Lot 202
Girdlestone, Charles
(Confidential.) Memorandum on Cashmere and some Adjacent Countries
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
By Charles Girdlestone, Resident in Cashmere during 1871. Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1879. 8vo, modern leather, [4] iii 118 pp.;
Elliott, Charles Alfred, Bengal Civil Service. Report on the History of the Mysore Famine of 1876-78. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1878. One of 1,000 copies, the author's copy, inscribed ‘Private copy, C. A. Elliott’ at head of title-page, large 4to, contemporary half calf, folding map, folding graph, extra-illustrated with 2 large albumen-print photographs of famine victims mounted to endpapers (27.5 x 18cm), head of spine pulled;
Rice, Lewis, Secretary to the Government of Mysore. Coorg Inscriptions. Translated for Government by Bangalore: Mysore Government Press, 1886. 4to, original cloth-backed printed boards, [6] 15 28 v pp., 3 lithographic plates, spine partly split;
[Government of India]. Report on the Survey of the Eastern Frontier of Bengal between Chittagong and Cachar, embracing Portions of Hill Tipperah, and the Lushai and North Chittagong Hills. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1873. Folio, later boards, original wrappers bound in;
and 8 others (these not collated, titles include: Court Character and Primary Education in the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh, Allahabad: Indian Press, 1897, folio, modern leather, worming; Statistical Report of the District of Cawnpoor by Robert Montgomery, Calcutta: Bengal Military Orphan Press, 1849, 4to, modern leather, folding hand-coloured lithographic maps, worming; Medico-Topographical Account of Mewar by Lieut.-Colonel R. Shore, Calcutta, 1909, 4to, original cloth-backed boards; Final Report on the Survey and Settlement Operations in the Deo Estate … by H. Coupland, Settlement Office, Bihar, Calcutta, 1907, folio, original cloth-backed boards; Papers Connected with the Reform of the System of Weights and Measures advocated by the Government of Madras, Calcutta: Military Orphan Press, 1864, 8vo, half cloth, front hinge split; Report of the Proceedings of the First Sessions of the All-India Conference of the Moderate Party held at Bombay in the Empire Theatre, Bombay: Times Press, 1919, folio, half leather; etc.) (12)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
No other copy of the first work (Memorandum on Cashmere) traced in libraries.