Lot 177
India
Accounts of missionary work, 19th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Staughton, William. The Baptist Mission in India … with a very Interesting Description of Bengal, intended to animate to Missionary Co-operation. Philadelphia: Hellings and Aitken, 1811. First edition, 12mo, contemporary sheep, 312 pp., loss to head and foot of spine and to label, spotting and browning, closed tear in U2;
Read, Hollis. The Christian Brahmun; or, Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Character of the Converted Brahmun, Babajee. New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1836. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, large 12mo, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, 264, 275 pp., occasional spotting;
Mudge, James. Historical Sketch of the Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Lucknow: American Methodist Mission Press, 1877. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 145 pp.;
Knowles, S. The Gospel in Gonda: being a Narrative of Events in Connection with the Preaching of the Gospel in the Trans-Ghaghra Country. Lucknow: Methodist Publishing House;
Newman, Henry Stanley. Days of Grace in India; a Record of Visits to Indian Missions. London: [printed in Leominster for] S. W. Partridge & Co., c.1882. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the initial blank, 8vo, original cloth, frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in text (many full-page);
Hoole, Elijah. Madras, Mysore, and the South of India: or, a Personal Narrative of a Mission to those Countries. London: Longman [etc.], 1844. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth Baxtertype colour frontispiece, engraved additional title-page, xlviii 443 pp., front free endpaper excised;
and 15 others, including W. J. Richards, The Indian Christians of St Thomas, 1908 (first edition, original cloth), Amos Sutton, A Narrative of the Mission to Orissa, Boston, 1833 (first edition, original sheep), and similar (21)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
One copy of William Staughton's Baptist Mission in India traced in UK institutional libraries, at the University of Cambridge; no such copies traced for James Mudge's Historical Sketch, with WorldCat tracing five copies, all in US libraries.