Lot 191
Atkinson, Thomas Witlam
Oriental and Western Siberia
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1858. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, 20 lithographed plates interleaved with tissue guards, some in colour including frontispiece, 1 folded map, illustrations in text, slight tear along crease of map, spotting on endpapers and reverse of map, one tissue guard missing, binding worn on extremities, 20th-century pictorial bookplate of Harry Snyder on front pastedown and ownership inscription on front free endpaper;
Atkinson, Thomas Witlam. Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1858. First edition, 8vo, 20th-century cloth binding, coloured lithograph frontispiece, folded map by Arrowsmith, illustrations in text, map with slight tear and loss of imprint text at foot, minor dampstaining to frontispiece, title-page and initial leaves;
Corner, Julia. The History of China & India, Pictorial and Descriptive. London: Dean & Co., [1846?]. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, 31 tinted lithograph plates, 2 folded maps, illustrations in text, binding worn at extremities, corners bumped, spotting to title-page, plates and maps, occasional spotting and light dust-soiling elsewhere, binder's ticket of Gresswell of Taunton;
Marvin, Charles. Reconnoitring Central Asia. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1886. Third edition, 8vo, original publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, 8 wood-engraved plates, publisher's list at end, bolts partially unopened, internally very clean, blank ticket on front pastedown;
Orléans, Henri d'. From Tonkin to India by the Sources of the Irawadi January '95-January '96. London: Methuen & Co., 1898. First edition, 4to, original publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, 1 folded map (partially coloured), 94 black and white illustrations (some full-page), head and tail of spine and corner tips worn;
together with 3 other 19th- and early 20th-century works (not collated), comprising: Deasy, In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan, 190 (first edition), Floyer, Unexplored Baluchistan, 1882 (first edition), Sears (ed.). Pictorial History of China and India, 1855 (first edition) (8)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
Reconnoitring Central Asia without map, although listed in contents, as with other extant copies of this edition.