BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer.
Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809,
Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809,
descriptive of the character, manners, domestic habits and religious ceremonies of the Mahrattas. With ten coloured engravings, from drawings by a native artist.
Stock Code 113489
London, Murray, 1813.
with 10 hand-coloured aquatints
Broughton was Commander of the Resident's Escort at the Court of Scindia. His march commenced in Agra and took in the Siege of Doonee and ended at Ajmeer. The work includes a detailed description of a Mahratta camp, a wedding ceremony etc.First edition; 4to (27.5 x 22 cm); 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates, light offsetting from plates, armorial bookplate to pastedown; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked in later calf, spine lettered in gilt, all edges speckled red, extremities a little bumped, a very good copy; [xiv], 358 pp.
Abbey (Travel), 433; Bobins 225; Tooley 114.
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