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INDIAN BOTANY [The Table Fruits of India], bound in 4 parts, FIRST EDITION, [Calcutta, Printed and Published by Ballin & Co., 1842]
14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £8,925 inc. premium
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INDIAN BOTANY
[The Table Fruits of India], bound in 4 parts, FIRST EDITION, 16 hand-coloured lithographed plates, each with letterpress description, lacks the original printed wrappers, later cloth, folio (395 x 270mm.), [Calcutta, Printed and Published by Ballin & Co., 1842]
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EXTREMELY RARE, with sixteen plates of fruit after drawings by anonymous Indian artists. The fruits are listed under their common names, with Latin, Hindu and Bengali equivalents.
Subjects comprise: Pineapple; Custard Apple; Mango; Loquat; Plantain; Lichi: Pumplenose; Papaya; Sour Sop; Bair or Egg Plum; Jack; Star-Apple; Pomegranate; Guava; Melon; Jamarol.
Three copies located in institutional libraries: Kew Gardens, Natural History Museum (lacking 4 plates), and the British Library (like ours lacking the original parts wrappers).



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