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HAMILTON, Walter
The East India gazetteer;
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.
A detailed gazeteer of ‘Cabul, Kandahar, Baloochistan and all of Afghanistan, Lahore, Molten, Sinde, Tatta, Cutch, Ajmeer, Gujarat, Delhi, Agra, Malawi, Oude, Allahabad, Bahar, Bengal, Hyderabad, Mysore, Cashmere, Serinagur, Nepal, Bootan, Tibet, Ava, Siam, Pegu, Assam, Malacca, Laos, Cambodia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Moluccas, the Philippines, Ceylon’ and many other locations in the East Indies.








