A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH THE COUNTRIES OF MYSORE, CANARA AND MALABAR.

BUCHANAN, Francis H.

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London 1811, Longmans. New wrappers, extracted article, very clean, pp. 573-776, 15 full-page engraved plates, transfer from the last plate, some foxing to plates, large size: 21.2 x 27 cm., text clean, solid, complete, 3 facsimile pages. *** *** *** The completed article with footnotes from the 1811 edition. . *** WITH SIXTEEN LOVELY FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS: . From Hodges, engraved by George Cooke: . 1. PART OF THE CITY OF BENARES [frontis] . The balance of the 15 plates are at the end of the text: . 2. PART OF THE CITY OF BENARES [duplicate of frontis] . Sept. 1, 1810 . 3. Tombs at Gazipoor. Sept. 1, 1810 . 4. The Cuttera at Muxhavad. Oct.1, 1810 . 5. Tomb at Jionpoore. Oct. 1, 1810 . 6. A Woman of Distinction. A Chittery. A Dybuck. By . permission of Mr. Orme, from B. Solvyns's Costume of . Hindostan. . 7. N.E. View of the Cotsea Bhaug on the River Iumma, Delhi . 8. Ramnugur, near Benares, on the River Ganges . 9. Entrance to Chunarghur [Hindostan] . W. Alexander, del from a sketch by E. H,.E., Locker Esq. . F.S.A. taken August 18, 1808. . 10. Mausoleum of Kausim Solemanee at Chunar Gur. . 11. Jungeira Pagoda at Sultan Ganges [Hindostan] . W. Alexander, del't from a sketch by E. H. Locker Esq. . F.S.A. taken July 28, 1808. . 12. Mootyjernah or the Shower of Pearls near Rajhmahal, . Hindostan [Taken July 28, 1808]. W. Alexander, del from . a sketch by E. H,.E., Locker Esq. F.S.A. . 13. The Chalees Saloon at Allahabad. Engraved by permission . from Mr. Daniell's Works of Oriental Scenery. Dec. . 11, 1810. . 14. Chouragantchy near Berhampore. W. Alexander, del from a . sketch by E. H,.E., Locker Esq. F.S.A. Taken July 17, . 1808. . 15. The Great Pagoda, at Tanjore. August 11, 1810. . *** WHO WAS BUCHANNAN AND HIS CAREER IN INDIA: . In 1799, after the defeat of Tippu Sultan and the fall of Mysore, he was asked to survey South India resulting in [this article] "A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar" (1807). He also wrote An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal (1819). . He conducted two surveys, the first of Mysore in 1800 and the second of Bengal in 1807-14. From 1803 to 1804 he was surgeon to the Governor General of India Lord Wellesley in Calcutta, where he also organized a zoo that was to become the Calcutta Alipore Zoo. In 1804, he was in charge of the newly founded 'Institution for Promoting the Natural History of India' at Barrackpore. . From 1807 to 1814, under the instructions of the government of Bengal, he made a comprehensive survey of the areas within the jurisdiction of the British East India Company. He was asked to report on topography, history, antiquities, the condition of the inhabitants, religion, natural productions (particularly fisheries, forests, mines, and quarries), agriculture (covering vegetables, implements, manure, floods, domestic animals, fences, farms, and landed property, fine and common arts, and commerce (exports and imports, weights and measures, and conveyance of goods). His conclusions are reported in a series of treatises that are retained in major United Kingdom libraries; many have been re-issued in modern editions. They include an important work on Indian fish species, entitled An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches (1822), which describes over 100 species not formerly recognized scientifically. . He also collected and described many new plants in the region, and collected a series of watercolors of Indian and Nepalese plants and animals, probably painted by Indian artists, which are now in the library of the Linnean Society of London . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1806 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in January 1817. Above extracted from Wikipedia. *** CONDITION: The text is clean and solid, no issues. The last page 776 has some of the usual darkening transfer from the opposing engraving, which is common for books of this period. The plates have some foxing, more on the verso than the recto, Seller Inventory # 94043802

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