Lot 147

Thacker, Spink & Co. (publishers). Darjiling Character Sketches [cover-title]; Ackermann and Co., (publishers). The King of Oude, his Brother, and Attendants; Rowlandson, Thomas (illustrator). The Grand Master; [Grant, Colesworthey]. An Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch; and 5 others similar (9)

Darjiling Character Sketches

Books & Manuscripts

Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208

£1,664

Description

[cover-title]. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., c.1890. 12 chromolithographs on card (15 x 10.5cm), mounted on continuous sheet of cloth, folding leporello-style into red cloth covers (marked and cockled);
Ackermann and Co., (publishers). The King of Oude, his Brother, and Attendants. Sketched while on their Visit to England, by a Lady. London: Ackermann and Co., c.1840. Small 4to, original red cloth, 8 hand-coloured lithographic plates, covers heavily damp-stained and cockled, some plates detached, spotting [not in Abbey];
Rowlandson, Thomas (illustrator). The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz. London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 28 hand-coloured aquatint plates including folding frontispiece and pictorial title-page, errata slip to rear, tear to head of spine, front inner hinge gone [Abbey Travel 437];
[Grant, Colesworthey]. An Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch. A Letter from an Artist in India to his Mother in England. Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co., 1849. First edition, 4to, original cloth, frontispiece, lithographic map to rear, illustrations in text, contemporary gift-inscription on slip pasted to front pastedown, related ink-stamp to endpaper, author's name added to title-page in pencil, spine faded, worn at head and foot, a few marks to cloth;
and 5 others similar (9)

Provenance

INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA