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TITLE: Voyages Dans l'Inde (Voyages in India)
AUTHOR: Prince Alexis Soltykoff
PUBLISHER: Garnier Freres, Libraires - Editeurs
PLACE: Paris
YEAR: c.1850
NO.OF PAGES: 451 including 1 colour map, 37 gravures coveredwith tissue guards and text in French
BINDING: Original half leather binding with all edges gilt and elaborate gilt tooling on spine
SIZE: 27 x 19.5 x 4 cm
Prince Alexis Soltykoff (Aleksei Dmitrievich Saltykov) was born in 1806 in St. Petersburg, to an influential and wealthy family. A gifted artist, Soltykoff settled in Paris in 1840 after a relatively short career in the Russian diplomatic service. He traveled to Asia following this, between 1841-1843 and 1845-1846, and crossed the Indian subcontinent.
After he returned to Paris from the second voyage, he had his letters (as sent to one of his brothers) published under the title Lettres sur l'Inde (Letters on India), by Amyot in 1848 in Paris. Some of the drawings thathe made spontaneously during his voyages were lithographed and appear for the very first time in this book, published in octavo format.
In 1850, these drawings were lithographed by De Rudder and published by Auguste Bry in a large folio format under the title Voyages dans l'Inde (Voyages in India). Several subsequent editions were published in octavo format under the same title, first in 1851 by Curmer & Lecou and later by Garnier Freres.
In 1853, the Parisian publisher H Gache issued another book in folio format with magnificent lithographs under the title Habitants de l'Inde (The People of India).
The last of the great books in folio format was (simultaneously) published by Smith, Elder & Co. in London and Smith, Taylor & Co. in Bombay in 1859: Indian Scenes and Characters, containing 15 plates plus a title vignette. After de Rudder and Trayer, these plates were printed by Auguste Bry of Paris.
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