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![Victoria (1837-1901), Pennies (3), 1892, 1893, 1894, all dies Rr (BMC 1746, 1748-9; S 3954) [3]. All about as struck, much mu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/9b36d6e5-03a6-4a10-80ae-afe700fc9df1/468x382.jpg)
![Victoria (1837-1901), Halfpence (4), 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859 (BMC 1544-5, 1549, 1551; S 3949) [4]. Good very fine or better, f](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/c5e276a6-b1e7-4aed-9d04-afe700fce46c/468x382.jpg)
![Edward VII (1901-1910), Florins (2), 1909, 1910 (ESC 3585-6; S 3981) [2]. Second good very fine, first better £120-£150 ---](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/6a906953-3dbc-4ea4-a2c4-afe700fe912f/468x382.jpg)
![Edward VII (1901-1910), Sixpences (5), 1902 (2, one Proof), 1903, 1904, 1905 (ESC 3597-3601; S 3983) [5]. Mostly extremely fi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/966bd775-d94c-4640-aef7-afe700fd7a74/468x382.jpg)
![Edward VII (1901-1910), Halfpence (2), both 1902, low and normal horizon (F 380-1; BMC 2220-1; S 3991, 3991A) [2]. Second abo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/ae63c59b-3a87-48e2-acf8-afe700fd212c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 353
George V (1910-1936), Farthings (28), 1911 (2), 1912-17, 1918 (2, both types), 1926-36; Third-Farthing, 1913 (F 589-92, 594-605, 607, 609, 611, 613, 615, 617, 619, 621, 623, 625, –; S 4059-62) [29]. Fine to good extremely fine, first nine with dark finish, some others with original colour £120-£150
![Victoria (1837-1901), Crowns (2), 1891, 1892 (ESC 2591-2; S 3921) [2]. Nearly extremely fine, first scratched in front of que](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/87e4d25e-98ef-47a3-ab9e-afe700fcd1ba/468x382.jpg)
![George III (1760-1820), New coinage, Halfcrowns (3), 1816, 1817 small head, 1819 (ESC 2086, 2096, 2102; S 3788-9) [3]. First](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/24c18138-e304-4633-8916-afe700ff627c/468x382.jpg)
![Victoria (1837-1901), Crowns (2), 1899, 1900, both edge lxiii (ESC 2607-8; S 3937) [2]. Very fine or better £150-£200 --- P](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/7345d351-17cb-4970-9c68-afe700fcf358/468x382.jpg)
![Victoria (1837-1901), Double-Florins (2), 1888, 1889, both with inverted i in victoria (ESC 2700, 2702; S 3923) [2]. First vi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/70db04dc-43a8-48eb-8bcb-afe700fc8a83/468x382.jpg)
![Victoria (1837-1901), Halfcrowns (2), 1848/6, 1849 large date (ESC 2728, 2730; S 3888) [2]. First nearly fine and rare, secon](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/435d5d0a-3d06-4af2-8989-afe700fddefa/468x382.jpg)
![Victoria (1837-1901), Halfcrowns (3), 1875, 1876, 1878 (ESC 2745, 2748, 2752; S 3889) [3]. Nearly very fine, first lightly cl](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/27dfa50f-f8f5-48d4-bbf0-afe700fd94b2/468x382.jpg)
![Victoria (1837-1901), Halfcrowns (2), 1898, 1901 (ESC 2784, 2787; S 3938) [2]. First nearly extremely fine and wiped, second](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/2d79898e-33da-4b50-9f17-afe70100fc29/468x382.jpg)
![Victoria (1837-1901), Florins (2), 1849, both with initials (ESC 2815; S 3890) [2]. First very fine or better, second nearly](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53c28d87-414a-4453-a05a-afb900a5a936/b93a355c-7b81-4347-9046-afe70100f9f2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 326
Numismatic interest, commemoratives, mainly UK issues from private mints: Jubilee Mint set of four proof Platinum Jubilee Ascension Is crowns, gold plated, in capsules and boxed; Jubilee Mint gold plated 38mm dia. five medallion set commemorating Queen Elizabeth II’s five jubilees in folder of issue; Westminster Mint boxed set of 12 gold plated 32mm dia. Proof medallions commemorating Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, photographic reverses inset in lid of presentation box a mounted Democratic Republic of Congo 10 Franc proof gold piece; Gibraltar Crown 2017 silver proof Queen Elizabeth II sapphire wedding anniversary, photo rev. in capsule; Isle of Man 50 pence 2022 gilded in issuer’s wallet; silver 38mm medallion Royal wedding 201, Princess Diana reverse, proof-like; Gold one eighth sovereign 2022 in Hattton’s box; blue 1971 first decimal issue folder along with Spitfire commemorative gilt pocket watch, chain and clasp knife in wooden box of issue (Qty)
Lot 1
Ali (Shahamat). An Historical Account of the Sikhs and Afghans, in connexion with India and Persia, from the journal of an expedition to Kabul, through the Panjab and the Khaibar Pass, London: John Murray, [circa 1850], hand-coloured frontispiece, ownership inscription 'E. Roberts' to front blank, lightly spotted, all edges gilt, original blue pictorial cloth, rubbed, 8vo, together with:Gleig (G.R). Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan, with an account of the seisure and defence of Jellalabad, new edition, London: John Murray, 1879, ownership inscription of Charles J Pearce to front free endpaper, half-title, preliminary leaves lightly spotted, 20th-century green morocco gilt, Library blindstamps to covers, portion of covers stained, rubbed, 8vo, plusEyre (Vincent). The Military Operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British Army, January 1842, with a journal of imprisonment in Afghanistan, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1843, folding map, 2 leaves of publisher's advertisements at rear, a few light spots, original green pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid (endpapers and blanks renewed), rubbed, 8vo, with another copy of Eyre's Cabul (2nd edition, 1843) and Lady Sale's A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2 (Eighth thousand, 1844)QTY: (5)NOTE:The first title is scarce in any form. We can only trace two copies of the title appearing at auction in the last 35 years.
