L'Inde des Rajahs. Voyage dans l'Inde centrale et dans les présidences de Bombay et du Bengale.

Folio: [6]-807 pp. (pencil notes, some damp stains).

Richly decorated original publisher's binding (spine damaged, sm. defects).

Successful travel journey, here in a 2nd ed. (1st: 1875), ill. with 317 woodcuts and 6 maps. L. Rousselet (1845-1929), photographer and pioneer of the darkroom, traveled to India from 1864 to 1868 and published the compilation of his notes, drawings and photographs 7 years later. The drawings after his photographs became an important visual source of 19th-c. India.