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PEACOCKE, Captain Stephen Ponsonby (1813-1872). Views in the Neilgherry and Koondah Ranges, Western Ghauts, Madras, at & about the Stations of Ootacamund and Conoor, and the Segoor, Koondah and Conoor Passes. London: Paul Gauci, [1847].
2o (510 x 332 mm). Tinted lithographed title and 14 (of 16) plates after Peacocke by Gauci. (Some spotted, mostly marginal.) Contemporary half morocco (plates sprung and loose in binding, rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. Peacocke was a British officer of the Bombay Army and is best remembered for his 17 drawings of historic landscape views in the Nilgiri Hills. Not in Abbey.
2o (510 x 332 mm). Tinted lithographed title and 14 (of 16) plates after Peacocke by Gauci. (Some spotted, mostly marginal.) Contemporary half morocco (plates sprung and loose in binding, rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. Peacocke was a British officer of the Bombay Army and is best remembered for his 17 drawings of historic landscape views in the Nilgiri Hills. Not in Abbey.