Live auction - Lot 582

[Asia - India]

CAUNTER, John Hobart

Tableaux pittoresques de l'Inde. Traduits de l'anglais [...] par P.J. Auguste Urbain; avec 21 gravures d'après les dessins originaux de W[illia]m Daniell.

Paris, Bellizard, Barthès, Dufour & Lowell, V. Morlot, 1835

€ 120 / 200

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Lot description

1 (of 3) vol., 8vo; 22 pl. (foxing).

Publ. three-quarter brown shagreen, marbled paper covers, gilt-orn. flat spine, a.e.g. (spine faded, rubbings).

Vol. II, but work complete in itself, devoted to Calcutta illustrated with 2 frontispieces and 20 plates figuring Calcutta, Rohtas Fort (now in Pakistan), a mosque in Coimbatore, a Tibetan domestic yak, etc. By the English cleric Caunter (1792-1851), who served as a cadet in India. Vol. I contains the description of Madras and vol. III of Mumbai.

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Lot 582

Tableaux pittoresques de l'Inde. Traduits de l'anglais [...] par P.J. Auguste Urbain; avec 21 gravures d'après les dessins originaux de W[illia]m Daniell.

CAUNTER, John Hobart

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