The costume of Hindostan, elucidated by sixty coloured engravings / with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799. By Balt. Solvyns, of Calcutta.

  • Frans Balthazar Solvyns
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1804
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The costume of Hindostan, elucidated by sixty coloured engravings / with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799. By Balt. Solvyns, of Calcutta. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : E. Orme, 1804.

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132 unnumbered pages, 60 leaves of colour plates : illustrations ; (folio)

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Added t.-p.: Costumes de l'Indostan, dessinés dans l'Inde en 1798 et 1799, et représentés en soixante planches enluminées
The plates were previously published in the author's A collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings descriptive of the manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos. Calcutta, 1796-99. cf. R. Colas, Bibl. générale du costume, col. 983.

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