India Group of rare Indian imprints
India Group of rare Indian imprints 1) Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India, by the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Commissioner. Bombay: Bombay Government Press, 1838. Second edition, 8vo, later red cloth, [2] 82 li pp., colour pencil marks to title-page, ink-stamp of the government library, Agra, to p. 1, moderate browning, scattered dark spots; 2) England and India: being Impressions of Persons and Things, English and Indian and Brief Notes of Visits to France, Switzerland, Italy, and Ceylon. By Lala Baijnath of the N.-W. P. Judicial Service. Bombay: Jehangir B. Karani & Co., Ltd., 1893. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [2] 4 234 pp., errata leaf and advertisement leaf at rear, worming, stitching split between pp. 152 and 153, closed marginal tears in pp. 69/70 and 163/4; 3) A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur, in the District of Bijnor, North-West Provinces. Calcutta: Erasmus Jones, "Cambrian" Press, 1879. First edition, 12mo, original cloth-covered card wrappers with skiver label to front cover, [4] 20 pp., mounted albumen portrait photograph as frontispiece; 4) A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari, compiled by ... Sir Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Row Bahadur ... Maha-Rajah of Bobbili. Madras: Addison & Co., 1900. 8vo, original cloth, [4] 185 pp., folding table, inscribed to 'Sir Henry Bliss K.C.I.E. with the compliments of the Maharajah of Bobbili 18/6/1902 London' on the initial blank, spine and edges of covers sunned, loss to spine-ends; Together with 2 others (The Jeypore Guide by Thomas Holbein Hendley, Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service, Jeypore [Jaipur]: "Raj" Press, 1876, first edition 12mo, lacking frontispiece and map, with 17 other lithographic plates, 3 copies on Library Hub, worming; and The Panjab as a Sovereign State (1799-1839), Thesis approved for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London, by Gulshan Lall Chopra. Lahore: Uttar Chand Kapur & Sons, 1928, lacking maps) Qty: (5) Note: Two copies of the Report on Territories Conquered from the Paishwa traced in UK libraries (BL and Oxford); the work was first published at Calcutta in 1821. A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur is otherwise untraced. Library Hub cites three copies of the Bobbili Zemindari (BL, Oxford, SOAS).
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India Group of rare Indian imprints 1) Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India, by the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Commissioner. Bombay: Bombay Government Press, 1838. Second edition, 8vo, later red cloth, [2] 82 li pp., colour pencil marks to title-page, ink-stamp of the government library, Agra, to p. 1, moderate browning, scattered dark spots; 2) England and India: being Impressions of Persons and Things, English and Indian and Brief Notes of Visits to France, Switzerland, Italy, and Ceylon. By Lala Baijnath of the N.-W. P. Judicial Service. Bombay: Jehangir B. Karani & Co., Ltd., 1893. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [2] 4 234 pp., errata leaf and advertisement leaf at rear, worming, stitching split between pp. 152 and 153, closed marginal tears in pp. 69/70 and 163/4; 3) A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur, in the District of Bijnor, North-West Provinces. Calcutta: Erasmus Jones, "Cambrian" Press, 1879. First edition, 12mo, original cloth-covered card wrappers with skiver label to front cover, [4] 20 pp., mounted albumen portrait photograph as frontispiece; 4) A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari, compiled by ... Sir Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Row Bahadur ... Maha-Rajah of Bobbili. Madras: Addison & Co., 1900. 8vo, original cloth, [4] 185 pp., folding table, inscribed to 'Sir Henry Bliss K.C.I.E. with the compliments of the Maharajah of Bobbili 18/6/1902 London' on the initial blank, spine and edges of covers sunned, loss to spine-ends; Together with 2 others (The Jeypore Guide by Thomas Holbein Hendley, Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service, Jeypore [Jaipur]: "Raj" Press, 1876, first edition 12mo, lacking frontispiece and map, with 17 other lithographic plates, 3 copies on Library Hub, worming; and The Panjab as a Sovereign State (1799-1839), Thesis approved for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London, by Gulshan Lall Chopra. Lahore: Uttar Chand Kapur & Sons, 1928, lacking maps) Qty: (5) Note: Two copies of the Report on Territories Conquered from the Paishwa traced in UK libraries (BL and Oxford); the work was first published at Calcutta in 1821. A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur is otherwise untraced. Library Hub cites three copies of the Bobbili Zemindari (BL, Oxford, SOAS).
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