ROUSSELET, LOUIS
L INDIA DEI RAJAH
Year: 1985Text written in Italian
Box size: 32.2 x 32 cm (12.6 x 12.5 inches)
Book size: 30.7 x 30.7 cm (12 x 12 inches)
Published by Franco Maria Ricci, Milan.
A fabulously handsome and lavish limited-edition volume, luxuriously produced. This is an unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 5,000 copies.
L INDIA DEI RAJAH by Louis Rousselet, being extracts from his massive travelogue of the 1860s, originally published in the 1870s in France and Britain. These extracts relate to chapters on Baroda, Goojerat, Country of the Bheels, Court of the Maharana of Oudeypoor, Jeypore, Amber and Lake Sambher, Ulwur, Agra, Imperial Durbar at Agra, Bhurtpore, Gwalior and the Court of Bhopal.
This lot includes 32 tipped-in plates as follows:
14 of Patna Paintings by Sewak Ram, c. 1805, from the collection of the 2nd Earl of Caledon. The first 9 of them are folding and measure 18 x 11 inches and the remaining 5 are 9 x 6 inches.
There are also 18 tipped-in reproductions in sepia tone of Maharajas and their Durbars taken by Bourne & Shepherd. These are Untitled but the recognizable images include portraits of the Maharaja of Nepal, another of him with his consort, Maharajas of Kashmir, Baroda, Rewah, Begum of Bhopal, some Sikh Rajahs and their Durbars, Bahawalpur Durbar with Ruler and the heir apparent, and Portraits of the Rajahs of Central India, Gujarat and the Northwest Frontier.
BINDING: The handmade pages of the book are bluish in colour, and the text is set in Bodoni typeface. It is exquisitely bound in black cloth, featuring a colour plate of a Rajah pasted on the front cover. The title is embossed in gilt on both the cover and the spine. This lavish edition is further housed in a thick black case.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
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