Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; in four volumes

Vol. I: [4], xxiii, [1], 481, [1] p. -- v. II: xv, [1], 542 p. -- v. III: xii, 487, [1] p. -- v. IV: xi, [1], 425, [7] p. Natural history plates signed W. Hooker (probably William Jackson Hooker). Some plates hand-colored. Each v. with half title and v.I with frontispiece port. Colophon (v. IV): T. Bensley, printer, London. Index, errata, and directions to the publisher for placing the plates at end of v. IV. BM (Nat. hist.), v. I, p. 592 Abbey, J.R. Travel, 436 Also available online. Elecresource SCNHRB copy (39088015707375, 39088015707417, 39088015707458, 39088015707490) lacking half titles. SCNHRB copy stamped on verso of t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Nov 19 1945 [ms. acc. no.] 330243-6. SCNHRB copy three-quarters bound in dark green sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers.