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SOLVYNS (FRANS BALTASAR) The Costume of Indostan, Elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engravings... Taken in the Years 1798 and 1799, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Edward Orme, 1804
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SOLVYNS (FRANS BALTASAR)
The Costume of Indostan, Elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engravings... Taken in the Years 1798 and 1799, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, text in English and French, 4 hand-coloured soft-ground etchings and 56 hand-coloured line- or stipple-engraved plates by Scott or Vivares after Solvyns (some watermarked 'J. Whatman, 1804', text watermarked '1802'), light offsetting from plate to text, contemporary half calf, covers detached, lacks spine [Abbey Travel 429; Colas 2765; Tooley 461], folio (334 x 245mm.), Edward Orme, 1804
