Lot 194
India
Collection of travel narratives, biographies and general accounts, 19th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
each in 2 volumes, 8vo, titles include:
Sleeman, Sir W. H. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, in 1849-1850. London: Richard Bentley, 1858. First edition, modern half calf, engraved folding map, bound without half-titles (if issued), contents toned, title-pages spotted and browned, small nick to foot of volume 2 title-page, volume 2 B7-8 clumsily opened;
Jacquemont, Victor. Letters from India; describing a Journey in the British Dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere. London: Edward Churton, 1834. First edition in English, later cloth, lithographic frontispiece, folding map (with closed handling tear);
Welsh, James. Military Reminiscences; extracted from a Journal of nearly Forty Years' Active Service in the East Indies. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1830. Second edition, modern quarter calf, 91 plates, vignettes and plans (the plates nearly all sepia aquatints, of which 3 folding, several plates wood-engraved but counted in the pagination and register), retaining original blanks with Eton leaving inscriptions dated 1840, bound without half-titles (if issued);
Spry, Henry H. Modern India; with Illustrations of the Resources and Capabilities of Hindustan. London: Whittaker & Co., 1837. First edition, folding engraved map, leaves partly unopened, previous owner's ink-stamps to title-pages;
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames. The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. First edition, original cloth, corners of half-titles excised, private address stamps in blind to title-pages, ink annotations to title-page of volume 1;
[Edwardes, Emma]. Memorials of the Life and Letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886. First edition, original cloth, all plates as called for;
and 11 others similar (all first editions, in 2 volumes and in the original cloth unless otherwise stated, not fully collated, titles comprise: William Hough, Political and Military Events in British India from the Years 1759 to 1849, 1853, modern boards; Thomas Skinner, Adventures during a Journey Overland to India, 1837, second edition, modern cloth, half-titles, engraved frontispieces; Pandurang Hari, or, Memoirs of a Hindoo, 1873, new edition, half-titles removed; William Westall (illustrator), The Hindoos, 1847, 12mo; Alexander Burnes, Travels into Bokhara, Philadelphia, 1835, 12mo, uncut in original cloth-backed boards, old library plates, volume 2 bound without pp. 85-96; The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings, 1858, first edition, ink-stamps of the Carmel Library Association, labels to spines, volume 2 front inner hinge cracked; C. H. Forbes-Lindsay, India Past and Present, Philadelphia, 1903, with original cloth dust jackets; Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp, 1829, 3 volumes, uncut in original boards, spines repaired; C. Macfarlane, The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in all Parts of the World, New York, 1833, first US edition, original cloth-backed boards; Earl of Dunmore, The Pamirs, 1893, second edition, modern quarter calf, frontispiece repaired, library markings; Memoirs of the Life of … Sir James Mackintosh, 1836, second edition, presentation copy from the editor; J. W. Massie, Continental India, 1840) (37)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA