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INDIA ALLEN (REV. GEORGE LOSCOMB) AND MRS. [SARAH] ALLEN. The Views and Flowers from Gugerat and Rajpootana, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Paul Jerrard, [c.1858]; together with a small group of manuscript items relating to the Allens, including a 4-page manuscript account ("Deesa [near Bombay], March 10th 1844") describing a trip to Mount Abu ("... to make arrangements for Mrs. G.A. spending the hot weather there..."), George Allen's investigation into the conversion and baptism of a man named Murrolman, and an uncomfortable uphill journey carried on a bamboo chair held by "four mountaineeers, by no means overburethened [sic] with clothing..." (small group)
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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INDIA
ALLEN (REV. GEORGE LOSCOMB) AND MRS. [SARAH] ALLEN. The Views and Flowers from Gugerat and Rajpootana, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, with inscription from Mrs. Allen dated August 1858 on frontispiece (see below), title and text printed in red and gilt, publisher's advertisement printed in gilt, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 12 full-page hand-coloured lithographed illustrations (6 views, 6 floral groups), some spotting, gilt-printed floral endpapers, publisher's green decorative cloth gilt, g.e., gutta percha perished (contents loose) [cf. Theakston, p.2, with spelling "Guzerat" on title], large 8vo (270 x 180mm.), Paul Jerrard, [c.1858]; together with a small group of manuscript items relating to the Allens, including a 4-page manuscript account ("Deesa [near Bombay], March 10th 1844") describing a trip to Mount Abu ("... to make arrangements for Mrs. G.A. spending the hot weather there..."), George Allen's investigation into the conversion and baptism of a man named Murrolman, and an uncomfortable uphill journey carried on a bamboo chair held by "four mountaineeers, by no means overburethened [sic] with clothing..." (small group)
Footnotes
RARE. The fine lithographed views include Mount Abu (4), and Mughal buildings at Ahmedabad (2), in Gujarat. In this copy "Gugerat" is spelled correctly on the title-page, whilst others located have the spelling "Guzerat".
Provenance: "Presented to S.[arah] B[arbara] Allen by S.[arah] A.[llen], August 1858", inscription on the frontispiece, the full names of the persons provided in pencil by a great niece of Sarah Barbara. She also notes that the views were executed by George Allen, the flowers by his wife Sarah; Charles Foxley, purple stamp on front free endpaper.





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