WITH 24 LARGE SPLENDID HAND-COLORED VIEWS OF INDIA

(INDIA) FORREST, Lieutenant-Colonel [Charles Ramus]. A Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India: Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Coloured Views… from Original Drawings Made on the Spot. London: R. Ackermann, 1824. Quarto (11-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), modern, three-quarter navy morocco.    $18,000.

First edition of this renowned India color-plate book, with 24 splendidly hand-colored aquatint views after original drawings by Forrest and large folding map showing the Ganges and the Jumna, handsomely bound.

A spectacular series of views made by Forrest during a voyage along the Ganges and its tributary the Jumna, including plates of Benares, Allahabad, Lucknow, Delhi and the Taj Mahal in Agra. With folding engraved map, hand-colored vignette title page and vignette tailpiece, and 122-page history of India. Plates watermarked 1824. Tooley 227. Abbey, Travel 441.

Plates exceptionally lovely and vivid, faint offsetting from plates to facing text, binding fine. A beautiful copy in fine condition.