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Forbes, James
ORIENTAL MEMOIRS: A NARRATIVE OF SEVENTEEN YEARS' RESIDENCE IN INDIA. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, 1834-35
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Forbes, James
ORIENTAL MEMOIRS: A NARRATIVE OF SEVENTEEN YEARS' RESIDENCE IN INDIA. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, 1834-35
Second edition, 3 volumes, 2 volumes text, 8vo (222 x 138mm.), 2 lithographed frontispieces, advertisement leaf at end of vol.1, errata leaf at end of vol.2; plate volume, large 4to (316 x 250mm.), 83 plates, some coloured, later pencil notes throughout, uniform contemporary green pebbled cloth, occasional browning, slightly worn, volume 1 with repairs to spine
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J. Leslie, Theological Bookseller, London, label; Derrick Tvail, bookplates; Thomas Richardson, writer to the Signet, bookplate
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Forbes was a writer for the British East India Company, and thus travelled to India in 1765. He was a prolific writer and artist and filled thousands of manuscript pages with notes and sketches about Indian life, wildlife, flora and architecture. Forbes's Oriental Memoirs remains a valuable record of the culture, flora and fauna of India at end of the eighteenth century.
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