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| BARBER, NOEL The Black Hole of Calcutta: A Reconstruction Boston and Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company/Riverside Press. 1966. Second American Edition (1965). 254pp, 2 maps, 3 plans, 1 view. 8vo/22cm. Black cloth, light soil and wear, in protected dj, minimum ex-lib marks, othererwise internally clean, tight and very good. An attempt to document the famed massecre of more than one hundred Britons during the 1756 siege of Fort William, Calcutta by the Nabob of Bengal, Siraj-ud Daulah, and 50,000 of his Muslim followers. Noel Barber (1909-1988) is the famed British journalist and correspondent of the Daily Mail whose own adventures worldwide were portrayed in the 1979 film, This Is Your Life. He also wrote six best-selling novels. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 003446 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| CALLAHAN, RAYMOND The East India Company and Army Reform1783-1798 Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1972. Harvard Historical Monographs LXVII. First Edition. xiv, 1L, 242, [ix]pp, 3 appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. 12mo/20.5cm. Black cloth gilt, in dj lightly rubbed at front joint, internally fine. NF/VG.The "first detailed study of the British government's late 18th century attempt to reorganize the East India Company's army". It was defeated by the Company's officers and led to the ruin of the governor-general, Sir John Shore. The author was a professor at the University of Delaware at the time of writing. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1032] Book number: 002700 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| EAST INDIA COMPANY Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years and the Petition of the East India Company to Parliament [by John Stuart Mill] Farnborough, Hants, Gregg International Publishers Limited. 1968. Reprint of 1858 original. [iii]. 129pp, Appendix, Correspondence, Petition. 8vo/22.5cm. Other chapter headins include, Revenue Administration and Rights of the Rural Population, Judicature and Legislation, Improvement..by Public Works, Eduction and Miscellaneous Improvements. Green cloth gilt, shelf wear only, light browning of page edges, otherwise near fine. A defence of the East India Company's oversight to head off the takeover by the British Government after the Mutiny. Written by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) who was Chief of Office of the East India Company at the time of writing. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2580] Book number: 002532 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. |
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