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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. LIV, 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. An enlarged edition of "Materials for a rural and agricultural glossary of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh" (1879). ["William Crooke of the Indian Civil Service is remembered as a pioneering colonial ethnographer and historian. His Glossary will be an invaluable work of reference to every scholar of South Asian history, sociology, social and economic organization, village technology, peasant studies, and Third World societies".

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to front board, blind stamp decoration to rear board, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxxviii + 353pp + 35pp Hakluyt list to rear, VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards & extrems, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, light tanning to prelims & terminals).

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, 371pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, light tanning to prelims & terminals).

8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; 3 volumes, xxxviii, [i], 353, 35 [Hakluyt Society catalogue]; [vi], 371; viii, 271 pp, frontis (port), plates including folding with tissue guards, maps, several maps in text, tables, index. original blue cloth with gilt vignette on front covers, gilt spine title lettering, decorated in blind, lightly rubbed at edges but a clean and fine set, partly unopened. National Maritime Museum Catalogue 432. Cox i, 280: 'Fryer was a surgeon in the service of the East India Company for nine years and traveled extensively on the Coromandel and Malabar coasts. He describes well the cities of Surat and Bombay, the life and trade there as well as at Madras.' 'His book is of great value in its account of the struggle of the Mahrattas under Sivaaji to resist absorption into the Aurangzib's empire and in its analysis of the political state of the kingdom of Bijapur' (Oaten, Early Travelers in India). A picture of this book is available on request.