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SIR CHARLES D'OYLY (1781-1845)
Costumes of India. [Behar:] Printed at the Lithographic Press, January 1830. Oblong 8° (250 x 300mm). Mounted lithographic title and 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates mounted on card. Original card wrappers with mounted lithographic label to upper cover (rebacked and recornered, lightly soiled, label rubbed), contained in a half calf box. Provenance: Francis Gray Smart (armorial booklabel).
VERY RARE -- ONLY THREE COPIES CAN BE TRACED IN INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES British Library, Yale and University of Melbourne (this latter defective with 10 leaves only). According to AE, only one copy has sold at auction (Bloomsbury, 20 July 2006, lot 226). NOT IN ABBEY, COLAS OR LIPPERHEIDE.
Costumes of India. [Behar:] Printed at the Lithographic Press, January 1830. Oblong 8° (250 x 300mm). Mounted lithographic title and 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates mounted on card. Original card wrappers with mounted lithographic label to upper cover (rebacked and recornered, lightly soiled, label rubbed), contained in a half calf box. Provenance: Francis Gray Smart (armorial booklabel).
VERY RARE -- ONLY THREE COPIES CAN BE TRACED IN INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES British Library, Yale and University of Melbourne (this latter defective with 10 leaves only). According to AE, only one copy has sold at auction (Bloomsbury, 20 July 2006, lot 226). NOT IN ABBEY, COLAS OR LIPPERHEIDE.