[Rarebooks] FS: Firsthand account of the infamous "Black Hole of Calcutta" London: 1764

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(INDIA) Holwell, John Zephaniah. INDIA TRACTS... Important Facts Regarding 
the East-India Company's Affairs in Bengal, from the Years 1752 to 1760... A 
Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen Who Were Suffocated 
in the Black Hole in Fort William, at Calcutta, June 1756... Illustrated with a 
Frontispiece, Representing the Monument Erected in Memory of the Sufferers... 
The Second Edition, Revised and Corrected, with Additions. London: Printed 
for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt. 1764. 4to. viii,286pp. Illustrated with a 
large folding copper engraved frontispiece. Cont. calf, a bit rubbed, minor chips 
at extremities of spine, red morocco spine label, quite a nice copy.     
$650.00 (trade discount allowed)
Holwell (1711-1798) was Governor of Bengal and a surgeon for the East India 
Company. This is his account of the "Black Hole" where 123 of 146 prisoners 
perished overnight (though later historians dispute those numbers).

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