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Louis Rousselet : India and its Native Princes Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal

Bickers and Son,, London, c. 1878

Original crimson half morocco with matching marbled boards, Marbled free end papers, 5 raised bands in 6 compartments. Decorative tooled gilt design on spine. Title in red and black. Gilt edges., A very good copy in decorative half crimson morocco. Text and plates are clean., Small folio (245mm x 335m, P. Half title, blank, blank, Frontis, blank, Title,blank, dedication, blank, preface (2), Contents (vii-xiv), list of illustrations (xv-xviii), 1-576, Vocabulary 577-579), Illustrated with a profusion of full page plates and maps.

This beautifully illustrated book depicts and describes life in central India in the mid-to-late 1800s. Rousselet’s album of photographs he took while traveling through India sold for over $100,000 at Christie’s — photographs which were no doubt used for the many full-page engraved plates which adorn this book.
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