639 Atkinson (James). Sketches in Afghaunistan, Henry Graves & Co., Deluxe ed., 1842, hand-coloured lithographed title, dedication, 25 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by Louis and Charles Haghe after Atkinson, heightened with gum arabic, each captioned and mounted on card, description leaf printed in blue, title with repaired tear at lower margin, one or two light marginal spots, dedication and text leaves with small closed marginal tears, original moire cloth rebound in recent green half morocco, light stains to boards, folio (53 x 36cm) Abbey Travel 508. Rare deluxe issue with the plates hand-coloured rather than the usual tinted edition. James Atkinson (1780-1852) was a British army surgeon, artist and Persian scholar. Appointed Superintending Surgeon of the Bengal Division, in 1838, he joined Sir John Keane’s expeditionary force to Afghanistan to oust the pro-Russian ruler Dost Muhammad Khan, thus begining the First Afghan War (1839-1842). The present work is an important record of the previously unseen topography of Afghanistan, and includes views of mountain passes, gorges, fortresses, valleys, tombs and towns. (1) £8000-12000
642 Barrow (John). A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793... To which is Annexed an Account of a Journey, Made in the Years 1801 and 1802, to the Residence of the Chief of the Booshuana Nation... 1st ed., 1806, hand-coloured folding map of Rio de Janeiro, folding map of South Africa, 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates, bound without half title, RR2 torn without loss, some light browning and spotting, contemporary diced calf, rebacked, a few stains, 4to
640 Baldwin (J.W.). A Narrative of Four Months’ Campaign in India, Between the Years 1845-6, Including the Battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshuhur, & Sobraon, from Personal Observation, Addressed to a Relative in England, Josiah Fletcher, Norwich, c. 1846, 79 pp., 4 pp. pubs. list at end, occasional light soiling, Norwich Free Library inkstamp at foot of title, original orange wrapper within later plain wrapper with typescript title to upper wrapper, 8vo, scarce, together with History of the Campaign on the Sutlej, and the War in the Punjaub, from the most Authentic Sources, Including Copious Original Information, Memoirs of Many Distinguished Officers, English and Foreign, and Official Lists of the Killed and Wounded, Officers and Privates, 1st ed., 1846 (2)
Abbey Travel 514; Tooley 86. (1)
£800-1200
£100-150
643 The Bengal Obituary, or a record to perpetuate the memory of Departed Worth, being a compilation of tablets and monumental inscriptions from various parts of the Bengal and Agra Presidencies. To which is added Biographical Sketches and Memoirs of such as have pre-eminently distinguished themselves in the history of British India, since the formation of the European settlement to the present time. By Holmes & Co., Calcutta, printed by J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, 1848, full-page printed advertisement for Holmes and Company, Stonemasons, Marble Sculptors, Undertakers, &c. to rear pastedown, some light spotting to front and rear, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed to extrems., with minor loss of cloth to extreme head of spine, lightly sunned to spine, small 4to
641 Barr (Lieutenant William). Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshawur, and thence to Cabul, with the mission of Lieut.-Colonel Sir C. M. Wade, Kt. C. B. including travels in the Punjab, a visit to the city of Lahore, and a narrative of operations in the Khyber Pass, undertaken in 1839, 1st ed., James Madden & Co., 1844, half-title, six tinted lithograph plates, single-page publisher’s advert leaf at end, library stamp partially erased at foot of title, partly unopened, original blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, somewhat faded to spine and edges, some marks and discolouration due to label removal towards foot of spine, 8vo Scarce. An eye-witness account by Lieutenant Barr of the expedition to Kabul through the Punjab and the Khyber Pass, under the leadership of Colonel Wade, and the eldest son of Shah Shuja, with the ultimate aim of replacing the Amir of Afghanistan, Dost Mohammad Khan with Shah Shuja. (1) £200-300
First and only edition. Scarce. Described by the editor of the facsimile edition of this work, published in 1991 as ‘the greatest store house of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions ... ever published in Bengal, if not in India’ (P. Thankappan Nair, The Bengal Obituary, Calcutta, 1991, page xxxvii). (1) £150-200
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