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HOME, Robert (1750?-1836?). Select Views in Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan; from Drawings Taken on the Spot. London: T. Bensley for Mr. Bowyer, 1794.
4o (333 x 276 mm). 4 folding maps and plans (one hand-colored) and 29 engraved plates by Fittler, Byrne and others after Robert Home (small tear to fold of plan and maps, light browning). Contemporary red morocco gilt (spine scuffed, extremities rubbed, white typed label attached to cover).
FIRST EDITION. Between 1791 and 1792, Robert Home followed Lord Cornwallis's army in the Third Anglo-Mysore war. In the late fall of 1792, he turned his focus toward painting India's landscape and completed this work. Cox I 304.
4o (333 x 276 mm). 4 folding maps and plans (one hand-colored) and 29 engraved plates by Fittler, Byrne and others after Robert Home (small tear to fold of plan and maps, light browning). Contemporary red morocco gilt (spine scuffed, extremities rubbed, white typed label attached to cover).
FIRST EDITION. Between 1791 and 1792, Robert Home followed Lord Cornwallis's army in the Third Anglo-Mysore war. In the late fall of 1792, he turned his focus toward painting India's landscape and completed this work. Cox I 304.