Author: BOLTS W. - DEMEUNIER (translator) :
Title: Etat Civil, Politique et Commerçant du Bengale; ou Histoire des Conquêtes & de l'Administration de la Compagnie Angloise dans ce pays.
Description: La Haye, Chez Gosse, Fils, 1775, 2 vols in-8°, 19 x 12,5 cm, engraved forntispice (N. de Launay) + title + xlii (préface du traducteur et de l'auteur) + folding map of Bengalen + 222 pp ; engraved frontispiece (Eisen) + 240 pp, uniform contemporary full calf, triple gilt fillets on covers, smooth gilt back with double red leather label, covers with a few minor stains but a nice copy. Chadenat 2791. Willem Bolts was a Dutch adventurer who entered the Bengal civil service and got into trouble with the Company. After being deported to England in 1768, he published this work attacking the government in Bengal (see E.Cox. V.I pp 298). .

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