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PROPERTY REMOVED FROM A LONDON RESIDENCE
BENJAMIN HEYNE (1770-1819)
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BENJAMIN HEYNE (1770-1819)
Tracts, Historical and Statistical, on India. London: C. Baltwin, 1814. 4° (275 x 230mm). Engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved geological maps hand-coloured in outline and 4 engraved plates of which one hand-colored. (Occasional soiling, spotting and browning, small tear to folding map.) Original boards, uncut edges (sometime rebacked in red cloth, extremities rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: Sir Clive Milnes-Coates of Helperby (1879-1971, ownership inscription and book label).
FIRST EDITION of Heyne's major work. He was a Scottish surgeon, naturalist and botanist whom joined the service of the British East India Company in 1793. He was assigned as botanist to Samalkot in southeast India where a fundamental task was dealing with malaria.
Tracts, Historical and Statistical, on India. London: C. Baltwin, 1814. 4° (275 x 230mm). Engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved geological maps hand-coloured in outline and 4 engraved plates of which one hand-colored. (Occasional soiling, spotting and browning, small tear to folding map.) Original boards, uncut edges (sometime rebacked in red cloth, extremities rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: Sir Clive Milnes-Coates of Helperby (1879-1971, ownership inscription and book label).
FIRST EDITION of Heyne's major work. He was a Scottish surgeon, naturalist and botanist whom joined the service of the British East India Company in 1793. He was assigned as botanist to Samalkot in southeast India where a fundamental task was dealing with malaria.