Lot 117
Indian Mutiny
Collection of eyewitness accounts
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
all 8vo unless otherwise stated, comprising:
Dunlop, Robert Henry Wallace. Service and Adventure with the Khakee Ressalah; or, Meerut Volunteer Horse, during the Mutinies of 1857-58. London: Richard Bentley, 1858. First edition, 20th-century blue quarter calf, 8 plates including 3 chromolithographs (one being the frontispiece), full-page wood-engraving in text, 32 pp. advertisements to rear (first leaf with repair), pencil annotations to title-page and occasionally to text;
[Wilson, Thomas Fourness]. The Defence of Lucknow. A Diary … By a Staff Officer. London: Smith, Elder, and CO., 1858. First edition, contemporary half calf, folding lithographic map, gilt crest of Agnew of Lochnaw, Baronet to head of spine, and his bookplate to front pastedown, 20th-century gift inscription to front free endpaper, head of spine slightly frayed;
Shepherd, W. J. A Personal Narrative of the Outbreak and Massacre at Cawnpore, during the Sepoy Revolt of 1857. Lucknow: London Printing Press, 1879. Second edition ('revised and corrected'), original half cloth, lithographic frontispiece, 4 lithographic plans of which 2 folding (title-page mentions 7 plates, but tipped-in publisher's slip reads: 'a number of copies … much to the author's regret, have to be issued with only five illustrations'), spine rolled, labels chipped;
Forbes, The Honble Mrs. Hamilton. Some Recollections of the Siege of Lucknow (1857). Axminster: Edwin Snell, 1905. First edition, original card wrappers, 44 pp.;
Cosens, F. R., & C. L. Wallace. Fatehgarh and the Mutiny. Lucknow: Newul Kishore Press, 1933. First edition, 4to, original cloth, title-page with author's names written in ink (possibly their autograph signatures), 5 folding maps;
Young, Keith. Delhi-1857. The Siege, Assault and Capture. London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1902. First edition, original black cloth, all plates and maps as called for (mainly photogravures by Annan), wear to corner of front board;
Trevelyan, George Otto. Cawnpore. London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. First edition, original blue cloth, tinted lithographic frontispiece, folding plan, bookplate, cancelled library stamp (Royal Geographical Society of Australia) to title-page, press cutting mounted to rear endpaper;
Vibart, Edward. The Sepoy Mutiny as seen by a Subaltern from Delhi to Lucknow. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1898. First edition, original cloth, 11 photographic plates, folding plan;
Metcalfe, Charles Theophilus. Two Native Narratives of the Mutiny in Delhi. London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1898. First edition, original cloth, 2 photographic plates, folding map;
[Ireland, William Wotherspoon]. History of the Siege of Delhi by an Officer who served there. With a Sketch of the Leading Events in the Punjaub connected with the Great Rebellion of 1857. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1861. First edition, original cloth, recased, annotations of one Charles Mills of the 77th Regiment recording his successive promotions (to general) to initial blank;
Sherring, M. A. The Indian Church during the Great Rebellion. London: James Nisbet and Co., 1859. First edition, original cloth, spine sunned;
Malleson, G. B. The Indian Mutiny of 1857. London: Seeley and Co., Limited, 1891. One of 250 copies on large paper, large 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, 7 plates and plans;
and 18 others similar, mainly 19th-century accounts in the original cloth (30)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
One institutional copy traced for Some Recollections of the Siege of Lucknow (1857) by Mrs Hamilton Forbes, at the National Library of Scotland.