Lot 178
Fane, Henry Edward
Five Years in India
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
London: Henry Colburn, 1842. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, red and green spine labels, raised bands, marbled edges, engraved frontispieces and 10 plates by S. Bull after author (with tissue guards), wood-engraved title vignettes and 8 illustrations in text, spines and board edges worn, light spotting to frontispiece of volume 1 and to endpapers of both volumes;
Elliot, Robert. Views in the East; Comprising India, Canton, and the Shores of the Red Sea. London: H. Fisher, Son, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary green half calf with maroon moiré cloth boards, spines gilt with black labels, 60 full page engraved plates interleaved with paper, followed by descriptive text, rubbing to outer joints and extremities, corners bumped, volume 2 boards sunned in places, most of the plates with foxing to various degrees, light dampstaining to the inner margins of volume 1;
[Smith, Elizabeth Bruce Elton]. East-India Sketchbook: Comprising an Account of the Present State of Society in Calcutta , Bombay, &c. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, spines worn with labels missing, boards scuffed, some toning and occasional spotting;
Russell, William Howard. My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, modern leather, raised bands, marbled edges, 12 tinted lithograph plates, 1 folded map, half-titles, with toning to half titles and endpapers, ownership stamps on title-pages [Abbey Travel 491];
[Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]. The Hindoos. London: Charles Knight, 1834-35. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt spines with raised bands, gilt turn-ins, 24 plates with woodcut illustrations, occasional spotting, armorial bookplates on front pastedowns of Christopher Turnor, Stoke Rochford library;
together with 9 other 19th-century works mostly in gilt leather bindings (not collated), comprising: Roberts, Forty-One Years in India, 1898 (first edition, 2 volumes), Rickards, India, or Facts Submitted, 1829 (first edition, 2 volumes), Martin, The Indian Empire, [1858-61] (first edition, 3 volumes), Nolan, The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East, [1860?] (first edition), Malcom, Travels in the Burman Empire, 1840 (first edition), Malcom. Travels in Hindustan and China, 1840 (first edition), Tennent, Ceylon: an Account of the Island, 1859. (second edition, 2 volumes), Macfarlane, Our Indian Empire, 1844 (first edition, 2 volumes), Pearson, Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence … Christian Frederick Swartz, 1834 (first edition, 2 volumes) (27)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA