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First Edition Book

Lot No. 41: White, George Francis; Emma Roberts.

Views In India: Chiefly Among The Himalaya Mountains.

  • Medium: Printed book
  • Year: 1838
  • Size: 12 x 9.7 inches
  • Place: London

Winning Bid : ₹ 57,600

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 40,000 -  60,000


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Ends at Mar 14, 2024 08:20 PM IST

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White, George Francis; Emma Roberts.

Views In India: Chiefly Among The Himalaya Mountains.

Size: 31 x 25 cm (12 x 9.7 inches)

First edition
Year: 1838
Published By: Fisher, Son and Co.
Small folio, PP 94, Original full Moroccan leather binding with decoration and vignette in gilt and blind on both covers, Title in gilt on spine. Excellent condition.
Engraved title, fronts. (after JMW Turner) & 35 further plates.

Following her sister to India in 1828, Roberts wrote: There cannot be a more wretched situation than that of a young woman in India who has been induced to follow the fortunes of her married sister under the delusive expectation that she will exchange the privations attached to limited means in England for the far-famed luxuries of the East. (Roberts, Scenes and Characteristics, 1.33-4). Sadly her sister died in 1830, whereupon Roberts turned her experience into subject of a series of successful books, including a volume of poetry, Oriental Scenes in 1830, (which she claimed to be the first written by a British woman in India).

The objectivity gained from what she perceived to be her peripheral role as a spinster in British society in India was turned to account in her descriptions of both the British and Indians, for whom she showed sympathy. Many of her articles which appeared in the Asiatic Journal from 1832 were published as Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan (1835). The book was widely praised, the Calcutta Literary Gazette noting, there is a vivacity, a delicacy, and a truth in her light sketches of all that lay immediately before her, that have never been surpassed in any book of travels that is at this moment present to our memory (Rosemary Cargill Raza for DNB).
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Good Condition
Nickname Amount(Rs) Type Date & Time(IST)
1 anon0289 48000.00 Regular 14-03-2024 05:03:37 PM IST
2 anon0290 43600.00 Regular 14-03-2024 02:03:04 AM IST
3 anon0200 39600.00 Regular 11-03-2024 12:03:33 PM IST
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