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INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY JEHANGIR (SORABJI) Princes and Chiefs of India. A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of the Indian Princes and Chiefs and Brief Historical Surveys of the Territories... Revised and Completed by F.S. Jehangir Taléyarkhan, vol. 1 (of 3), FIRST EDITION, Waterlow, 1903 image 1
INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY JEHANGIR (SORABJI) Princes and Chiefs of India. A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of the Indian Princes and Chiefs and Brief Historical Surveys of the Territories... Revised and Completed by F.S. Jehangir Taléyarkhan, vol. 1 (of 3), FIRST EDITION, Waterlow, 1903 image 2
INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY JEHANGIR (SORABJI) Princes and Chiefs of India. A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of the Indian Princes and Chiefs and Brief Historical Surveys of the Territories... Revised and Completed by F.S. Jehangir Taléyarkhan, vol. 1 (of 3), FIRST EDITION, Waterlow, 1903 image 3
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INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY
JEHANGIR (SORABJI) Princes and Chiefs of India. A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of the Indian Princes and Chiefs and Brief Historical Surveys of the Territories... Revised and Completed by F.S. Jehangir Taléyarkhan, vol. 1 (of 3), FIRST EDITION, Waterlow, 1903

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INDIA - PHOTOGRAPHY

JEHANGIR (SORABJI) Princes and Chiefs of India. A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of the Indian Princes and Chiefs and Brief Historical Surveys of the Territories... Revised and Completed by F.S. Jehangir Taléyarkhan, vol. 1 (of 3), FIRST EDITION, 21 woodburytype portraits, all on original mounts with decorative typographical borders (images approximately 249 x 195mm.), with letterpress titles and descriptive text, very short tear at lower blank margin of title, publisher's red morocco gilt, g.e., worn at extremities, folio (370 x 265mm.), Waterlow, 1903

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ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF INDIAN PRINCES AND CHIEFS, and published to coincide with the 1903 Delhi Durbar. The author "visited all parts of India to collect and verify the necessary material, to enlist the co-operation of those concerned, and to arrange for the photographs which add so greatly both to the contemporary and historical value of the undertaking" (Preface). This volume includes portraits of the Maharajas of Mysore (2), Baroda, Jammu and Kashmir, Travancore, Udaipur, Gwalior (2), Indore, Kolhapur, Jaipur, Patiala (2), Jodhpur, Bikanar, Rewah and Bundi; the Nizam of the Deccan, Nawab of Bahawalpur, Raja of Cochin, and the Maha Rao of Kutch. See illustration on preceding page.

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