Live veiling - Lot 1054
[Tibet - India]
Tibet, and India beyond the Ganges; containing a description of the characters, manners, customs, dress, religion [...] of the nations inhabiting those countries. Illustrated with twelve coloured engravings.
London, R. Ackermann, [1824]
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Beschrijving lot
12mo: 12 pl. (very sl. fox., some offseting of the pl., marg. tear not affecting the text pp. 311-318).
Pink publ. binding, flat spine (upper cover sl. stained, upper joint partly split).
From the 43-vol. series "The world in miniature" ed. by F. Shoberl (1775-1853). The book also deals with the Birman Empire, Tonquin and Cochinchina, Siam and Malacca. Complete with 12 hand-col. stipple-engr. plates incl. a front. representing natives and costumes.
Ref. Tooley p.421. - Colas 2734. - Lipperheide 1485. - Abbey, Travel 6.