"Views in the East" and "The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India"

a) Captain Robert Elliot, Views in the East: Comprising India, Canton and the shores of Red Sea with historical and Descriptive illustrations, London: H Fischer and Sons, 1833

In two volumes
Volume 1: 30 steel engravings with descriptive letterpress
Volume 2: 30 steel engravings with descriptive letterpress
All edges, gilt, original half calf, gilt decorated spine, minor foxing in a few plates, overall plates clean and bright
10.6 x 7.25 in (26.5 x 18.1 cm) (each)

b) E H Nolan, The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East: The Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859, London: James S Virtue, circa 1860

A two-volume edition, bound in eight divisions
Division I: viii; 1 black and white engraved frontispiece; 1 black and white vignette; 192pages, 7 engraved plates and 1 folding map
Division II: 8 black and white engraved plates; 1 folding map, 193-392 pages
Division III: 8 black and white engraved plates; 1 folding map, 393-592 pages
Division IV: 8 black and white engraved plates; 1 folding map, 593-792 pages
Division V: 8 black and white engraved plates; 1 folding map, 793-804 and 1-188 pages
Division VI: 8 black and white engraved plates; 1 folding map, 189-388 pages
Division VII: 8 black and white engraved plates; 1 folding map, 389-588 pages
Division VIII: 7 black and white engraved plates; 1 title vignette, 1 map, 589-774 pages, viii and 8 advertisement pages.

Red cloth bindings with elaborate gilt decoration on the spines and gilt vignettes on the fronts, blind embossed decoration on the boards, yellow endpapers, minor foxing to many plates but mostly along the margins, overall a nice set.
10.6 x 7 in (26.9 x 17.7 cm) (each)

NON-EXPORTABLE

(Set of two)