Lot 169
Singh, Nissor
Khasi-English Dictionary
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Edited by P. R. T. Gurdon, Dohory Ropmay, and Hajom Kissor Singh. Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Press, 1906. First edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, original cloth-backed printed boards, iv [2] 247 pp., Harvard College library markings (bookplate and ink-stamp to front pastedown, ink-stamp to title-page verso, blind stamp to a few early text leaves);
[Assamese printing]. Bible Stories, by C. G. Barth. Translated into Asamese [sic], by C. H. Hesselmeyer, Missionary. Sibsagor, Assam: American Baptist Mission Press, 1855. 12mo, contemporary half russia (spine defective), 260 pp., wood-engraved vignettes in text, title-page in English and Assamese, text entirely in Assamese;
[Odiya printing]. The Holy Bible in the Oriya Language … A New Translation, with the Former Versions in Bangali and Oriya diligently compared and revised. Cuttack: at the Orissa Mission Press, for the Bible Translation Society, 1845. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, volume 1 covers detached, both volumes ex library with labels to front pastedowns and shelfmarks to spines;
Datt, Gauri. Gauri's Nagri Dictionary, in which Hindi and Urdu Words have been thoroughly explained in Nagri and English. Meerut: the ‘Official’ Machine Printing Press, 1901. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green cloth, [12] 528 8 pp., wood-engraved portrait in text, Devanagari and roman types, main text in double column, title-page creased and partly detached;
Banerjee, Gagan Chandra. Introduction to the Kharia Language. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1894. First edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, original cloth-backed printed boards, [6] iii [1] ii, 45 pp.;
Tea Districts Labour Association. Language Hand-Book. Santali. Calcutta: printed by P. A. at the Catholic Orphan Press, 1929. Second edition (‘for private circulation only’), 8vo, original cloth, 112 pp., pencilled annotations;
Rai, Jamiat. Notes on the Study of the Brahui Language. Quetta: Golwala & Co., Albert Press, 1917. Second edition ('revised'), folio, later quarter cloth retaining original printed front board (rear board renewed), 114 pp.;
and 5 others similar (13)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA