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HUNTER ( Sir Wm. Wilson ). Orissa : (or the vicissitudes of an Indian province under native and Brit

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HUNTER ( Sir Wm. Wilson ). Orissa : (or the vicissitudes of an Indian province under native and Brit

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
HUNTER ( Sir Wm. Wilson ). Orissa : (or the vicissitudes of an Indian province under native and British rule ; in two volumes. Being the second and third volumes of The Annals of Rural Bengal). Smith, Elder, & Co., 1872FIRST EDITION, with a large folding coloured map in an end pocket, 16 plates (1 coloured) and one text woodcut, pages (8), 330, (2, blank) : (4), 278, (2), 219, 2 vols, 8vo, original cloth, gilt : the bindings lightly marked but sound and strong with no cracking of the inside hinges : a very good to nice copy, inscribed "With the author's compliments".A much acclaimed work by a distinguished civil servant and historian : a valuable survey of a region best known for the great temple of JagannathALSO WITH THIS LOT: [BELL ( Thomas Evans )]. The Rajah and Principality of Mysore : with a letter to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P. Printed by Thomas Richards, 1865. FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, 56-pages, 8vo, original green cloth, gilt, by Bone & Son, with their ticket : a nice, fresh copy, inscribed on flyleaf "With Major Bell's Compts."Privately published. Advocating the claims of the dispossessed ruling family. Major Bell (1825-87) had been dismissed in 1860 for insubordination to the Chief Commissioner for advancing the same claims. However, all the measures Bell recommended were approved and carried out by Lord Canning, and he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police at Madras in 1861. He retired in 1863 and devoted the remainder of his life to advocating measures for the benefit of India and its people. The Dictionary of Indian Biography lists twelve of his published works but not this present one. NSTC notes four copies.(2)TRAVEL; ASIA; INDIA; HISTORY; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;