Lot 176
American visitors to India
Travel narratives, 19th and early-20th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
[Burges, Bartholomew]. A Series of Indostan Letters by a Traveller. New York: [no printed], 1817. First edition, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked,12mo, xxi 147 pp., browning, closed tear in pp. 90/1, annotations and pen-trials to endpapers;
Cravath, Paul D. Letters Home from India and Irak. New York: [privately printed for the author, by] J. J. Little and Ives Company, 1925. First edition, 8vo, original quarter cloth, map endpapers;
[Amish in India]. Stories from India by Jacob Andrews Ressler (Missionary in India from 1899-1908). Scottdale PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1916. First edition, square 8vo, original blue cloth, map frontispiece, photographic plates;
Poston, Charles D. The Parsees. [No place:] privately printed, c.1870. First edition, tall 8vo, original cloth, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, wear to spine, front inner hinge tender;
Ward. Ernest F. Echoes from Bharatkand. Chicago: Free Methodist Publishing House, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, photographic frontispiece and plates, manuscript annotations, front inner hinge slightly tender;
Floyd Jones, De Lancey. Letters from the Far East. Being Impressions of a Tour around the World by way of England, India, China, and Japan during 1885-86. New York: Public Service Publishing Co., 1887. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 11 plates;
Grandpré, L[ouis] de. A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in the Year 1790. Boston: for W. Pelham, and W. P. & L. Blake, 1802, 12mo, contemporary sheep, browning, upper margin of title-page and pp. 3-4 excised;
Lowrie, John C. Two Years in Upper India. New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1850. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding engraved map, wear to spine-ends, spotting and damp-staining to contents;
Keenan, John L. A Steel Man in India. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. First edition, 8vo, contemporary crushed morocco with leather-entry slipcase (possibly a deluxe binding for presentation);
Humphrey, Mrs E. J. Six Years in India. New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 8 wood-engraved plates, wear to spine, spotting and damp-staining;
‘A. B. M.’ Private Daily Notes of an Adventure lasting from September 18, 1924 to May 19, 1925. San Diego: Watson-Jones Inc., 1925. First edition, 8vo, original textured wrappers;
and 28 others, all in original cloth, including William Butler, The Land of the Veda, 1872, Edward Webb, Hindoo Life, 1866, and similar (40)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA