INDIA. Kheddah Operations as Witnessed by Their Royal Highne...

INDIA. Kheddah Operations as Witnessed by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince & Princess of Wales in the Kakankota Forest of Mysore. February, 1906. Photographs taken by the Command of His Highness The Maharajah of Mysore, by Messrs. Barton, Son & Co., Bangalore. Title in red and black, 31 mounted photogravure plates (on 25 leaves), captioned tissue guards, foxing throughout, primarily to margins of mounts and corresponding areas of tissue guards, orig. green cloth, gilt to upper cover, scuffed, soiled and stained, bumped and frayed to extremities, orig. patterned endpapers, oblong folio. Provenance: Typescript presentation letter signed from V. P. Madhava Rao, the Dewan of Mysore, to Commander (later Captain Sir) Bryan Godfrey Faussett, R.N., M.V.O., 23rd July 1907, laid down on verso of ffep; his 1919 (K.C.V.O.) armorial bookplate to front pastedown. [Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett (1863-1945) served as Equerry to the Prince of Wales (later King George V) from 1901, and accompanied the royal party throughout the 1905-1906 Indian Tour.]

Estimate:£300

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