba de Moraes I, p.315. (4)
JAMES FORBES (1749-1819)
Oriental Memoirs... including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America. London: for the author by T. Bensley, 1813. 4 vols, 4° (298 x 234mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait, 8 lithographic plates of which 5 hand-coloured, and 85 engraved plates of which 23 hand-coloured. (Half-titles lightly creased, very occasional light spotting; II: p.163 with tiny hole and p.447 with marginal repair; IV: p.25 with clean tear.) Contemporary green half calf gilt, marbled edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Benjamin Harding (book labels to vols I and II) -- George Williams (book labels to vols III and IV).
FIRST EDITION OF A 'MAGNIFICENT PUBLICATION' (Borba de Moraes). The plates agree in number and position to the bookbinder's list in volume I. In 1819, at the author's death, the unsold copies were deposited in a warehouse where some twenty years later they were rediscovered and reissued with an additional 27 plates. Abbey Travel, 436 (later issue with the additional plates); Borba de Moraes I, p.315. (4)
Oriental Memoirs... including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America. London: for the author by T. Bensley, 1813. 4 vols, 4° (298 x 234mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait, 8 lithographic plates of which 5 hand-coloured, and 85 engraved plates of which 23 hand-coloured. (Half-titles lightly creased, very occasional light spotting; II: p.163 with tiny hole and p.447 with marginal repair; IV: p.25 with clean tear.) Contemporary green half calf gilt, marbled edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Benjamin Harding (book labels to vols I and II) -- George Williams (book labels to vols III and IV).
FIRST EDITION OF A 'MAGNIFICENT PUBLICATION' (Borba de Moraes). The plates agree in number and position to the bookbinder's list in volume I. In 1819, at the author's death, the unsold copies were deposited in a warehouse where some twenty years later they were rediscovered and reissued with an additional 27 plates. Abbey Travel, 436 (later issue with the additional plates); Borba de Moraes I, p.315. (4)