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A British planter in India

ELLIOT, Robert Henry.
The experiences of a planter in the jungles of Mysore.

With two tinted lithographed  frontispieces, a lithographed map of the region of Mysore and Coorg in India, 4 tinted lithographs, 1 lithograph with a.o. a cardamom plant, all lithographed by Vincent Brooks,  Day & Son, with leaf bound in with quotation in manuscript on cardamom, signed R.S. citing the Weekly Ceylon Observer, 21 June, 1881, p. 567. The lithographs are after photographs taken at the spot.

With two tinted lithographed  frontispieces, a lithographed map of the region of Mysore and Coorg in India, 4 tinted lithographs, 1 lithograph with a.o. a cardamom plant, all lithographed by Vincent Brooks,  Day & Son, with leaf bound in with quotation in manuscript on cardamom, signed R.S. citing the Weekly Ceylon Observer, 21 June, 1881, p. 567. The lithographs are after photographs taken at the spot.

With two tinted lithographed  frontispieces, a lithographed map of the region of Mysore and Coorg in India, 4 tinted lithographs, 1 lithograph with a.o. a cardamom plant, all lithographed by Vincent Brooks,  Day & Son, with leaf bound in with quotation in manuscript on cardamom, signed R.S. citing the Weekly Ceylon Observer, 21 June, 1881, p. 567. The lithographs are after photographs taken at the spot.

With two tinted lithographed  frontispieces, a lithographed map of the region of Mysore and Coorg in India, 4 tinted lithographs, 1 lithograph with a.o. a cardamom plant, all lithographed by Vincent Brooks,  Day & Son, with leaf bound in with quotation in manuscript on cardamom, signed R.S. citing the Weekly Ceylon Observer, 21 June, 1881, p. 567. The lithographs are after photographs taken at the spot.

With two tinted lithographed  frontispieces, a lithographed map of the region of Mysore and Coorg in India, 4 tinted lithographs, 1 lithograph with a.o. a cardamom plant, all lithographed by Vincent Brooks,  Day & Son, with leaf bound in with quotation in manuscript on cardamom, signed R.S. citing the Weekly Ceylon Observer, 21 June, 1881, p. 567. The lithographs are after photographs taken at the spot.



London, Chapman and Hall, 1871. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half red calf, gilt title on spines. With two tinted lithographed  frontispieces, a lithographed map of the region of Mysore and Coorg in India, 4 tinted lithographs, 1 lithograph with a.o. a cardamom plant, all lithographed by Vincent Brooks,  Day & Son, with leaf bound in with quotation in manuscript on cardamom, signed R.S. citing the Weekly Ceylon Observer, 21 June, 1881, p. 567. The lithographs are after photographs taken at the spot. X,(1), 327; XI, (2), 355 pp.

First and only edition of an account on the experiences of a planter, Robert Henry Elliot (1837-1914) in India, in the region of Mysore and Coorg. Elliot, who sailed for India in 1855, elaborately describes the planting  and cultivating of coffee and cardamom. In chapters 2 and 3 and 4 he writes about the customs and religions of the native inhabitants. In chapter 5 he explains the rituals of bribery, in chapter 6 about castes, chapter 7 about religion, chapter 8 about education. Chapter 9 deals with native agriculture. Chapter 10 is on coffeeplanting, chapter 11 in chinchona planting, chapter 12 on cardamom, 13 on tea, silk, sandalwood and cotton. The remaining chapters are on colonisation, native labourers and their mentality, and social an political issues in the region. Chapter 15 is on learning the regional language. The first frontispiece shows the bungalow Bartchinhulla of Elliot.

Good set, with manuscript signature on title.- (Bindings sl. rubbed; some foxing).
Hünersdorff, Coffee, a bibliography, p. 464; Riddick 324.

Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Coffee & Tea  Colonial History  India  Trade 

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