India
Collection of Indian imprints and manuscripts
£1,134
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
[Indian big-game hunting]. Two manuscript hunting diaries kept by one M. W. Selby Lowndes, 1924-6. The first 4to, contemporary roan-backed boards, approx. 100 pp., titled on first page ‘2 months leave - a shoot in the Himalayas, 1924’, describing a journey from Nowshera via Lahore and Dehradun to various Himalayan stations including Mandali, species taken including red bear (i.e. Himalayan brown bear), tahr, bharal, etc., binding shaken, the second 8vo, contemporary cloth-backed boards, approx. 90 pp., titled on front pastedown ‘Diary of a month’s shoot in the Central Provinces India, April & May 1926', full-page sketch-map, species taken including bison, wild dog, sambar, tiger, etc. Together with related ephemera including a lengthy draft letter written from the Royal Artillery camp at Meerut apparently by the author;
[Princely State of Hunza]. The Autobiography of Sir Mohomed Nazim Khan, K.C.I.E., Mir of Hunza, c.1950?. Copy typescript, 4to, 145 pp., 16 photographic plates, wire-stitched in buff card wrappers, ownership inscription ([C. […] Biscoe') dated 1956 on front wrapper, inscribed on the title-page ‘With best wishes to … ?Biscoe, the Khan’;
Jyotishi, T. P. [Bengali title.] Ascension of Edward VII to Heaven. (A Dirge.) With Illustrations. Calcutta: K. P. Mookerjee & Co., 1911. First edition, 8vo, original grey cloth lettered in black, introduction in English, main text in Bengali, 11 halftone photographic plates with green tissue-guards;
Karna, Lalchand Nawalrai. Western World Travels. Hyderabad: printed by Kethmal Parsram Gulrajat at the Blavatsky Press, and published by Mr. Lalchand Navalrai Karna, 1927. First edition, 8vo, xiv 120 xxxv pp., original wrappers (spine reinforced), inscribed on the front wrapper ‘With regards from [author’s printed name], To Balak Ram Esqr I.C.S';
[Lawrence, Sir Walter]. Ruling Princes and Chiefs of India. Bombay: The Times of India Press, 1930. First edition, folio, recent library cloth, 2 portrait frontispieces in colour (George V and Lord Halifax), photographic illustrations throughout, cancelled library stamp and withdrawal stamps to front endpapers;
[India]. [Pamphlet volume, including:] Foreign Travel and Hindu Shastras. Judgment in the Benares Caste Case, 1911, Allahabad: Leader Press, 1912, 105 pp.; Social Reform on Shastric Lines … by A. Mahadeva Sastri, Mysore: published by the author, 1909, xxiii 104 pp.; Appreciation of the Author's Essays on “Vedi Law of Marriage” and “Vedic Religion and Caste” [drop-head title], 12 pp.; Vedic Religion and Caste … by A. Mahadeva Sastri, Mysore: published by the author, 1908, 71 pp.; and 3 others similar. 8vo, contemporary cloth, backstrip perished, rear board detached;
Sanyal, Ram Bramha. A Hand-Book of the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal. Calcutta: printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1892. First edition, one of 1,000 copies according to the printer's slug on the final page, 8vo, original cloth-backed printed boards;
[Indian postal history.] Smith, Stephen. Indian Air-Ways. Part I [II … III]. Calcutta: Kuntaline Press, 1926-30. First edition, 3 volumes, small 8vo, original wrappers, part 2 inscribed on the title-page by the author;
Ward, William. A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology, of the Hindoos. Serampore: Mission Press, 1818. Second edition, volume 1 only (of 2), 4to, near-contemporary half calf, restored paper-loss to head of title-page just touching one letter, damp-staining to rear;
and 5 others, all Indian imprints (15)