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Herman, Adolphe and Robert de Schlagintweit
Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia undertaken between the years 1854 and 1858 by order of the court of directors of the Honourable East India Company. Leipzig and London: Brockhaus and Trubner & Co., 1861.
Atlas volume only in four original parts, elephant 2° (945 x 625mm). Printed title and dedication, 9 lithographic maps, 7 in colour, 1 meteorological chart, 7 profiles, and plates 1-2, 4, 6-7, 9-13, 17-29 only (of 29), plate 7 on two sheets, plates 4, 6, 11 and 18 with two illustrations, plates 21-26 on three sheets, all coloured lithographs. (Some slight spotting and dust-soiling, a few minor marginal tears.) Loose as issued in original cloth-backed boards (lacks spines, most ties lacking).
One of the finest examples of topographical views in 19th-century coloured lithography, printed by Storch & Kramer and W. Loeillet in Berlin, and Lemercier in Paris, lithographed by Koch in Berlin and Sabatier in Paris, after watercolours by Hermann de Schlagintweit. Yakushi S65. (4)
Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia undertaken between the years 1854 and 1858 by order of the court of directors of the Honourable East India Company. Leipzig and London: Brockhaus and Trubner & Co., 1861.
Atlas volume only in four original parts, elephant 2° (945 x 625mm). Printed title and dedication, 9 lithographic maps, 7 in colour, 1 meteorological chart, 7 profiles, and plates 1-2, 4, 6-7, 9-13, 17-29 only (of 29), plate 7 on two sheets, plates 4, 6, 11 and 18 with two illustrations, plates 21-26 on three sheets, all coloured lithographs. (Some slight spotting and dust-soiling, a few minor marginal tears.) Loose as issued in original cloth-backed boards (lacks spines, most ties lacking).
One of the finest examples of topographical views in 19th-century coloured lithography, printed by Storch & Kramer and W. Loeillet in Berlin, and Lemercier in Paris, lithographed by Koch in Berlin and Sabatier in Paris, after watercolours by Hermann de Schlagintweit. Yakushi S65. (4)