BACON, THOMAS First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years' residence in Bengal and the Doab, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837. First edition. Two volumes. Contemporary three-quarters blue morocco over marbled boards, the smooth spine in five gilt-ruled compartments, gilt-lettered in two and gilt-tooled in the rest. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; [xx], 406 pp.; [xvi], 436 pp.; full-page map, frontispieces, plates. Wear to extremities with some loss to spine ends, endpapers browned, scattered foxing throughout. "An officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery, Bacon recounts his assignment to India with vivid descriptions of life in the cantonments, travels along the Ganges River, and observations of the peoples he encountered. He also enjoyed hunting wild boar and tiger in the 'junguls' near the confluence of the Ganges and Jumna Rivers. Near Hurdwar, he hunted wild elephant and tiger. Continuing into the Dehra Doon, he collected bear and encountered more tiger. An interesting view of pre-Raj India and its wild sports" (Czech). Czech, Asia, p. 16. (2) C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
BACON, THOMAS First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years' residence in Bengal and the Doab, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837. First edition. Two volumes. Contemporary three-quarters blue morocco over marbled boards, the smooth spine in five gilt-ruled compartments, gilt-lettered in two and gilt-tooled in the rest. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; [xx], 406 pp.; [xvi], 436 pp.; full-page map, frontispieces, plates. Wear to extremities with some loss to spine ends, endpapers browned, scattered foxing throughout. "An officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery, Bacon recounts his assignment to India with vivid descriptions of life in the cantonments, travels along the Ganges River, and observations of the peoples he encountered. He also enjoyed hunting wild boar and tiger in the 'junguls' near the confluence of the Ganges and Jumna Rivers. Near Hurdwar, he hunted wild elephant and tiger. Continuing into the Dehra Doon, he collected bear and encountered more tiger. An interesting view of pre-Raj India and its wild sports" (Czech). Czech, Asia, p. 16. (2) C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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