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WILD, Roland Gibson. The Biography of ... Shri Sir Ranjitsinhj Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar. London: Rich and Cowan, 1934. 4° (251 x 190mm). 30 half tone plates, 4 double-sided, leaf of maps. (Light finger soiling to title.) Original vellum lettered in gilt and with gilt crest highlighted in colours, top edge gilt, others uncut (upper cover a little bowed, slight spotting on rear cover).
WILD, Roland Gibson. The Biography of ... Shri Sir Ranjitsinhj Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar. London: Rich and Cowan, 1934. 4° (251 x 190mm). 30 half tone plates, 4 double-sided, leaf of maps. (Light finger soiling to title.) Original vellum lettered in gilt and with gilt crest highlighted in colours, top edge gilt, others uncut (upper cover a little bowed, slight spotting on rear cover).

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WILD, Roland Gibson. The Biography of ... Shri Sir Ranjitsinhj Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar. London: Rich and Cowan, 1934. 4° (251 x 190mm). 30 half tone plates, 4 double-sided, leaf of maps. (Light finger soiling to title.) Original vellum lettered in gilt and with gilt crest highlighted in colours, top edge gilt, others uncut (upper cover a little bowed, slight spotting on rear cover).

NUMBER 214 OF 230 COPIES signed by the author. This first published biography of the legendary Indian prince who played for Sussex and England is valued not least for its appendix on the Nawanagar jewels by Jacques Cartier. Padwick 7983.

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