Lot 10
Ball (Charles). The History of the Indian Mutiny, giving a detailed account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India; and a concise history of the great military events which have tended to consolidate British Empire in Hindostan, 2 volumes, London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, [circa 1858], portrait frontispieces, engraved titles, engraved plates throughout, scattered spotting, front hinge of volume 2 repaired, contemporary green morocco gilt, upper cover of volume 1 working loose, rubbed, 4to, together with:Beveridge (Henry). A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military, and Social, from the first landing of the English, to the suppression of the Sepoy Revolt, 2 volumes, London: Blackie and Son, 1862, 19 colour maps, engraved frontispieces & titles, further black & white illustrations to text, scattered spotting, near-contemporary black half morocco gilt, 8vo, plusRichards (Walter). Her Majesty's Army, Indian and Colonial Forces, a descriptive account of the various regiments now comprising The Queen's Forces in India and the colonies, London: J.S. Virtue & Co, [circa 1890], colour frontispiece, vignette title, 14 full-page colour plates, occasional light spotting, contemporary red half morocco gilt, worming to lower cover, rubbed, 8vo, with 19 others related to India including R. Montgomery Martin's The Indian Empire (3 volumes, 1858-61), G.J. Younghusband's The Relief of Chitral (1895), & Colin Campbell's Narrative of the Indian Revolt (1858), QTY: (24)
Lot 102
Vibart (Major H.M.) The Military History of the Madras Engineers and Pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time, 2 volumes, London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1881-83, folding maps, illustrations, frontispiece and one other leaf detached in volume II, volume I front hinge broken, textblock with vertical splits, a few spots, previous owner inscription, original cloth, spines faded, a few stains, 8vo, together with Wilson (Lieut.-Colonel W.J., compiler) History of the Madras Army, 3 volumes, Madras: E. Keys at the Government Press, 1882, some light toning and spotting, previous owner inscription to titles, lacking 3 endpapers, original cloth, spines faded, a few wormholes and stains, 8vo, plus Penny (Mrs Frank). Fort St. George Madras. A short history of our first possession in India, London: Swan Sonnenschien & Co., 1900, illustrations, Rawalpindi Club Library ink stamps to half title, title and dedication, endpapers renewed, original cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, light residue from label removal to upper cover, 8vo, with six others including Historical Record of the Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment, 1843, Record of Services of the Honourable East India Company's Civil Servants in the Madras Presidency from 1741 to 1858, by Charles Prinsep, 1885, and A List of the Officers who have served in the Madras Artillery from its formation in 1748 down to 1861... compiled by Major John Henry Leslie, circa 1900 QTY: (12)
![[Wallace, Robert Grenville]. Fifteen Years in India; or, Sketches of a Soldier's Life, being an attempt to describe persons a](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/24239b77-8bdd-442f-84ce-afee00fb6f91/f4391b2d-200f-459a-8cbe-aff800ac5912/468x382.jpg)
Lot 104
[Wallace, Robert Grenville]. Fifteen Years in India; or, Sketches of a Soldier's Life, being an attempt to describe persons and things in various parts of Hindostan, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822, contemporary full sprinkled calf gilt, rubbed and some wear to joints, 8vo, together with Mundy (Captain Godfrey Charles). Pen and Pencil Sketches, being the Journal of a Tour in India, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1833, without half-titles, frontispiece to each volume, and 14 engraved plates, engraved folding map with outline hand-colouring to rear of first volume, some spotting and occasional minor marginal stains, frontispiece to first volume torn and repaired to verso with tape, contemporary black half morocco gilt, rubbed and wear, 8vo, plus[Sherer, J. M.]. Sketches of India: written by an Officer for Fire-Side Travellers at home, 2nd edition, with additions, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees..., 1824, contemporary full calf gilt, rubbed and somewhat worn with lossQTY: (8)
Lot 105
Waters (Major R. S.). History of the 5th Battalion (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment formerly 40th Pathans ('The Forty Thieves'), 1st edition, London: James Bain, 1936, monochrome plates from photographs and folding plans, folding sketch maps, original green cloth gilt, a few minor marks to extremities (generally in very good condition), large 8vo, together with Talbot (Colonel F. E. G.). The 14th King George's Own Sikhs: The 1st Battalion (K.G.O.) (Ferozepore Sikhs), The 11th Sikh Regiment, 1846-1933, 1st edition, London: Royal United Services Institute, 1937, monochrome plates and maps, some scattered spotting to preliminary leaves, bookplate of Reginald Arthur Savory to front pastedown, original red cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, large 8vo, plus History of the Guides 1846-1922 & 1922-1947, 2 volumes, Aldershot: Gale & Ploden, 1938/50 respectively, monochrome plates, folding maps (some contained in pocket at rear of first volume, modern presentation inscription to Bill Beynon, dated Xmas 1952-53 to half-title of each volume, original light brown and red cloth gilt, rubbed and a few marks, large 8vo, and Lawford (Lieutenant-Colonel J. P., and Catto, Major W. E.). Solah Punjab, The History of the 16th Punjab Regiment, 1st edition, Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1967, monochrome plates and illustrations, map endpapers, original green cloth gilt in dust wrapper, a little rubbed to extremities, 8voQTY: (5 )
Lot 107
Wheeler (Stephen). History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar, held on the first of January 1903 to celebrate the coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII Emperor of India, London: John Murray, 1904, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 48 plates (20 photogravure), 5 maps and plans (2 folding), occasional spotting, original red decorative cloth gilt, top edge gilt, worn, 4toQTY: (1)
Lot 11
Bamford (P.G). 1st King George V's Own Battalion, The Sikh Regiment, The 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs, 1st edition, Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1948, 11 full-page colour plates, 17 maps, further black & white illustrations, original green cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:The Story of the 1st. & 2nd. Battalions, 41st Dogras, volume 1. October 1900 to December 1923 & October 1917 to March 1922, for private circulation only, Bombay: Thacker & Co, [circa 1923], 11 black & white illustrations after photographs (including frontispiece), 5 folding maps, near-contemporary black morocco gilt, 8vo, withRawlinson (H.G). The History of the 3rd Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment (The Duke of Connaught's Own), 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941, portrait frontispiece, further black & white illustrations, errata leaf, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, with 7 others related including H.F. Murland's Baillie-Ki-Paltan (1932), Reginald Hennell's A Famous Indian Regiment (1927), W.B.P. Tugwell's History of the Bombay Pioneers (1938) & Mohamed Ibrahim Qureshi's History of the First Punjabi Regiment (1958)QTY: (10)
Lot 120
Burton (Richard F). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857, half-titles, 14 plates (8 tinted lithographs, 5 chromolithographs), 3 maps (lacking 'Plan of the Haram in volume 1), smaller illustrations to text, occasional spotting & light toning, original blindstamped terracotta cloth gilt, all edges gilt, rebacked with original spine laid on, rubbed & faded, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Macro 640 (for the first edition of 1855-56).
Lot 121
Carr (John). A Northern Summer; or Travels round the Baltic through Denmark. Sweden, Russia, Prussia and part of Germany, in the year 1804, 1st edition, London: printed for Richard Phillips, 1805, half title, 11 sepia aquatint plates, some toning and light offsetting, later half calf, spine a little faded, 4to, together with Brooke (A. de Capell). Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark to the North Cape in the Summer of 1820, 1st edition, London: printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1823, half title, lithograph frontispiece, map, and 20 lithograph plates, including 2 colour, some spotting and light offsetting, annotations to front endpaper, contemporary half calf, some edge wear, 4to, plus A Winter in Lapland and Sweden, with various observations relating to Finmark and its Inhabitants; made during a residence at Hammerfest, near the North Cape, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1827, large folding map, 21 lithograph plates, a few tinted, last plate reinforced at gutter, occasional light offsetting and spotting, modern cloth-backed boards, 4to, with others including An Account of Denmark as it was in the year 1692, [by Robert Molesworth], 4th edition, 1738, Field Sports of the North of Europe; comprised in a personal narrative of a residence in Sweden and Norway, in the years 1827-28, by L. Lloyd, 2 volumes, 1830, A Tour in Sweden in 1838, by Samuel Laing, 1839, and Excursions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, by Robert Bremner, 2 volumes, 1840QTY: (13)NOTE:First three titles Abbey Travel 73, 248 & 250 respectively.
Lot 124
Doorly (Gerald S). The Voyages of the 'Morning', 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1916, half-title, 16 plates after photographs (some two per page, many loose or loosening), folding map, 6pp. of musical scores, a few light spots, pen marks to rear free endpaper, closed tear to folding map inner fold, original blue pictorial cloth, lightly rubbed & marked, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Renard 450; Rosove 96.A1. Taurus 142."One of the scarcest books of Antarctic exploration". The work “records the discovery of Scott Island and the first landing on Beaufort Island, and personal impressions of the Southern party upon their return”. (Rosove)"It must have been a rarity to find someone interested in reading the title in the midst of the First World War". (Taurus)
Lot 125
Drake (Edward Cavendish). A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, from the earliest accounts to the present time... The whole forming a history of whatever is most worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, 1st edition, London: J. Cooke, 1768, imprimatur leaf signed by Shelburne at front, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 9 engraved maps, 54 engraved plates, subscribers list, World map with marginal repair Asia map with marginal loss from insect predation, small marginal wormtracks to first few leaves and at end, a few marginal wormholes, occasional light water stains, previous owner inscription, contemporary calf, joints cracking, some edge wear and stains, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Cox I, 18; ESTC T124554; Hill 492; Sabin 20826 (citing editions of 1767, 1770, and 1771 only).'A collection of voyages and relations of experiences by travelers from the time of the Portuguese navigators to the middle of the eighteenth century, including those of Magellan Drake, Cavendish, Olivier van Noort, William Dampier, Woods Rogers, John Clipperton, George Anson, and Lionel Wafer' (Hill).
Lot 127
Elphinstone (Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India; comprising a view of the Afghaun Nation, and a History of the Dooraunee Monarchy, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, contemporary manuscript inscription (possibly in Elphinstone's hand) in brown ink to head of title ‘Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India’, errata leaf, large folding engraved map of the Kingdom of Caubul, with contemporary outline colouring (folds neatly strengthened with brown paper to verso), one smaller engraved map with outline colouring, and 14 aquatint plates, all but one hand-coloured, four-page publisher’s catalogue at end, occasional minor spotting, leaves untrimmed throughout, 20th-century half morocco gilt over cloth boards, edges lightly rubbed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Abbey Travel 504; Tooley 209; Yakushi E63.Provenance: The Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India (commonly known as the India Board or the Board of Control) was an arm of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for managing the government's interest in British India and the East India Company between 1784 and 1858. It was abolished by the Government of India Act 1858 and replaced by the India Office.Elphinstone's account of his mission to the Court of Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk, King of Kabul, containing the first full description of Afghanistan and its people. Elphinstone was appointed British ambassador to the Afghan court in 1808.
Lot 128
Everest Commemorative Coin. 25th Anniversary of the First Ascent of Mount Everest, Issued by The Kingdom of Nepal, 1978, signed by Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay to mount lower margin, contained in original blue folder, together with three signed envelopes (1 signed by John Hunt, 1 signed by Tenzing Norgay & Hunt, 1 by Tenzing), 4 postal labels signed by Tenzing & Hunt, with a small collection of ephemera including a collection of cigarette cards QTY: (A small folder)
Lot 13
Bengal Army List. List of the Bengal Army. Corrected to the 9th of April 1857, Calcutta: Printed in the Office of the Adjutant General of the Army, [1857], 308pp. printed on pale blue paper, first two text leaves with minor archival repair to inner margin, hinges restrengthened, late 19th-century calf by The Station Press, Meerut (with binder's ticket to front pastedown), red morocco title label lettered in gilt, portion of spine stained, headcap with minor tear, large 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:In 1857 Sir Edward Lugard returned to India to the appointment of Adjutant General. No sooner had he taken up this post than mutiny broke out in the Army of Bengal, on the 10th May, an event recorded by British historians as the Great Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-1858. Sir Edward was given command of the 2nd Division of Infantry, which he led in fierce battles to rescue the garrison at Lucknow.
Lot 130
Francklin (William). Observations made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia in the years 1786-7. With a short account of the remains of the celebrated Palace of Persepolis, and other interesting events, 1st edition, London: printed for T. Cadell, 1790, a little light spotting, some pencil underlining and annotations (a few in red pencil), hinges reinforced, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, two corners repaired, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Ferrier (J.P.) Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan; with historical notices of the countries lying between Russia and India... translated from the original unpublished manuscript by Capt. William Jesse, edited by H.D. Seymour, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1857, folding map (slight fraying at fore edge) and 3 plates, small ink stamp to final leaf, light stains at gutter of frontispiece and title, moder calf-backed boards, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Ghani 138 (Francklin). The first London edition, following the Calcutta edition of 1788.
Lot 131
Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch Division of the Chief of Staff Army Head Quarters India, volumes I-VI, plus supplement volumes to volumes I & II and the Official Account of the Abor Expedition 1911-1912, Simla & Calcutta: Government Press, 1907-1913, 20 folding maps and plans contained in front and rear pockets, further maps, panoramas and tables throughout (some folding), scattered light spotting, Military Staff College Library ink stamps, hinges reinforced, contemporary half calf gilt, red morocco labels, rubbed with occasional staining, 8voQTY: (9)NOTE:Rare and complete set in nine volumes, including the two Supplements, comprising: Volume I, Tribes North of the Kabul River; volume I, Supplement A, Operations Against the Mohmands 1908; volume II, North-West Frontier Tribes Between the Kabul and Gumal Rivers; volume II, Supplement A, Operations Against the Zakka Khel Afrids 1908; volume III, Baluchistan and the First Afghan War; volume IV, North and North-Eastern Frontier Tribes; volume V, Burma; volume VI, Expeditions Overseas, and the last volume, Official Account of the Abor Expedition 1911-1912.
