Quarto. (28 x 22cm) 30 lithographed plates by Dumphy after Fonceca, of which 22 are hand-coloured, with captions. Minor marks to one plate but otherwise very fresh; lithographic wrapper title; original blue boards with gilt title to upper board, worn label to spine, in a black slipcase. A fine set of lithographed sketches by Simon Fonceca, an Anglo-Portuguese artist based in Madras. RARE. Coloured plates in order: 1. Waterwoman (going for water.) 2. Boatmen. 3. The Accommodation Boat. 4, The Dressing Boy. 5. A Lady's Ayah. 6. A Native School (Bazaar Road, Madras.) 7. The Milk Maid. 8. Collonjee. 9. A Sepoy of the Madras Army. 10. A Corothee Woman selling well ropes. 11. A Gaddy, or Native Carriage. 12. A Nautch Girl, in dancing attitude. 13. The poor Shoemaker. 14. A Pacally water-bullock. 15. An Oobren Tank digger Woman. 16. The Rubbish cart. 17. A 'Kongnee' Woman of Condapilly. 18. A Mahratta Peasant. 19. A Sketch on the North Beach. 20. A Hindoostanes Songstress. 21. An Infantry and an Artillery Soldier of Pondicherry. 22. A Hindoo Pagoda in ruins, North of Perambore.