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Book Condition: Used
Seller: D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

Canada
About Item: London: Printed For F.Wingrave, 1805. Second Enlarged Edition (first: 1782). Newly added in this edition are an account of the English establishment and of the East India Companyís trade at Broach and Surat, A General Idea of the Government and People of Indostan, which Orme began writing in 1752, and an account of the life and writings of the author. Much of Ormeís life was spent in the employ of the East India Company, as a writer, a member of the council at Madras, commissary and accountant-general, and later as historiographer. cfCox I p. 300. 4to. pp. 1 p.l., lxvii, [2], 472, [32]sources & index. 3 engraved maps (2 folding) & 2 engraved portraits (incl. frontis.). 1 text illus. contemporary tree calf, rebacked (corners worn, faint foxing to maps)
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