Lot 175
Indian travellers
Accounts by Indian authors, 19th and 20th century
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, titles include:
Roy, Rammohun. The Precepts of Jesus, the Guide to Peace and Happiness … To which are added, the First, Second, and Final Appeal to the Christian Public, in Reply to the Observations of Dr. Marshman, of Serampore. From the London Edition. Boston: Christian Register Office, 1828. First US edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, original cloth-backed boards, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, split to head of rear joint, loss to foot of spine, frontispiece spotted, rear inner hinge slightly tender;
Majumdar, Indu Bhushan de. America through Hindu Eyes. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1918. First edition, original blue cloth with pictorial onlay to front board, 10 halftone photographic plates;
Chunder, Bholanauth. The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India. London: N. Trübner & Co., 1869. First edition, 2 volumes, later patterned cloth, folding map, advertisements (103 pp.);
Pranavananda, Swami. Exploration in Tibet. Calcutta: University of Calcutta: 1939. First edition, contemporary cloth, all photographic plates as called for, 2 folding maps, original wrappers bound in, ink-stamps (American National Red Cross, India), rear wrapper with library pocket and effaced label;
Nadkarni, Ghanasham Nilkanth, rao bahadur. Journal of a Visit to Europe in 1896. Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala, Sons & Co., 1903. First edition, original cloth, cloth slightly marked, endpapers renewed, ownership inscription through text on p. i;
Ali, M. Akbar. Safar-i Shahana Dehli ve Rampur ve Lukhnau [title in Urdu, i.e. 'The Royal Visit to Delhi, Rampur and Lucknow]. Hyderabad, 1353 AH [i.e. 1934 CE]. First edition, text in Urdu, photographic title-page, photographic illustrations throughout, 2 folding plans (Delhi and Lucknow), damp-staining to outer leaves, marginal loss to index leaf, Delhi plan torn, collation not established;
Shahzad Mir Khan, khan bahadur. Shah Safar Sair-i-Dunya. Murattab Karda-i Lieut.-Col. C. A. Boyle D. S. O., Probyns Horse. [Title in transliterated Urdu, i.e. ‘A Right Royal World Tour, edited by Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. Boyle’]. Simla: Army Press, 1933. Second edition, 4to, modern leather, photographic portrait plate, folding map, rust-mark from paperclip to head of title-page, text in transliterated Urdu;
Beg, Mahammad, subadar, sirdar bahadur. My Jubilee Visit to London … Edited by Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. M. Lawford, 1st Madras Lancers. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited, 1899. First edition, modern leather, worming;
Mookerjee, Sambhu C. Travels and Voyages between Calcutta and Independent Tipperah. Calcutta: Reis & Rayyet Office, 1887. First edition, original cloth, cloth mottled, worming to covers and textblock;
Bhor, Raghunathrao Shankarrao, raja of. Twentyone Weeks in Europe (1930). Poona: R. K. Deshpande, 1937. 4to, later half leather, colour portrait plate, halftone photographic plates (no list provided);
and 9 others similar (including Sarkar, Chinese Religion through Hindu Eyes, Shanghai, 1916, first edition, original cloth, Nehru, Eighteen Months in India, Allahabad, 1938, second impression, half leather, Chaman Lal, Hindu America, Bombay, 1941, second edition, original cloth and similar) (20)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA