Report of the Debates in the House of Commons upon the Tenth, Fifteenth, and Eighteenth Days of July 1806 on the East India Budget.

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Scarce pamphlet recounting the debates in parliament surrounding the an impending loan that would need to be taken out by the East-India Company. In the wake of the Second Anglo-Maratha War the Company's coffers were depleted and they had to take several measures to balance their budget including founding the Bank of Calcutta in 1806. Scarce, only 4 UK copies (BL, Bristol, York, Senate House). First edition; 8vo (21.5 x 13 cm); later burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, a fine copy; [iv], 127 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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