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Lot 401

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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] GRINDLAY, CAPTAIN ROBERT MELVILLE scenery, costumes and architecture... on the western side of india

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1830 [but 1892]. Folio. Illustrated with chromolithographic vignette title-page and 36 chromolithographic plates, with guard sheets. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco and green marbled boards, richly gilt spine compartments, burgundy morocco spine label, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Joints and extremities lightly rubbed; ink ownership on front blank, very lightly foxed in margins, otherwise a clean and bright copy. Ex-library with book-plate on front paste-down, stamp on verso of front free endpaper, with call number in pencil on title-page; plates free of all markings.

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