![FERGUSSON (JAMES) The Rock Cut Temples of India]](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2006-09/06/7104811-228-4.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "FERGUSSON (JAMES) The Rock Cut Temples of India] Estimate: £400 - 600 US$ 610 - 910 €470 - 710")
9 Apr 2008
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London, New Bond Street
India and Beyond in Books and Photography
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India and Beyond in Books and Photography
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[FERGUSSON (JAMES)
The Rock Cut Temples of India], 73 half-stereo albumen prints only (of 74), several wormtrails touching images, lacking title, preface leaf repaired at fore-edge, modern cloth-backed boards, 8vo, [John Murray, 1864]
Estimate:
£400 - 600
US$ 610 - 910
€470 - 710
US$ 610 - 910
€470 - 710
Footnotes
- Extremely rare work illustrating the famous temples and caves at Ajunta and Ellora. James Fergusson first visited the temples in the years 1836-1841, which resulted in a paper read to the Asiatic Society, and, in 1845, a published edition illustrated with lithographs. Major Robert Gill was then commissioned to produce drawings of the paintings at Ajunta, and in the spring of 1863 he sent back to England nearly 200 stereoscopic views of the area. The present edition is not recorded by Gernsheim.
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