An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Kachari Tribes in the North Cachar Hills: with Specimens of Tales and Folk-lore. (Reprinted with an Introduction by E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq.)

First published in 1885, this second edition of just 200 copies has an introduction by noted ornithologist and officer of the Indian Police Service, Edward Charles Stuart Baker (1864-1944. Brief but informative survey of the Bodo-Kacharis of Cachar in Assam on the northeast frontier of India by the region's subdivisional officer. Library Hub locates copies of this edition at BL, NLW, universities of Cambridge and Manchester, WorldCat lists 8 of the first and two of this second worldwide. Inked ownership inscription to the front board of Holger Winding, a member of the Danish Santal Mission to North India working in the region 1917-31. Cordier Indo-Sinica 1880 Octavo. Original dark green sands-grain cloth-backed printed boards. A little rubbed and soiled on the boards, corners through, paper from the lower front corner stripped but no loss of text, hinges slightly cracked but sound, text-block lightly browned, very good.