EDWARD TUITE DALTON (Author), TOSCO PEPPÉ, BENJAMIN SIMPSON and others

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EDWARD TUITE DALTON (Author), TOSCO PEPPÉ, BENJAMIN SIMPSON and others

Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1872

Illustrated with lithograph portraits after photographs, several by Peppé, tissue guards, Printed for the Government of Bengal, under the direction of the Council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, printed title page and text, cloth, gilt title and crest The Society of Writers to The Signet on front cover, titled in gilt on spine, 4to.

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Col. Dalton commissioned Peppé, who had arrived in India in 1866 and worked in the tea, indigo and estate management business in Chota Nagpur, to photograph the Juang tribespeople. Lithographs after several of these photographs are included in this work.

For other photographs by Tosco Peppé see also lot 358.

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