SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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BARRON, Captain Richard.
Views in India, Chiefly Among the Neelgherry Hills.

They feature Ootacamund and its surrounding landscape, which is one of the principal towns in the Neelgherry (Nilgiri) Hills - a mountain range in southern India noted for its tea and coffee estates. It became a popular resort among British officials and was the summer capital of the Madras Presidency after the region was ceded to the British East India Company in 1798-99. The East India Company commissioned thousands of views of this kind to help consolidate its authority over the region.

Published
London: Robtert Havell, 1837.
References
Abbey (Travel), II 459; Prideaux p. 249, 327.
Plates
7
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
0-5000
Published
London: Robtert Havell, 1837.
Ref
1462

FIRST EDITION. Folio (583 mm x 436 mm) 6 beautiful, large hand-coloured aquatints, each mounted on grey paper as issued with a single letterpress sheet, with an engraved key vignette on Indian paper laid down, one hand-coloured costume aquatint. [vii] (of ix). Bound in half black morocco over olive coloured boards, black morocco label to the upper board within a gilt border and with gilt lettering reading: "The Neelgherry Hills. Capt. Richard Barron1837". Single line gilt in rule to boards raised bands in gilt and blind to spine. Excellent condition. Coloured plates in order: 1. Male & Female Toda. 2. A view of the Late Sir William Rumbold's House & the west end of the bazaar. 3. A General View of Ootacamund. 4. A view taken in the Commandant's garden, looking northeast, including C.M. Lushington's House and Kelsoe Land. 5. Taken from the bridge seen in [plate] 1. Looking at the south side of the lake. 6. Taken at Kandelmund. The Toda family inhabiting. 7. The Kaitee Waterfall, as seen from the road exactly opposite, looking west.