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India
The Landscape / Architecture / Life Of The People


A very beautiful photographic record of full page photographs (in high quality photo gravure
technique)
featuring topography, remarkable architecture like mosques, famous palace, tombs, Buddha temples,
Hindu temples, culture, arts and people of India in the 1920s.
Some regions belong today to Pakistan.


This precious book was not affordable by too many people at that time.
And there is no other book of that time which comes close to the printing quality of that title.

As photographed by the famous photographer Martin Hurlimann in the years 1926 and 1927
with his Sinclair Camera with Zeiss objective and Kodak film (Graflex).

Photographs titled in English, German, French and Italian.

From the series "Orbis Terrarum" , a series of early photobooks portraying the regions of the world.

1st [and only] edition with only 15,000 copies.

Hardcover

  • 346 pages
  • 38 pages intro and index of photographs
  • 304 rotogravure pictures
  • a map of India
  • gilt lettering and decoration

In very good exterior and very good interior condition
Spine sunned, top edge lightly dusty, fly leaf with mild vertical crease, faint finger stains on title page, otherwise ok. Photo plates are very clean and bright.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 12-1/4" x 9-1/2"  ~3.95 lbs.

by Martin Hurlimann
Published by Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A. G., Berlin
in 1928










Inhaltsverzeichnis (table of contents) [excerpt]:

Rameswaram - Tiruparankunram - Madura - Trichinopoly - Srirangam - Tanjore - Kumbakonam - Chidambaram - Chingleput - Tirukali Kunram - Conjeeveram - Mavalipuram - Trivandrum - Malabar Coast - Aleppy - Cochin Coast - Cochin - Tellicherry - Westghats - Seringapatam - Mysore - Hyderabad-Deccan - Bangalore - Golconda - Bijapur - Karli - Elephanta - Bombay - Aurangabad - Ellora - Nashik - Sacred Godaveri River - Ajanta - Sanchi - Konarak - Puri - Bhubaneshvar - Surul - Calcutta - River Brahmaputra - Gauhati - Darjeeling - Patna - Buddha-Gaya - Sasaram - Benares - River Ganges - Sarnath - Allahabad - Lucknow - Barwa Sagar - Bundelkand - Khajuraho - Mau Ranipur - Orchha - Datia - Gwalior - Agra Taj Mahal - Sikandra - Fatehpur Sikri - Delhi - Old Delhi - Brindaban - Gobardhan - Deeg - Jaipur - Amber - Ajmer - Pushkar - Chitorgarh - Udaipur - Mount Abu - Dilwara - Sihor - Kathiawar - Palitana - Mount Satrunjaya - Ahmedabad - Hyderabad-Sind - Amritsar - Lahore - Taxila - Peshawar - Khyber Pass - Jammu - Kashmir Valley - Banihal Pass - Kashmir - Liddar Valley - Srinagar - Jhelum River - Dal Lake .... and many others


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