Rare Books on Hindoostan
23rd - 24th May,2018
Winning Bid
Cloth binding, spine gilt with stamped red moroccon leather title label on spine. The last plate is trimmed and rebacked.
This lot contains plates carefully reduced and copied from the large folio
edition, published between 1795 and 1808, under the supervision of the Daniells.
Thomas Daniell, assisted by his nephew and travelling partner William
Daniell, produced his best-known images depicting India. Oriental Scenery has visual representation of Mughal and Dravidian monuments, cityscapes and sublime views of mountains and waterfalls and formed the
most extensive work of its kind. This book was highly sough after in London, Bombay and Calcutta.
References: Abbey Travel 432; Archer p.235; Sutton 13.
This lot is over one hundred years old or National Art Treasure, cannot
be exported out of India as per Antiques and Art Treasures Act, 1972.