Eastern Frontier of India, a much enlarged verson of the 1835 original.

Pemberton, Capt. R. Boileau, late Joint Commissioner in Manipur: Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India (with a supplement by Dr Boileau). Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies in Assam [Gauhati] 1966 2nd impression [first was 1835] 8vo.

xxxii, [i], 269pp, [21pp of tables, some folding], llxxiii [sic but should be clxxiii – Boileau’s supplement], [4pp publisher’s ads]. Original quarter cloth gilt with printed paper covered boards, a few marks to boards and a corner bumped but internally very clean, modern private owner’s bookplate to pastedown. a very comprehensive work on an area of India which is less well covered than most. The original 1835 edition had a selection of maps but these were not reproduced in this edition.      mar28/2      SOLD 22nd November 2022