Author: O'CONOR, James Edward.
Title: Review of the accounts of the trade and navigation of India for 1874-75, as compared with previous years.Calcutta, Office of the superintendent of government printing, 1876.With:(2) Memorandum reviewing the accounts of the trade and navigation of British India for 1875-76. Dated the 24th February 1877. [Calcutta?], Government central press, 1877.(3) Review of the trade of British India for the official year 1876-77.Calcutta, 25 October1877.(4) Review of the trade of British India with other countries, for the official year 1878-1879.[Calcutta?], Government central press, 1879.(5) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1879-80.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1880.(6) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1880-81.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1881.(7) Review of the maritime trade of British India with other countries for the official year 1881-82.Calcutta, office of the superintendent of government printing, 1882.(8) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1883.Simla, Government central branch press, 1883.(9) Review of the accounts of the sea-borne foreign trade of British India for the official year ending 31st March 1884.Simla, Government central branch press, 1884.9 parts in 1 volume. Folio. Near contemporary red cloth.
Description: First editions of the official yearly accounts of the trade between British India and other countries, all compiled by the British administrator James Edward O'Conor (d. 1917). Included are the reviews of the years from 1874 to 1884, only lacking the official year 1877-1878. Listed are the amount of trade with foreign countries (including Aden, Turkey and countries surrounding the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea), government transactions, customs revenues, foreign import and export products, listing numerous products and materials together with the amount that has been imported or exported and the costs. "The two most important items from Arabia are dates and pearls... Gums, fishmaws and sharkfins, and salt are the most prominent of the other articles imported" (ad 9, p.24). The section on export is divided between foreign products and products of Indian manufacture that are being exported from India. Also included is a brief section on provincial trade.Library stamps. Browned, especially around the margins, with frequent small tears in the margins, second leaf of ad 1 restored with tape and detached from book block.

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