Lot 14
Bengal Army Lists. The Army List of the Honorable Company's Troops on the Bengal Establishment, Corrected to the 25th October 1825, light toning, modern cloth, slim 8vo, together with The Army List of the Honorable Company's Troops on the Bengal Establishment, Corrected to the 30th June 1828, some toning, original lower wrapper bound-in at rear, modern cloth, slim 8vo, and The Calcutta Annual Directory and First Quarterly Register, for the Year of Our Lord 1830; or, Accurate Lists of the Civil, Military, Medical and Marine Establishments of the Presidency of Bengal: with the Almanack and an Appendix, Calcutta: Printed by Scott & Co., [1830], final gathering detached and frayed to margins, contemporary marbled calf, 8vo, plus four other Bengal Army Lists for 1850, 1855, 1858 and 1859, in modern maroon half morocco, 8vo (volume for 1858 without title page), and Bombay Army Lists for 1843 and 1889, initial four leaves of 1843 Army List with large repaired hole to centre of each leaf, in modern quarter and half morocco respectively, 8voQTY: (9)
Lot 144
Maurice (Thomas). The History of Hindostan; its Arts, and its Sciences, as connected with the history of the other great empires of Asia, during the most ancient periods of the world. With numerous illustrative engravings. By the author of Indian Antiquities, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1795 & 1798, and The Modern History of Hindostan, comprehending that of the Greek Empire of Bactria, and other great Asiatic Kingdoms, bordering on its western frontier, commencing at the period of the death of Alexander, and intended to be brought down to the close of the eighteenth century, 4 parts in two volumes, London: printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and Co.,1802 &1803 (with final part The History of India and of the East-India Company, dated 1809), together four volumes, 19 engraved plates, folding hand-coloured engraved map (A Map of Hindostan according to its modern divisions) at front of third volume, spotting to some preliminary leaves, and plates, ink ownership signature to head of title of first volume and to front pastedown of second volume of E. B. Greenly [Elizabeth Brown Greenly], dated 1798 and 1799 respectively, 19th century bookplate of E.H. Greenly to front endpaper of each volume, autograph letter signed by the author Thomas Maurice to Miss Greenly, dated 5th July 1798, pasted to front pastedown of first volume, contemporary uniform half calf with vellum outer tips, contrasting red and black morocco labels to spines, joints to first volume cracked, rubbed, 4toQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: Elizabeth Brown Greenly (1771-1839), later Lady Elizabeth Coffin-Greenly, patron and artist, born at Titley Court, Herefordshire, on the 27th November, 1771, the only child of William Greenly and his wife Elizabeth (née Brown). William Greenly was said to have been 'an excellent scholar and antiquary, and a man of great goodness of heart and simple manners'. Elizabeth, or Eliza as she was known, married Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, a man more than ten years her senior, and an erratic seafarer who suffered from gout. Eliza was said to have 'some eccentric habits' and after the first year of marriage he went to visit friends and stayed away for seven years. Eliza formed a significant library at Titley Court, which was sold in these rooms in 2016. Cox I, 306. - Lowndes II, 1520. Thomas Maurice, Anglican clergyman and Orientalist, "was one of the first to popularize Eastern history and religions." (Cox I, 305)With single-page manuscript letter signed by Thomas Maurice to Elizabeth Greenly, dated 19 Princes Street, Cavendish Square [London], 5th July 1798, thanking her for her subscription to his History of India. 'I have this day sent to Messrs Shephard & Addlington my first volume, hot-pressed, and with the best plates I could select. I have taken the liberty to add to it, ... my Elegy on my great and lamented friend, Sir William Jones, and The Crisis, a poem which I have just published.'A further Supplement to the Modern History of Hindostan was published in 1810, entitled Supplement to The Modern History of India : bringing that history down to the year of our Lord 1788, when the imperial Mogul dynasty, by the blinding and dethronement of Shah Aulum, virtually became extinct.
Lot 151
Mundy (Godfrey Charles). Pen and Pencil Sketches being the Journal of a Tour in India, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1832, half-titles, frontispieces, 14 plates, engraved folding map with outline colour at rear of volume 1, presentation bookplates to front pastedowns, Bath Public Reference Library blindstamps to a few leaves, occasional light spotting, early 20th-century red half morocco gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Orme (Robert). A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, from the year MDCCXLV to which is prefixed a dissertation on the establishment made by Mahomedan conquerors in Indostan, 3 volumes, 4th edition, Madras: Re-Printed by Pharoah and Co, 1861-62, numerous folding maps, ownership inscriptions to titles, a few leaves with archival repairs to margins, toned, modern half calf gilt, 8voQTY: (5)NOTE: Czech, Asia, p. 145 (for first work).
