FIRST EDITION. Half calf with gilt to boards and spine. Raised bands to spine in six compartments, title in gilt in the second compartment. Small Folio (370x275 mm) 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates most mounted on India paper. Some foxing to plates. Luard is considered one of the most talented amateur artists who depicted India. Major John Luard (1790-1875) had a distinguished military career serving both as a Lieutenant at Waterloo and as a Captain at Bhurt-pore in 1825, but he also possessed considerable artistic talent as did the rest of his family and is considered one of the most talented of the many amateur artists who depicted India (See India Observed: India as Viewed by British Artists Victoria & Albert Mus. 1982 p.170). He often recorded his surroundings in sketchbooks though for this volume, the enormous expense of line engraving" induced him "to draw them himself upon stone." Contains numerous views of the Taj Delhi native peoples and plates of military and Indian costumes. Because the work was composed over a long time and used multiple printers (the plates were printed by C. Hullmandel; Maguire Lemercier & Co.; Maguire & Co.; and Graf & Soret), it is rarely found complete with all 60 plates. Coloured plates in order : 1. Title page. 2. Uncaptioned vignette frontispiece. 3. Major Kenned's House, Simla. 4. Itinerant Snake Catchers. 5. Cutteb Minar Shellie. 6. Tomb of Shumse-Un-Din Altumsh. 7. Gun at Bhurtpore. 8. Indian Armour. 9. Camp at Shekoabad. 10. Selim Gurh Dheli. 11. A Bugerow. 12. Boonnee Durwaza Lucknow. 13. Skinners Horse. 14. Hindostannee Costume. 15. Pilgrims. 16. Entrance to the Taj Mahal, Agra. 17. Taj Mahal, Agra. 18. Shawl Goats. 19. Itinerant Musicians. 20. Taj Mahal, Agra. 21. Sonnah Waller. 22. Festival of Buckrah Eade. 23. Chandnee Chauk, - Dheli. 24. The Judge Kutchery - Merut. 25. Native Cottage near Simla. 26. Toglakabad. 27. Bhurtpore 1826. 28. Missourie, from Landour. 29. Bhurtpore 1826. 30. Bhurtpore 1826. 31. Shere Shaws, Maosque - Dheli. 32. Shere Shaws Fort, Dheli. 33. Bhesties. 34. Dewanee Khass - Dieg. 35. Hindoo Ruin - Dheli. 36. Tomb at Dheli. 37. Near Lucknow. 38. Simla. 39. From Missourie. 40. Near Monghyr. 41. Aboo's Tomb - Merut. 42. Taj Mahal - Agra. 43. Benares. 44. Fagoo. 45. Broung. 46. Ruins of Delhi - from Adam Khawn Tomb. 47. A Nautch. 48. Unloading Baggage. 49. The Marchioness of Ely & General Hewitt. 50. Crossing the Line. 51. Albatross Shooting. 52. Car - Nicobar. 53. Car - Nicobar. 54. Car - Nicobar. 55. Saint Helena. 56. Huts Gate. 57. Longwood. 58. The Room in which Buonaparte Died. 59. Buonaparte's Tomb. 60. Latitude 27 degrees South.