1867-1868 The Bombay Almanack and Directory for 1867 and 1868

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Rebound, Very Scarce

Two very scarce first edition volumes, being the 'Bombay Almanack and Directory' for the years 1867 and 1868.

These are the eighteenth and nineteenth annual of this publication, which is very scarce in all editions.

These works provide a calendar of significant events taking place in each month of the year, both for English and Indian residents of the city. An account of Hindu and Parsi festivals is also provided, alongside tables of weights, measures, and coins.

Also present are lists of customs tariffs and import tariffs, lists of acts recently passed, army lists, civil lists, and government dispatches.

With the stamp of the Incorporated Law Society of the United Kingdom to each title page, and a few further leaves of each volumes.

The 1867 volume is rebacked, with the original boards restored. Retaining the original endpapers.

The 1868 volume is rebound in cloth, with a small portion of the publisher's original front board laid down, and endpapers renewed. This volume lacks the preliminary advertisement leaves.

With thirty-six pages of advertisements to the rear of the 1867 volume, and forty-eight pages to the rear of the 1868 volume.