Deakin, Alfred [Second Prime Minister of Australia] Irrigated India. An Australian view of India and Ceylon, their irrigation and agriculture. pp322(complete)+[2](advertisements), folding coloured frontispiece map, endpaper advertisements, gilt lettered navy cloth, with presentation inscription from the author dated Nov.1894. [Thacker, 1893.] First edition in book form. Extremely rare. The text is based on a series of newspaper articles Deakin wrote after a tour of India during 1890-91, 'in order to afford to the Australian public, interested in irrigation, a sketch of what is being accomplished by its means in the peninsular empire of Southern Asia'