THOMAS DUER BROUGHTON (1778-1835)
THOMAS DUER BROUGHTON (1778-1835)

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THOMAS DUER BROUGHTON (1778-1835)
The Costume, Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies of the Mahrattas. London: T.Davison for John Murray, 1813. 4° (261 x 208mm). 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates. (Lacking half-title, title with very short tear and repair at gutter, occasional light offsetting, tiny hole to last plate.) Modern three-quarter brown crushed morocco, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Provenance: Captain C.M. Alldridge R.N. (contemporary ink ownership inscription to title).

FIRST EDITION of this epistolary travel narrative with costume plates. A French edition was published in 1817, with the second english in 1892. Colas 454; Lipperheide Ld13; cf. Abbey Travel 433; Tooley 114 (variant titles).

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