Lot 88
India
Collection of works relating to the British in Bengal
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
[Commander-in-Chief, India]. General Orders issued to the Bengal Army, during the Year 1829 [drop-head title]. Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co., 1829. Folio, modern calf, 201 pp., first page annotated, slightly marked and with small marginal tear (bound with at rear the General Orders for 1828, 192 pp., possibly incomplete, the final leaf with no colophon, with a few worm-tracks);
Holmes and Co. The Bengal Obituary, a Record to Perpetuate the Memory of Departed Worth, being a Compilation of Tablets and Monumental Inscriptions from Various Parts of the Bengal and Agra Presidencies. To which is added, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs. Calcutta: printed by J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, 1848. First edition, 4to, modern quarter leather, ix 426 pp., final 2 leaves of index with marginal worm-track;
Boileau, A. H. E. Personal Narrative of a Tour through the Western States of Rajwara, in 1835. Calcutta: printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by N Grant, 1837. First edition, 4to, modern black leather, vii [3] 331 [2] pp., 15 lithographic plates including folding frontispiece view of Jaisalmer and large folding panorama of Jodhpur (14 listed, that listed as ‘South Side of Jodhpoor’ in fact 2 plates: ‘Citadel of Jodhpoor from the South West [-East]’), folding lithographic map, browning, damp-staining to plates, frontispiece crudely repaired, ink-stamp of Simla Central Library to title-page, close tear to foot of pp. 36-92 including 2 intervening plates, pp. 93-8 with paper disruption to lower margins, marginal loss to pp. 149-52, folding map apparently lacking upper section;
Hill, S. Charles. List of Europeans and Others in the English Factories in Bengal at the Time of the Siege of Calcutta in the Year 1756. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1902. First edition, one of 200 copies, 4to, contemporary tan cloth by W. H. Smith, 99 xvi pp., bookplate of G. L. W. Watson, title-page laid down
[Mitra, Dinabandhu]. Nil Darpan, or the Indigo Planting Mirror, a Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. Calcutta: C. H. Manuel, 1861. First edition, 8vo, 20th-century leather by Frederico d'Almeida, Lisbon, iv 102 pp.;
Surma, Shivu-Prusad. The Brahmunical Magazine; or, the Missionary and the Brahmun. To be continued Occasionally. No. IV. Calcutta: [no printer], 1823. 8vo, modern leather, [2] ii 26 pp.;
and 9 others (including: Draft of an Address to the Supreme Government, for the Legislative Recognition of a Plan for creating Limited Entails in Bengal, printed for Private Circulation, Calcutta, 1852, half leather binding; The Hon'ble James Thomas, Late Lieut.-Governor, North Western Provinces, Calcutta, 1854, [offprint from the Calcutta review], half cloth; The Calcutta Review No. LIIII, Serampore, 1856, original cloth-backed boards) (15)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
We have traced no other record of any edition of the General Orders issued to the Bengal Army, excepting perhaps a run of yearly volumes in the India Office Records at the British Library, catalogued as Bengal General Orders by the Commander-in-Chief and commencing in 1820 (shelfmark IOR/L/MIL/17/2).