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Antiquarian Books, Maps, Prints & Photography MAJOR JOHN LUARD (1790 - 1875)

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MAJOR JOHN LUARD (1790 - 1875)

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VIEWS IN INDIA, SAINT HELENA, AND CAR NICOBAR
Dimension: 14.4 x 9.8 in

R 5,00,000 - R 7,00,000

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DRAWN FROM NATURE AND ON STONE by Major John Luard, Published by: J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty (c. 1832 - 38)
pp. 244, with 1 hand-coloured lithograph frontispiece; 1 hand-coloured lithographed title page; 59 hand-coloured lithograph plates having a descriptive text for each plate
A hard to come by complete set, modern leather-bound in deep blue with gilt text

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PREFACE
“During a residence of eight years in India, Captain Luard has filled a portfolio with interesting sketches of the country and its inhabitants, from Calcutta to the Himalayah Mountains: they were made solely for his own amusement. In publishing them, at the instigation and earnest request of many of his friends, he feels it necessary to state that the enormous expence of line engraving has induced him to draw them himself on stone.
This number contains his earliest attempts; and though they are inferior to what he hopes practice will enable him to produce, yet the truth of the original sketch is not injured by a want of perfection in the art of lithography.”

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