Langlès (Louis-Mathieu). Monuments anciens et modernes de l'Hindoustan, décrits sous le double rapport archaeologique et pittoresque, et précédés d'une notice géographique, d'une notice historique, et d'un discours sur la religion, la législation et le moeurs de Hindous, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: P. Didot, l'ainé, 1821, [4] 4 xii 268; [4] 251 3 pp., half-titles, engraved additional title-page to volume 1, 3 engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, folding letterpress table, 143 engraved plates (several hand-coloured or printed in sepia), tissue-guards, list of plates to rear of volume 2, plate facing volume 1 p. 79 browned, spotting to pp. 73-6 in volume 2, contents otherwise clean, all edges untrimmed, contemporary French binding of blue half roan gilt, folio (42.5 x 29.2 cm) (Qty: 2) Brunet (1862) III 819-20. A very good copy, untrimmed; the superb plates include views (many of which are after Daniell), plans, and fine reproductions of Indian miniatures in the French royal library (now the Bibliothèque nationale).
Langlès (Louis-Mathieu). Monuments anciens et modernes de l'Hindoustan, décrits sous le double rapport archaeologique et pittoresque, et précédés d'une notice géographique, d'une notice historique, et d'un discours sur la religion, la législation et le moeurs de Hindous, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: P. Didot, l'ainé, 1821, [4] 4 xii 268; [4] 251 3 pp., half-titles, engraved additional title-page to volume 1, 3 engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, folding letterpress table, 143 engraved plates (several hand-coloured or printed in sepia), tissue-guards, list of plates to rear of volume 2, plate facing volume 1 p. 79 browned, spotting to pp. 73-6 in volume 2, contents otherwise clean, all edges untrimmed, contemporary French binding of blue half roan gilt, folio (42.5 x 29.2 cm) (Qty: 2) Brunet (1862) III 819-20. A very good copy, untrimmed; the superb plates include views (many of which are after Daniell), plans, and fine reproductions of Indian miniatures in the French royal library (now the Bibliothèque nationale).
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