Hindostan: Its Landscapes, Palaces, Temples, Tombs, the Shores of the Red Sea
by Emma Roberts
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Only
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$1,099.43A$989.49
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About This Item
London: Fisher, Son, & Co; The Caxton Press, 1845-47. First edition. Leather. Good Only. 11" by 9". Various. A very scarce travel work by Emma Roberts, travelling across India, beautifully illustrated with one-hundred detailed plates. A very scarce first edition of this work.Complete as two volumes bound in one.Illustrated with an engraved title for each volume, a frontispiece and fifty plates to Volume I, and forty-eight plates to Volume II.Collated, complete. A touching travel work on India, looking at the beauty of the country, both its people and architecture. The author, Emma Roberts, wrote with compassion of the people of India and their culture, at a time when many similar travel works were written by men.Emma Roberts travelled to India alongside her sister and brother-in-law, living in Bengal and Calcutta.Dated from the engravings. Illustrated by Turner, Stanfield, Prout, Cattermole, Roberts, Allom, and more, from original sketches by Robert Elliot and George Francis White. In a full morocco binding. Externally, smart, with light rubbing to the boards, spine, and extremities. Spine is faded. Minor bumping to the extremities. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and some spotting, mostly to the plates. Tidemark to the frontispiece and engraved title of Volume I, lighter tider marks to the rest of the plates. Engraved title for Volume I is detached but present . Title page and preface of Volume I are torn with a significant portion detached but present, some loss to the title, all of the preface leaf is present but is torn and detached. Good Only
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- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 848P30
- Title
- Hindostan: Its Landscapes, Palaces, Temples, Tombs, the Shores of the Red Sea
- Author
- Emma Roberts
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Only
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fisher, Son, & Co; The Caxton Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1845-47
- Size
- 11" by 9"
- Keywords
- Hindostan: Its Landscapes, Palaces, Temples, Tombs, the Shores of the Red Sea hindostan emma roberts india hindostan red sea himalaya
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rubbing
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...