# 45819

HAMILTON, Walter

The East India gazetteer;

$750.00 AUD

containing particular descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts, fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries, India beyond the Ganges, and the Eastern archipelago; together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history, &c. of their various inhabitants. London : Printed for J. Murray by Dove, 1815. First edition. Thick octavo (220 x 140 mm), contemporary tree calf (lower board with scuff mark), spine with gilt decoration and lettering (leather somewhat dry); marbled pastedowns and endpapers, front pastedown with a twentieth-century ex libris, pp. xv, 862; binding nice and firm, scattered light foxing and browning, otherwise internally very clean, a good example.