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Lot 242

Shelf of Antiquarian Travel and British Colonial Studies of India.

Estimate: $600 - $900

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[India] Shelf of Antiquarian Travel and British Colonial Studies of India. Including: Travels in the Mogul Empire (William Pickering, 1826), Bernier, trans. Brock, two half-leather vols., corrigenda slip bound-in; India Three Thousand Years Ago (London, 1858), 86pp.; Wild Races of South-Eastern India (London, 1870); Tavernier?s Travels in India (1889), two vols.; The Indian Village Community (1896), folding map; Travels in the East Indian Archipelago (1869), pict. cloth, map, plates; Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India (1894); Mystic, Ascetics, and Saints of India (1903); The Tribes Inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills (Mangalore, 1864); History of India (1841), Elphinstone; Diversions of a Prime Minister (1894); The Parsees (1858), Framjee; Sketches of the Mythology and Customs of the Hindoos (1785), Forster, lacks frontis.; Mogul Tales (1743), Gueletee, two vols., six copperplate engravings; The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India (1807), three vols., plates, folding engr. map; Indian Wisdom (1876), Williams; and The Aborigines of India (Calcutta, 1847), Hodgson, two plates, one folding. Uneven condition, with scattered defects and ex-libris stamps and markings; should be examined; a group, sold as is.