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KEENE, H. G. A handbook for visitors to agra and its neighbourhood.

Calcutta. Thacker, Spink and Co., 1888. Fifth edition.
8vo?. vi, [6], 163pp, [1], 30pp, [2]. With a half-title, five maps (three folding), and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Ink-stamp of Bombay-based booksellers A. J. Combridge & Co. to verso of FFEP.
A revised edition of a guide for tourists to the city of Agra, Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, first published in 1873. The author, Henry George Keene (1825-1915) was a servant of the East India Company, serving in the North West Frontier Province from 1847, and as Superintendent of Dehradun at the time of the Sepoy Mutiny. A keen orientalist, he published widely on Indian history.
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 30884