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HAJI ABBAS ALI
An Illustrated Historical Album of The Rajas and Taaluqdars of Oudh. Allahabad: North-western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1880. 4° (237 x 153mm). Title, dedication, full-page photographic portrait of Sir George E. W. Couper, and 254 small photographic portraits on 86 pages (of 343, the remainder with portrait ovals marked 'unavoidably absent', 'pardanashin' or 'sold'). (Some small wormholes, mainly affecting text leaves, short marginal tear to large portrait, not affecting image, a few portraits faded, corners of each plate affected by glue.) Contemporary black leather Indian binding tooled in gilt, endleaves and pastedowns printed in red (final endleaf detached).
The accompanying text details ancestry, the size of estates and government revenue.
An Illustrated Historical Album of The Rajas and Taaluqdars of Oudh. Allahabad: North-western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1880. 4° (237 x 153mm). Title, dedication, full-page photographic portrait of Sir George E. W. Couper, and 254 small photographic portraits on 86 pages (of 343, the remainder with portrait ovals marked 'unavoidably absent', 'pardanashin' or 'sold'). (Some small wormholes, mainly affecting text leaves, short marginal tear to large portrait, not affecting image, a few portraits faded, corners of each plate affected by glue.) Contemporary black leather Indian binding tooled in gilt, endleaves and pastedowns printed in red (final endleaf detached).
The accompanying text details ancestry, the size of estates and government revenue.
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