Major General Sir William Henry Sleeman K.C.B (Resident at the court of Lucknow) · Publisher: Richard Bentley, London, · 1858

A Journey Through the Kingdom of Oude in 1849-1850 (2 Volumes)

USD 1,750

By direction of the Right Honourable The Earl of Dalhousie, Governer General

Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered and ruled spines, marbled edges, folding map. A highly desirable piece of 19th-century colonial Indian history. Great addition to a collection on the history of India and British Colonial Rule. Definitely the British perspective so bias may be obvious, but a good representation of such a view.

.An important first-hand account of the kingdom of Oudh on the eve of its annexation by the East India Company, written by one of the most experienced British administrators in nineteenth-century India. Sir William Henry Sleeman’s A Journey Through the Kingdom of Oude occupies an unusual position among nineteenth-century accounts of India. It is simultaneously a travel narrative, an administrative survey, a political document and a remarkably detailed portrait of a kingdom only a few years before its disappearance as an independent princely state.

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Edition

First Edition

Condition

Two volumes, octavo. Contemporary mid-nineteenth-century half leather over marbled boards, spines divided by raised bands and gilt rules, gilt-lettered title and volume labels; marbled edges. With the original large folding “Map of the Kingdom of Oude” in Volume I. Complete text in both volumes. Some rubbing and surface wear to the bindings, particularly at extremities and corners, consistent with age and use; bindings nevertheless firm and sound. Internally generally clean, with occasional spotting and toning. Folding map well preserved.

Status

Available