"Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Colebrooke par M. C.A. Walckenaer, Paris, 1848". Printed work relating to the life of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, written due to Colebrooke's associate membership of l'Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres on 30 December 1831. Printed in French, 30 pages, 1848.

Illustration of helmeted head (same as on front of HTC/1/1) on green paper. Printed notice of "Walckenaer (C.A.) Notice historique sur la Vie et les Travaux de H.T. Colebrooke, presentation copy, Paris 1848". And handwritten note on same green paper, "To H.H. Wilson Esq., M.A., F.R.S. &c., &c, Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford".

"H.T. Colebrooke - Memoirs and Autographs", A red calf bound book, containing printed and handwritten material including biographical material concerning Colebrooke, obituary notices for Horace Hayman Wilson, and correspondence from Colebrooke to Nathaniel Wallich. On the inside cover there is a bookplate with "Ex Libris Frederick Hendricks, F.S.S., F.S.A., Knight of Vasa. 1893" and a printed auction listing "226. Colebrook (H.T.) Notice historique sure la vie et les ouvrages de M. Colebrooke par M. C.A. Walckenaer, Paris, 1848, with biographical notices from various periodicals and numerous interesting autograph letter of Colebrooke, half red calf". Frederick Hendricks is an ancestor of the donor who also has family connections with the Colebrooke family.