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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. The author(1882-1859) was a captain in the Bengal Engineers and artist. He was the son of the surgeon James Atkinson. Atkinson's paintings depicted colonial military life in India both in peace and action. In this edition the b/w sketches by the author of earlier editions had become 40*hand-coloured lithographed plates each protected by glassine paper. Unpaginated, 91pp. Original publishers cloth bindings. Brown cloth boards with gilt decoration to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Gilt to all page edges. Light shelf-wear to extremities. Spine cloth sunned. Marbled endpapers. Heavy foxing to title page with only the lightest foxing to the margins close to the page edges elsewhere. Pages and text-block sound.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. First edition of this uncommon account of the eventful if mournful reign of Shah Alam II (1728-1806), one of the last of the Mughal emperors, restored to his throne by the Marathas in 1788. NThe History of the Reign of Shah-Aulum, the Present Emperor of Hindostaun. Containing the Transactions of the Court of Delhi, and the Neighbouring States, during a Period of Thirty-Six Years: interspersed with Geographical and Topographical Observations on Several of the Principal Cities of Hindostaun. Includes b/w frontis. protected by tissue. xx+254pp. Original boards replaced with three-quater brown cloth and marbled paper covered to remainder. Endpapers replaced. Well bound with the text block and pages in good order other than some yellowing and foxing.

Or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our" Station in India. First edition. Title page vignette and thirty-nine other splendid full-page colour litho plates. 4to. Later full calf, with gilt borders. Top fore-corner stain affecting couple of blanks and engraved frontispiece (lettering and image unaffected). No pagination, but having 2pp descriptions with each plate and 9 preliminary pages (one slightly torn at fore-edge). London, Day & Son, c.