Lot 151
Natural history
Collection of works on Indian birds and other fauna
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Finn, Frank. Indian Sporting Birds. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1915. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 103 chromolithographic plates, binding scuffed, spine sunned, with occasional annotations in colour pencil;
Jerdon, T. C. The Birds of India. Calcutta: for the author by the Military Orphan Press, 1862-4. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half morocco, gilt spines, all edges gilt, [18] xlv 535, [8] 439, [8] iv [5] 442-876 xxxii pp., half-titles, errata leaf to volume 1, a few contemporary annotations, volume 3 title-page spotted;
Ibid. The Mammals of India. Roorkee: for the Author by the Thomason College Press, 1867. First edition, 8vo, uniformly bound with the preceding work, [8] xxi 319 xv;
Beavan. R. Handbook of the Freshwater Fishes of India. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1877. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 12 plates;
Baker, E. C. Stuart. Indian Ducks and their Allies. London: R. H. Porter, 1908. First edition in book form, one of 1,200 copies, 8vo, original half morocco, 30 chromolithographic plates, spine sunned, a few scuffs to binding;
and 21 others, including Dewar, Animals of No Importance, Calcutta, [1903] (first edition, original cloth), Leonard, The Camel, 1894 (first edition, original cloth, initial blank detached), Wood-Mason, Report on the Tea-Mite and the Tea-Bug of Assam, 1884 (first edition, original limp cloth), Douglas, A Hand-Book of Bee-Keeping for India, Calcutta, 1884 (first edition, later half cloth, ex library, prelims silked, without plates), Hutson, The Birds about Delhi, Kirkee, 1954, Babault, Mission dans les provinces centrales de l'Inde … l'Himalaya et Ceylan, 1914, Résultats scientifiques, oiseaux, Paris, 1920 (one volume only, 4to, contemporary quarter morocco, 6 hand-coloured lithographic plates, title-page defective), Hicks, Forty Years among the Wild Animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas, 1910 (missing pp. 297-300) and similar (29)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA