Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings

By

Forbes, James, 1749-1819

Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 , ill.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1813

Notes

Vol. I: [4], xxiii, [1], 481, [1] p. -- v. II: xv, [1], 542 p. -- v. III: xii, 487, [1] p. -- v. IV: xi, [1], 425, [7] p.

Natural history plates signed W. Hooker (probably William Jackson Hooker).

Some plates hand-colored.

Each v. with half title and v.I with frontispiece port.

Colophon (v. IV): T. Bensley, printer, London.

Index, errata, and directions to the publisher for placing the plates at end of v. IV.

BM (Nat. hist.), | v. I, p. 592

Abbey, J.R. Travel, | 436

Subjects

19th century , Description and travel , India , Natural history , Pictorial works

Call Number

DS412 .F68

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.53635
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/05015230
OCLC: 5669394