Lot 155
Daniell (William, and John Hobart Caunter). The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India, 7 volumes, London: Edward Bull and others, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839 and 1840, engraved frontispiece and additional title to each, 135 engraved plates after William Daniell (plates to 1840 volume by W. & E. Finden), advertisements, frontispiece detached in 1834, adhesive tape reinforcement at gutter of frontispiece and additional title in 1837, adhesion residue marks to verso of first plate in 1839, occasional light spotting and small water stains, endpapers renewed in 1835, 1838 & 1839, all edges gilt, all in original olive morocco gilt, 1836 & 1839 rebacked with original spines relaid, 1839 spine rubbed and faded, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo QTY: (7)
Lot 16
Blacker (Valentine). Memoir of the Operations of the British Army in India during the Mahratta War of 1817, 1818 & 1819, 1st edition, London: printed for Black, Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1821, half title, 2 folding aquatint plates (engraved by William Daniell), 45 engraved maps and plans (incorporated from the atlas volume), folding tables in appendix, some offsetting and light spotting, top edge gilt, modern red half morocco, small mark to rear cover, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Blacker served under Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Hislop with the army of the Deccan during the Mahratta War of 1817-1819, and in 1820, after being appointed the first Surveyor General of India, initiated the trigonometrical mapping survey of the continent.
Lot 164
Shadbolt (Sydney H., compiler). The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880, 2 volumes, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1882, half titles, photographic portrait frontispiece of Sir F.S. Roberts to volume I (with some damage from water stains), folding map with outline colour (torn without loss), 5 others plans, 20 leaves with 140 small oval portraits of officers killed during the campaign, errata slip, top corner of final leaf of volume II insect predated, first few leaves of each volume affected by water stains, a few wormholes and some light spotting, occasional underlining and annotations, ownership inscriptions and ink stamps of Major (and later Colonel) Arthur Oldham, 12th Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment, his bookplates at front, modern russet half calf gilt, 4to QTY: (2)
Lot 178
Wilson (William Rae). Travels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hanover, Germany, Netherlands, 1st edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green 1826, 6 uncoloured aquatint plates, some light offsetting and spotting, front hinge repaired, original green cloth, spine repaired and a little faded, 8vo, together with Forester (Thomas). Norway in 1848 and 1849: containing rambles among the fields and fjords of the central and western districts; and including remarks on its political, military, ecclesiastical and social organisation, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850, double-page map, 10 tinted lithograph plates, publisher's catalogue at end, some offsetting and light spotting, original cloth, rebacked, a few stains, 8vo, plus Laing (Samuel). Journal of a Residence in Norway, during the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; made to inquire into the moral and political economy of that country, and the condition of its inhabitants, 1st edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1936, publisher's catalogue at end, a little light spotting, endpapers toned, original cloth, spine chipped and repaired, 8vo, with six others related including Samuel Laing's The Heimskringla; or Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, 3 volumes, 1844, and Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark, and the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, 1852QTY: (11)NOTE:First work Abbey Travel 22.
Lot 19
Burnes (James). A Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde; A Sketch of the History of Cutch, from its first connexion with the British Government in India till the conclusion of the treaty of 1819; and some remarks on the medical topography of Bhooj, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell; and Whittaker, Treacher, & Armot, London, [1831], two engraved folding maps, with outline colouring (Sketch of a Route from Bhooj to Hyderabad, traversed by James Burnes in 1827-8, & A Sketch of the Runn and countries adjacent to illustrate a Memoir on its formation, and the alterations of the Eastern Branch of the Indus), folding genealogical table of the Talpoor Family, first map torn without loss, second map and table now loose, errata leaf at end, and 3pp. text printed in double column titled Dr. Burne's overland journey from India, taken from the Montrose Review of 23rd and 30th May 1834, first map with three pressed flowers adhering to verso, small printed label of James Burnes M.D., L.L.D, F.R.S. to foot of front pastedown, binders ticket of J. B. Dunlop, 4 India Place, Edinburgh to rear pastedown, contemporary black half calf, rubbed and slight wear to joints and edges,8voQTY: (1)NOTE:First UK edition, published two years after the unprocurable Bombay edition of 1829, which was privately printed "for the perusal of the author's friends". Copies dated 1831 exist with Stark, the printer, substituted in the imprint for Cadell.Burnes arrived in Bombay in 1821 "and was successful in the open competition for the office of surgeon to the residency of Cutch. He volunteered to accompany the force which, in 1825, expelled the Sindians who had devastated Cutch and forced the British brigade to retire to Bhuj. The amirs of Sind then invited him to visit them as 'the most skilful of physicians and their best friend, and the cementer of the bonds of amity between the two governments', and on his return he was complimented by the government on the zeal and ability he had displayed at Cutch and Hyderabad. His account of his visit to Sind, written as an official report to the resident at Cutch, is an excellent account of the country, and was a valuable contribution to the geography of India" (ODNB).
