Unrecorded Calcutta Imprint - With maps by the Asiatic Lithographic Press - "Scripture Geography" by Henry Bowser - Calcutta Baptist Mission Press - 1833

"Scripture Geography: Containing An Account of the Various Places Mentioned in the Old and New Testament, Alphabetically Arranged."

"To which is added, A Brief Chronological View of Sacred and Ecclesiastical History."

"By Henry Bowser, Head Master of the Military Orphan School, Allipore."

-Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road

-1833

Small Octavo format  (15 x 9cm) with irregular 9 leaf gatherings A4,B9-I9,K9, L14. Bound in contemporary full calf, with modern re-backing.

Complete: vii, 189, 3 folding maps, errata slip. Very good condition - edge repairs to first leaf (without losses), closed tear to first map (without losses).

Includes 3 folding maps by T[homas] Black of the Asiatic Lithographic Press

-"A Map of Palestine or the Holyland with the Divisions into Tribes." (small tear at fold without losses)

-"A Map of the Journies of the Israelites thro' the Wilderness

-"A Map of the Countries and Places Mentioned in the Old and New Testament; with those remote from the Holy Land"

This is an apparently unrecorded religious Calcutta imprint for schools. Religious education was a key focus at this time, and this work aimed to give geographical context to locations described in the Bible. Missionaries were expanding in India, with Calcutta (and nearby Serampore) key areas. The military orphan school in Allipore, where the author Henry Bowser worked, would have had an evangelical and Christian focus.

Interestingly, this book contains three folding maps printed at the asiatic lithographic press by Thomas Black. This lithographic press had been founded only in the 1820s, and produced some of the earliest lithographic images in South Asia.

No copy traced in OCLC, JISC, or the National Library of India - Apparently unrecorded.