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People and customs of India in 104 coloured plates
L'Hindoustan, ou religion, moeurs, usages, arts et métiers des Hindous, Ouvrage orné de cent quatre planches, gravées la plupart d?après les desssins originaux faits sur les lieux pour feu M. Léger, Préfet colonial à Pondichéry; redigé d?après les Notices manuscrites explicatives de ces dessins, et augmenté de ce que les Voyages et les Mémoires les plus récents ont pu fournir d?authentique. Par M. P(annelier).
Paris, A. Nepveu (Imprimerie de le Normant), 1816. 6 volumes 12mo (136 x 85) mm.
With 104 (15 double page) attractive handcoloured plates.
Polished green morocco, gold tooled. On the covers a border of a decorative roll. Flat spines, divided into 5 compartments. Title and vol. number in compartment 2 and 3, the other compartments with a butterfly. Board edges and turn ins with a decorative roll. Marbled end leaves. Blue ribbon markers. Gilt edges.
People and customs of India. The Nepveu series of descriptions of countries and peoples of which this book is a part, was later imitated in England by F. Shoberl in his series The world in miniature.
The book is anonymous. Barbier mentions Pannelier (1774-?) as the author, a professor in geography, who wrote books about history, travel and classic literature. According to Quérard the author is in fact the French cavalry officer and writer Felix Renouard Sainte-Croix (1767-1840), who traveled in India, entrusted the manuscript of his book to a local functionary, after whose death it came into the hands of Pannelier and Nepveu, who published it without the author?s permission.
-Provenance: With the armorial ex libris of René Choppin with his motto: "Omnia cum tempore", engraved by Agry, Paris. René Amadée Chippin de Villy (1806-1886) worked at the Banque de France and was book collector. His collection was sold at auction in 1920.
-Literature: Brunet I, 1226, 10; Colas 2266; Graesse I, 530; Lipperheide 1482; Quérard VI, 582; Barbier II, 627.
-Condition: Partly some staining; Binding at corners and spine ends a bit rubbed; In all a wellbound set in fine condition.
With 104 (15 double page) attractive handcoloured plates.
Polished green morocco, gold tooled. On the covers a border of a decorative roll. Flat spines, divided into 5 compartments. Title and vol. number in compartment 2 and 3, the other compartments with a butterfly. Board edges and turn ins with a decorative roll. Marbled end leaves. Blue ribbon markers. Gilt edges.
People and customs of India. The Nepveu series of descriptions of countries and peoples of which this book is a part, was later imitated in England by F. Shoberl in his series The world in miniature.
The book is anonymous. Barbier mentions Pannelier (1774-?) as the author, a professor in geography, who wrote books about history, travel and classic literature. According to Quérard the author is in fact the French cavalry officer and writer Felix Renouard Sainte-Croix (1767-1840), who traveled in India, entrusted the manuscript of his book to a local functionary, after whose death it came into the hands of Pannelier and Nepveu, who published it without the author?s permission.
-Provenance: With the armorial ex libris of René Choppin with his motto: "Omnia cum tempore", engraved by Agry, Paris. René Amadée Chippin de Villy (1806-1886) worked at the Banque de France and was book collector. His collection was sold at auction in 1920.
-Literature: Brunet I, 1226, 10; Colas 2266; Graesse I, 530; Lipperheide 1482; Quérard VI, 582; Barbier II, 627.
-Condition: Partly some staining; Binding at corners and spine ends a bit rubbed; In all a wellbound set in fine condition.
€ 2.500
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