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TITLE: Annals and Antiquities of Rajas'than or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India
VOLUME: 1
AUTHOR: Lieutenant -Colonel James Tod
PUBLISHER: Smith Elder, and Co., and Calkin and Budd
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1829
BINDING: Later binding in full calf leather, attractively ornamented covers (intricately blind / gilt embossed front and back covers)
NO.OF PAGES: pp.xxx + 806 pages including 1 b & w frontispiece + 1 engraved plate folded in 8 parts +1 color map + 29 b & w engraved plates
SIZE:
Height: 32.1 cm
Width: 26 cm
Depth: 7 cm
Inscription copy with the signature of the collector at the beginning page.
TITLE: Annals and Antiquities of Rajas'than or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India
VOLUME: 2
AUTHOR: Lieutenant -Colonel James Tod
PUBLISHER: Smith Elder, and Co., and Calkin and Budd
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1832
BINDING: Later binding in full calf leather, attractively ornamented covers (intricately blind / gilt embossed front and back covers)
NO.OF PAGES: pp. xxxii + 791 pages including 1 b & w frontispiece + 22 b & w engraved plates along with 8 unpublished engravings which appear to have been originally intended by the late Colonel Tod for the illustration of his fine work on Rajasthan, but which for some unknown reasons were omitted. The present proprietor has thought it advisable to print of a few impressions, to add to those copies of the work which have passed into hishands.
SIZE:
Height: 32.1 cm
Width: 26 cm
Depth: 6.5 cm
Tod travels to The Central and Western Rajpoot States of India and visits the sacred mounts of Jains and celebrated shrines of the Hindu faith
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