First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years' residence in Bengal and the Doab, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI

by Thomas Bacon

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First edition

First edition. Full-page map, frontispieces, plates. xx , 406; xvi , 436 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in half contemporary blue morocco and marbled boards. Czech, Asia, p. 16. Item #321388 An officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery, Bacon recounts his assignment to India with vivid descriptions of life in the cantonments, travels along the Ganges River, and observations of the peoples he encountered. He also enjoyed

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