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INDIA -- SOLTYKOFF, A. Voyages dans l'Inde. 3me éd. (1853). W. full-p. lith. map & 36 tinted full-p. lithogr. views by De Rudder, Marchais, Lehnert, Cupper, a.o. under tissue guards. Lge-8°. Or. exuberantly gilt dec. cl., a.e.g. (Spine skilfully rep., endpapers renewed, a bit age-toned/foxed in places, but a good copy). -- G. LE BON. Les Civilisations de L'Inde. 1887. W. 7 chromolithos, 2 maps and many ill. in the text. 4°. Or. pictorial cl., a.e.g. (Spine sunned, some wear to spine ends & extremities). -- (2).
Prince Aleksei Dmitrievich Saltykov (1806–1859), Russian artist and traveller in Persia and India, grandson of Prince Nikolay Saltykov. He made two voyages to India (in 1841–43 and in 1844–46), achieving the epithet 'The Indian' from the Russian and French aristocracy. The fine plates depict people and scenes in New Delhi, Madras, Ceylon, Calcutta, Lahore, the Himalayas, etc. - Cf Vicaire VII, 575.€ 140
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