Books on the History of British India by Robert Orme and William Robertson

a) Robert Orme, A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, from the Year MDCCXLV to which is Prefixed a Dissertation on the Establishments Made by Mahomedan Conquerors in Indostan, London: Printed for F. Wingrave, 1803, Fourth Edition, revised by the author

Two volumes bound in three
Volume I: xcvi + 436 pages including 8 folding maps (lacks 2 - map of Gingee and map of Trichonopoly)
Volume II: 365 including 10 folding maps and 2 panoramic views
Volume III: 374 including 12 folding maps and 1 view

Bound uniformly in full calf with titles in gilt on spine (each)
11.4 x 8.8 in (28.6 x 22.2 cm) (each)

Provenance: Ex-library copy. Bath Public Reference Library bookplates and blind stamps.

b) William Robertson, An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India and the Progress of Trade with that Country Prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope. With an appendix, containing observations on the civil policy, the laws and judicial proceedings, the arts, the sciences, and religious institutions, of the Indians, London: A Strahan and T Caddell, 1791

xii, 364 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 2 large folding maps of India; bound in 18th century full-leather binding. Some soiling and staining inside but overall a good set with sound binding.
11.5 x 9 in (28.7 x 22.5 cm)

This is the last historical work of famous Scottish historian William Robertson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and dean of the University of Edinburgh.

Robertson produced the above work late in life after having read Major Rennell's Memoir on the Map of Hindostan. His final paragraphs concentrate on the fate of India, its people and culture, hoping that "the early and high civilisation of India, and of the wonderful progress of its inhabitant in elegant arts and useful science, may have some influence upon the behaviour of Europeans towards that people".

(Set of two)

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