Fine Books & Manuscripts

Auction 20048

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10 Oct 2012, starting at 10:00 PDT (13:00 EDT).

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Fine Books & Manuscripts, starting with lot 2001.

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Auction highlights

Sold for US$ 80,500 inc. premium

WATSON, JOHN FORBES, AND JOHN WILLIAM KAYE. The People of India: a Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of ...

Sold for US$ 56,250 inc. premium

BRASHER, REX. 1869-1960. Birds and Trees of North America. Chickadee Valley near Kent, CT: 1929-1932.

Sold for US$ 53,750 inc. premium

THOMSON, JOHN. 1837-1921. Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Description of the ...

Sold for US$ 52,500 inc. premium

FOUJITA, TSUGUHARU, illustrator. JOSEPH, MICHAEL. A Book of Cats. New York: Covici Friede, 1930.

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2055	TURGOT, MICHELLE ETIENNE, MARQUIS DE SOUSMONS. 1690-1751. Plan de Paris, commencé l'année 1734. Achevé de Graveur en 1739. [Paris: 1739 or 1740].	US$ 16,250 £10,759 €12,574
2056	ALBUM—COMPANY SCHOOL. Album containing 44 fine watercolor sketches and 74 albumen print photographs,	US$ 4,375 £2,896 €3,385
2057	ALBUM—WATERCOLORS. Album assembled by Catherine Whinyates of Allahabad, c.1802,	US$ 1,375 £910 €1,063
2058	BAKER, WILLIAM H., AND JOHN BURKE. Album containing 96 photographs by William H. Baker and John Burke,	US$ 18,750 £12,415 €14,509
2059	[BEATO, FELICE, and others.] Album titled in manuscript "Photographic Views of Delhi & Lucknow ... Collected by W.J.H. in 1858, at Delhi," containing 16 images of Delhi and 15 of Lucknow, all by Felice Beato,	US$ 47,500 £31,452 €36,756
2060	[BEATO, FELICE. 1832-1909.] Panorama of Delhi taken from the Jamma Masjid,	US$ 35,000 £23,175 €27,083
2061	[BEATO, FELICE. 1832-1909.] Panorama of Lucknow taken from the Great Imambara,	US$ 25,000 £16,553 €19,345
2062	[BEATO, FELICE. 1832-1909.] Panorama of Lucknow taken from the Kaiserbagh,	US$ 13,750 £9,104 €10,639
2064	BOMBAY, SECUNDERABAD, AND ELSEWHERE. Album containing approximately 65 photographs,	US$ 1,062 £703 €822
2066	COLEBROOKE, HENRY THOMAS. 1765-1837. A Grammar of the Sanscrit Language. Calcutta: printed at the Honorable Company's Press, 1805.	US$ 4,000 £2,648 €3,095
2067	DANIELL, THOMAS AND WILLIAM. Oriental Scenery ... Containing ... Views of the Architecture, Antiquities and Landscape Scenery of Hindoostan. [London: Free-School Press for Thomas and William Daniell, 1812-1816. ]	US$ 15,000 £9,932 €11,607
2068	DELHI DURBAR. WHEELER, J. TALBOYS. The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi. London: Longmans, [1877].	US$ 2,500 £1,655 €1,934
2069	DOG SHOW ALBUM. Album containing 20 photographs of the Patiala Championship Dog Show,	US$ 1,500 £993 €1,160
2070	[D'OYLY, CHARLES. 1781-1845.] [Antiquities of Dacca. London: J. Landseer, c.1814-1827.]	US$ 4,375 £2,896 €3,385
2071	[D'OYLY, CHARLES, AND CHRISTOPHER W. SMITH.] [Indian Dead Game. Patna: privately printed at the Behar Lithographic Press, 1830.]	US$ 4,375 £2,896 €3,385
2072	GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. 1869-1948.	US$ 25,000 £16,553 €19,345
2073	HARDINGE, CHARLES STEWART. 1822-1894. Recollections of India. London: Thomas McLean, 1847.	US$ 10,000 £6,621 €7,738
2074	HOME, ROBERT. C.1750-1836. Select Views in Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan. London: Bowyer, 1794.	US$ 687 £455 €531
2076	HUNZIKER, JAKOB. B.1831. Nature's Selfprinting: a Series of Useful and Ornamental Plates of the South Indian Flora ... Taken from Fresh Specimens in Facsimile Colors. Mangalore: Botanautographed and Published by J. Hunziker, Basel Mission Press, 1862.	US$ 47,500 £31,452 €36,756
2077	JACOB, SAMUEL S., AND THOMAS H. HENDLEY. Jeypore Enamels. London: W. Griggs, 1886.	US$ 2,000 £1,324 €1,547
2078	JACOB, SAMUEL SWINTON. 1841–1917. Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1890.	US$ 3,125 £2,069 €2,418
2081	LUARD, JOHN. 1790–1875. Views in India, Saint Helena and Car Nicobar. London: [1838].	US$ 2,750 £1,820 €2,127
2082	MICA ALBUM. Album containing 49 paintings, mid-19th century, watercolor on mica,	US$ 687 £455 €531
2083	MILITARY. [ENTHOVEN, PERCY.] Diary of the march of the 55th Field Battery R.A., from Ahmedabad to Saugor. [India?: privately printed, c.1898.]	US$ 1,500 £993 €1,160
2084	MOTORING—ALBUMS. A pair of albums, containing upwards of 350 photographs,	US$ 3,750 £2,483 €2,901
2085	NANGA PARBAT—HIMALAYAS. HERRLIGKOFFER, KARL M., AND HANS HOFMANN. Schicksalsberg Nanga Parbat. Radebeul: Imago Strahlbild, [1955].	US$ 812 £537 €628
2086	PRINSEP, JAMES. 1799-1840. Benares Illustrated in a Series of Drawings. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1831-1833.	US$ 3,750 £2,483 €2,901
2087	PUNJAB. Original Sketches in the Punjaub. By a Lady. London: Dickinson, 1854.	US$ 11,250 £7,449 €8,705
2089	SCOTT, ALLAN NEWTON. Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency. London: Lovell Reeve, 1862.	US$ 7,500 £4,966 €5,803
2090	SOLTYKOFF, ALEXIS. 1806-1859. Indian Scenes and Characters: Sketched from Life. London: Smith, Elder, 1859.	US$ 18,750 £12,415 €14,509
2091	SOLVYNS, FRANS BALTASAR. 1760-1824. The Costume of Hindostan Elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engraving; with Descriptions in French and English, Taken in the Years 1798 and 1799. London: J. Hayes for E. Orme, 1807 [plates watermarked 1818].	US$ 3,125 £2,069 €2,418
2092	TOD, JAMES. 1782-1835. Annals and Antiquities of Rajas'than. London: Smith, Elder, 1829-1832.	US$ 2,375 £1,572 €1,837
2093	WATSON, JOHN FORBES, AND JOHN WILLIAM KAYE. The People of India: a Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan. London: India Museum: 1868-1875.	US$ 80,500 £53,303 €62,292
2094	WIGHT, ROBERT. 1796-1872. Illustrations of Indian Botany; or Figures Illustrative of each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plants. Madras: J.B. Pharoah for the Author, [1838]-1840.	US$ 2,750 £1,820 €2,127
2095	WILLIAMSON, THOMAS. The Costume and Customs of Modern India; from a Collection of Drawings by Charles Doyley. London: Edward Orme, [plates watermarked 1821].	US$ 3,125 £2,069 €2,418