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Lot 582C
Robinson and Leadbeater Tinted Parian Figure Group, titled `Don`t Be Greedy`, by one of the leading makers of parian figures in the 19th century, Robinson and Leadbeater, showing a young girl in Victorian dress with a large dog seated beside her, looking longingly at the biscuit in her right hand as she tries to keep him away; the pair standing on a roughly oval rocky base, with the title impressed to the front; 12 inches high; impressed R&L in a cartouche to the back, c1880
Lot 120
INDIA - WATSON`S PEOPLE OF INDIA - The People of India, A series of photographic illustrations of the races and tribes of Hindustan, originally prepared under the authority of the government of India and reproduced by order of the secretary of state for India in council, with descriptive letterpress by Col. Meadows Taylor, Ed. by J. Forbes Watson and Sir John William Kaye, 1872, Volume 5, re-bound with original label to spine. Containing 34 of the 52 mounted photographs called for. Vol 5: With a focus on photographic subjects from Lahore, Kohat, Hazara, Kabul, and Multan, from present Pakistan and Afghanistan, specifically Lahore, Hazara, Kohat, Kabul and Kandahar. Albumen prints, printed captions on the mounts, mostly mounted one per page, images typically 135 x 165mm, [c. 1872] includes a Sodhi Sikh, Sikh jat of the Sandoo clan, ootmanyze pathan, afreedi, Afghan group, Dooranee, Beloch, Kumbos, Hindo Jogee, Hindo bairagee, Lobana tribe, Arora tribesman, Sansees tribe of Lahore, and five loosely inserted photo portraits from other volumes. First edition volume of this remarkably comprehensive photographically-illustrated ethnographic study of India. The project was begun on the request of Lord Canning, Governor-General of India, initially as a souvenir of his time on the subcontinent. The officers of the British Army were instructed to go out and photograph "interesting subjects", and the results proved so extensive that a decision was made to publish them in the present format. The known contributing photographers were: J.C.A. Dannenberg; Lieut. R.H. De Montmorency; Rev. E. Godfrey; Lieut. W.W. Hooper; Major Houghton; Capt. H.C. McDonald; J. Mulheran; Capt Oakes; Rev. G. Richter; Shepherd and Robertson; Dr. B. Simpson; Dr. B.W. Switzer; Capt H.C.B. Tanner; Capt. C.C. Taylor; Lieut. J. Waterhouse. John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye compiled an eight-volume study entitled The People of India between 1868 and 1875. The books contained 468 annotated photographs of the native castes and tribes of India. The photographs compiled by Watson and Kaye were not the first to be taken of Indian people but the project was organised within the framework of attempts by officials to document the people in a methodical, statistically and ethnographically oriented manner later expressed by Denzil Ibbetson in his 1883 report on the 1881 census of the Punjab. The collection was an attempt at a visual documentation of "typical" physical attributes, dress and other aspects of native life that would complement written studies, although it did itself contain brief notes regarding what were thought to be the "essential characteristics" of each community. Thomas Metcalf has said that, "Accurate information about India`s peoples now mattered as never before ... [although imperfect] for the most part the work marked out a stage in the transformation of ethnological curiosity ..." Educated Indians were unimpressed with the outcome and many took the view that their people had been depicted both unfairly and dispassionately.
Lot 197
INDIA - MILITARY & PUNJAB WARS - Government Of India Army Department, Dress Regulations (India), 1931, 124pp, original cloth; Panjab On The Eve Of The First Sikh War, by Hari Ram Gupta, 1975, second revised edition, 555pp, original cloth; Khaki And Gown An Autobiography, by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood, 1942, second reprinted edition, 456pp, original cloth, signed by author; India, A bird`s eye view, by Earl of Ronaldsshay, 1931, third edition reissued, 822pp, original cloth; Vignettes From Indian Wars, by Lieut-General Sir George, no date, no edition, 214pp, original cloth; Sepoy Generals, Wellington To Roberts, by G.W. Roberts, MCMI, First edition, 478pp, original cloth. (6)
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