FORREST (Charles Ramus). A picturesque tour along the rivers - Lot 146

FORREST (Charles Ramus). A picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna in India: Consisting of twenty-four highly finished and coloured views London, Ackermann, 1824. In-4, dark green morocco, 5-ribbed spine, gilt author, title and date, caissons bordered by a double fillet with gilt corner finials, similarly decorated boards, double gilt fillet to edges, gilt inner lace, gilt head [Morrell binder London] (transfers of plates on facing pages, and text on some plates). One of the most beautiful books on India. Relation du voyage de Calcutta à Delhi fait en 1807 par le lieutenant-colonel Forrest, en poste au Bengale (depuis 1802), le long du Gange et de la Jumna, accompagné de quarante hommes et deux cents serviteurs. The beautiful views that accompany the text depict the monuments, sites and villages visited: Moorshedabad, the Rajemahal mountains, Motee Girna, Colgong, Janguira, Benares, tombs, Lucknow, the King's palace in Delhi, the Taj Mahal, etc. The work consists of a folding map entitled "Sketch of the rivers Ganges and Jumna, from their mouth's, to their issue from the mountains", IV pages (title with watercolor-enhanced vignette, and preface), [1] f., 191 pp. 24 superb aquatint-engraved plates colored by G. Hunt and Thomas Sutherland after Forrest, one watercolor-enhanced cul-de-lampe. Armorial bookplate George Prideaux reported. (Brunet II, 1345).