Lot 100
Elphinstone, Mountstuart
The History of India
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
London: John Murray, 1841. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo, original brown cloth, large folded engraved map, 12 pp. publisher's catalogue at end of volume 2, light fading to spines, lower joint of volume 2 worn with slight loss of cloth, head of spine of volume 2 torn with slight loss of cloth, light occasional spotting but otherwise internally clean
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
Rare in original publisher's binding. Elphinstone's work was “probably the most popular work of its sort among the early Victorian public … based on a wide range of Indian sources from Manu through Ferishta to the sixteenth-century authorities Abu'l-Fazl and Faizi, [it] consolidated the periodization of Indian history into the Vedic, medieval, Islamic, and British periods with which historians are still contending” (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).