Lot 2
Anderson (Captain R.P.) A Personal Journal of the Siege of Lucknow... edited, with a preface and introduction by T. Carnegy Anderson, 1st edition, London: W. Thacker and Co., 1858, 6 pp. advertisements at rear, a little light soiling, water stains to endpapers (front endpaper repaired), modern calf upper cover and spine, original lower cover retained (some fading and stains), 8vo, together with Raikes (Charles). Notes on the Revolt in the North-Western Provinces of India, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858, folding table, advertisements at rear (a few frayed margins),half title detaching, modern half morocco, 8vo, plus Gardiner (General Sir Robert). Cursory View of the Present Crisis in India: together with the Military Power of England, respectfully addressed to the Honourable the Members of the House of Commons, 1st edition, London: Byfield, Hawksworth & Co., 1857, 34 pp., some light spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary red calf gilt, upper cover detaching, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, with three others: J.W. Shepherd's A Personal Narrative of the Outbreak and Massacre at Cawnpore during the Sepoy Revolt of 1857, 3rd edition, revised and enlarged, Lucknow, 1886, Mutiny Memoirs being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857, by Colonel A.R.D. Mackenzie, Allahabad, 1891, and The First Shot in 1857, by an Indian Colonel (Charles Richard Matthews), privately printed, circa 1910QTY: (6)
![Bewick (Thomas). A History of British Birds [land and water birds], 2 volumes, Newcastle: R. E. Bewick; London: Longman and C](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/24239b77-8bdd-442f-84ce-afee00fb6f91/fd2882c8-3825-4dc6-8337-aff0010fe99c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 200
Bewick (Thomas). A History of British Birds [land and water birds], 2 volumes, Newcastle: R. E. Bewick; London: Longman and Co., 1832, wood engraved vignette to titles and vignette illustrations, some scattered spotting, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Sir Clifford J. Cory, Bt. to front pastedown, top edge gilt, late 19th-century calf by Ramage, elaborate gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, minor fading and mottling at head of lower board of volume 1 and upper board of volume 2, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:The first edition of this work was published in 1797 (land birds) & 1804 (water birds).
Lot 203
Darwin (Charles). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, second edition, revised and augmented, twenty-third thousand, London: John Murray, 1888, some wood-engraved illustrations to text, a little spotting, lacks half-title, original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and a little frayed at spine ends, together with:Darwin (Charles), A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of HMS 'Beagle' round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, RN, new edition, London: John Murray, 1890, portrait frontispiece, a few wood-engraved illustrations to text, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear (dated January 1896), closed tear to foremargin of pp. 71/72, Sudbrooke Institute Lending Library labels to front and rear free endpapers plus 3 ink stamps to front endpapers and margin of 1 advert page at rear, original dark green cloth gilt, a few minor marks, plusDarwin (Charles), The Origin of Species... , [and] The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits, London: John Murray, 1900 & 1904, the first with portrait frontispiece and folding chart, contemporary ownership inscriptions at front, matching green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, all 8voQTY: (4)
Lot 209
Meyer (Henry Leonard). Illustrations of British Birds, 4 volumes, London: Longman and Co, c.1835-44, lithographic title pages (later state without diaeresises), 313 hand-coloured lithographic plates (many with eggs to lower corners), original salmon pink printed paper wrappers bound-in (with subscriber's lists to rear panels), very occasional light spotting & dust-soiling, occasional faint offsetting, a few plates with small closed marginal tears, modern blue buckram gilt, all edges gilt, folio, (36 x 26cm) together with 8 morocco boards and one backstrip contained in blue buckram boxQTY: (4)NOTE:Mullens & Swann pp. 401-3; Nissen IVB 627.'One of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology, in fact before the publication of Lord Lilford's Birds of the British Islands it stood sui generis' (Mullens & Swann). The first edition was published between 1835 and 1841, with 313 plates. According to Mullens and Swann, the second issue (published in 1837-44) 'is identical in appearance but is printed on stouter paper, and has a number of plates containing figures of eggs in the lower corners which are not in the first issue'. However, the concurrence of the different issues and editions means that plates were often interchanged or duplicated, and Meyer often produced extra plates for friends and associates, meaning that 'hardly any two copies ... [are] alike' (ibid.).
![[Parkinson, John]. [Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/24239b77-8bdd-442f-84ce-afee00fb6f91/3f0339e2-1d7f-4fee-9c99-aff0010ff21c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 212
[Parkinson, John]. [Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues, collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, 1st edition, London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629], lacking woodcut title (photographic facsimile supplied), lacking 8 further text leaves (Hh3-4, Rr2-5, Vv3-4, including 3 botanical illustrations), woodcut portrait of Parkinson to **6 verso, full-page woodcut of garden design, 106 full-page botanical woodcuts, a few smaller woodcut illustrations to text, early ownership inscription 'J.t. Smyth' to A1, some spotting & old damp-staining (heaviest at front and rear), some damp-mottling and marginal damp-fraying to final leaves, some marginal paper loss to final leaf of text and index, repairs with loss to final 3 leaves, closed tear to 3A1 & 2Z6, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners restored, red morocco title label lettered in gilt, rubbed, folio (32 x 20 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen 1489; STC 19300.First edition of "the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey).Provenance: Ownership inscription possibly of Jaritt Smyth of Ashton Court, 1st Baronet and Tory Member of Parliament for Bristol (1756-68).
