![[BELNOS, Mrs S.C. Twenty four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal. London: Smith & Elder, 1832.] 2° (430 x 285mm). 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates by A. Colin after Mrs Belnos, explanatory text to plates in English and French. (Lacking lithographic title, preface and leaf of commendatory letters, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary dark-blue straight-grained morocco over marbled-paper covered boards by Henington and Galabin (ticket to f.f.e.p.), gilt spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04826_0192_000(belnos_mrs_sc_twenty_four_plates_illustrative_of_hindoo_and_european_m102731).jpg?w=1)
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[BELNOS, Mrs S.C. Twenty four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal. London: Smith & Elder, 1832.] 2° (430 x 285mm). 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates by A. Colin after Mrs Belnos, explanatory text to plates in English and French. (Lacking lithographic title, preface and leaf of commendatory letters, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary dark-blue straight-grained morocco over marbled-paper covered boards by Henington and Galabin (ticket to f.f.e.p.), gilt spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed).
RARE FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 458: 'Mrs. Belnos may have been an Indian ... Jean-Jacques Belnos, the lithographic printer[?] of the above plates, was probably her husband'; Colas 292.
RARE FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 458: 'Mrs. Belnos may have been an Indian ... Jean-Jacques Belnos, the lithographic printer[?] of the above plates, was probably her husband'; Colas 292.