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Travels in India, including Sinde and the Punjab, by Captain Leopold von Orlich, in 2 volumes London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845(2)
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£1,000 - £2,000
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Travels in India, including Sinde and the Punjab, by Captain Leopold von Orlich, in 2 volumes
London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845
London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845
pp. 278 and 314 respectively, translated from the German by H. Evans Lloyd, chromolithographed plates opposite title pages, numerous further monochrome lithographed illustrations, mostly of tradespeople, within text, various ownership inscriptions including William Gedney, Brooklyn, New York, 1972, publisher's green embossed cloth with embossed floral motifs and image of Siva on front and rear covers, in later card slipcase
230 x 150 mm.(2)
230 x 150 mm.(2)
Footnotes
The original German title was Reise in Ostindien in Briefen an Alexander von Humboldt und Carl Ritter, Leipzig 1845. The author describes his travels from London to India by way of Gibraltar, Cairo and Aden in a series of letters to Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Ritter. He first came to Bombay and then travelled to Puna, Kuraschy, Sakkar and Ferospur, etc. His original intention had been to travel with the British Army to Afghanistan to report on the war, but he was delayed and caught up with the British at Ferozpur. He met Maharajah Sher Singh, whom he described as 'very corpulent and strongly built, but is light in his movements; his features are expressive of good-nature and a love of pleasure, and his fine dark eye beamed with kindness and affection: his black beard was very carefully dressed' (vol. I, p. 214).