[INDIA] POSTANS, Marianne

[CUTCH, OR, RANDOM SKETCHES, Taken During a Residence in One of the Northern Provinces of Western India; Interspersed with Legends and Traditions]

[London]: [Smith, Elder and Co.], [1839]. First Edition. Hardcover. Modern half polished calf with marbled boards and matching calf corners (5-1/2" x 9"); xvii, (3), 283, (1) pages, housed in a red buckram clamshell box. Lacking the printed title page but with the lithographed additional pictorial title and illustrated with a hand-colored map, 8 engraved plates (7 of which are hand-colored, including 1 folding), and several text engravings. In 1834, the author's husband was posted to Cutch, a western district of present-day Gujarat, India, and there she gathered the notes and made the drawings that would form the basis for this, her first publication. Fairly unobtrusive library blindstamp on frontispiece, pictorial title, map, and several text pages. Still an attractive, clean example of a scarce title in a Fine clamshell box. Item #022098

Price: $1,200.00