The east india gazetteer; containing Particular Descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of hindostan, and the adjacent countries, india beyond the ganges, and the Eastern Archipelago...
London.
Printed for John Murray, 1815.
First edition.
8vo.
xv, 862pp. With an engraved folding map. Contemporary gilt-tooled half- calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint split, lower joint starting. Hinges exposed, recent ink-stamp of E. Alistair Smith to recto of FFEP, with his inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, offsetting to title, scattered spotting.
The first edition of an authoritative and encyclopaedic geographical and cultural description of British India 'adapted principally for the perusal of those who have never visited that quarter of the world, and whose leisure has not admitted of their examining the numerous volumes in which the local descriptions are dispersed'.
A second edition, in two volumes, appeared in 1828.
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref: 32791
A second edition, in two volumes, appeared in 1828.
