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Hard cover, 16mo, in brown cloth, title in gilt to spine, the dust jacket light blue with darker blue print, with color frontispiece illustration of maritime flags, 218 pp. Condition: Near Fine, minor toning to pages, previous owner's signature to front pastedown in ink, dated 1959. In a Very good dust jacket, price clipped, spine sunned. A history of the merchant marine service of the East India Company, and its role in the development of the English hegemony in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stories of ships and sailors, pirates and other foreign adversaries. Indexed. Author Sir Evan Cotton (1868-1939) was a barrister, artist and historian, born in India, the son of Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton. Cotton Elder had a long career with the Indian Civil Service (and was pro-independence in view.) OCLC 559826561.
Ref: NAUT 8817
$70.00