Lot 180
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[Young, Marianne, née Ridgway, other married name Postans]
Cutch
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
or, Random Sketches taken during a Residence in one of the Northern Provinces of Western India. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, half-title, 7 hand-coloured lithographic plates including frontispiece (one folding), additional vignette title-page, map, pale mottling to cloth, plates slightly browned, shallow chipping to fore edge of map, small worm-hole to gutter towards rear (affecting one plate) [not in Abbey];
Postans, Thomas. Personal Observations on Sindh. London: Longman [etc.], 1843. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked and relined, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, folding map, wood-engraved vignettes in text, advertisement leaf [not in Abbey];
Napier, Sir William. History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, and Campaign in the Cutchee Hills. London: Chapman and Hall, 1851. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, 12 tinted lithographic views of mountain passes, 3 engraved maps (2 folding), gift inscription to head of title-page, tape-repairs to endpapers, variable spotting [not in Abbey];
Burnes, James. Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus … With a Sketch of the History of Cutch. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1839. Third edition (and the first with colour plates), 8vo, original cloth, recased, 5 hand-coloured lithographic plates including frontispiece, folding map, frontispiece detached at foot, plates slightly spotted [Abbey Travel 461] (4)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
'In the absence of a family, Marianne Postans's main focus of interest was travelling and investigating Indian life, enthusiasms which, in addition to drawing, she shared with her husband [Thomas Postans]. But while Lieutenant Postans recorded his researches in reports to learned bodies and works of largely professional interest, his wife's aim was to popularize information about India. She sought to remedy the lack of interest in Britain about India by clothing in more alluring form the facts which she had obtained through firsthand experience, often in little-known areas; she was aided in her researches by her fluent Hindustani' (ODNB).