[Asia - BOLTS (William). Civil, Political and Commercial State of Bengal or History of the Conquests & Administration of the English Company in this Country. Maestricht, Dufour, 1775. 2 volumes in one vol. in-8 of xxxii, 166 pp. ; (2) ff. 170 pp. Marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red pages (contemporary binding). Spine split. Second printing of the first French translation (from English by Demeunier) of this work in which the author, a Dutch traveller and merchant, relates the history of the trading posts he established in Bengal on behalf of England. It is a sequel to Raynal's "Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes". It is illustrated with 2 frontispieces by Eisen and a large fold-out map of Bengal.