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PRINCE ALEXIS SOLTYKOFF (1806-1859)
Voyages dans L'Inde Pendant les Années 1841-1842-1843, 1845-1846. Paris: Auguste Bry for H. Gache, [c.1850]
Broadsheets (863 x 570mm). Title printed in gold ink, 36 tinted lithographic plates after Prince Alexis Soltykoff, comprising 30 by de Rudder, 5 by Girard, one by de Rudder and Girard, all printed by Auguste Bry. (Some spotting and staining to title, repaired marginal tear to plate 1, plates 28 and 29 bound out of sequence.) 19th-century hard-grained morocco-backed cloth (extremities very lightly rubbed, short tear to head of spine).
A VERY RARE AND EXTREMELY FINE SET OF VIEWS AND SCENES. Little is known about Soltykoff, save that he was apparently accompanied on his travels by his brother. These magnificent lithographs, with their characteristic long-limbed men and full-breasted women and their predilection for splendidly lit night scenes, represent scenes in Ceylon, Madras, Madurai, Travancore, Gwalior, Delhi (with the last Great Moghul), Calcutta, Lucknow, Lahore (and the Punjab), Simla (and Kashmir) and the Himalayas. A 'second', French, edition appeared with text in octavo format in 1851, and an English edition in 1858. The present copy predates these, the title differing from the folio edition cited by Brunet. Not in Abbey; not in Brunet.
Voyages dans L'Inde Pendant les Années 1841-1842-1843, 1845-1846. Paris: Auguste Bry for H. Gache, [c.1850]
Broadsheets (863 x 570mm). Title printed in gold ink, 36 tinted lithographic plates after Prince Alexis Soltykoff, comprising 30 by de Rudder, 5 by Girard, one by de Rudder and Girard, all printed by Auguste Bry. (Some spotting and staining to title, repaired marginal tear to plate 1, plates 28 and 29 bound out of sequence.) 19th-century hard-grained morocco-backed cloth (extremities very lightly rubbed, short tear to head of spine).
A VERY RARE AND EXTREMELY FINE SET OF VIEWS AND SCENES. Little is known about Soltykoff, save that he was apparently accompanied on his travels by his brother. These magnificent lithographs, with their characteristic long-limbed men and full-breasted women and their predilection for splendidly lit night scenes, represent scenes in Ceylon, Madras, Madurai, Travancore, Gwalior, Delhi (with the last Great Moghul), Calcutta, Lucknow, Lahore (and the Punjab), Simla (and Kashmir) and the Himalayas. A 'second', French, edition appeared with text in octavo format in 1851, and an English edition in 1858. The present copy predates these, the title differing from the folio edition cited by Brunet. Not in Abbey; not in Brunet.