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BAIKIE, Robert (1799-1889)

Lot 151
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 151 | BAIKIE, Robert (1799-1889)
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BAIKIE, Robert (1799-1889)

Observations on the Neilgherries, Including an Account of their Topography, Climate, Soil and Productions, and of the Effects of the Climate on the European Constitution. Calcutta: The Baptist Mission Press, 1834.

First edition: an exciting account of the Nilgiri Mountains, with maps of the hills and the approaches to them, sketches of the scenery, drawings of the principal buildings and tables of routes. The environment of the Nilgiris became much appreciated by Europeans, and from the 1820s the region was rapidly developed by the British Raj. A popular summer and weekend destination, the summer house of the Madras Presidency was established at Ooty in 1827. Robert Baikie, a doctor who spent over 17 years practising in India for the East India Company's Madras Army, wrote this account of this region while Senior Medical Officer of the Nilgiris. The fine maps and botanical subjects are signed by J. B. Tassin, who started one of Calcutta's earliest lithographic presses in 1830 and later moved to San Francisco. In the preface the editor gives full costings from the production of the book and states that 500 copies were printed. Not in Abbey. Bobins V, 1640.



Octavo (245 x 154mm). 6pp. subscribers' list, errata leaf, 11 lithographic views and plates, all but one hand-coloured, 34 lithographic maps hand-coloured in outline, 3 of which folding (old paper repair to first large folding map, large folding map at p.10 with corner dogeared, occasional light spotting to non-folding maps, otherwise, a fresh, clean copy). Near contemporary half calf (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (1824-1878, soldier who served in India and the Crimea and noted zoologist; bookplate) – John and Suzanne Bonham (sold Sotheby's, 15 May 2018, lot 168).





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Place of origin:India, Asia
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