[VOYAGES AND TRAVELS]. BACON, Lt. Thomas (1813-1892). First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan... London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837. 8vos. Illustrated with 27 plates. 406; 436 pp. Contemporary full tan calf, boards double-ruled in gilt and ruled in blind, spines ruled, tooled in gilt in compartments, red and blue gilt morocco lettering labels, five raised bands,  gilt board edges and blind turn-ins, marbled endleaves and edges.

Spines partially sunned, joints somewhat worn, some rubbing, soiling to boards, boards lightly bowed outward, text somewhat toned, occasionally foxed, thumbsoiled. Very good. Bookseller's tickets and circular bookplates of the Earl of Erne, Crom Castle, on both fps. FIRST EDITION. Bacon was a Lieutenant in the Bengal Horse Cavalry; this work is an excellent history and nature study in Hindostan in India.