India Chauvelot, Robert (1 results)

4to. 222 pp. Colour frontisp., 80 photo plates, woodcut-engrave vignettes, decorated initials w/ Indo-Persian motifs. Original colour-illustrated front softcover bound-in as second frontisp., into recent half-blue goatskin over marbled boards, brown & gilt spine label (minor repairs to corners on end leaves, minor dustoiling to first and last leaves), still a VG copy. First edition of this original French ethnological travel account through India, and present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan between the Wars. Chauvelot (1879-1937) was a French Colonial administrator, ethnologist, travel writer, and novelist who made extensive trips through South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia in the early 20th Century. This was first published in English translation the next year in 1921.