Five volumes in 'The New Cambridge History of India' series
by [India]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987, 1988, 1987, 1998 and 2000 (all first editions). Octavo, five volumes; cloth; personal bookplate in each volume; text paper in the first three volumes a little tanned; an excellent group with the excellent dustwrappers (the first three spines are lightly sunned, and there are a few trifling signs of use elsewhere). The first volume has an inscription from the author on the half-title. Titles and authors of the individual volumes are as follows.
Volume I, Number 1: The Portuguese in India (by Michael Naylor PEARSON).
Volume II, Number 1: Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (by C.A. BAYLY).
Volume II, Number 2: Bengal. The British Bridgehead. Eastern India, 1740-1828 (by P.J. MARSHALL).
Volume II, Number 5: European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India (by Om PRAKASH).
Volume III, Number 5: Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (by David ARNOLD). [5 items].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 118096
- Title
- Five volumes in 'The New Cambridge History of India' series
- Author
- [India]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1987
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Octavo
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- Sunned
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