Indian National Congress
Volume of pamphlets
£1,386
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
8vo, later cloth, variable browning, contents comprise:
1) Audi Alteram Partem, being Two Letters on Certain Aspects of the Indian National Congress Movement [by Sir Auckland Colvin and Allan Octavian Hume]. [Calcutta]: Calcutta Central Press Co., Ld., 1888. [2] 66 pp., decorative title-page, closely trimmed in fore margins, text occasionally just shaved, title-page with ink-stamp of Baldev Ram Dave, pleader, Allahahad, and coloured pencil markings;
2) The Indian National Congress. An Open Letter to the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava and Earl of Ava, by Eardley Norton, Madras. [No place], 1888. 24 pp., a few small worm-holes;
3) Indian National Congress: Ninth Annual Session. Presidential Address by Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, M. P. Delivered at Lahore on the 27th December, 1893. London: British Committee of the Indian National Congress, [1894]. 43 pp.;
4) The People's Cause: A Speech. By Allan Hume. Ayr: [no printer], September 11th, 1890. 16 pp.,
5) The Mutiny and the Congress. By an Old Bengalee. A Friend to the Great National Cause. Serampore: Serampore Printing House, 1891. 10 pp., original red paper wrappers bound in (title on front wrapper), front wrapper with loss to upper fore corner;
6) Home Rule Series No. 1. Congress Speeches on Self-Government. Madras: for the Editorial Board of the All-India Self-Government Propaganda Fund by Annie Besant at the Vasanta Press, 1916. [2] 22 pp.;
7) Indian National Congress. Speeches delivered at a Luncheon given in honour of Sir W. Wedderburn, Bart. ... at the National Liberal Club, London. London: Indian Political Agency, 1889. 45 pp., worming, closely trimmed in fore margins;
8) An Open Letter to the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava and Earl of Ava on the Indian National Congress. By Eardley Norton, Madras. London: Indian Political Agency, 1889. [2] iv 37 pp.;
9) The Indian National Congress: Session at Allahabad, December, 1888. Impressions of Two English Visitors. London: Indian Political Agency, 1889. 34 pp., tear in pp. 3/4, final leaf closely trimmed with text shaved;
10) Open Letters to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, K.C.S.I., by the Son of an Old Follower of His [Lala Lajpat Rai]. Reprinted from the Tribu[n]e. Lahore: Tribune Press, Anarkali, 1888. 23 pp., retaining original front wrapper containing title
Footnote
Note: Hume's speech, The People's Cause, is referenced in secondary literature but no copy located in library catalogues; we find no record of The Mutiny and the Congress (item 5); Lala Lajpat Rai's Open Letters to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan appears to be represented in one copy in UK libraries, at the British Library.