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FORBES, JAMES. 1749-1819. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India: Including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America, and A Narrative of Occurrences in Four India Voyages. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, published by White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. image 1
FORBES, JAMES. 1749-1819. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India: Including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America, and A Narrative of Occurrences in Four India Voyages. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, published by White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. image 2
FORBES, JAMES. 1749-1819. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India: Including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America, and A Narrative of Occurrences in Four India Voyages. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, published by White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. image 3
FORBES, JAMES. 1749-1819. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India: Including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America, and A Narrative of Occurrences in Four India Voyages. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, published by White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. image 4
FORBES, JAMES. 1749-1819. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India: Including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America, and A Narrative of Occurrences in Four India Voyages. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, published by White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. image 5
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FORBES, JAMES. 1749-1819.
Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India: Including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America, and A Narrative of Occurrences in Four India Voyages. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, published by White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813.

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FORBES, JAMES. 1749-1819.

Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India: Including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America, and A Narrative of Occurrences in Four India Voyages. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, published by White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. 4 vols., 4to, marbled calf, title and author gilt to black labels on spines, frontispiece portrait of author in Vol. I, illustrated with 93 plates of which 27 are in color, including aquatints, soft-ground etchings, and lithographs. Rebacked, endpapers replaced, some edge wear.

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