(Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia, 31st March 2020) India.- Bevan (Major Henry) India.- Bevan (Major Henry) Thirty Years in India: Or, a Soldier's Reminiscences of Native and European Life in the Presidencies, from 1808 to 1838, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, hand coloured frontispiece to vol. I, folding map, torn at fold, two engraved plates at front of vol. II, tissue guard, errata, light offsetting, a couple of tiny tears in vol. 1, ownership note to title head, library stamp removed, bookplate of Charles Arthur Wynne-Finch (1841-1903), abrasions to rear endpapers, half calf, spine gilt, marbled edges, some worming to boards, peripheral leaves or endpapers, [Czech, Asia, p. 26], Pelham Richardson, 1839; with Keppel (George) Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, second edition, 2 vol., 2 hand-coloured lithograph frontispieces, and another tinted plate, wood engraved vignettes to text, lacking folding map, 10 page publisher’s catalogue at rear, dustsoiling, minor spotting, leaves uncut, ownership note, rebound in modern cloth, new endpapers, [Atabey 631; Blackmer 908 (third edition); Nat. Maritime Museum Cat. I 456; not in Abbey], Henry Colburn, 1827, 8vo (4) *** First title: contains accounts of local traditions, politics, trades, sporting and military experiences. Second title: George Thomas Keppel (1799-1821), who became the sixth Earl of Albemarle in 1851, was appointed aide-de-camp in 1821 to the governor-general of India, the Marquis of Hastings. The present work describes his return journey to England, during which he visited Muscat, Bussorah, Bagdad, the ruins of Babylon, Kurdistan, the court of Persia, Baku, Astrakan, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. Three editions of Keppel's account were published in 1827
(Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia, 31st March 2020) India.- Bevan (Major Henry) India.- Bevan (Major Henry) Thirty Years in India: Or, a Soldier's Reminiscences of Native and European Life in the Presidencies, from 1808 to 1838, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, hand coloured frontispiece to vol. I, folding map, torn at fold, two engraved plates at front of vol. II, tissue guard, errata, light offsetting, a couple of tiny tears in vol. 1, ownership note to title head, library stamp removed, bookplate of Charles Arthur Wynne-Finch (1841-1903), abrasions to rear endpapers, half calf, spine gilt, marbled edges, some worming to boards, peripheral leaves or endpapers, [Czech, Asia, p. 26], Pelham Richardson, 1839; with Keppel (George) Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, second edition, 2 vol., 2 hand-coloured lithograph frontispieces, and another tinted plate, wood engraved vignettes to text, lacking folding map, 10 page publisher’s catalogue at rear, dustsoiling, minor spotting, leaves uncut, ownership note, rebound in modern cloth, new endpapers, [Atabey 631; Blackmer 908 (third edition); Nat. Maritime Museum Cat. I 456; not in Abbey], Henry Colburn, 1827, 8vo (4) *** First title: contains accounts of local traditions, politics, trades, sporting and military experiences. Second title: George Thomas Keppel (1799-1821), who became the sixth Earl of Albemarle in 1851, was appointed aide-de-camp in 1821 to the governor-general of India, the Marquis of Hastings. The present work describes his return journey to England, during which he visited Muscat, Bussorah, Bagdad, the ruins of Babylon, Kurdistan, the court of Persia, Baku, Astrakan, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. Three editions of Keppel's account were published in 1827
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