Lot 197
Calcutta
Collection of Calcutta-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
[Railways]. General Rules and Regulations for Indian Railways, with the Subsidiary Rules of the Eastern Bengal State Railway. Calcutta: Eastern Bengal State Railway Press, 1885. 8vo, later cloth-backed boards, [4] 257 lxvi pp. (index ends with the letter ‘W’; collation not established as no other copy traced);
Massey, Montague. For the Benefit of the Red Cross Fund. Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1918. First edition, original cloth-backed boards with pictorial paper onlay, all plates as called for (a few plates at rear with residue of adhesion of facing plate in lower margins);
Deb, Binaya Krishna, Raja. The Early History and Growth of Calcutta. Calcutta: Romesh Chandra Ghose, 1905. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page, 4to, original cloth, 3 lithographic plans (2 folding), browning, worming to plans and prelims, faintly visible erasure of stamp or inscription from title-page;
Skrine, F. H. An Indian Journalist: being the Life, Letters and Correspondence of Dr. Sambhu C. Mookerjee, late Editor of ‘Reis and Rayyet’, Calcutta. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1895. First edition, 8vo, contemporary black morocco, photographic portrait frontispiece;
Havell, E. B. Monograph on Stone Carving in Bengal. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1906. First edition, one of 500 copies, 4to, contemporary cloth, 5 photogravure plates, cloth mottled, Indian governmental ink-stamps to title-page, small worm-track to upper fore corners of title-page and pp. 1-4;
Campos, J. J. A. History of the Portuguese in Bengal. Calcutta: Butterworth & Co., 1919. First edition, 8vo, original maroon cloth gilt, 6 plates and maps, label removed from spine;
Kennedy, Pringle. A History of the Great Moghuls. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1905-11. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, contemporary cloth, final index leaf partly detached;
Barker, George. A Tea Planter's Life in Assam. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1884. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, recased, half-title, etched frontispiece, illustrations throughout, 36 pp. advertisements, tea planter's ownership inscription to half-title, pencilled annotations to text;
O'Malley, L. S. S. History of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa under British Rule. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1925. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 4to, contemporary cloth, folding map in end-pocket, ink-stamp of Raj Krishna to front pastedown, worm-holes to front board and text block, headcap frayed;
Lee, Ada. In and Out of the Homes of India. Calcutta: Methodist Press, 1909. First edition, inscribed ‘With love from [?] L H & Ada Lee’ on the front free endpaper, 8vo, original blue cloth, photographic plates (including one not listed; several with manuscript captions; one bound upside-down);
Beale, Thomas. The Oriental Biographical Dictionary. Calcutta: printed by J. W. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, published by the Asiatic Society, 1881. First edition, 4to, later half leather, paper browned and slightly brittle, title-page originally tipped to initial blank (now partly torn away), recurring small marginal tears, often with attempted tape-repair, closed tears in text of pp. 51-2, 151-2;
and 22 others similar, all printed in Calcutta (these not collated, titles including: Cotton, Calcutta Old and New, 1907, first edition, original cloth; Ghose, Indian Sketches, 1923, second edition, cloth; Bhattacharya, Hindu Castes and Sects, 1896, first edition, original cloth, ex libris U.S.S. Iowa; Mazumdar, Sonpur in the Sambalpur Tract, 1911, first edition, later half cloth; Bethune Society, The Proceedings and Transactions, 1870, half cloth; Abbott, A Practical Analysis of the Several Letters Patent of the Crown, relating to the Bishopricks in the East Indies, 1845, new edition, inscribed presentation copy, ex library, cloth; Firminger, The Second Lodge of Bengal in the Olden Times, 1911, first edition, original cloth; Hyde, The Parish of Bengal, 1678 to 1788, 1899, first edition, half cloth; Cunningham, Book of Indian Era, 1883, first edition, private collector's blind stamps; Majumdar, Corporate Life in Ancient India, 1918, first edition, contemporary quarter cloth; Agille, To Xavier's Tomb, 1923, first edition, original cloth, bookseller's ticket to title-page; and similar) (33)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
Two institutional copies traced for An Indian Journalist, none for General Rules and Regulations for Indian Railways