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Anon.
Illustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway including the Tanjore District Board, Pondicherry, Travancore State, Peralam-Karaikkal and the Cochin State Railways.
Publisher: Hoe and Co., at the ‘Premier’ Press, Madras;
Date of Publication: 1913
Stock Code: 14342
Octavo, pp., [4], viii, 225, [1], plus 59 monochrome photographic plates, one folding, and colour-printed fold-out map of the region in pocket to end. Publisher’s pebbled crimson cloth over card wraps, titled within elaborate pictorial design to upper board in gilt, oval photographic vignette of Madras Egmore railway station mounted to upper board, titled in gilt to spine. Historic ownership inscriptions to ffep and annotations to one page only. Blind stamp of the eminent and historic Higginbotham’s of Madras and Bangalore to title-page. Spine cocked, upper joint cracked, photographic vignette rubbed. Light scattered foxing to edges, not affecting text or plates, tear to first plate. Overall, a very good copy. An index and traveller’s guide to railway stations and nearby points of interest, illustrated with photographic plates. Higginbotham’s, founded 1844, is the oldest bookshop in India. £95.00