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SET OF 5 BOOKS ON INDIAN MUTINY


Estimate: Rs 2,00,000-Rs 2,50,000 ( $3,035-$3,790 )


NON-EXPORTABLE

(Set of five)

a)

TITLE: The History of Indian Mutiny: Giving a detailed account of the sepoy insurrection in India, and a concise history of the great military events which have tended to consolidate British Empirein Hindostan
VOLUME: 1
AUTHOR: Charles Ball
PUBLISHER: The London Printing and Publishing Company- Limited
PLACE: London
YEAR:
BINDING: Half leather bound with cloth covers
NO.OF PAGES: pp.vii + 648 pages including 1 b & w engraved frontispiece + 1 b & w engraved vignette title + 1 color map + 45 b & w engraved plates
SIZE:
Height: 28.1 cm
Width: 20 cm
Depth: 5 cm

1 plate after page 271 is missing.
This book is illustrated with battle scenes, views ofplaces, portraits and maps, beautifully engraved on steel

TITLE: The History of Indian Mutiny
VOLUME: 2
AUTHOR: Charles Ball
PUBLISHER: The London Printing and Publishing Company- Limited
PLACE: London
YEAR:
BINDING: Half leather bound with cloth covers
NO.OF PAGES: pp. viii + 664 pages including 1 b & w engraved frontispiece + 1 b & w engraved vignette title + 30 b & w engraved plates
SIZE:
Height: 28 cm
Width: 20 cm
Depth: 4.5 cm

b)

3 volumes in 1 book
TITLE: History of Indian Empire: History, Topography, Geology, Climate, Population, Chief cities and provinces; Tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion; education, crime; Land tenures; Staple products;Government, Finance, and Commerce
VOLUME: 1
AUTHOR: R. Montogomery Martin
PUBLISHER: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited
PLACE: London
BINDING: Leather-bound
NO.OF PAGES: 582 including 3 b & w engraved frontispiece + 3b & w engraved vignette title + 1 color tinted map + 3 b & w engraved plates
SIZE:
Height: 28 cm
Width: 21 cm
Depth: 9.5 cm

TITLE: History of Indian Empire: The Mutiny of the Bengal Army; Insurrection in Western India; and an exposition of the alleged causes
VOLUME: 2
AUTHOR: R. Montogomery Martin
PUBLISHER: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited
PLACE: London
BINDING: Leather-bound
NO.OF PAGES: 504 including 3 b & w engraved frontispiece + 3 b& w engraved vignette title + 1 color tinted map + 17 b & w engraved plates
SIZE:
Height: 28 cm
Width: 21 cm
Depth: 9.5 cm

TITLE: The Indian Empire: India delineated, in a series of engravings exhibiting thescenes of the Himalaya Mountains, and views of the principal places in India; with letterpress description, by Miss. Emily Roberts
VOLUME: 3
AUTHOR: R. Montogomery Martin
PUBLISHER: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited
PLACE: London
BINDING: Leather-bound
NO.OF PAGES: 192 including 3 b & w engraved frontispiece + 3 b & w engraved vignette title + 1 color tinted map + 98 b & w engraved plates
SIZE:
Height: 28 cm
Width: 21 cm
Depth: 9.5 cm

c)

TITLE: Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains
AUTHOR: Lieut. George Francis White. Edited by Emma Roberts
PUBLISHER: Fisher, Son, and Co.,
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1837
BINDING: Original, attractively ornamentedcovers (intricately blind/gilt embossed front and back covers), all edges gilt
NO.OF PAGES: 1 b & w engraved frontispiece + 1 b & w engraved vignette title + 84 pages including 27 b & w engraved plates
SIZE:
Height: 34.4 cm
Width: 27.1 cm
Depth: 2.5 cm

d)

TITLE: The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East, from the Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859
VOLUME: I
AUTHOR: E. H. Nolan
PUBLISHER: James. S. Virtue
PLACE: London
BINDING: Leatherbound with gilt spine and marbled edges
NO.OF PAGES: 2 b & w engraved frontispiece + 804 pages including 21 engraved b & w plates and 8 folded colour maps
SIZE:
Height: 26 cm
Width: 18 cm
Depth: 6 cm

TITLE: The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East, from the Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859
VOLUME: II
AUTHOR: E. H. Nolan
PUBLISHER: James. S. Virtue
PLACE: London
BINDING: Leather bound with gilt spine andmarbled edges
NO.OF PAGES: 2 b & w engraved frontispiece + 774 pages including 37 engraved b & w plates
SIZE:
Height: 26 cm
Width: 18 cm
Depth: 6 cm


e)

TITLE: The British Colonies
VOLUME: IX
AUTHOR: R. Montogomery Martin, Esq.
PUBLISHER: The London Printing and Publishing Company- Limited
PLACE: London
BINDING: Contemporary red cloth bound with gilted symbol at the top cover , gilted spine
NO.OF PAGES: 180 pages including 3 b & w engraved portraits + 3 double page folded engraved maps
SIZE:
Height: 29 cm
Width: 19.5 cm
Depth: 1.2 cm

TITLE: The British Colonies
VOLUME: X
AUTHOR: R. Montogomery Martin, Esq.
PUBLISHER: The London Printing and Publishing Company- Limited
PLACE: London
BINDING: Contemporary red cloth bound with gilted symbol at the top cover, gilted spine
NO.OF PAGES: 192 pages including 3 b & w engraved portraits + 3 double page folded engraved maps
SIZE:
Height: 29 cm
Width:19.5 cm
Depth: 1.2 cm

TITLE: The British Colonies
VOLUME: XI
AUTHOR: R. Montogomery Martin, Esq.
PUBLISHER: The London Printing and Publishing Company- Limited
PLACE: London
BINDING: Contemporary red cloth bound with gilted symbol at the top cover, gilted spine
NO.OF PAGES: 192 pages including 4 b & w engraved portraits + 2 double page folded engraved maps
SIZE:
Height: 29 cm
Width: 19.5 cm
Depth: 1.2 cm

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