Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India From Calcutta to Bombay (1824 - 25) (With Notes upon Ceylon). An Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826 and Letters Written In India
London. John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1828. First Edition. Stock ID #214811 A seminal work describing India's geography and people, with an interesting provenance. Sir Walter Russell Crocker KBE (1902 – 2002) was an Australian ambassador and he authored a well-received biography of Jawaharlal Nehru: "Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate" (1966). He was ambassador or high commissioner to eleven countries, including India (twice), Indonesia, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Nepal, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. He headed the Department of International Relations at the Research School of Pacific (and Asian) Studies, Australian National University, 1949–1954 and was a Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia for more than nine years. When referring to this item please quote stockid 214811.
First Edition, two volumes in 1: xvi, [4], [xvii]-xlviii + 632pp; full-page map, coloured in outline, 5 plates, 21 wood engravings in text (List of Subscribers, etc., last blank); viii + 516pp, 5 plates, 4 wood engravings in text, contemporary calf boards (scuffed) sympathetically rebacked, with the gilt monogram of the Church Missionary Society, 27 x 20cm, considerable foxing to plates & adjacent leaves, with small waterstain to several plates in Volume I, neat sealed tears to five leaves in the Appendix of Volume II, otherwise clean, with the label of the Church Missionary Society and of Kumars the Calcutta Booksellers to the front pastedown, neat ownership inscription of W. R. Crocker to the front free endpaper, a good copy.
Price: $650.00 AU