1839, ISBN: 0a3290c4dce58d2a25a47d9174a20a11

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Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: London: Pelham Richardson, 1839.], INDIA SPORTING, Travel|Asia|India, 2 Volumes bound in 1. 12mo. pp. xvi, 344; viii, 367. folding engraved map & 2 eng… More...

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: London: Pelham Richardson, 1839.], INDIA SPORTING, Travel|Asia|India, 2 Volumes bound in 1. 12mo. pp. xvi, 344; viii, 367. folding engraved map & 2 engraved plates. apparently lacking a hand-coloured frontis. but with inserted portrait & inserted ms. extract from the Illustrated London News, Oct. 10, 1846, relating the circumstances surrounding the death of Major Bevan. modern quarter morocco (short tear in map repaired – no loss). First Edition. The author was a captain in the 27th Regiment Madras Native Infantry, and late commanding the Corps of Wynaud Rangers. In addition to political and military matters, his account contains detailed descriptions of local manners and customs, discussion of religion, slavery, the silk trade, the cultivation of coffee, tea, and opium, and much relating to British military life in India and field sports (hunting for elephants, tigers, elk, wild hog, cheetahs, bear, antelope, leopards, snipe, alligators, and jackals). Appended is an official statement on slavery in the East Indies in reply to questions submitted by H.Villiers, M.P. "During a period of upwards of twenty-three years, I have been in uninterrupted actual military service in India; the principal part of which was actually passed in the field, with the Madras, Bengal, and Bombay troops; also in the Deccan, Hindostanee, Guzerat, and other states subject to the control or immediate government of the Honourable East India Company. The last eight years were mostly spent in the provinces of Malabar and Wynaud; where I had constant opportunities to learn from personal inquiry what state of vassalage or slavery the poorer classes of the inhabitants of these two provinces were held by the landed proprietors, and people of substance, trades, and shopkeepers." (p. 359)<

1839, ISBN: 0a3290c4dce58d2a25a47d9174a20a11

[PU: London: Pelham Richardson, 1839.], INDIA SPORTING, Travel|Asia|India, 2 Volumes bound in 1. 12mo. pp. xvi, 344; viii, 367. folding engraved map & 2 engraved plates. inserted portrait… More...

[PU: London: Pelham Richardson, 1839.], INDIA SPORTING, Travel|Asia|India, 2 Volumes bound in 1. 12mo. pp. xvi, 344; viii, 367. folding engraved map & 2 engraved plates. inserted portrait & inserted ms. extract from the Illustrated London News, Oct. 10, 1846, relating the circumstances surrounding the death of Major Bevan. modern quarter morocco (short tear in map repaired – no loss). First Edition. The author was a captain in the 27th Regiment Madras Native Infantry, and late commanding the Corps of Wynaud Rangers. In addition to political and military matters, his account contains detailed descriptions of local manners and customs, discussion of religion, slavery, the silk trade, the cultivation of coffee, tea, and opium, and much relating to British military life in India and field sports (hunting for elephants, tigers, elk, wild hog, cheetahs, bear, antelope, leopards, snipe, alligators, and jackals). Appended is an official statement on slavery in the East Indies in reply to questions submitted by H.Villiers, M.P. "During a period of upwards of twenty-three years, I have been in uninterrupted actual military service in India; the principal part of which was actually passed in the field, with the Madras, Bengal, and Bombay troops; also in the Deccan, Hindostanee, Guzerat, and other states subject to the control or immediate government of the Honourable East India Company. The last eight years were mostly spent in the provinces of Malabar and Wynaud; where I had constant opportunities to learn from personal inquiry what state of vassalage or slavery the poorer classes of the inhabitants of these two provinces were held by the landed proprietors, and people of substance, trades, and shopkeepers." (p. 359)<