Milan, Treves, 1877. In 2 . With 303 black and white engravings in the text and 80 plates outside the text protected by tissue paper, slight scattered blooms, restorations to the first 3 and last 2 cards, coeval binding in half canvas with corners and decorated paper, author and title imprinted in gold on the back, slight defects. & nbsp;

** Imposing and elegant illustrated work on India that retraces the stages of the author's journey to discover the distant Indian lands that began in 1863 and lasted 6 years through a rich iconographic apparatus of costumes, landscapes, scenes of life, city views.