Report of a Committee Appointed by a General Meeting to Enquire into the Prospects of a Company Established in London for Navigating the Rivers in the East Indies by Steam Boats

by [East India Inland Steam Navigation Company]

$500 · Offered by Between the Covers

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839. Softcover. First edition(?). Octavo. Disbound. 49pp., folding map. Lacking wrappers; title page and folding map detached from sewing; good. A scarce report establishes an early point for the English empire’s interest in establishing a steam boat line in India, and the methods by which..... More

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