Title: Examination of the Principles and Policy of the Government of British India: Embracing a Particular Inquiry Concerning the Tenure of Lands; Strictures on the Administration of Justice; and Suggestions for the Improvement of the Character and Condition of the Natives in General Author: A Gentleman Place: London Publisher: Hurst, Chance, and Co. Date: 1829 Description: iv, 184 pp. 8½x5½, full calf with crosshatching on covers, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. First Edition. Signed by the author and inscribed to "the Honorable Mountshead Elphinstone," on title page. Written in the service of the East India Company. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderately rubbed and worn extremities, some calf rubbed or scratched at surface; offsetting to endpapers, small library bookplate on front pastedown; hinges reinforced with tape; very good. Item number: 208190
Title: Examination of the Principles and Policy of the Government of British India: Embracing a Particular Inquiry Concerning the Tenure of Lands; Strictures on the Administration of Justice; and Suggestions for the Improvement of the Character and Condition of the Natives in General Author: A Gentleman Place: London Publisher: Hurst, Chance, and Co. Date: 1829 Description: iv, 184 pp. 8½x5½, full calf with crosshatching on covers, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. First Edition. Signed by the author and inscribed to "the Honorable Mountshead Elphinstone," on title page. Written in the service of the East India Company. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderately rubbed and worn extremities, some calf rubbed or scratched at surface; offsetting to endpapers, small library bookplate on front pastedown; hinges reinforced with tape; very good. Item number: 208190
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