Echoes from Old Calcutta: Being Chiefly Reminiscences of the Days of Warren Hastings, Francis, and Impey
by H. E. Busteed
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. Ltd, 1897. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A smart third edition of this illustrated work on Calcutta during the time of Hastings, Francis, and Impey. Third edition. Considerably enlarged, with additional illustrations. Illustrate with frontispiece and fourteen plates, one of which is folding. Collated complete. A collection of writings from Calcutta, mostly between 1756 and 1781, during the time of Warren Hastings, Philip Francis, and Elijah Impey. Hastings as the British Colonial Administrator and Governor of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, as well as the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and Impey as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, were later impeached due to the continued accusations and antagonisms of Sir Philip Francis, a British politician of the Whig party. Written by Henry Elmsley Busteed, a British writer and historian. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed
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- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 871T18
- Title
- Echoes from Old Calcutta: Being Chiefly Reminiscences of the Days of Warren Hastings, Francis, and Impey
- Author
- H. E. Busteed
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thacker, Spink & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Calcutta
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 8" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- Echoes Old Calcutta Hastings Old Impey Busteed
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Cloth
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