VIEWS IN THE EAST: COMPRISING INDIA, CANTON, AND THE SHORES OF THE RED SEA; WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

by Capt. Robert Elliott

$1,500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

London: H. Fisher Son & Co., 1833. 1st ed. 2 vols. 4to. 120 pp. 30 engraved plates on India paper with tissue guards. Elliot was a topographical draughtsman in the East between 1822 and 1824; later his sketches were developed and finished by Samuel Prout, Clarkson Stanfield, and others. Contemporary black-morocco rebacked and marble boards, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt titles on spines; plates with scattered foxing, but a very good copy of the

• Binding: Leather

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