Lot 163
Indian religion and customs
Collection of works
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Moor, Edward. The Hindu Pantheon. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1810. First edition, 4to (20.4 x 23cm), 20th-century brown buckram, with frontispiece, half-title, and 105 engraved plates, ex-library copy with book due slip on rear pastedown, frontispiece mounted on card, repairs to title-page, some dampstaining to frontispiece and title-page, occasional spotting throughout;
[Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey, translator and editor]. A Code of Gentoo Laws, or, Ordinations of the Pundits, from a Persian Translation, Made from the Original, Written in the Shanscrit Language. London: [s.n.], 1776. First edition, 4to (28.5 x 22cm), 20th-century dark-red library buckram, 8 engraved plates, pp. 10-26 with scorch marks to bottom margin (text unaffected) and repairs to pp. 19-22, occasional spotting [ESTC T112179];
Dubois, Jean Antoine. Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. First edition, 4to (18.5 x 21.5cm), 19th-century paper boards (corners bumped), modern reback with new pastedowns and endpapers, with final advertisement leaf, spotting throughout, pp. 341-42 with tear (no loss of text);
Coleman, Charles. The Mythology of the Hindus, with Notices of Various Mountain and Island Tribes. London: Parbury, Allen, and Co., 1832. First edition, 4to (28.4 x 21.6cm), original publisher's green cloth, rebacked with new spine (fragment of original spine cloth attached to it), frontispiece and 38 other lithographed plates, with half-title and final publisher's advertisement leaf, spotting to various degrees on all the plates;
[Moor, Allen Page, editor]. Plates Illustrating the Hindu Pantheon, Reprinted from the Work of Major Edward Moor. London & Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1861. First edition, 4to, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, rebacked, gilt edges, 104 engraved plates, lacking plates 2 and 88 (plate 2 supplied in photostat facsimile), binding worn at extremities, corners bumped (5)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
The Hindu Pantheon with bookplate and stamps of Lehigh University; A Code of Gentoo Laws with presentation inscription (mostly illegible) on front free endpaper, dated June 12 1898, later pencil inscription on same page ‘from the famous Dunmore Library'; Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India with ownership inscription of Kelso Library on title page, bookseller's label (J. Rutherford, Kelso) attached to front pastedown.