India
Collection of works, 18th-20th century
£1,764
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
[Trial of Warren Hastings]. Debates of the House of Lords, on the Evidence delivered in the Trial of Warren Hastings, Esquire; Proceedings of the East India Company in Consequence of his Acquittal: and Testimonials of the British and Native Inhabitants of India. London: J. Debrett, 1797. First edition, 4to, xvi 826 [2] pp., 20th-century quarter calf craft binding (binder's ticket: ‘Mrs L. A. Vidler, Carmelite Bindery, Rye, Sussex' to rear pastedown'), engraved portrait frontispiece, errata leaf to rear, all edges untrimmed, leather on spine very friable;
Gawler, J. C. Sikhim. With Hints on Mountain and Jungle Warfare. London: Edward Stanford, 1873. First edition, 8vo, viii 105 pp., original green cloth over flexible boards, 5 lithographic plates, folding map, ex Library of Congress (small label to front cover, bookplate to front pastedown, ‘surplus’ ink-stamp to front free endpaper, penciled annotations to verso of title-page), prelims (initial blank, title-page, plate and first leaf of text) cracked along gutter and partially detached, marginal repair to pp. 21/2;
Griggs, W. India. Photographs and Drawings of Historical Buildings. London: [no publisher], 1896. First edition, folio, 20th-century library cloth, 100 plates (chromolithographic and photographic, many chromolithographic plates heightened in gilt), ex Indianapolis Public Library with ink-stamps to versos of plates, plates fragile with frequent chips and losses, folding plates plates 32-3, 53 and 63 each separated along fold;
[Indian Mutiny]. Lieutenant-Colonel Gould Hunter-Weston of Hunterston … one of the Defenders of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny 1857-8. A Biographical Sketch by W. L. Low. Selkirk: “The Scottish Chronicle” Offices, 1914. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 12 halftone photographic plates, folding map of Lucknow to rear;
Martin, Eustace Meredyth. A Tour through India in Lord Canning's Time. London: Remington and Co., 1881. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;
Sewell, Robert ('late Madras Civil Service). Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee. A Sketch of his Life, and a Few Extracts from his Note Books. Edinburgh: printed for private circulation, 1896. First edition, one of 100 copies only, inscribed to the recipient on the limitation page, 8vo, original dark red morocco gilt, photographic portrait frontispiece, binding rubbed;
and 16 others including: Walter Hamilton, The East India Gazetteer, London: John Murray, 1815 (first edition, later cloth, title-page with ownership slip of one ‘Mrs Schmid, Ooticumund' pasted to head partially obscuring ownership inscription dated 1821); Rupert Hay, The Persian Gulf States, 1959 (ex-library); George Campbell, The Armies of the Native States of India, 1884 (folding map detached); Henry St George Tucker, A Review of the Financial Situation of the East-India Company in 1824 (ex Peebles Institution Library, binding defective); Mark Thornhill, The Personal Adventures … of a Magistrate during the … Indian Mutiny, 1884 (possibly a family copy with ownership inscription of one Noel Thornhill to title-page); J. H. Stocqueler, Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott, 1854 (2 volumes, original cloth, rebacked, damp-staining); and similar (25)