Accounts Respecting the Annual Revenues and Disbursements, Trade and Sales of the East India Company: For Three Years (1822/23-1823/24-1824/25) ... the Latest Estimate of the Same (1825/26). by Company, East India

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

1803.. Small folio. (ii); 9, (3); (iv), 82, (4); (vi); (viii); 201, (1); (ii), 131, (1) pp., the pages also continuously numbered in contemporary manuscript (449, (1) pp.) with a corresponding handwritten index to the front of the volume. Recent brown half calf over old marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label. Very good. A fascinating and statistically rich collection of official papers relating to the company's accounts between Britain and the sub-continent at probably the height of its powers. The first of the larger sections covers the "possible resources" plus the annual revenues and civil & military charges for the three Presidencies and centres of commerce: Bengal (Fort William), Madras (Fort St. George) and Bombay with a few brief sections on Fort Marlborough (Indonesia), St Helena and the factory at Canton. The largest section covers the import and export of goods by the company through 74 English and Welsh ports. London, Liverpool and Bristol obviously… Read More