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BOLTS William. Civil, political and commercial state of Bengal; or History of the conquests & administration of the English Company in that country. The Hague, Gosse fils, 1775; 2 volumes in one in-8, contemporary Dutch stiff vellum, smooth spine, small lack at the back. First edition of the translation from English by Jean-Nicolas Démeunier. The author, a Dutch merchant and administrator of the East India Company in Calcutta, denounces the abuses of the English colonists in the monopolies, the revenues, the excessive collections. He warns the Company about the losses that would result from a revolt of the population. With a Hindu vocabulary relating to politics and trade. Two frontispieces by Charles Eisen (counting and marking of slaves) and a large engraved map of Cambodia folded several times (torn, detached but not missing). From the library of Major Adrian McLaughlin.
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BOLTS William. Civil, political and commercial state of Bengal; or History of the conquests & administration of the English Company in that country. The Hague, Gosse fils, 1775; 2 volumes in one in-8, contemporary Dutch stiff vellum, smooth spine, small lack at the back. First edition of the translation from English by Jean-Nicolas Démeunier. The author, a Dutch merchant and administrator of the East India Company in Calcutta, denounces the abuses of the English colonists in the monopolies, the revenues, the excessive collections. He warns the Company about the losses that would result from a revolt of the population. With a Hindu vocabulary relating to politics and trade. Two frontispieces by Charles Eisen (counting and marking of slaves) and a large engraved map of Cambodia folded several times (torn, detached but not missing). From the library of Major Adrian McLaughlin.
