Biggs (Thomas). Architecture at Ahmedabad, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1866

Biggs (Thomas, Hope, Theodore C & Fergusson, James). Architecture at Ahmedabad, The Capital of Goozerat, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1866, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, 2 maps, 120 albumen prints, occasional spotting, light dust-soiling, first 3 leaves stuck down at gutter, text block separated from backstrip, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, one plate loosely tipped-in, one plate reinserted on stub, original publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, lacking head and tail caps, joints cracked, some wear to extremities, 4to

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An early and important photographic record extensively documenting the architecture of Ahmedabad, some of which no longer exists. The photographer, Thomas Biggs, was the official photographer to the Government of India, the first to hold the position.

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