François Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824) A Collection of Two-Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos . Calcutta: 1799. 12 parts in two volumes (without the booklet of text), 2° (510 x 355mm). Lithographic title and section titles, 250 hand-coloured lithographic plates including 11 double-page, all mounted with captions and numbered. (A few plates slightly soiled, mounts marginally dust-soiled, a few with minor tears.) Contemporary dark blue russia, gilt roll-tool border on covers, spines gilt with red lettering pieces (rubbed, slightly worn at extremities, upper cover of vol.II detached). Provenance : James Hare (red morocco labels on upper covers). FIRST EDITION of these engravings illustrative of Hindu castes, servants of Europeans, dress of Hindu men and women, vehicles, palaquins, fakirs, pleasure boats and boats of lading, modes of smoking, musical instruments and of festivals. Solvyns, a native of Antwerp married to an Englishwoman, started the work in 1793 and issued sets from 1800, and ruined himself producing the 1808-12 Paris edition of the work. Abbey Travel 421; Shaw 348. (2)
François Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824) A Collection of Two-Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos . Calcutta: 1799. 12 parts in two volumes (without the booklet of text), 2° (510 x 355mm). Lithographic title and section titles, 250 hand-coloured lithographic plates including 11 double-page, all mounted with captions and numbered. (A few plates slightly soiled, mounts marginally dust-soiled, a few with minor tears.) Contemporary dark blue russia, gilt roll-tool border on covers, spines gilt with red lettering pieces (rubbed, slightly worn at extremities, upper cover of vol.II detached). Provenance : James Hare (red morocco labels on upper covers). FIRST EDITION of these engravings illustrative of Hindu castes, servants of Europeans, dress of Hindu men and women, vehicles, palaquins, fakirs, pleasure boats and boats of lading, modes of smoking, musical instruments and of festivals. Solvyns, a native of Antwerp married to an Englishwoman, started the work in 1793 and issued sets from 1800, and ruined himself producing the 1808-12 Paris edition of the work. Abbey Travel 421; Shaw 348. (2)
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