FORBES, JAMES. Oriental Memoirs: ....Seventeen Years Residence in India: Including Observations on Parts of Africa and South America, and a Narrative of Occurrences in Four India Voyages. London: T. Bensley for the Author, 1813. Engraved frontispiece, 93 engraved plates including 28 hand-colored aquatint or lithograph plates. 4 vols., 4to, modern brown crushed morocco, preserving contemporary calf sides, contemporary sides loosening from boards; faint, occasional spotting mostly to text, very minor offsetting. FIRST EDITION of this valuable record of the natural history of India. "The lithographs in this work are among the incunabula of lithography in this country." Abbey Travel 436 (later edition).