P. CARNEGY, J. WOODBURN and C.S. NOBLE (Authors)

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P. CARNEGY, J. WOODBURN and C.S. NOBLE (Authors)

A Historical Sketch of Tahsil Fyzabad, Zillah Fyzabad, including Parganas Haveli-Oudh and Pachhimrath, with the Old Capitals Ajudhia and Fyzabad, Pargana Mangalsi, and Pargana Amsin, Lucknow: Oudh Government Press, 1870

Illustrated with 10 albumen prints. Each approximately 6¼ x 8 in. (16 x 20.2 cm.) or the reverse. Printed titles on mounts, descriptive text and tables, printed map of the Fyzabad Municipality, notice on paper label bound-in Copies of the Photographs in this Report may be had on application to the Armorer Sergeant Booth, the 26th Regiment, Cameronians, Fyzabad, title page, inscribed in ink Mr. Butler Shawe Colonel [?2nd Queens], V3. N.L.J. Fyzabad 15th November 1877 on front blank, half brown leather, titled in gilt on leather panel mounted on front cover.

The volume: 12¾ x 8½ in. (32.3 x 21.6 cm.)

Provenance

The Paul F. Walter Collection;
Christie's, London, Visions of India, 5 June 1996, lot 327

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Lot Essay

Including architectural studies titled: 'Ájudhia (Surgaddwar) from the river', 'The Tombs of Shúja-ud-dolá - The Golab-Bari', 'Hanúman Garhi or the Monkey Temples', 'The Maiparbat a Buddhist Mound', 'Rájá Darshan Singh's Temple', 'The Bahu Begam's Tomb', 'The Guptár Temples', 'Adinath's Mandir, on Sháh Júran's Mound', 'Bábar's Mosque and Rama's Birth Place'; and a group portrait 'The Monks of the Monkey Temple' (illus.). Including an important early view of 'Bábar's Mosque' (Babri Musjid), which was destroyed in 1992.

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