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Travels in India. Bombay: Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1871.
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MOOS, Ardaseer Framjee (fl. 1850s-1880s).
Travels in India. Bombay: Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1871.
Rare first edition, presumably the presentation copy to Prince Alfred, second son of Queen Victoria, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince of Coburg and Gotha to whom the work is dedicated. The majority of the text is in Gujarati. There is a 40-page translation of the major passages in English. Ardaseer Framjee Moos, who was educated and subsequently taught at the Elphinstone Institution, became Secretary of the Bombay Native General Library for over two decades from 1860 and is credited with this institution's revival in the second half of the nineteenth century. Active in both Parsi reform movements and the Mumbai political scene, he became Treasurer of the Bombay Association in 1876. The extensive illustrations consist of various views of the principal buildings of Lucknow, Agra, Dehli and Calcutta. Bobins V, 1650.
Octavo (237 x 152mm). Folding map, photographic frontispiece portrait, 59 tinted or chromolithographic plates, 15 of which in text 44 bound a the end (English and Gujarati title pages supplied in excellent facsimile). Presentation binding of dark green morocco over bevelled boards elaborately decorated in gilt with a floral and pictorial design, title in Gujarati and English, white watered-silk endpapers, all edges gilt (recased). Provenance: Coburg Library (bookplate).
Travels in India. Bombay: Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1871.
Rare first edition, presumably the presentation copy to Prince Alfred, second son of Queen Victoria, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince of Coburg and Gotha to whom the work is dedicated. The majority of the text is in Gujarati. There is a 40-page translation of the major passages in English. Ardaseer Framjee Moos, who was educated and subsequently taught at the Elphinstone Institution, became Secretary of the Bombay Native General Library for over two decades from 1860 and is credited with this institution's revival in the second half of the nineteenth century. Active in both Parsi reform movements and the Mumbai political scene, he became Treasurer of the Bombay Association in 1876. The extensive illustrations consist of various views of the principal buildings of Lucknow, Agra, Dehli and Calcutta. Bobins V, 1650.
Octavo (237 x 152mm). Folding map, photographic frontispiece portrait, 59 tinted or chromolithographic plates, 15 of which in text 44 bound a the end (English and Gujarati title pages supplied in excellent facsimile). Presentation binding of dark green morocco over bevelled boards elaborately decorated in gilt with a floral and pictorial design, title in Gujarati and English, white watered-silk endpapers, all edges gilt (recased). Provenance: Coburg Library (bookplate).
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