Lot 8
  • 8

Forrest, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus.

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • A picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India. London: R. Ackermann, July 1 1824
4to (337 x 273mm.), hand-coloured vignette on title-page, folding engraved map, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates by T. Sutherland and G. Hunt after Forrest, hand-coloured aquatint vignette at end, text and plates watermarked 1824, modern half green morocco, top edge gilt, [Abbey, Travel 441; Tooley (1954) 227], light offsetting from map to title-page and from plates, binding slightly rubbed 

Condition

condition is described in the body of the catalogue unless otherwise stated
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