India
Collection of works, 18th-19th century
£882
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
[Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess]. Notes relative to the Late Transactions in the Marhatta Empire. Fort William, December 15, 1803. London: J. Debrett, 1804. First edition, 4to, [4] 115 177 pp., uncut in original boards, 5 engraved folding battle-plans with dispositions hand-coloured, half-title, ownership inscription ‘Anthony Murray Esqr of Creiff [sic]’ to title-page, backstrip perished;
[Mackworth, Sir Digby]. Diary of a Tour through Southern India, Egypt, and Palestine, in the Years 1821 and 1822. By A Field-Officer of Cavalry. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1823. First edition, 8vo, viii 372 pp., uncut in original boards, half-title, 2 folding lithographic maps, 2 lithographic plates;
Rennell, James. Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan; or the Mogul Empire. London: for the author, 1788. First edition, 4to, uncut in original boards, 4 engraved maps, backstrip perished, covers detached;
Ibid. Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan … the Second Edition. With Very Considerable Additions, and many Corrections. London: for the author, 1792. 4to, contemporary tree calf, joints cracked, spine-label perished, 5 engraved maps (first map with closed tear);
[Madras printing]. The Griffin's Aide-de-Camp. By Blunt Spurs. Edited by a Professional Man. Third Edition, with an Addendum containing Hints on the Education of a Horse. Madras: at the Scottish Press, 1860. 8vo, contemporary half cloth, wood-engraved frontispiece;
Dirom, Alexander. A Narrative of the Campaign in India, which terminated the War with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792. London: G. Nicol; and J. Sewell, 1794. Second edition, 4to, uncut in original boards, 9 engraved plates, lacking final text leaf (glossary), covers and last few leaves detached;
and 3 others (9)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.