Francis Hamilton. An Account of the District of Shahabad in 1809-10 [1812-13, printed slip pasted over the incorrect years] … Printed from the Buchanan Mss. in the India Office Library, with the permi

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BUCHANAN, Francis Hamilton. An Account of the District of Shahabad in 1809-10 [1812-13, printed slip pasted over the incorrect years] … Printed from the Buchanan Mss. in the India Office Library, with the permission of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Patna: Published on behalf of the Bihar Orissa Research Society by the Hon'ble Rai Bahadur Radha Krishna Jalan, and printed at the Patna Law Press. 1934. Royal 8vo. Original [?] roan-backed cloth-covered boards with printed label to spine; pp. [2], iii, [2], iv, 444, very large folding table of agricultural tasks and yields at the end; extremities a little worn, front inner hinge re-inforced with cloth strip at an early date; folding table with a few crinkles, otherwise very good and printed on high-quality laid paper; presentation copy, inscribed in ink on verso of front fly-leaf by the publisher Radha Krishna Jalan (1882-1954), Patna businessman and art collector . Very rare first unabridged and correct edition , after Martin Montgomery's 1838 edition, which is harshly criticised in the preface of this edition. Often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829), the Scottish surgeon to the governor general of India Lord Wellesley in Calcutta in 1803 and 1804 founded what was to become Alipore Zoo in that city, the oldest botanical garden of India. Under Lord Wellesley he became director of the Natural History Project of India. While living in India he made significant contributions to the knowledge of the n

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