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TITLE: Voyage Dans L'Inde
SUB TITLE: Pendant les annees 1828 A 1832, publie sous les auspices de M. Guizot.
EDITION: 1st
VOLUMES: 1 and 2
AUTHOR: Victor Jacquemont
PUBLISHER: Firmin Didot Freres, Imprimeurs De L'Institut De France, Rue Jacob
PLACE: Paris
YEAR: 1844
BINDING: ). Modern full calf, title in gilt on spine, plain brown end-paper
NO.OF PAGES: 2 Atlas Vols only (lacking four text volumes). Half-titles. 290 lithographic plates (out of which 26 in the zoological section are handcoloured) comprising: , 201 on India, 3 folding and 2 double-page; 4 folding maps (Vol. I, 82 plates. Vol. II., 180 B & W plates, (180 botanical and 83 views, ethnographic studies, 27 Natural history plates including 26 in color including 4 fold-out).
SIZE:
VOLUME I
Height: 34.5 cm
Width: 26.5 cm
Depth: 3 cm
VOLUME II
Height: 34.5 cm
Width: 26.5 cm
Depth: 5 cm
In the first atlas volume are four folding maps with geographical and anthropological plates. The second atlas, a companion to volume 4, depicts India's wildlife. Most of the illustrations in the botanical section are after fine line drawings.
FIRST EDITION and Only edition of this work, originally published in 80 parts. The first three text-volumes contain the extensive journal of the voyage illustrated in the first atlas-volume with 4 maps and 83 plates of landscapes, Indian people, buildings etc. The fourth text-volume contains descriptions of Jacquemont's botanical and zoological collections. The zoological part contains: Mammals and birds by Geoffrey St. Hilaire; Crustaceans by Milne Edwards and Insects by E. Blanchard illustrated by 27 plates. The botanical part was written by J. Decaisne and J. Cambessedes and was illustrated with 180 plates by A. Riocreux - the most sensitive and skillful French artist of the period.
Jacquemont's record of his voyage to India. Jacquemont's work is RARE.
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Jacquemont (1801-1832), physician and one of the rising stars of French natural history, combining youth, genius and a rhapsodic love for nature was appointed by the Natural History Museum, Paris with a mission to explore Perisan Gulf and Indian Subcontinent, he visited the North India (Calcutta, Benares, Simla, Delhi, Agra, Punjab and traveled the Himalayas, Tibet and Kashmir). The present work collects his writings and researches made on his extended travels through India.
Henever returned to France, his continual exertions under difficult conditions led to an early death due to sickness in Bombay in 1832.
Nissen BBI 966; Henze II, 698; Yakushi, Catalogue of the Himalayan Literature, J 18b; BM (NH) 2:604 (Blunt,p. 229) - and Delile. Brunet III, 485-86.
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