Robert Orme: A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan

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Robert Orme : A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan

F. Wingrave, London, c. 1803

Fine full contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spine in six compartments of gilt bands, red and black morocco labels on two and five. , Occasional light browning, otherwise a fine example of this important book on India in full decorative period calf bindings. , 4to, Complete with 36 engraved maps, plans and views, mostly folding., Volume : Two volumes in three.

Robert Orme was an important English historian and son of a British East India Company physician and surgeon, Dr. Alexander Orme. After his formal education, he entered the service of the British East India Company as a writer in Bengal in 1743. He returned to England in 1753. In August 1763 he published the first volume of his principal work, A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan. He was regarded as an authority on India and historiographer to the East India Company.

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