Lot 196
Madras (Chennai)
Collection of Madras-printed works, 19th-20th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Love, Henry Davison. Descriptive List of Pictures in Government House and the Banqueting Hall, Madras. Madras: Government Press, 1904. First edition, 4to, original red morocco gilt (possibly a deluxe binding), 20 plates (many photogravures);
[Railways]. Illustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway, including the Mayvaram-Mutupet, and Peralam-Karaikkal, Railways. Madras: Higginbotham & Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 40 photographic plates, 2 folding maps (one in end-pocket), front free endpaper removed;
[Madras Presidency Revenue Department]. Reports on the Direct and Indirect Effects of the Godavery and Krishna Annicuts, in Rajamundry, Masulipatam, Guntoor, etc. And the Coleroon Annicuts, in Tanjore, and South Arcot. Madras: Fort Saint George Gazette Press, 1858. Folio, later half cloth, [4] 242 pp., 2 folding lithographic plans, 2 folding tables;
Thurston, Edgar. Ethnographic Notes in Southern India. Madras: Government Press, 1906 & 1907. 2 copies, first editions, first and second issues respectively, 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth gilt, the second-issue copy inscribed by the author on the half-title, 38 halftone photographic plates;
[Madras pamphlets]. Speeches, Papers, etc. connected with the proposed Income-Tax and the Recall of Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, Governor of Madras. Compiled and Published by William Thomas. [Bound with:] An Inaugural Lecture on the Study of the Law … delivered on the opening of the Law Class in the Presidency College of Madras by John Bruce Norton. [And:] Report of the Proceedings of the Presentation of an Address to John Bruce Norton, Agent of the Ranees of Tanjore. By the Madras Native Association. Madras: Adelphi Press; Athenaeum Press; Scottish Press, 1860-55-60. 3 works in 1 volume, 8vo, later cloth, first work with wood-engraved plate of the Houses of Parliament pasted back-to-back with etched portrait of Trevelyan (not known if called for);
Vadivelu, A. Two Worthies of Southern India. Being the Memoirs of Lodd Krishnadas Balamukundas and Lodd Govindas. Madras: Vitthaldas V. Vallabhdas, 1902. First edition, 8vo, later cloth, 45 photographic plates, folding genealogical table;
and 11 others, all printed in Madras, 19th-early 20th century (these not collated, including: Benson, An Account of the Normal Distribution of the Rainfall in the Madras Presidency, 1892; The Chit-Chat Papers, Re-Printed,1893; Savarkar, Hindu-Pad-Padashai, or a Review of the Hindu Empire of Maharashtra, 1925, first edition, one of 1500 copies; Raghavaiyangar, Memorandum on the Progress of the Madras Presidency, 1893, second edition, original cloth, recased; Menon, A History of Travancore from the Earliest Times, 1878, first edition, 50 lithographic plates of 54, collector's ink-stamps to plates, worming towards rear; Fenger, History of the Tranquebar Mission, 1906, second edition; Munro, Madrasiana, 1889, third edition; Annie Besant, The Building of the Kosmos, 1894, first edition; and similar) (18)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA