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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Ainslie, Whitelaw. Materia Indica; or, Some Account of those Articles which are employed by the Hindoos, and other Eastern Nations, in their Medicine, Arts, and Agriculture. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, later cloth, Tamil, Arabic and Devanagari types, frequent references in text to Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, volume 1 with half-title, ff. E2-7 loose;
Keynes, John Maynard. Indian Currency and Finance. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. First edition, 8vo, recent library cloth, half-title, folding table, Bristol University labels and ink-stamps (including withdrawal markings) to endpapers, verso of title-page and elsewhere, pencilled underlining;
Mason, Kenneth. Routes in the Western-Himalaya, Kashmir, etc. ... Volume I. Punch, Kashmir and Ladakh. Dehra Dun: printed at the office of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, 1922. First edition, 8vo, original printed boards, rebacked and endpapers renewed, 2 folding lithographic maps and 12 + 4 pp. additions in end-pocket, 3 tipped-in addenda slips, covers marked, contents toned;
Brasyer, Jeremiah. The Memoirs of Jeremiah Brasyer; who, commencing his Service as a Private Soldier, rose to the Rank of Colonel, and Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. London: Gowars, Limited, [1892]. 8vo, original red cloth, 70 pp., 2 halftone photographic plates, endpapers renewed, covers rubbed;
Cavanagh, Sir Orfeur. Reminiscences of an Indian Official. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884. First edition, 8vo, modern half leather, 46 pp. advertisements to rear, browning, closed tear in pp. 105-6, worming towards rear;
and 14 others (these not collated), including: Hugh Gough, Old Memories, 1897 (first edition, original cloth, endpapers renewed); Algernon Durand, The Making of a Frontier, 1899 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, endpapers renewed); The War in India. Despatches of the Right Honourable Lt.-Gen. Visct. Hardinge ... and Other Documents; concerning the Engagements of Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Aliwal, and Sobraon, 1846 (second edition 8vo, modern half leather, 6 plans of 8, plan facing p. 82 torn, folding table); J. Ruggles, Recollections of a Lucknow Veteran, 1906; William Edwards, Reminiscences of a Bengal Civilian, 1866 (ex-library); concertina album of 19th-century hand-coloured albumen print photographs of Japan including geishas
Note: Library Hub traces three copies of Brasyer's work in UK libraries, each of a different edition: Bombay, 1892; London, 1892; and an edition with no place, dated 1886. For the present edition (London, 1892) the British Library record cites three plates.