1885 ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL 1885-86 & 1887-88

Description: I have here for sale two rare books entitled ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL 1885-86, and 1887-88. They cover all aspects of governance of the province - politics, law, crime, police, civil justice, marine, forests and land, manufacture, trade, railways, opium, salt, tax, medical relief, education, art and literature, ecclesiastical, zoological gardens and economics.1885-6 has 5 maps - Map of the Lower Provinces of Bengal showing the Variations of the average retail price of common Rice, another (colour delineated) showing railways and canals, another showing the License Tax in the various districts, another showing the relatie amount of registered inland and colonial emigration, one showing just colonial and one showing just inland. 1-51, vi, 332, and iv, ccvii pages of Statistical Returns. Front page ripped with some slight loss at bottom.1887-8 has 22 maps showing Police Protection in each district (b/w); Minor Offences against Property (colour); Dacoity (colour); Serious Offences against Person and Property (colour); Cognizable Crime generally (colour); Crime in 1887 (b/w); Civil Litigation in 1887 (colour); Actual Rainfall in 1887 (colour); Percentage Rainfall in 1887 (colour); Price of Wheat (colour); Price of Rice (colour); Railways, Canals and Canalized Rivers (colour delineated); Comparative Postal Operations and Lines of Telegraph (colour); Land Revenue Collections in Each District (b/w); Land Tax 1887-8 (b/w); Sudder Distillery Areas (colour); Incidence of Revenue from Country Liquor on Population (colour); Incidence of the Total Excise Revenue on Population during 1887-8 (colour); Registrations of Colonial Emigrants (colour); the Native Districts of Colonial Emigrants (colour); the Registrations of Inland Emigrants (colour); the Native Districts of Inland Emigrants (colour); Showing the extent of Collegiate and Secondary Education (colour); Primary Education (colour); Female Education (colour); and Mahamedan Education (colour). Contents; Administration of Bengal 311 pages; Addenda; Statistical Returns, ccviii.Neither volume has any boards and one has no spine covering either and the other has just half with the gilt lettering. The first 16 pages of 1885-6 is detached, all others firm and clean. The contents page on 1887-8 is detached. All other pages firm and with slightly sunned fore-edges. 1885-6 - 332 pages + ccvii; 1887-8 - 311 + ccviii pages. 32 x 24 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.

Price: 79.99 GBP

Location: Whitegate, Cheshire

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