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KASHMIR COLE (HENRY HARDY) Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir, W.H. Allen for the India Museum, 1869
2 March 2022, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £382.50 inc. premium
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KASHMIR
COLE (HENRY HARDY) Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir. Prepared under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council from Photographs, Plans and Drawings taken by Order of the Government of India, 43 mounted carbon autotype prints (numbered 1-44), lithographed map and 13 plates (only, of 14), light foxing to plates and margins of photographs, one or two tears at edges, modern half calf gilt, matching slipcase [cf. Gernsheim, Incunabula 485, recording 2 editions of that year], folio (325 x 230mm.), W.H. Allen for the India Museum, 1869
Footnotes
The fine photographs were taken by John Burke (1843-1900), a commercial photographer operating from Murree and Peshawar. He accompanied, alongside two "native surveyors, Thakoor Dass and Habeeb-oo-lah", Cole's expedition to the Kashmir Valley in October 1868 to survey the great pre-Islamic temples scattered through the region.
Provenance: Kanwardip Gujral; his sale, Bonhams, 9 April 2008, lot 18.