Lot 186
Andrew, Sir William Patrick
The Indus and its Provinces
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
their Political and Commercial Importance considered in Connexion with Improved Means of Communication. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., [1857]. First edition, presentation copy to Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800-1885), British statesman and secretary of state for India, inscribed to ‘The Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood, Bart, from the author' on the front free endpaper (and with his engraved bookplate as Charles Viscount Halifax to front pastedown), 8vo, original blue cloth, 2 folding lithographic maps (general map of Sindh and the Punjab; ‘Map of Comparative Distances between Kurrachee and Aden, and Bombay and Aden’, folding letterpress table (nicked and rumpled along fore edge);
Baikie, Robert. The Neilgherries: including an Account of their Topography, Climate, Soil and Productions. Calcutta: J. Thomas, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1857. Second edition, 8vo, original green wavy-grain cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, tinted lithographic frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, 2 folding hand-coloured lithographic maps loose in end-pockets as issued, cloth marked, front inner hinge cracked between frontispiece and vignette title-page with webbing visible, marginal damp-staining to gutter of frontispiece and vignette title, sig. C. detaching at foot;
Buckley, Robert B. The Irrigation Works of India, and their Financial Results. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1880. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding map (with short handling tear), 3 folding letterpress tables, blind stamp of the California Academy of Sciences to title-page;
[Davis, Sir John Francis]. Vizier Ali Khan; or, the Massacre of Benares, a Chapter in British Indian History. London: John Murray, 1844. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘Mrs Smythe, with the author’s compts' on the front free endpaper, small 8vo, original red cloth, lithographic frontispiece;
Sherring, M. A. The Sacred City of the Hindus: an Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times. London: Trübner & CO., 1868. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, 8 plates including frontispiece, a few marks to cloth, wear to corners, frontispiece damp-stained at corner;
Irwin, Henry Crossley. The Garden of India; or Chapters on Oudh History and Affairs. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1880. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, half-title, spine-ends slightly frayed;
[Anon.]. Indian Records, with a Commercial View of the Relations between the British Government and the Nawabs Nazim of Bengal, Behar and Orissa. London: G. Bubb, 1870. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, albumen-print portrait frontispiece of His Highness the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Behar and Orissa (mounted as issued, with decorative lithographic frame), contemporary gift inscription ('Montague J. Guest, Esq MP, with W. E. Haviland Burke's compliments') to front free endpaper, library plate of the Royal Yacht Squadron Castle to front pastedown, pencilled marginalia to p. 19;
Harkness, Henry. A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills, or Blue Mountains of Coimbatoor, in the Southern Peninsula of India. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1832. First edition, tall 8vo, original boards, rebacked retaining original label with endpapers renewed, 4 lithographic plates, 8 pp. advertisements, pp. 3-4 and plate facing p. 5 repaired;
Moor, Edward. Oriental Fragments. By the Author of the Hindoo Pantheon. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1834. First edition, original cloth, 8vo, 8 engraved or lithographic plates, occasional spotting, ownership ink-stamp to frontispiece recto (showing through to verso);
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Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA