India.- Hunter (Lt. James) Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore, 9 original parts only (of 10), first edition, 37 hand-coloured aquatints, original wrappers, W.Bulmer & Co. for Edward Orme, 1805.

India.- Hunter (Lt. James) Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore, Parts 1-8 & 10 only (of 10), first edition, hand-coloured stipple-engraved portrait of Tippoo Sultan and 36 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue guards, light foxing to title and portrait, some light marginal soiling to plates, plates of Part 7 (26-29) with a few damp spots, stitched in the original blue wrappers with hexagonal stipple-engraved pictorial labels depicting camel to upper covers and numbered in manuscript (one or two lacking or detached and loosely inserted), contemporary ink signature to upper outer corner of wrappers or first plate of each part, soiled and marked, some paper spines lacking or detached, [Tooley 275; cf. Abbey, Travel 424], oblong folio, W.Bulmer & Co. for Edward Orme, 1805.

⁂ One of the finest colour-plate books of India with superb views and scenes of everyday life, and rare to be found in the original parts. It was later issued with Daniell and Ward's Twenty-Four Views in Hindostan as Blagdon's Brief History of Ancient and Modern India.