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JAMES BIRD (1797-1864)
Historical Researches on the Origin of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions ... Illustrated by descriptive accounts of the Sculptures in the Caves of Western India. Bombay: printed at the American Mission Press, 1847. 2° (374 x 257mm). Title, dedication leaf to Lord Viscount Hardinge, list of subscribers, 53 lithographic plates, including 35 plates of sculptural and architectural drawings from temples after Lieutenant Ridge, F. de Jesus, Professor Orlebar and Major Felix, and 18 plates of inscriptions from the Nasik and Kanari caves and coins from 'Kabul and the Panjab' after facsimiles made by Bird and others, numbered I-XXXIIII, XXXVI-XLII, XLIV-LII. (Uniform browning to many plates, a few marginal repairs or short tears, some light spotting, pentrials to title, cancelled inscription to p.v.) 19th-century black silk boards (rebacked, retaining remnants of original spine with partial title lettered in gilt). Provenance: 20th-century inscriptions in Indian script in pale blue ink to margins of many plates.
James Bird, a doctor and member of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Bombay, had visited Ajanta in 1828; he waited two decades before publishing his drawings and findings on the religious origins of the caves' sculptures. BMC 1781.a.10.
Historical Researches on the Origin of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions ... Illustrated by descriptive accounts of the Sculptures in the Caves of Western India. Bombay: printed at the American Mission Press, 1847. 2° (374 x 257mm). Title, dedication leaf to Lord Viscount Hardinge, list of subscribers, 53 lithographic plates, including 35 plates of sculptural and architectural drawings from temples after Lieutenant Ridge, F. de Jesus, Professor Orlebar and Major Felix, and 18 plates of inscriptions from the Nasik and Kanari caves and coins from 'Kabul and the Panjab' after facsimiles made by Bird and others, numbered I-XXXIIII, XXXVI-XLII, XLIV-LII. (Uniform browning to many plates, a few marginal repairs or short tears, some light spotting, pentrials to title, cancelled inscription to p.v.) 19th-century black silk boards (rebacked, retaining remnants of original spine with partial title lettered in gilt). Provenance: 20th-century inscriptions in Indian script in pale blue ink to margins of many plates.
James Bird, a doctor and member of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Bombay, had visited Ajanta in 1828; he waited two decades before publishing his drawings and findings on the religious origins of the caves' sculptures. BMC 1781.a.10.
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