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HOLWELL (John Zephaniah). India Tracts. By Mr. Holwell, Esq. F. R. S. and friends. Containing 1. An address to the East-India Stock: setting forth, the unavoidable Necessity, and real Motives, for the Revolution in Bengal, 1760. 11. A Refutation of a Letter from certain Gentlemen of the Council at Bengal,.... 111. Important Facts regarding the East-India Company's Affairs in Bengal,.... 1V. A Narrative of the deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William, at Calcutta, June 1756. V. A Defence of Mr. Vansittart's Conduct. Illustrated with a Frontispiece, representing the Monument erected at Calcutta, in Memory of the Sufferers in the Black-Hole Prison.1774
London: Printed for T. Becket, Corner of the Adelphi, in the Strand, Third Edition, revised and corrected, with additions, 8vo (205 x 120 mm), vii, [1], 432pp., large folding frontispiece a little browned, with the stamps of the "Oriental Club" at either side of the title, pp.366-372 have a small stain on lower part of text, nineteenth century half morocco, hinges rubbed, spine gilt, with the bookplate of the Oriental Club.
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