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TITLE: Voyages Dans l'inde (Voyages in India)
AUTHOR: Alexis Soltykoff
PUBLISHER: Garnier Freres, Libraires - Editeurs
PLACE: Paris
YEAR: c.1850
BINDING: Original half leather binding with all edges gilt and elaborate gilt tooling on spine
NO.OF PAGES: 456 including 1 colour map, 37 gravures covered with tissue guards and text in French
SIZE:
Height: 27 cm
Width: 19.5 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Prince Alexis Soltykoff (Aleksei Dmitrievich Saltykov)was born in 1806 in St. Petersburg as a member of an influential and wealthy family. He was a gifted painter and sketcher who, after a relatively short career in the Russian diplomatic service, settled down in Paris around 1840. From there he traveled to the East twice (1841-1843 and 1845- 1846) and crossed the Indian subcontinent.
After his return to Paris from the second voyage he had his letters as sent to one of his brothers, published under the title Lettres sur l'Inde (Letters on India), by Amyot in 1848 in Paris. Some of the drawings he had made on the spot during his voyages were lithographed and appeared in this book, published in octavo format, for the very first time.
In 1850 these drawings were lithographed by De Rudder and published by Auguste Bry in a large folio format under the title "Voyages dans l'Inde", (Voyages in India) after which several subsequent editions were published in octavo format under that same title, first in 1851 by Curmer & Lecou and subsequent editions by Garnier Freres.
In 1853 the Parisian publisher H. Gache issued another book in folio format with magnificent lithographs under the title "Habitants de l'Inde" (The People of India).
The last of the great books in folio format was (simultaneously) published by Smith, Elder & Co. in London and Smith, Taylor & Co. in Bombay in 1859: "Indian Scenes and Characters", containing 15 plates plus a title vignette. Also these plates, after de Rudder and Trayer, were printed by Auguste Bry of Paris.
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