1898 A Birds-Eye View of Picturesque India

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Signed Binding

The true first edition. 

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and thirty-one monochrome plates. Collated complete. 

Bound in full calf by the Relfe Brothers with their stamp to the verso of the front free endpaper. 

This work on India was written by Sir Richard Temple, a British colonial administrator in India and the Governor of Bombay from 1877-1880. The work depicts the beauty and history of the country through illustrations and commentary on summers in the Himalayas, wild sports, the nationalities and religions of India, the government, historic remains and ruins, and much more.