Lot 85
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Kindersley, [Jemima]
Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
London: for J. Nourse, 1777. First edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11cm), 20th-century quarter leather, marbled boards, [4] 301 [1] pp., engraved frontispiece ('An Apartment in a Zanannah'), half-title (bound after the frontispiece), frontispiece strengthened along fore edge and offset onto half-title, loss to lower fore corner of T7 not affecting text [ESTC T95401]
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
‘An interesting account of the early period of British consolidation in north India. It is also important as one of the first travel books by a woman, a field in which there were soon to be many female contributors’ (ODNB).