Estimate: | £150 - £250 |
Hammer price: | £300 |
INDIA - Horace Hayman WILSON (1786-1860). The History of British India from 1805 to 1835. London: James Madden and Co., 1845-48. 3 volumes, large 8vo (213 x 135mm). Contemporary plum calf gilt, spines gilt with red and green morocco lettering-pieces (heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton, Bart. (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. With John Malcolm's The Political History of India from 1784 to 1823 (London, 1826, 2 vols., uniformly bound), James Mill's The History of British India ... Fourth Edition, with Notes and Continuation, by Horace Hayman Wilson (London, 1840, 6 vols, uniformly bound) and The East-India Register and Army List for 1849 (London, 1849, attractively bound in red morocco gilt). The lot sold not subject to return. (12)