1794. East India Kalendar for 1794 by Debrett, in contemporary binding

The East India Kalendar; or Asiatic Register for Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Fort Marlborough, China, and St. Helena. For the Year 1794. On a  more extensive plan than any hitherto offered to the public…. Printed for  J. Debrett [London]. MDCCXCIV [1794]. 12mo [6 x 3½ ins.]

ppi-vi [title page & index], ppvii-xii [lists of home establishment, Directors, etc.],  [2pp unpaginated table Times appointed for the following Ships up for the Season 1793], pp13-178, [6pp Debrett’s list]. Contemporary red straight grain morocco gilt, the spine very age worn but the boards still bright, the upper board is pulling away from the text bock with the free endpaper, endpapers hand marbled paper, all edges gilt, there is a little browning to the inner edge some pages around the 60s [the worst page is shown in one of the illustrations] but generally the text is excellent for a book that is well over 200 years old. The lists show civil servants, merchants, and writers with dates of appointment and current position. Military officers are listed by rank and in the order of their original commission or brevet and any special extra regimental position held but does not show their regiment.Other lists show Surgeons, European Inhabitantds not in the servive of the Company, Cadets, Commanders, Lieutenants, & Volunteers in the Bombay Marine with names of their ships, Seafaring Europeans in Merchant’s \services in Bombay and Surat, &c.. These directories of the Company which date before their standardisation as the East India Register in around 1803 are extremely difficult to find, especially when not bound in at the back of other volumes like the London & Royal Kalendar.  They vary considerably according to the publisher.      jul5/2