East India Register 1823, 1st edition. corrected to 25th January

£160.00

The East India Register and Directory for 1823; containing complete Lists of the Company’s Servants, at Home and Abroad, Civil, Military, and Marine with their respective Appointments; with Indexes to the same, and Lists of Casualties during the last year….Births, Marriages and Deaths in India…List of the Proprietors of East India qualified to vote … compiled by Permission of the Hon. East India Company…by A. W. Mason, Geo. Owen, and G. H. Brown of the Secretary’s Office, East India House. Corrected to 25th January 1823.  Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen. [London] 1823 small 8vo.

Large folding table of shipping for seasons 1820-21, 1821-22 & 1822-23  & Private Ship Licences 1821-22, folding pay table, lxvii, 535pp, [i advertisement for  The Asiatic Journal] including 6pp casualties (Bengal), 4pp casualties (Madras), 3pp casualties (Bombay]. Old cloth gilt library rebind for Athenæum, Liverpool with its decorative bookplate to front pastedown, small chip to top corner of rear board and small marks to title page, dark area to one top corner of shipping table, otherwise clean and unmarked by annotation. Fully indexed lists of all serving and retired officers in the three Presidency armies, together with lists of civil servants, Indian Navy officers (down to Midshipmen), government officials, etc. A feature of the Register is the list of annual casualties with date and place of death, etc. This volume, published when the Marquess of Hastings was Governor General and commander-in-chief lists the army as it was in the year before the 1st Anglo Burmese War.  may29/1

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