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[INDIA]
Costumes of India, Part 1.
Ten numbered hand-coloured plates showing 28 Indian figures or subjects ranging from dancing girls to ayahs.
- Published
- Asiatic Lithographic Press, Calcutta, 1827.
- References
- Abbey Travel 446; Bobins supplementary list 08/14.
- Plates
- 10
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Asiatic Lithographic Press, Calcutta, 1827.
- Ref
- 5035
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, small oblong folio (10 x 15 inches), in early 20th-century red morocco over marbled boards. Coloured plates in order: 1. Costumes. Sircar / Banyan / Sirdour-Bearer / Khansamah. 2. Costumes. Chuprasse / Hurkaru / Hookah Burdar / Bheesty. 3. Costumes. Sircar / Hurkourah / Fukeer / Ayah. 4. Costumes. Hackery / Palkee and Bearers / Kharanchy. 5. Costumes. Dancing Girl / Sepoy / Carrying Water / Selling Hookah Snakes. 6. Costumes. Making Butter / Selling Moraks / Jogee / Selling Sweetmeats. 7. Costumes. A Pilgrim carrying Ganges Water / Bheastee. 8. Costumes. A man making Hubble-Bubble or Hookahs from the Cocoanut. 9. Shop near Mendy Kaooaum. 10. Costumes. A Show Man.
