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8" X 5 3/8" in brown leather with embossed snakes on the cover with an elephant in gilt. Heavily rubbed at corners, spine ends, both hinges cracking. An Englishman's look at exotic India in the 1830's. Illustrated with 22 engravings from drawings by William Daniell, R.A. 263pp + 4pp of publisher's ads. Seller Inventory # 002981
Title: THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL or SCENES IN INDIA
Publisher: Bull and Churton, London
Publication Date: 1835
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Seller: Erik Oskarsson Antikvariat, Lund, Sweden
Hardcover. Condition: Good. New Delhi, Asian Education Services. 1996. (12)+242 pages +plates. Publisher's cloth. The spine is a bit bumped and slanted. Indian facsimile reprint of the 1838 edition. Seller Inventory # 1133215
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Facsimile of 1836 edition. Small 8vo. Prelims. + 297pp. B/w. frontispiece and illustrations. Original pictorial maroon boards lettered in gilt. US$22. Seller Inventory # 186653
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Renaissance Books, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good+. Bumping on bookends and spine. First 6 pages are loose. Book shows it's age and has mild-moderate foxing throughout. Gilt on all edges. No lean. Clear text and illustration on bookends and spine. Mylar sleeve. Price sticker attached to outside of front cover on top of mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # ABE-1737752654015
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Type: Book rebacked, aeg, lacks 5 engravings othwise internally fine. Seller Inventory # 033010
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Daniell, William (after) (illustrator). Presumed First. London: Bull and Churton, 1835 vi + 263 pp + 4 pp of advertisments. Two engravings frontis plus twenty exceptionally handsome engrvings in text of scenes and animals in India after William Daniell. . The Oriental Annual is the second of a planned three volume set containing descriptions of the three English Presidencies in India. The first covered Madras, this volume describes Calcutta. Ultimately seven volumes by the author with illustrations by Daniell were published. Dedicated to the then-Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duches of Kent. Text is clean, tight and undamaged, no foxing Front hinge cracked but holding. Oriiginal blind -stamped with a pattern of coiled snakes surrounding a gold-stamped imaged of three men riding an elephant, Gold stmped title with palm tree and camel on spine. Pigskin leather boards in VG condition with slight loss along edges. Gilt edged pages. Previous owner's name in pencil plus binders' stamp on front end-papers. Presumed First. Stamped Leather. Very Good Plus. Illus. by Daniell, William (after). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 001431
Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB), Stockholm, Sweden
Pp. (viii), 297, (1), adv. (6). With 22 steel engravings after drawings by William Daniell, including frontispiece and extra title. All protected by tissue guards. Publisher's embossed cloth, spines and covers blind-stamped and richly decorated in gilt, a.e.g., expertly rebacked.Deals with a journey visiting Madras, Tanjore, Madurai, Trichengur, Seringapatam, kingdom of Coorg Rajah, Cochin, Angria Bank, Muscat in Oman and finally Bombay and its vicinity. The beautiful plates depict views, sacred and famous buildings and sites, exotic animals including wild beasts fights and tiger hunt, etc. William Daniell travelled in India with his uncle Thomas Daniell for eight years and they produced a number of highly desirable aquatint illustrated works of the country including the renowned "Oriental Scenery" (1794). This volume is included in a series of seven volumes issued between 1834 and 1840. Seller Inventory # 120359
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two frontispieces, vi, [2], 263p.[4]. Original brown morocco with gilt stamped designs on the boards within blind stamped frame. Gilt spine and foredge. Complete with the twenty-two engravings. John Hobart Caunter (1792 1851) was an English cleric and writer. Tissue guard in front of each engravings. Nominal rubbing to the hinges and small scratch mark on the upper portion of the front board. A remarkably well preserved copy. Seller Inventory # 008318
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. 8vo. pp. vi, [1 leaf], 263, [2]ads. 22 steel engravings after drawings by William Daniell (incl frontis. & additional title). original full morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt & blind incorporating images of snakes, elephants, & a camel, all edges gilt (light foxing to a few plates). Faxon p. 108. Seller Inventory # FUNEeCAUN84
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 297, [1], [6]ads. 22 steel engravings after drawings by William Daniell (incl frontis. & additional title). original full morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt & blind incorporating images of snakes, elephants, & a camel, all edges gilt (very short splits in upper joints, 2 tissue guards lacking, light foxing to a few plates). Faxon p. 108. Seller Inventory # FUNeCAUN86
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 254, [2]ads. 25 steel engravings after drawings by William Daniell (incl frontis. & additional title). original full morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt & blind incorporating images of snakes, elephants, & a camel, all edges gilt (1 tissue guard missing, light foxing or marginal soiling to a few plates). Faxon p. 108. Seller Inventory # FUNeCAUN82
Quantity: 1 available