An Old Planter [Minden Wilson] — Reminiscences of Behar

Calcutta, Thacker, Spink and Co. 1887 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce autobiographical account of the life of a planter in Behar, or Cooch Bihar, in India in the 1840s and 1850s. The first edition of this scarce work.Lacking the title page.Minden Wilson provides a first hand account of life in colonial India in the mid nineteenth century, and includes accounts of big game shooting in Nepal, and a brief discussion of the India mutiny.With the bookplate of B.A.C.S.A. the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, to the front pastedown.With a loosely inserted letter addressed to T. C. Wilkinson, Honorary Secretary of B.A.C.S.A. loosely inserted. Dated May 1981, the letter is from English colonial administrator Raymond Veveysan Vernède, and informs Wilkinson that this volume includes some information on estates and cemeteries. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Lacking title page. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .