India Collection of rare Indian imprints on various subjects, 19th-20th century

1) Suburban Villas, Market Gardens, and Residential Farms in Kathiawar. By Major H. L. Nutt, Bombay Political Department. Bombay: Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1883. 8vo, recent Indian quarter cloth 27 [18] pp., 4 folding lithographic plans hand-coloured in outline (closed handling tears to inner folds, old attempted repair to first plan), 9 full-page hand-coloured lithographic plans in text, original front wrapper bound in, browning, ink-stamps of Bombay People's Free Reading Room & Library to versos of plates, related pencil markings and possible deaccession ink-stamp with date (1940) to title-page; 2) Infantry Field Exercise, 1874. Translated into Hindustani, by Moonshee Sheikh Mahomed Roshun, 3rd Native Infantry; assisted by the Officers of the Regiment. Meerut: printed at the "Mutbahgyan-Sagur Press," by Pundit Hurdeo Sahoy, 1876. 8vo, recent cloth, 308 pp., printed in Hindi, lithographed throughout, diagrams in text, title-page heavily marked and repaired; 3) No. 9. The History of India. The Hindu and Mahomedan Periods. By the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. Translated and published into Urdu by the Scientific Society. Aligarh: printed at the secretary Syud Ahmud's Private Press, 1866. 8vo, recent red quarter leather, 472 pp., printed with Urdu types, browning, unclear whether text complete at end, title-page torn and repaired, further repairs to about p. 30, small worm-track through most of text; 4) Directions for Revenue Officers in the Punjab ... by D. G. Barkley. Lahore: Central Jail Press, 1875. 8vo, later cloth, folding table (backed on linen), title-leaf detached and heavily marked from attempted repair, most of index (pp. iii-xiv) detached, browning, a few small worm-tracks; 5) Report on the Working of the Hardwar Improvement Advisory Committee appointed to advise the Municipal Board of Hardwar Union, Hardwar. Lucknow: Newul [Nawal] Kishore Press, 1928. Large 8vo, contemporary red half cloth, 18 pp., original wrappers bound in, 3 large folding lithographic colour plans (variable paper-disruption and tears along folds but all intact); 6) Guide Book for Investors in Government Securities. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1919. 8co, contemporary half cloth, 71 ix pp., colour pencil markings to title-page, letter tipped to front of index; 7) [United Provinces]. The Tenth United Provinces Conference ... 1916. Address of the President, C. Y. Chintamani. Allahabad: Leader Press, 1916. 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth reusing original wrappers, 49 pp., inscribed 'To the hon. Dr Sundar Lal ... with respectful regards of C. Y. Chintamani' on front wrapper, 5 similar pamphlets bound in at rear, all Allahabad-related; 8) Annual Account of the Estate of the Late Lala Gaya Pershad of Cawnpore for the year 1913.1914, ending 30th September 1914. Audited by Messrs Lovelock and Lewes, Chartered Accountants of Calcutta: Cawnpore: Christ Church Mission Press, 1915. 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth, 21 pp., wear to spine, faint longitudinal crease to contents, original wrappers bound in; 9) The Historic State Trial of the Ali Brothers and Five Others. Karachi: R. V. Thadani, 1921. Large 8vo, original red cloth decorated in black, photographic frontispiece, inner hinges cracked. The lot sold as seen owing to the absence of known collations (9) Note: No other copies traced for items 1 (Suburban Villas ... in Kathiawar), 2 (Infantry Field Exercise), 5 (Report on ... Hardwar), 7 (Tenth United Provinces Conference), or 8 (Annual Account); Harvard may hold a copy of item 3 (History of India); Library Hub traced one copy only for item 4 (Directions for Revenue Officers), at the British Library. The Aligarh Scientific Society (see item 3) was founded by the great Indian reformer Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) in the 1860s with the aim of publishing vernacular translations of English texts.