Mottram, R.H.
Trader's Dream : The Romance of the East India Company
: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1939. . , H, Binding is tight, corners bumped, covers rubbed / soiled, usual library profanations, "It was called...the Company of Merchant Adventurers, trading to the East Indies. ...Only one or two English-speaking men had ever sailed round the cape we now call the Cape of Good Hope, and the vague idea in most minds was that there lay, somewhere beyond that tropic sea, a kind of earthly paradise where gold and jewels might almost be picked up from the shore, where fantastic flowers and rare spices hung from the trees,....For centuries the East had been closed by the Ottoman Empire.", a very detailed history of the British East India Company, Illustrated, 322 pages.; . Fair +, Cloth, No Jacket, .
$14.00
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