Lot 201
India
Collection of early to mid-20th century works on India in the dust jackets
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
all 8vo unless otherwise stated, all in original cloth and with the dust jackets, titles include:
Bonham, John. Oude in 1857. Some Memories of the Indian Mutiny. London: Williams & Norgate, 1928. First edition, square 8vo, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper;
Whitehead, George. In the Nicobar Islands. London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1924. First edition, 16 halftone photographic plates, map, a very bright copy;
Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra. Dawn over India. Translated and adapted from Bengali by Basanta Koomar Roy, Author of “Rabindranath Tagore”. New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1941. Firs edition in English;
Barton, Sir William. The Princes of India. London: Nisbet and Co. Ltd., 1934. First edition, 16 halftone photographic, jacket price-clipped;
Lowther, Alice Blight, Lady. The Land of the Gold Mohur. London: Philip Allan, 1932. First edition, dust jacket slightly chipped, 16 halftone photographic plates;
Krishna, Lajwanti Rama. Panjabi Sufi Poets. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1838. First edition, text-leaves largely unopened, dust jacket chipped and price-clipped;
A. & C. Black (publishers). Southern India, Painted by Lady Lawley. Described by F. E. Penny. London: A. & C. Black, 1914. First edition, all plates as called for;
and 25 others, including C. A. Kincaid, The Land of Ranji and Duleep, 1931, L. Stanley Jast, Shah Jahan: a Play in Five acts, 1934, Salim Ali, The Birds of Kutch, 1945, and similar (32)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA