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a) Captain John Butler, A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill tribes. By an Officer in the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Native Infantry in Civil Employ. With Illustrations from Sketches by the Author, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1847

viii + 220 pages with 16 [of 17] plates (15 hand-coloured lithographs), 4 wood engravings and 1 folding map; leather bound stamped in blind, and with a gilt block illustration of a hunting scene on upper board, marbled edges
21.5 x 14.6 x 2.5 cm

LIST OF PLATES
1. Frontispiece. Garrow Warrior / 2. Gowahatty / 3. Omanund Island opposite Gowahatty / 4. (1) Mangoe Fly (2) Queen (or Arrindy) Silkworm of Assam (3) Long Horned Beetle / 5. (1) Vampire of Fox Bat (2) Tiger Beetle of Assam (3) Hercules Beetle of Assam / 6. (1-2) Leaf Insect of Assam (male & female) (3) Saiknah Caterpillar (butterfly) / 7. Buffalo Heads in Assam / 8. Buffalo shooting in Assam / 9. Singphoo Hat, Helmet, Cross-Bow, Quiver, and Arrows / 10. An Assamese Gentleman / A Meree Woman / 11. Nagas / 12. Angamee Naga Warrior / 13. Naga Mode of Disposing of the Dead ona Bier or Platform / 14. A Booteah Servant / 15. Cheingtanjing, Booteah Rajah / Gelae, Booteah Rajah / 16. Cheegee Kuppachor Akha, brother of the Tagee Rajah / Kuppachor Akha, Tagee Rajah / 17. A Dufflah / A Dufflah Chief's Widow / A Dufflah Chief.

Reference: Abbey Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, 471

b) Captain John Butler, Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam: During a Residence of Fourteen years, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1855

x; 268 pages including 8 tinted lithograph plates; 1 folding map (Nowgong and adjoining districts of Assam Shewing the Route traversed over the Andahmeh Naga Hills….), 1 folding plan of Hill Fort, Konomah; half leather-bound with marbled boards and gilt title to the spine with 5 raised bands
22 x 15 x 2.5 cm

Butler was a major in the East India Company's 55th Bengal Native Infantry and served as the Principal Assistant to the Governor General on the North-East Frontier of Assam. A Sketch of Assam was Butler's first book on Assam.

PROVENANCE
a) From the Collection of Robert and Maria Travis (bookplate)
Lot 0032E, Bloomsbury Auctions, Travel Books From the Collection of Robert and Maria Travis, 2007
Acquired from the above
Important Private Collection, New Delhi

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