Lot 463
  • 463

Forrest, Charles Ramus

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

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A Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India. London: R. Ackermann, 1824



Large 4to (13 3/4 x 11 1/8 in.; 350 x 282 mm). Engraved folding map by Neele, hand-colored aquatint vignettes on title and last page, 24 hand-colored aquatint plates by T. Sutherland and G. Hunt after Forrest, plates watermarked 1824 and 1825.

Literature

Abbey, Travel 441; Tooley 227

Condition

Occasional light marginal spotting and light offsetting of plates.
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Catalogue Note

First edition of this elegant tour of India in a handsome Cosway-style binding with sixteen oval miniatures of views of Indian architecture set into the covers. Red crushed morocco, single-fillet borders, upper cover with a large centerpiece miniature surrounded by twelve smaller miniatures, each framed in gold floral tools, bottom cover with three large miniatures similarly framed, gilt edges, gilt-tooled turn-ins, turquoise watered-silk doublures and endleaves, by Bayntun of Bath.