Home / Browse / Military & Naval / Standing Orders for the Bengal Native Infantry,
(COMBERMERE)
Standing Orders for the Bengal Native Infantry,
drawn up under the Orders and Revision of His Excellency The Right Hon. Viscount Combermere … Commander in Chief in India.
Publisher: Calcutta: printed at the India Gazette Press, by Scott and Co., 1828
Stock code: 69256
Price: £850 Currency Conversion
Extremely uncommon, COPAC shows a "second edition" of 1840 at BL and NLS, and a further edition of 1846 in BL; OCLC lists copies of the present edition in Library of Congress and University of Pennsylvania. With a series of ownership inscriptions to the front pastedown: Lieut. H. O. Kedwick 67th regiment; Lieut. Frederick Rainsford, interpreter and quartermaster 67th regiment, who has noted the regiment's arrival in "Arracan" in 1837; and Henry Cotton, lieutenant adjutant 67th regiment. Cotton commanded the regiment during the Second Anglo-Burmese War, and died in Dehra Dun during the mutiny.
Octavo (203 × 118 mm) Contemporary Indian calf. 4-page unpaginated prelims, and 68-pages of text, addenda leaf mounted on the rear pastedown, entirely interleaved. Slightly rubbed and a little stained, cockling on the boards, front free endpaper coming loose, internally lightly browned and a little shaken, but overall very good.
