Lot 87
Wilson, Charles Robert
The Early Annals of the English in Bengal
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
being the Bengal Public Consultations for the First Half of the Eighteenth Century. London: W. Thacker and Co., 1895-1911. First edition, one of 500 copies, 2 volumes in 3 (volume 2 being in 2 parts), 8vo, original cloth, 7 lithographic maps to volume 1, halftone photographic plate to volume 2 part 2 (collation not established as list of plates not provided), ink-stamps of Bletchley Archaeological Society to endpapers, volume 1 lacking rear free endpaper;
[Parliament of the United Kingdom]. Letters Patent, establishing a Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William, in Bengal, bearing date the Twenty-sixth Day of March … One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-four. London: for J. Debrett, 1788. Second edition (first published in 1774), 8vo, modern leather [ESTC N39700, citing 2 copies world-wide];
[Maratha empire]. A Short Account of the Marratta State. Written in Persian by a Munshy, who accompanied Col. Upton on his Embassy to Poonah. Translated by William Chambers, Esq. Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. London: reprinted for Geo. Kearsley, 1787. First edition in book form and first London edition (first published in Calcutta in the Asiatick Miscellany), 8vo, modern cloth, numeric ink-stamp to final page [ESTC T122609];
[Fenton, Albert]. Memoirs of a Cadet. By a Bengalee. London: Saunders and Otley, 1839. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘George M. K. Ellerton, from his sincere friend, the author' on half-title, large 12mo, modern cloth, [6] 338 pp., initial and terminal advertisement leaves, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece of the Taj Mahal, inscription on half-title shaved by binder to loss of two letters, pencilled marginalia;
[Bengal Civil Service]. The Bengal Civil Service; a Chapter of Indian Experiences. By an Outcast. London: W. O. Walbrook, 1875. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘With the Authors Compliments’ on the front free endpaper, 8vo, original cloth, viii 110 pp., worming, pencilled annotations to half-title;
[Serampore]. The Second Report of the Institution for the Support and Encouragement of Native Schools, begun at Serampore, Nov. 1816. Bristol: reprinted by J. G. Fuller, 1819. Apparently the second edition (first printed at Serampore, 1818), 8vo, [4] 68 [4] pp., modern leather;
and 7 others similar (15)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
Four copies only of The Bengal Civil Service traced in libraries world-wide (British Library; LSE; Yale; University of Virginia).