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MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India, London: W. H. Allen, 1838. 3 volumes, 4°, 61 lithographed plates, including 3 frontispieces, the majority on tan paper, some folding, 8 lithographed maps, coloured in outline (some spotting or soiling, occasional offsetting onto text leaves, a few leaves detaching), contemporary cloth-backed boards, Indian figure blind-stamped onto front and back covers, spines gilt stamped with image of a Temple or Mosque (head of spines slightly waterstained, some fading to spines, corners rubbed), partly uncut; blindstamp of the Evangelische Missions-Gesellschaft of Basel on titles. FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 1498; Kress C.4680. (3)
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