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FORBES, James (1749-1819). Oriental Memoirs: selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India. London: Printed for the Author by T. Bensley, 1813.
4 volumes, 4o (296 x 242 mm). Engraved portrait and 93 plates (7 lithographed, 5 hand-colored, and the remainder engraved, 23 hand-colored.) (Some light offsetting and minor staining.) 19th-century calf (rebacked). Provenance: Edward Lord Suffield (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION with the plates agreeing to the list given at the end of volume IV. In 1819, at the author's death, the unsold copies were deposited in a warehouse where some twenty years later they were rediscovered and reissued with an additional twenty-seven plates. Abbey Travel 436 (later issue with the additional plates); Borba de Moraes I, p.315: ("Magnificent publication").
4 volumes, 4o (296 x 242 mm). Engraved portrait and 93 plates (7 lithographed, 5 hand-colored, and the remainder engraved, 23 hand-colored.) (Some light offsetting and minor staining.) 19th-century calf (rebacked). Provenance: Edward Lord Suffield (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION with the plates agreeing to the list given at the end of volume IV. In 1819, at the author's death, the unsold copies were deposited in a warehouse where some twenty years later they were rediscovered and reissued with an additional twenty-seven plates. Abbey Travel 436 (later issue with the additional plates); Borba de Moraes I, p.315: ("Magnificent publication").