Gorringe's Autumn Fine Sale 3rd October 2023

Lot 1
Indian / Royal Interest: VERNON & CO. Souvenir,
The Imperial Visit to Delhi. Calcutta: Bombay,
Vernon & Co, [1912]. the album with 85 individual
gelatin silver prints of various sizes on 26 grey
heavy card mounts, including a panorama of the
Coronation Durbar on five sections, the larger prints
mounted mostly one-per-page, others mounted
in various patterns, each page with printed tissue
interleaves bearing titles and the Vernon & Co.
imprint. Original red calf gilt, the covers elaborately
bordered in gilt, overall 40 x 52cm
£2,000 - 3,000
Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (15 July
1840 – 6 February 1900) was a Scottish historian,
statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian
Civil Service.
He is most known for The Imperial Gazetteer of
India on which he started working in 1869, and
which was eventually published in nine volumes
in 1881, then fourteen, and later as a twenty-six
volume set after his death.
A record of the Coronation Durbar and the tour
made by King George V and Queen Mary to Dehli
in 1912. This copy was probably given to Sir William
Wilson Hunter at Christmas, 1912, by Kumar Shri
Ranjitsinhji, the Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar
(1872-1933), one of the foremost cricket batsmen
in England. Ranjitsinhji, as Maharaja and famous
international cricketer, played his part in the Dehli
celebrations.
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