India (Lots 130-158)
BENGAL - Illustration of the Roads throughout Bengal, including those to Madras and Bombay... second edition. Calcutta: Asiatic Lithographic Company's Press, [1830?]. 8° (234 x 150mm). Lithographic folding index map and 112 partially hand-coloured plates. (Occasional light browning and staining throughout, creases and small tears to folding map.) Original publisher's half leather by T. Black of the Asiatic Lithographic Press (bookbinder's ticket), recently rebacked, marbled endpapers (covers heavily bumped, corners worn). Provenance: Numerous near contemporary pencil annotations.

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BENGAL - Illustration of the Roads throughout Bengal, including those to Madras and Bombay... second edition. Calcutta: Asiatic Lithographic Company's Press, [1830?]. 8° (234 x 150mm). Lithographic folding index map and 112 partially hand-coloured plates. (Occasional light browning and staining throughout, creases and small tears to folding map.) Original publisher's half leather by T. Black of the Asiatic Lithographic Press (bookbinder's ticket), recently rebacked, marbled endpapers (covers heavily bumped, corners worn). Provenance: Numerous near contemporary pencil annotations.

EXTREMELY RARE CALCUTTA IMPRINT. Only 2 copies can be traced in WorldCat (BL and Glasgow) and ABPC-online records only one copy sold at auction since 1975.

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