Lot 198
Bombay (Mumbai)
Collection of Bombay-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
Cunha, J. Gerson da. Notes on the History and Antiquities of Chaul and Bassein. Bombay: Thacker, Vining & Co., 1876. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half roan, folding lithographic map, 19 albumen-print photographic plates (mounted on card as issued, with printed captions to mounts), 7 further lithographic plates, 8 plates of lithographic facsimiles of inscriptions (of which 6 folding), lithographic folding map (imperfect: lacking lower half), damp-staining to endpapers, title-page spotted;
Douglas, James. A Book of Bombay. Bombay: Bombay Gazette Steam Press, 1883. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 566 pp., chromolithographic portrait frontispiece, gift inscription to endpaper, cloth marked;
Brown, Michael (editor). Gwalior Today. Bombay: Times of India Press, 1940. First edition, 4to, original red calf lettered and decorated in gilt, 250 pp., 10 plates, folding map;
Ali, Moulavi Cheragh. The Proposed Political, Legal, and Social Reforms in the Ottoman Empire and other Mohammadan States. Bombay: Education Society's Press, 1883. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, xl 183 pp., loss to spine, textblock browned, marginal damp-staining;
Wilson, John. The Doctrine of Jehovah addressed to the Parsis: a Sermon preached on the Occasion of the Baptism of Two Youths of that Tribe. Bombay: E. A. Webster at the American Mission Press, 1839. First edition, 8vo, modern leather, [4] 69 pp;
Sheppard, Samuel T. Bombay. Bombay: Times of India Press, 1932. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘with the author’s compliments', 8vo, original tan cloth, 166 pp., photographic plates (all present);
[Coal-mining]. Correspondence on the Coals and Other Minerals of Kutch. Bombay: Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1878. First edition, 4to, modern leather, 58 pp., folding map (with splits to folds), paper browned and friable, last leaf working loose;
Bombay Association. Minutes of Proceedings of the Bombay Association. Established 26th August, 1852. Bombay: printed at the Bombay Gazette Press, 1852. First edition, half-title, 25 [2] pp.;
Bomanji, Framji. Lights and Shades of the East: a Study of the Life of Baboo Harrischander; and Passing Thoughts on India and Its People, their Present and Future. Bombay: Alliance Press, 1863. First edition, 8vo, modern half leather, xxi 385 pp., half-title, browning and damp-staining, worming to outer leaves;
and 20 others, all Bombay imprints, 19th-20th century (not collated, including: Mohamad Ali, Thoughts on the Present Discontent, 1907; Letters to an Indian Raja, form a Political Recluse, 1891, original wrappers, spine reinforced; Ragoba Moroba (translator), Vickram Charitra … Translated from the Prakrit Poem of Hurridass, 1855; The Purans, A Monthly Amusing Magazine for English-Speaking Readers, 1882-3, 12 monthly numbers in one volume, original pictorial wrappers bound in; Behramji Malabari, Gujarat and the Gujaratis, 1884, second edition, plates); [Parsis], Reference to a Model of Tower of Silence, 1885, original wrappers, large folding plate (with a few splits); Mehta, The Elements of the Agricultura of the Bombay Presidency, 1905; Krishnalal Mohanlal Jhaveri, Milestones in Gujarati Literature, 1914; and similar) (29)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA