Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for the author by T. Bensley, Bolt Court. Published by White, Cochrane, and Co. Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, 1813 [i.e. 1839]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3416812
Classification:
Books
Notes:
One of several copies of the original 1813 edition which the publisher Henry Bohn acquired at auction in 1819 and to which he added 27 plates from Thomas and William Daniell's Oriental Scenery, 1812-1816, and reissued in 1839. Cf. Abbey.
Exhibition History:
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
Subject Terms:
India -- Description and travel. | Natural history -- India. | Voyages and travels. | White, Cochrane, and Co. -- Publisher. | Bensley, T. -- Printer. | Downes, C.V.S. -- Bookplate.