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Lot 59
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Forrest, Charles Ramos

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • A Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India. London: R. Ackermann, 1824
  • Paper, ink, leather
Large 4to (15 3/4 x 12 1/4 ins.; 400 x 315 mm). Hand-colored vignette on title-page, folding engraved map, 24 hand-colored aquatint plates by T. Sutherland and G. Hunt after Forrest, hand-colored aquatint vignette at end, plates watermarked 1824. Contemporary half red morocco gilt  and marbled boards; very neat repairs to joints.

Literature

Abbey, Travel II, 441; Martin Hardie p. 109-10, 313; Prideaux pp. 248, 336 , 376; Tooley 227

Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION ON LARGE PAPER of this cornerstone work of India travel. A lovely copy and rare in this rare format.