Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947) Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt

Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947) Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt Jahreswende 1893-1894. Hanover: [privately printed], 1939. First edition, number 18 of an unspecified limitation, inscribed by the author to Frau Martha Loewe on the limitation page, 4to, original quarter cloth, mimeographed typescript, [1] 43 [3] leaves, 11 gelatin silver print photographs on 8 stiff card mounts with typescript captions (6 of them 20 x 15.5cm, the others smaller), plain paper dust jacket; Colebrooke, H. T. Miscellaneous Essays. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837. 2 volumes, 8vo, later quarter cloth, 7 folding lithographic plates (facsimiles of ancient Indian documents and inscriptions), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Pandit Sundar Lal, advocate, high court, Allahabad, worming, plates browned, plate 1 torn along stub; Hasegawa, Denziro. Travel to India with Leica, Tokyo: Meguro Shoten, 1939 (first edition, 4to, original yellow hessian lettered in brown, 213 pp., text in Japanese and English, 192 halftone photographs (on pp. 1-124), folding map, spine rubbed); and 4 others: E. F. Burton, Reminiscences of Sport in India, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1885 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth, spine rolled, lending library label to front board, 8 lithographic plates, pp. 207/8 and 289/90 loose, a few blemishes and marks); J. D. Rees, H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India, with a Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore by G. P. Sanderson, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1891 (4to, recent red cloth, top edge gilt, xvi 213 pp., 5 autotype photographic portrait plates including frontispiece, 24 photogravure plates, folding map, text-leaves partly unopened, browning, worming (stronger towards front of volume, reducing towards middle), plate facing p. 74 chipped along fore edge, text-leaf I1 with closed marginal tears); Wibraham Egerton, An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms ... exhibited at the India Museum, London: William H. Allen & Co., 1880 (first edition, 4to, later cloth, folding map, 15 lithographic plates of which 2 in colours and several folding, original front wrapper bound in, lacking final leaf of index, spotting, tape repairs to half-title and index); and Sir John Malcolm, The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, London: John Murray, 1836 (first edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, modern cloth, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding map, ex-library, not collated) Qty: (10) Note: Konrad Wrede was a German army officer, collector and arts patron. No copies of Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt traced in libraries. WorldCat cites three copies only of Hasegawa's work in libraries world-wide, with none in the United Kingdom.