Lot 181
India.- Lawson (Charles Allen) Narrative of the Celebration of The Jubilee of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India, in Madras,, first edition, Macmillan & Co., 1887
Hammer Price: £3,000
Description
India.- Lawson (Charles Allen) Narrative of the Celebration of The Jubilee of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India, in Madras, first edition, frontispiece portrait of Queen Victoria by Alexander Bassanoone, coloured map and 38 mounted albumen prints, occasional damp-staining to margins (just straying into frontispiece image) with some light cockling, some light marking or soiling to text, mostly marginal, watered silk endpapers, original red and green morocco, richly gilt, some darkening, lower cover with chipping to green morocco onlay, extremities rubbed, g.e., folio, Macmillan & Co., 1887.
⁂ With views of Madras, Conjeeveram, Madura, Ootacamund, Tanjore, Trichinopoly, Vellore, Trivandrum, and many other towns, as well as portraits of The Rajahs of Travancore, Vizianagram, & Cochin.
Description
India.- Lawson (Charles Allen) Narrative of the Celebration of The Jubilee of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India, in Madras, first edition, frontispiece portrait of Queen Victoria by Alexander Bassanoone, coloured map and 38 mounted albumen prints, occasional damp-staining to margins (just straying into frontispiece image) with some light cockling, some light marking or soiling to text, mostly marginal, watered silk endpapers, original red and green morocco, richly gilt, some darkening, lower cover with chipping to green morocco onlay, extremities rubbed, g.e., folio, Macmillan & Co., 1887.
⁂ With views of Madras, Conjeeveram, Madura, Ootacamund, Tanjore, Trichinopoly, Vellore, Trivandrum, and many other towns, as well as portraits of The Rajahs of Travancore, Vizianagram, & Cochin.