Stock ID #222916 Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of The Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas. THOMAS DUER BROUGHTON.
Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of The Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas.
Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of The Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas.
Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of The Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas.
Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of The Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas.
Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of The Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas.

Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809, Descriptive of The Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas.

London. John Murray. 1813. Stock ID #222916

10 hand coloured aquatints, [xiv] + 358pp + [ii] Directions to the Binder, lacks half title, later half morocco, red linen covered boards, gilt-lettered spine, 26.5 x 20.7 cm, margins trimmed (one plate with slight loss to the publisher's signature), title page strengthened at the hinge, small chip at the lower corner, two leaves with short sealed edge tears (text unaffected), fifteen leaves stained at the gutter with loss to the inner margin of one plate, final leaf with soft creases and a short sealed tear (text unaffected), the margins of the plates rather dusty and browned, good condition.

Firsthand account by Thomas Duer Broughton (1778-1835) a British army officer of the East India Company appointed military resident with the Mahrattas in 1802. Compiled from a series of letters to his brother, Broughton's account includes detailed descriptions of festivals and ceremonies. Nine of the ten fine handcoloured plates are notable for being after sketches by Indian artist "Deen Alee".

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