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978 - ROUSSELET, Louis *India of the Rajahs*. A Journey Through Central India and the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal [...]. Illustrated with 317 woodcuts [...] and six maps. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1875; large quarto (slight water stain on the margin of one page; rare and very minor stains). Publisher’s hardcover binding, red cloth with black and gold decoration based on a design by A. Souze, gilt edges (slight rubbing on the covers, a few small scuffs on the spines, spine, and caps, rounded corners). First edition of this best-selling travelogue, illustrated with 1 frontispiece, 110 plates, and 5 full-page maps, as well as numerous illustrations and 1 map in the text. L. Rousselet (1845–1929), a pioneer of the camera obscura and ethnographic photography, traveled in India from 1864 to 1868 and published a compilation of his notes, drawings, and images seven years later. The drawings based on his photographs constitute an important iconographic source on 19th-century India. Ref. Vicaire VI:1225.
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ROUSSELET, Louis *India of the Rajahs*. A Journey Through Central India and the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal [...]. Illustrated with 317 woodcuts [...] and six maps. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1875; large quarto (slight water stain on the margin of one page; rare and very minor stains). Publisher’s hardcover binding, red cloth with black and gold decoration based on a design by A. Souze, gilt edges (slight rubbing on the covers, a few small scuffs on the spines, spine, and caps, rounded corners). First edition of this best-selling travelogue, illustrated with 1 frontispiece, 110 plates, and 5 full-page maps, as well as numerous illustrations and 1 map in the text. L. Rousselet (1845–1929), a pioneer of the camera obscura and ethnographic photography, traveled in India from 1864 to 1868 and published a compilation of his notes, drawings, and images seven years later. The drawings based on his photographs constitute an important iconographic source on 19th-century India. Ref. Vicaire VI:1225.
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