SLEEMAN, Lieut.-Colonel William Henry.

Rambles and Recollections of an Indian official.

Name: Rambles and Recollections of an Indian official.
Brand: SLEEMAN, Lieut.-Colonel William Henry.
SKU: 122263
Price: 1650.00 GBP
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Stock Code 122263

London, Hatchard, 1844.

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William Henry Sleeman (1788-1856), an officer in the East India Company, achieved some renown for his part in the anti-Thugee campaign in the 1830's and 40's, before becoming a political resident in Gwalior, and later, Lucknow.

The present work is arranged in the form of a tour and includes observations on Hindu social and religious rituals, crops, legends, witchcraft, etc. A very attractive work with good illustrations of Indian architecture.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (25 x 17 cm); 32 chromolithographed plates including frontispieces, armorial bookplates to front pastedowns; publisher's original gilt green cloth, covers and spines with gilt pictorial designs and gilt borders, spines faded with a couple small nicks expertly restored, a few marks to boards, still a bright very good copy; xii, 478, 2 (ads); viii, 459 pp.

Abbey Travel 466; Riddick 167.

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