HEBER, Reginald.

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Plates to Illustrate Bishop Heber's Journal of Travels in India. First edition of this separate issue, plates dated Dec. 1827, the map 1829, perhaps designed to enhance the octavo set of of the valuable travel journal of Reginald Heber (1783-1826). Rare, just 6 sets located institutionally.Heber was appointed bishop of Calcutta in 1823, only the second person to hold that post, at a time when the diocese included not only the whole of India but southern Africa and Australia too. Heber spent much of his time ministering to the Anglican communities scattered throughout the Indian subcontinent. His most notable journey, of a length and difficulty unprecedented for a Church of England bishop, was the one which he undertook across northern India - up the Gangetic plain, through the mountains of Kumaon and the deserts of Rajputana, and finally visiting Ceylon on his way back to Calcutta by sea. His journal was edited by his widow and published posthumously, "its exceptional value as a description of India was recognized by contemporaries and by modern historians alike" (ODNB); five editions had been published by 1844.

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