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LOT 685
SOLD €90,00

[India, China and the Red Sea] Vues pittoresques de l'Inde, de la Chine,

et des bords de la Mer Rouge; Dessinées par Proux, Stanfield, Cattermole, Purser, Cox, Austin, &c. sur les esquisses originales du Commodore Robert Elliot (...) Accompagnée d'un texte (...) par Emma Roberts. London, H. Fisher etc., n.d. (1835), 2 volumes, 68; 64 p., with frontispiece "engraved and printed in oil colours" in relief, steel-engraved title in volume 1 and steel-engraved portrait in volume 2, else with 32/ 29 steel-engraved plates as per index, contemporary uniform half morocco, spine and all edges gilt, 4to.

Somewhat foxed/ tanned, contemporary owner's name on endpaper, bindings with some wear, fading and stains. Good copy with antiquarian's device of C.P.J. van der Peet, Amsterdam. Translation of the English edition which appeared in installments between 1830 and 1833. On the Navy officer and artist Robert Elliot, see: https://tinyurl.com/mf9s7jb.

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