East India Register 1834, 2nd edition corrected to 8th May 1834

£140.00

The East India Register and Directory for 1827; containing complete Lists of the Company’s Servants, with their respective Appointments; with Indexes to the Same, and Lists of Casualties….Births, Marriages and Deaths in India…List of the Proprietors of East India qualified to vote … compiled by Permission of the East India Company…by G. H. Btown, and F. Clark of the Secretary’s Office, East India House. 2nd Edition corrected to 8th May 1834.  Parbury, Allen, and Co. [London] 1834 small 8vo.

xliv, 280pp [Bengal, including 5pp casualties], 166pp [Madras including  4pp casualties], 140pp [ Bombay including 3pp casualties], [xxiv advertisements]. Later cloth firm, cloth darkened and with  little loss to tail of spine, old bookplate of Caledonian United Services Club to front pastedown, contents clean with no other previous ownership markings.  Fully indexed lists of all serving and retired officers in the three Presidency armies, together with lists of civil servants, 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 Rt. Hon. Lord William Cavendish Bentinck was Governor General and Commander-in-Chief.   may12/1

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