East India Register and Army List for 1850. A good association copy showing the Indian Army at the end of the Second Sikh War [1846-49]

The East India Register and Army List, for 1850  Compiled, by Permission of the East India Company from the Official Returns received at the East India House. By F. Clark of the Secretary’s Office, East India House. Wm, H. Allen [London] 1846  1st edition small 8vo.

civ, 371pp including 7pp casualties (Bengal), 159pp including 5pp casualties (Madras), 120pp including 3pp casualties (Bombay), pp 121-145 lists of Directors, Propietors, &c., [xii advertisements], 12pp Allen’s list. Contemprary polished calf gilt, unevenly faded and a piece of leather missing. Contemporary ownership name boldly written across the title page but the initials difficult to decipher Ouseley Ja 18/50. 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 Marquis of Dalhousie was Governor General and General Sir Charles James Napier c.-in-c. This volume lists the army as it was shortly before at the start of the First Sikh War in December 1846. The text block is very clean and fresh  jan17/1

Provenance: Colonel Joseph Walker Jasper Ouseley [1800=1889] appears in the East India Register for 1821 as an Ensign in the Bengal Army not yet posted to a regiment. In 1822 he appears as a Lieutenant in the 14th NI as Interpreter & Adjutant. In 1825 he appears in the 28th NI and servimg as Assistant Professor of Sanscrit, Mahratta, and Bengallee at the College of Fort William in Calcutta. From 1838 to 1844 he was back in Englnd as Professor of Arabic and Persian aat Haileybury College. In 1857 he was Persian Interpreter to the British Plenipotentiary at the treaty talks with the Persians at Paris.

The binding is of the same simple and severe type as several volues of this title in our private reference library which belonged to Captain Henry Vibart Glegg, HEIC Recruiting Officer, Edinburgh which suggests that this may have been a style used by the Company to some of its officials around the world.