Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 125 iii. Curry and Rice The Ingredients Of Social Life At Our Station In India George Francklin Atkinson London: W. Thacker and Co., 1911. Fourth Edition 11.16 x 8.2 in (20.4 x 29.2 cm) Cover: Rust cloth with ornate cover and title embossed in white on cover and spine. Gilt embossed pages 125pp / 40 col reproductions Binding: Hardbound (original) Condition: Good. Colour illustrations for the rst time from the original sketches by the Author. iv. Southern India Painted by Lady Lawley Described by F.E. Penny London: A. & C. Black, 1914 First Edition 8.8 x 6.4 in (22.3 x 16.5 cm) Cover: Orange cloth printed with decorative design and title in gold on the spine 368pp / 50 col reproductions with tissue- guards and 1 fold-in map Binding: Hardbound (original) Condition: Good. The binding has loosened. v. The Old World Through Old Eyes - Three Years in Oriental Lands Mary S. Ware New York: G.P.Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1917 First Edition 8.7 x 6 in (22 x 15.1 cm) Cover: Blue rexine with title embossed in gold on the spine. Printed dustjacket. 571pp/ 16 b/w reproductions Binding: Hardbound (original) Condition: Good vi. Edward Lear’s Indian Journal - Watercolours and extracts from the diary of Edward Lear (1873-1875) Ed. Ray Murphy London: Jarrolds Publishers Ltd., 1953 First Edition 9.2 x 6.5 in (23.2 x 16.5 cm) Cover: Maroon rexine with title embossed in gold on the spine. Gilt-embossed image on l.r. of front cover. Printed dustjacket. 240 pp/ 9 col plates, 12 b/w illustrations with 13 line drawings Binding: Hardbound (original) Condition: Fragile vii. Impossible Picturesqueness Edward Lear’s Indian Watercolours, 1873 – 1875 Vidya Dehejia; Essay by Allen Staley Ahmedabad: reprinted by Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 8.6 x 11.2 in (22.3 x28.7 cm) Cover: Dusky rose rexin with title embossed in gold on the spine. Printed dustjacket. 133pp / 71 col and 4 b/w reproductions Binding: Hardbound (original) Condition: Good viii. Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan or The Central and Western Rajput States of India Lieut-Colonel James Tod Edited and notes by William Crooke Three Volumes London: Humphrey Milford, 1829 Reprinted in 1920 by OUP 7.3 x 5.1 in (18.5 x 13 cm) Cover: Blue paper, title in gold embossed on spine. Volume I: 663 pp/ 13 b/w reproductions Volume II: 721 pp/ 26 b/w reproductions Volume III: 647 pp/ 25 b/w reproductions and 1 folded map Binding: Hardbound (original) This is the reprinted edition of 1920. ix. Med Egron Lundgren I Indien/ With Egron Lundgren in India – A Selection of the Artist’s Watercolour Paintings and Drawings, 1858 – 1859 Karl Asplund Text in Swedish Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1931. Frontispiece: ‘Woman reclining against pillar’. 12.6 x 9.3 in (32.1 x 23.6 cm) Cover: Buff paper with a green border with image of 2 women. Titled embossed in black on front and spine. 119 pp/ 8 col tipped-in plates & 86 b/w plates with 21 b/w inset reproductions Binding: Hardbound (original) Condition: Good. Cover yellowed, minor stain on u.r. Lundgren was a Swedish artist who visited India during the Mutiny and this is an album of his work in north India. Lundgren’s engravings also appear in the Indian diary [published 1860] of London Times correspondent W H Russell, who had come to India to cover the Indian Mutiny. No. 224 of 500 copies INR 200,000 – 250,000 USD 4,500 – 5,650 (Set of 9)