India
Collection of travel narratives including Indian imprints
£882
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Baikie, Robert. The Neilgherries: including an Account of their Topography, Climate, Soil and Productions; and of the Effects of the Climate on the European Constitution. Calcutta: J. Thomas, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1857. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, tinted lithographic frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page, 2 folding lithographic maps hand-coloured in outline and loose in end-pockets, first map separating along one fold, second map separating along multiple folds, but all sections present and maps overall intact;
Griffith, William. Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable the East India Company ... Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries. Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, 1847. First edition, 8vo, modern half leather, lithographic portrait frontispiece on india paper (mounted), 16 tinted lithographic plates (of 17: lacking plate 15, 'Chindupjee'), lithographic map, text variably browned, tears and crude tape-repairs to prelims, plate 6 wormed;
Skinner, Thomas. Excursions in India; including a Walk over the Himalaya Mountains, to the Sources of the Jumna and the Ganges. London: Henry Colburn, 1832. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, spines refurbished, new labels and endpapers, mounted lithographic frontispieces, bookplates (Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey, and Sir Edward Every, Bart);
Mouat, Frederick. Rough Notes of a Trip to Reunion, the Mauritius and Ceylon; with remarks on their Eligibility as Sanitaria. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1852. First edition, 8vo, modern half leather, wood-engraved illustrations in text, browning and worming, insect damage in fore margins from title-page to p. 10, ink-stamps of St Xavier's College to title-page and occasionally elsewhere;
Hilton, Edward H. The Tourist's Guide to Lucknow ... By one of the Beleaguered Garrison. Second Edition, revised and illustrated. Lucknow: Murray & Co., and Peake, Allen & Co., 1894. 8vo, modern half leather, [2] iii 163 xxiv pp., halftone photographic portrait frontispiece of the author, lithographic portrait of Wajid Ali Shah, illustrations in text, extra-illustrated with 26 original photographs (gelatin silver prints and platinum prints, 17.5 x 11cm) mounted on card and captioned in manuscripts, possibly lacking a map (mentioned in BL cataloguing), marginal loss to title-page;
Latif, Syad Muhammad. History of the Panjab from the Remotest Antiquity to the Present Time. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited, 1891. First edition, 4to, modern half leather, folding genealogical table, lacking map, browning, light marginal worming towards rear;
and 2 others (Jagatjit Sing, My Travels in China, Japan and Java, 1905, first edition, 4to, modern half leather, browned and wormed, other defects; Angus Hamilton, In Abor Jungles, 1912, first edition, 4to, original cloth, rebacked, photographic plates), the lot sold with all faults
Footnote
Note: For the works by Griffith and Mouat the only other copies traced in auction records are those from the Brooke-Hitching collection sold in 2014-5. One copy of this edition of Hilton's work traced in UK libraries (at the British Library).