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1. ADAMS, Robert. What we bought: the New World. Scenes from the DenverMetropolitan Area 1970-1974. Hannover, Stiftung Niedersachsen, 1995.Oblong 4to, 193 duotone plates; burgundy cloth in a like jacket, both fine. £600First edition, signed by Adams on the title-page. A typically engaging, andgorgeously printed, meditation on the romance and myth of the American West, inits past and its future, to accompany an exhibition at the Museum Sprengel,Hannover.INDIAN WATERCOLOURS, BY A PUPIL OF CHINNERY2. AMHERST, Lady Sarah Elizabeth Pitt (1801-1876). Two albums, with a totalof 58 watercolour drawings and 6 pencil sketches of landscapes andarchitectural views in India (49 scenes); as well as Madeira (1), Tenerife (1), Riode Janeiro (2), the Cape of Good Hope (10) and St. Helena (1). Captioned anddated 1823-1828.Two oblong albums: album I (190 x 285 mm) with 17 scenes including 8 doublepagepanoramas, plus 1 unfinished pencil sketch; album II (284 x 325 mm) with 41scenes including 5 double-page panoramas, one laid in loose, plus five unfinishedpencil sketches. In excellent condition, on heavy cartridge paper, bound incontemporary half red morocco and marbled boards (rebacked and recornered, theoriginal spine laid down on album II); album I signed at the front ‘S E Amherst,1819’; album II with the original morocco label, gilt, on the front cover ‘The Hon bleMiss Amherst’; both albums with the bookplate of Lord Amherst, Governor ofBengal; slipcase. £75,000An exceptional visual record of British India in the 1820s, produced by thedaughter of the Governor-General of Bengal, William Pitt Amherst (1773-1857).The albums include scenes of the voyage out via South America; Calcutta andBarrackpore; a grand tour through the Upper Provinces to Shimla in 1827; and thejourney home via South Africa in 1828.

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