Lot 111
£1,008
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Firminger, Rev. W.K., editor. Bengal Past and Present. Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society; Volumes:
I. No. 1, July-December 1907, 4to, blue half morocco;
II. No. 1 and 2, January-December 1908, 2 volumes, blue half morocco;
III. No. 1 and 2 (Serial No. 7-8), January-June 1909, 2 copies;
IV. (Serial No. 9), July-December 1909, 2 copies;
VIII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 15-16), January-June 1914;
IX. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No 17-18), July-December 1914;
X. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 19-20), January-June 1915;
XI. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 21-22), July-December 1915;
XII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 23-24), April-June 1916;
XIII. Part 2 (Serial No. 26), October-December 1916;
XIV. Part 2 (Serial No. 28), April-June 1917;
Grierson, George A. Bihar Peasant Life, being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1885. 8vo, map, lithographed plates, contemporary half calf, binding (only) lightly wormed;
Mukerji, Nitya Gopal. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture. Calcutta, 1901. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author, illustrations, contemporary half calf;
M'Cann, Hugh W. Report on the Dyes and Tans of Bengal. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1883. 8vo, original brown cloth;
Anderson, J.D. A Collection of Kachari Folk-Tales and Ryhmes. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1895. 8vo, original cloth-backed blue boards, slightly rubbed;
Hume, Allan. List of the Birds of India, Reference Edition, corrected to 1st March 1879. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Co., 1879. 8vo, title from upper board, original cloth-backed boards;
Bengal Camp Guide. Coronation Durbar at Delhi. Notes and Information for the use of the Guests of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. Small 4to, photographic plates, 7 folding plans in pocket at end, original blue cloth gilt;
Hunter, William Wilson. North-Eastern Frontier. Political Dissertation prefixed to a Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia. Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company Limited, 1869, 8vo, original wrappers slightly stained and small hole without loss, spine worn; RARE;
Sastri, Pandit Sivanath. Remtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformer, a History of the Renaissance in Bengal. London: Sonnenschein; Calcutta: S.K. Lahiri, 1907, presentation copy to the Honble. W.C. Macpherson Esq. from S.K. Lahiri, plates, original cloth;
Bradley-Birt, F.B. Chota Nagpore, a little known province of the Empire. 1903. 8vo, presentation copy from the author, plates, folding map, original red cloth gilt, slightly marked;
Pennell, T.L. Amongst the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier. 1909. 8vo, plates, spine faded;
Russell, William Howard. My Diary in India, in the year 1858-9. 1860. 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, original cloth, a little dampstaining or spotting, rubbed, hinges weak;
Crawford, Arthur. Our Troubles in Poona and the Deccan. 1897, 8vo, original cloth;
Foster, William. The English Factories in India 1618-1621 [1622-23], Oxford, 1906-08, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g.;
Neve, Major Arthur. The Tourist's Guide to Kashmir, Ladakh, Khardo, &c, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette, 1918. 8vo, 11th edition, folding maps, original cloth-backed boards;
Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1923. 8vo, plates, original cloth;
Beveridge, Henry. A Comprehensive History of India. 1842, 3 volumes, large 8vo, plates, illustrations, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed;
Fraser, Sir Andrew H.L. Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots. London, 1911, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded;
Carstairs, R. The Little World of an Indian District Officer. 1912, 8vo, original cloth;
Hoernle, A.F.R. A History of India. Cuttack: Orissa Mission Press, 1909. 8vo, original cloth;
O'Malley, L.S.S. Bengal District Gazetteers. Saran. Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1908. 8vo, original blue cloth;
Thornton, Thomas Henry. General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India. London, 1898, original cloth;
Case, Mrs. Day by Day at Lucknow. A Journal of the Siege. London, 1858. 8vo, original cloth;
Fay, Mrs Eliza. The Original Letters from India. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1908. 8vo, original cloth;
Younghusband, Sir Francis. Kashmir. A. & C. Black, 1917, original pictorial cloth;
Penny, F.E. Southern India, painted by Lady Lawley. A & C. Black, 1914, original pictorial cloth;
Shakespear, John. Dictionary of Hindustani & English. London, 1849, 4to, contemporary half calf, lacks title page, margins of dedication leaf repaired;
Roberts of Kandahar, Lord. Forty-one Years in India. 1902, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;
[Rousseau, Samuel]. A Dictionary of Words used in the East Indies... the leading word of each article being printed in a New Nustaleek type, to which is added, Mohammedan Law & Bengal Revenue Terms. London: for James Asperne, 1805. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, corners neatly repaired, extensively annotated;
Smith, R. Bosworth. Life of Lord Lawrence. 1883, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, worn;
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: J. Murray, 1857. First edition, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end, on linen), folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved portrait plate, 2 tinted lithographs, 20 wood-engraved plates, 1 folding plan, original brown cloth, neatly recased, hinges strengthened, bookplate of George Armistead;
and a quantity of later, India-related volumes; sold as a collection not subject to return