boyd edwin ruthven (1 Ergebnisse)

First and only edition. An attractive and well-illustrated travelogue compromising a comprehensive tour of the Indian subcontinent including Sri Lanka and also Burma, concluding with a whirlwind dash through "Suez, Cairo, and the Desert". Uncommon with just three locations on WorldCat, British Library, National Library of Scotland, and University of Glasgow. Boyd, a well-travelled chartered accountant of Thinacre, Ayrshire, later privately published an account of his services in WWI with the Cameronians, A Yarn of War, Palestine and France, 1917-1918. Octavo (189 x 125 mm). 24 half-tone plates from the author's photographs. Original moderate blue morocco, lettered in gilt on the spine, raised bands, single fillet panels to the compartments, palmette centre tools with stars in the corners, single fillet panel on both boards, broken line roll gilt on the board edges, top edge gilt the others uncut, single gilt fillet around the turn ins, pale pink and blue marble endpapers. Spine very slightly sunned, boards a touch sprung, tan burn on the free endpapers, but in all respects a clean, bright copy, very good.