Condition: The book is presented in extremely faded and worn red boards (silk-covered?), frayed and abraded at the corners. Spine is very faded, split and detaching from the binding, which itself is loose. Nonetheless the text is clean and bright with no discernable foxing.
"As told in the Government Records, the works of old travellers, and other contemporary documents, from the earliest period down to the rise of British power in India". There is a handwritten inscription, plus three cancelled stamps indicating that the book was the property of the 2nd Goorkhas Regimental Library. Though recent reprints are available, this volume is the extremely rare first edition published by W. Newman & Co, Calcutta in 1878.
