Live Auction 6911Travel, Science and Natural History
GEORGE FRANCKLIN ATKINSON (1822-1859)
Lot 203 India (Lots 203 - 275)

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

The choice of the following 28 lots was influenced by the collector's early life as the son of a tea planter. Surrounded by luscious plantations, his passion for the visual was to become a constant. His acute sense of style was manifested in the elegance of his home where he and his wife played host to friends from a wide variety of professions and nationalities. The books in his collection were acquired with great care over a thirty year period from a number of countries - some from notable London West End dealers.

GEORGE FRANCKLIN ATKINSON (1822-1859)

Closed9 October 2012

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GEORGE FRANCKLIN ATKINSON (1822-1859)
The Campaign in India 1857-58. London: Day & Son, 1859. 2° (558 x 370 mm). Tinted lithographic title and 26 tinted lithographic plates on 20 sheets. (Top corner lightly creased throughout, last two text-leaves and last plate with tiny light marginal dampstain to this corner, some faint scattered spotting, tiny marginal tears to some text leaves.) Original publisher's red cloth, large gilt decorative vignette and lettered in gilt to upper cover, gilt edges (rubbed, faded and stained, top corner bumped, cloth to upper cover starting to lift, repairs to head and tail of spine, hinges reinforced with tape). Provenance: Isercleran (booklabel).

FIRST EDITION. 26 plates illustrating the Campaign, also known as the Indian Mutiny or The First War of Indian Independence. Abbey Travel 486.