Broughton, Thomas Duer
Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809
£1,188
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas. London: John Murray, 1813. First edition, 4to (26.6 x 20.8cm), 20th-century half calf to style, 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates, retaining directions to the binder leaf, half-title discarded, light offsetting, modern tissue-guards laid in [Abbey Travel 433], together with 11 other works on India (these not collated), including: Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (first edition, contemporary quarter skiver, book-label of Ronald Munro Ferguson, presumably the 1st Viscount Novar and governor-general of Australia, 1860-1934); 'Outline of Political, Territorial and Administrative Changes in the Punjab (Earliest Times up to 1947. V. S. Suri, Director of Archives, Punjab', Patiala: Punjab State Archives, 1966 (roneoed typescript, 73 ff., folio); Stanley Reed, The Royal Tour in India, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1906 (4to, contemporary blue half calf); The House of Bagrian, Lahore: Lion Press, c.1930 (oblong folio, original half cloth, halftone photographic plates, wear to spine); W. F. B. Laurie, Sketches of Some Distinguished Anglo-Indians, 1887-8 (2 volumes, new edition of volume one, 8vo, original cloth, volume 2 frontispiece loose); William Ward, A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos, 1822 (3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half russia, joints cracked, some covers near detached); D. Warren, The Motor Car in India, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1906 (8vo, contemporary quarter leather by M. Narsimlu of Hyderabad, library markings to title-page); and similar (14)