![Wildlife Art Series. 30 volumes [numbers 3-9, 11-18, 20-22, 24-28, 30-35, 37], 1st editions, Peterborough: Langford Press, 20](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/24239b77-8bdd-442f-84ce-afee00fb6f91/891cf46b-ea07-4e7b-abf3-aff800ac6d2a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 235
Wildlife Art Series. 30 volumes [numbers 3-9, 11-18, 20-22, 24-28, 30-35, 37], 1st editions, Peterborough: Langford Press, 2010-14, including Wildlife in Printmaking, edited by Carry Akroyd, 2011, From Dawn till Dusk, by Dareen Woodhead, 2005, Dance of the Brush, by Ralph Thompson, 2006, The Winter Hare, by Andrew Haslen, 2010, The Great Fen, artists for nature in England, by Chris Gerrard, 2006, Pride of Place, the art of Carl Brenders, foreword by Robert Bateman, 2007, First Impressions, by Lisa Hooper, 2014, title page signed by Lisa Hooper, all original cloth in dust jackets, some minor rubbing to head & foot, some spines slightly faded, large 4toQTY: (30)
Lot 238
Americas. Berey (Nicolas), Carte de L'Amerique Corrigée et augmantée, dessus toutes les aultres cy devant, Paris, 1671, engraved map with sparse contemporary outline colouring, two inset maps of the polar regions, the map surrounded by descriptive French text, old folds partially strengthened on verso, small wormhole repaired on verso, 405 x 510 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:Burden, Mapping of North America, 328, 2nd state. The map was first published in 1658, but both editions are uncommon.
Lot 25
[Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plessey, 1725-1774). A True Narrative and Discovery of several very remarkable passages relating to the Horrid Popish Plot: as they fell within the knowledge of Mr. Miles Prance of Covent-Garden, Goldsmith..., 1st edition, London: Printed for Dorman Newman, 1679, licence leaf, engraved portrait frontispiece of Miles Prance by R. White, 4-page Epistle Dedicatory, and 40pp. of main text, engraved bookplate of Robert Lord Clive to verso of front board, contemporary mottled full calf, spine gilt, some light wear to lower joint and outer corners, with small loss to head and foot of spine, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS (1725 - 1774), also known as Clive of India (bookplate).Wing P3177.A courageous, resourceful but ruthless military commander, Major-General Robert Clive became the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency, using his political and military influence to amass a personal fortune. Clive's uncertain reputation was neatly encapsulated in Thomas Macaulay's famous description of him: “Clive, like most men who are born with strong passions and tried by strong temptations, committed great faults, but every person who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole career must admit that our island, so fertile in heroes and statesmen, has scarcely ever produced a man more truly great either in arms or in council.”Given Clive of India's inclination for political machination, his ownership of this first-hand account by the Catholic perjuror Miles Prance, who became embroiled in the infamous but fictitious Popish Plot conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II, is unsurprising. On the news of the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey in 1678, Miles Prance became an object of suspicion. Imprisoned in Newgate, Prance confessed and recanted several times, resulting in the execution of Henry Berry, Robert Green, and Lawrence Hill for the murder. It is likely the three men executed were innocent.
Lot 257
France. Dufrenoy (Pierre Armand & Elie de Beaumont, Leonce). Carte Géologique de France, Exécutée sous la Direction de Mr. Brochant de Villiers, Inspecteur Général des Mines..., Paris 1841, engraved map with contemporary colouring on six sheets, sectionalised and laid on linen, short splits along old folds, one section detached, corners frayed with slight loss and marked with old pinholes, some dust soiling, slight staining, each sheet approximately 740 x 1140 mm QTY: (6)NOTE:Scarce. The first geological map of France. Armand Dufrénoy and Léonce Elie de Beaumont visited England to learn the technique of geological cartography from George Bellas Greenough, who had published a six-sheet geological map of England in 1820. The pair split France between them and began their research in 1825. They finished their surveying in 1836 and then took another five years preparing and engraving the map and writing the accompanying text. This monumental effort was recognised when Dufrénoy and Elie de Beaumont were made commanders of the Légion d'Honneur, and the Geological Society of London awarded them the Wollaston Medal, their highest award.
![London. Virtue (G. publisher), The New Plan of London, from Actual Survey [1836], uncoloured engraved map, old folds, slight](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/24239b77-8bdd-442f-84ce-afee00fb6f91/d4aa7084-0bab-4acc-8b5d-aff001100bba/468x382.jpg)
Lot 265
London. Virtue (G. publisher), The New Plan of London, from Actual Survey [1836], uncoloured engraved map, old folds, slight offsetting and staining, one repaired closed tear, 410 x 555 mm, together with The Metropolitan Boroughs as Defined by the Reform Bill [1836], uncoloured engraved map, old folds, slight offsetting and staining, 595 x 510 mmQTY: (2)NOTE:The first item described. J. Howgego. Number 335. Originally published in Thomas Moule's 'English Counties Delineated'.
Lot 270
Pacific Ocean. Renard (Louis), Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en 't Eylandt California, Amsterdam, [1715], engraved chart with contemporary hand colouring, ornate uncoloured allegorical cartouche with a portrait of Magellan (the first man to cross the Pacific Ocean), compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, insular California and early projections of Australia and New Zealand, 495 x 570 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:Burden, Mapping of North America II, 469. The third state of this map, originally published by Frederick De Wit in 1675. Philip D.
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