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Lot 559
Alvord (Clarence Walworth). The Mississippi Valley in British Politics..., 2 volumes, USA, 1917, 4 colour maps, bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform original blue cloth, spines lightly marked, 8vo, together with Phillott (D.C.), Colloquial English-Persian Dictionary in the Roman Character, Calcutta, 1914, period inscription to front endpaper, original blue cloth, 4to, and Brenan (Gerald), A History of the House of Percy..., 2 volumes, 1902, colour and monochrome illustrations, some light spotting and ex library stamps, uniform original gilt decorated red cloth, boards and spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other early 20th century and modern history, biography and India reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)
Lot 240
*Orientalists. Autograph letter signed from Alexander Hamilton (1762-1824) to Francis Horner (1778-1817), Hertford College, Oxford, 6 September 1807, discussing social engagements and criticising in heavily sarcastic tones the conduct of the British in the Second Battle of Copenhagen, single bifolium, written on 3 sides, address panel and Free Frank to conjugal leaf verso, creased from folding, seal-tear to gutter affecting half a letter both sides of first leaf, 22.5 x 18.7 cm, together with: Morrison (Robert, 1782-1834), Autograph letter signed to John Clunie (1784-1858), principal of Leaf Square Academy near Manchester, Liverpool, 13 July 1824, enclosing a postal order and discussing expenses apparently related to the education of Morrison's children Robert (also a missionary, 1814-1843) and Mary, single bifolium, written on one side, address panel, wax seal and docket to conjugal leaf, creased from folding, seal tear not affecting text, 31.7 x 19 cm, Khan (Sir Syed Ahmed, 1817-1898), Autograph letter signed, London, 10 June 1870, to the librarian of an unidentified institution, enquiring after works relevant to an intended history of Urdu literature, single bifolium of cream laid paper with 21 Mecklenburgh Square letterhead, written on 3 sides, 18 x 11.5 cm, and 13 other letters from 19th-century orientalists including Friedrich Max Mller (1823-1900), Edward William West (1824-1905; on Persian orthography) and Charles Rieu (1820-1902; on Arabic etymology), of which several addressed to Reinold Rost (1822-1896) as head librarian of the Indian Office library Alexander Hamilton was the leading Sanskritist of his time and a first cousin of the American statesman of the same name; Robert Morrison is considered 'the chief person who opened to his countrymen the road to the knowledge of the language of China' (ODNB); Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Muslim reformer, lived at 21 Mecklenburgh Square, London, from 1869 to 1870. (16)
Lot 13
Burton (Richard F.). The Lake Regions of Central Africa, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860, 12 tinted wood-engraved plates, folding map (loose and with small section of loss at one corner), 24 pp. publisher's advertisements to rear of volume 2 dated October 1858, scattered finger-soiling, Bolton Public Library blind stamps, a few plates in volume 2 partially damp-stained and volume 2 frontispiece and plate facing p. 155 loose and frayed, modern blue half calf to style, 8vo (21.3 x 13 cm), together with: Blunt (Anne), A Pilgrimage to Nejd, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, John Murray, 1881, half-title to volume 1, 14 wood-engraved plates, folding map of northern Arabia (loose and spotted), occasional repairs in fore margins, gilt edges, modern red half morocco, 8vo (19.5 x 12 cm), Skrine (Clarmont P.) Chinese Central Asia, 1st edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926, colour frontispiece, 38 half-tone photographic plates, folding map (partial split to one fold), Signet Library plate to front pasetdown, original red cloth, spine slightly rolled, a few pale marks, 8vo, Hutchinson (Thomas J.), Ten Years' Wanderings among the Ethiopians, 1st edition, Hurst and Blackett, 1861, tinted lithographic frontispiece with tissue-guard, 16 pp. publisher's advertisements, ink-stamps to front pastedown and recto of frontispiece, original purple cloth, rubbed, sunned and marked, spine rolled, tips bumped, 8vo, Elliott (Charles, translator), The Life of Hafiz ool-Moolk, Hafiz Rehmut Khan, written by his son, the Nuwab Moost'ujab Khan Buhadoor, and entitled Goolistan-i-Rehmut, abridged and translated from the Persian, 1st edition, for the Oriental Translation Fund, 1831, half-title, lithographic dedication leaf in purple to the Marquess of Londonderry, contents largely unopened, original cloth, paper spine-label, large 8vo, Wissman (Hermann von), My Second Journey through Equatorial Africa from the Congo to the Zambesi in the Years 1886 and 1887, 1st edition in English, Chatto & Windus, 1891, 32 wood-engraved plates, folding map, original cloth, rubbed and marked, spine rolled, 8vo, and 6 others, African and Asian travel in the original cloth, 8vo and 4to Penzer pp. 65-6 (Burton); Macro 555 (for the first edition of Blunt); Yakushi S592 (Skrine). (13)
Lot 227
*East India Company. Manuscript report on the secret alliance between Tipu Sultan and the nawabs of the Carnatic, signed by the author N. B. Edmonstone (1765-1841) as Persian translator to the government of Bengal, dated Fort William, Calcutta, 6 April 1800, written in a neat secretarial hand, 42 bifolia tied through single hole with silk thread, paginated 1-81 (final leaf blank), p. 1 slightly dust-soiled, folio (32 x 20 cm), together with: Howden (John Cradock, 1st Baron, 1759-1839), Manuscript minute on the proposed changes to army regulations following the Vellore Mutiny, signed by Howden as commander-in-chief, Madras, dated Madras, 29 March 1807, written in a neat secretarial hand, 12 bifolia tied through single hole with silk thread, unpaginated, final 3 pp. blank, creased along inner edge, outer leaves slightly nicked and dust-soiled, folio (32.5 x 21.5 cm) First item: original manuscript copy of Edmonstone's report to government of Bengal on the cache of correspondence between Tipu Sultan and his ministers which was found at Seringapatam after the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-9) and believed to reveal a secret alliance between Tipu Sultan and two successive nawabs of the Carnatic, Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah (1717-1795) and Umdat al-Umara (1748-1801), who were notionally allied with the British. The findings were used to compel Umdat al-Umara's successor Azim ud-Daula to sign the Carnatic Treaty, which ceded control to the British. The report was published as part of governor-general Richard Wellesley's official account in Papers presented to the House of Commons from the East India Company, concerning the late Nabob of the Carnatic (London, 1802, volume 1, section A, enclosure c, pp. 4-18). Edmonstone was appointed chief secretary to the government of India in 1809. Provenance: acquired from William P. Wreden, California, USA, September 1964 (invoice). (2)
![* Doris Clare Zinkeisen & Studio [1898-1991]- A folio group of approximately 22 character and costume designs, including Libe](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/701bfe63-71ba-41c4-89fd-a9ba00c1a7a1/54c3c0f7-b600-4df9-9f41-a9bb00e9134f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 356
* Doris Clare Zinkeisen & Studio [1898-1991]- A folio group of approximately 22 character and costume designs, including Liberty, Cow Boys, Red Indian, Egyptian Girl, Pecheron, Persian Costume, Cinderella, Shrimp Seller, etc :-some signed and inscribed, watercolour drawings including some fabric sampleslargest 39 x 29cm.* See website for additional images www.bhandl.co.uk
![* Doris Clare Zinkeisen [1898-1991]- Attendant to the Persian King; a design for a Nativity play:- inscribed on reverse water](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/701bfe63-71ba-41c4-89fd-a9ba00c1a7a1/00050c43-8b04-451d-b6a7-a9bb00e91628/468x382.jpg)
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