Robert 1728 1801 orme (14 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 2 Volumes in 3. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., 415, [1]errata & directions to binder; 1 p.l., 365; 1 p.l., [367]-739, [3]errata & directions to binder. 32 engraved maps & plans (25 folding) & 4 folding engraved plates. A fine set in contemporary calf, rebacked preserving spine labels. First Edition. A work of enormous detail based on Orme's years with the East India Company as writer, historiographer and member of the Council of Madras, and still essential today for the depth of its account of the Indian campaigns. The son of a British East India Company physician and surgeon, Orme himself entered the service of the Company in 1743 at the age of fifteen, five years later rising to the position of Factor. As a member of the Madras Council from 1755 to 1758 he played a vigorous part in crushing the French power in the Deccan, and was largely responsible for the appointment of Lord Clive to command the retaking of Calcutta against Suraj-ud-Dowlah. Retiring for health reasons, Orme returned to England in 1759 and began work on his history, the publication of the first volume of which earned him the position of historiographer to the Company. Macauley praises Orme in his essay on Clive as "inferior to no English historian in style and power of painting." Cox I 297.…

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2 volúmenes. III-437-XCVII-371pp.Ilustrado con 8 bellos mapas y planos plegados grabados al cobre. We offer 2 volumes (of three). The First volume is of 1775 and the Second volume is of 1778. This last one corresponds to the Second part of second volume, and includes the following tenth books and, accompanied by its maps. Lack the First part of Volume second. …

4to. pp. 1 p.l., lxvii, [2], 472, [32]sources & index. 3 engraved maps (2 folding) & 2 engraved portraits (incl. frontis.). 1 text illus. contemporary tree calf, rebacked (corners worn, faint foxing to maps). Second Enlarged Edition (first: 1782). Newly added in this edition are an account of the English establishment and of the East India Company's trade at Broach and Surat, A General Idea of the Government and People of Indostan, which Orme began writing in 1752, and an account of the life and writings of the author. Much of Orme's life was spent in the employ of the East India Company, as a writer, a member of the council at Madras, commissary and accountant-general, and later as historiographer. cfCox I p. 300.…

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