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IndiaA collection of 19 volumes, including: [Gray (James)] Life in Bombay, and the Neighbouring Out-Stations, First edition, half-title, 12 tinted lithograph plates, spotting and offsetting to title and plates, contemporary inscription to half-title: ‘Mrs Fuge from John Cowper’(?), front free endpaper and flyleaf lacking, bookplate of William Haydon Fuge to front pastedown, original gilt-panelled cloth, worn to extremities, rebacked in morocco, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1852; Skinner (Captain Thomas) Excursions in India; including a walk over the Himalaya Mountains, to the sources of the Jumna and the Ganges, 2 vols., First edition, half-title to vol. 1, mounted lithographic frontispieces on India paper, heavy spotting to frontispieces and titles, intermittent spotting and staining throughout, publisher’s advert leaf at rear of vol. 2, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with morocco lettering labels, rubbed, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832; Campbell (Colin) Narrative of the Indian Revolt from its Outbreak to the Capture of Lucknow, ‘nearly two hundred engravings’, including numerous double-paged, lacking a folding map as often?, intermittent spotting, contemporary half calf, gilt morocco lettering label to spine, rubbed, George Vickers, 1858; with: a second edition of Heber’s Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, ex-libris Robert George Wyndham Herbert, 1828; Burnes’s Cabool, lacking a plate, 1842; Temple’s Journals Kept in Hyderabad…, also lacking a plate, 1887; and others similar, v.s. (19)
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India, A collection of 19 volumes, including: [Gray (James)] Life in Bombay
19-volume collection on India including James Gray's 1852 first edition 'Life in Bombay' with 12 tinted lithograph plates, contemporary inscription, rebacked in morocco.
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349 €(£300)–465 €(£400)
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Price checked 26/09/2026, 04:57:04
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- Lot #
- 62
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- GBP
- Lot Ends
- 1 Oct 2026, 12:00:00
- Auction Ends
- 1 Oct 2026, 12:00:00
- Lots in Auction
- 271