First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan [2 Volumes]

Thomas Bacon, 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. Leadenhall Street, 1837, 2 Volumes

Volume I: [xx], 406 pages including frontispiece and 10 engravings
Volume II: [xvi], 436 pages including frontispiece and 15 engravings

Original boards, fresh spine with original spine title label neatly pasted on both the spines (each)
9 x 6 in (23.2 x 15 cm) (each)

A unique author signed and presentation copy.

Thomas Bacon wrote text to Oriental Annuals and a two series work Orientalist. "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 elephants and tigers. Continuing into the Dehra Doon, he collected bears and encountered more tigers. An interesting view of pre-Raj India and its wild sports" (Czech, Asia, p.16)

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