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a)
TITLE: Maps and Plans Illustrating the Memoirs of the Operations of the British Army in India
SUB TITLE: During the Mahratta War of 1817, 1818, & 1819
AUTHOR: Lt. Col. Valentine Blacker
EDITION: 1st
VOLUME: Text
PUBLISHER: Black, Kingsbury, Parbury,and Allen
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1821
BINDING: Contemporary full tree calf, spine in five compartments with raised bands title label insecond and gilt decoration in rest
NO.OF PAGES: Half title, title, [v] vi - xxxiii, [1] Half title, 494pp [appendix includes 6 folding tables]
SIZE:
Height: 28.5 cm
Width: 23 cm
Depth: 4 cm
b)
TITLE: Maps and Plans Illustrating the Memoirs of the Operations of the British Army in India
SUB TITLE: During the Mahratta War of 1817, 1818, & 1819
AUTHOR: Lt. Col. Valentine Blacker
EDITION: 1st
VOLUME: Atlas
PUBLISHER: Black, Kingsbury, Parbury,and Allen
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1821
BINDING: Half leather with gilted text at the spine
NO.OF PAGES: Folding panorama double view, title, [ 1, list of Maps and Plans] 8 engraved maps 38 plans. some folding, with hand-coloured details.Together Complete with the 46 Maps and Plans.
SIZE:
Height: 28.5 cm
Width: 23 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Valentine Blacker, a historian of the Mahratta war of 1817-19 obtained his commission in the Madras cavalry in early 1798, and served as a cornet in the Mysorecampaign of 1799, with a troop of cavalry of the Nizam's contingent. His services at Mahidpur and the reconnaissance made by him before the battle were specially brought to the notice of the governor-general. He was appointed a companion of the Bathin 1818.
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