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TITLE: L' Inde des Rajahs
SUB TITLE: Voyages dans L'Inde Centrale et dans les Presidences de Bombay et du Bengale
AUTHOR: Louis Rousselet
PUBLISHER: Librairie Hachette
PLACE: Paris
YEAR: 1877
BINDING: Originalred cloth, richly decorated in gilt and black, gilt titles to upper and lower boards and spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
NO.OF PAGES: 807 profusely illustrated with 317 woodcuts and six maps.
SIZE:
Height: 38.5 cm
Width: 28.5cm
Depth: 3 cm
Beautiful book on India illustrated with 1 map of India, 1 inset map of Bombay and 4 maps in colours apart from 317 woodcuts in and out text, faithfully drawn by artists of the time after the author's photographs. Louis Rousselet (1845-1929), geographer, French archaeologist and photographer, made several journeys as ethnological and archaeological, which he drew an important documentary work on India from 1864 to 1870.
In 1864, at the young age of 19, Louis Rousselet arrived in India seeking to study the architecture and ancient ruins of the sub-continent. In 1866, after visiting the ruins at Dabhoi, Rousselet realized that his pencil sketches could never do justice in conveying the beauty of the elaborate architecture and carving. He would later write, "It was on seeing these generally unknown masterpieces at Dubbhoee that I regretted I had not the power of reproducing them by photography, and felt that it would be impossible to continue my explorations profitably without the assistance of that art. As soon, therefore, as I returned to Baroda, I applied myself seriously to learn photography; and with that view I procured from Bombay all the necessary apparatus"
From that point forward, Rousselet assiduously photographed the region. After six years of extensive overland travel, Rousselet returned to France to publish serially, and later as a book, an account of his experiences. That work is illustrated with many engravings after photographs taken by the author. Issued separately from the text, and likely only in a very small number for select friends and patrons, Rousselet printed 160 photographs from his journey.
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