Lot 179
Women authors
Collection of Indian travel narratives, 19th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Guthrie, [Katharine Blanche]. My Year in an Indian Fort. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1877. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original diagonal-ribbed blue cloth, titles and elephant vignettes gilt to spines, decorative panels in black to covers, xi 313, ix 285 pp., half-titles, wood-engraved frontispieces, inner hinges cracked, volume 2 front inner hinge very tender, title-pages with library stamps and inked numerals, a few library stamps in text;
[Ashmore, Harriette]. Narrative of a Three Months' March in India; and a Residence in the Dooab. By the Wife of an Officer in the 16th Foot. London: R. Hastings, 1841. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, xii 354 pp., 8 lithographic plates including frontispiece (no list provided), spine rolled, front joint cracked at head, front inner hinge cracked, endpapers with ownership markings including book-label and ownership inscription of Clive Coates of Helperby, pp. 133-6 clumsily opened [not in Abbey];
Mackenzie, [Helen Douglas]. Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenana; or Six Years in India. London: Richard Bentley, 1857. Second edition ('revised'), 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, xi 414, vii 406 pp., half-titles, 3 tinted lithographic plates (including ‘A Sikh with his Provisions, Ammunition and Bedding, marching to join Chattar Sing’), lithographic map ('March from Dinghi to Chilianwala), folding plan of the Battle of Gujrat (the final battle of the Second Anglo-Sikh War), cockling and mottling to cloth, bookseller's ink-stamps to title-pages, volume 2 partly unopened, and with closed tear to foot of prelims including frontispiece and other plate;
Greenfield, M. Rose. Five Years in Ludhiana, or Work amongst our Indian Sisters. London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 1886. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, Woodburytype frontispiece (mounted), vi [2] 128 pp., mottling to cloth, gift inscription to recto of frontispiece;
Roberts, Emma. Notes of an Overland Journey through France and Egypt to Bombay. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1841. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth, xxviii 333 pp., publisher's advertisements ([2], 12 pp.), loss to head of spine, splitting to ends of joints;
Clemons, [Eliza], Mrs Major. The Manners and Customs of Society in India; including Scenes in the Mofussil Stations … and Reminiscences of the Late Burmese War. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1841. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, xii 369 pp., covers water-stained, splitting to joint-ends, spotting to text;
Trevelyan, L. R. A Year in Peshawur, and a Lady's Ride into the Khyber Pass. London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. First edition, 8vo, original brown cloth, xi 263 pp., half-title, publisher's advertisements (32, [4] pp.), rubbed, collector's ink-stamp to initial blank;
Marryat, Florence. “G U P." Sketches of Anglo-Indian Life and Character. London: Richard Bentley, 1868. First edition in book form, 8vo, original green cloth, 284 pp., half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece, nick to headcap, damp-staining to pastedowns, textblock browned;
and 4 others similar (14)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA