India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century
India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century 1) The Rajasthanic Naya Prubundh. A Code of Penalties adopted by Certain Native States in the Province of Kattywar. Rajkot: printed at the Kattywar Agency Gazette Press by D. Sealy, 1864. Folio, 20 pp., stitched, title-pages in English and Gujarati, remainder of text in Gujarati, light damp-staining and soiling to outer leaves, faint transverse central crease where previously folded, slightly nicked along fore-edges, short closed tear to Gujarati title-page; 2) Jeypore Exhibition, 1883 [cover-title]. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited, 1883. Folio, original wrappers, 64 pp., 2 folding plans, restitched, wrappers and last few text-leaves chipped; 3) Philology of Upper Indian Dialects by Pandit Guruprasad, Head Pandit, Oriental College, Lahore, published under the Auspices of the Punjab University. [Lahore:] Anjumani Punjab Press, 1885. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 63 pp., folding tables, apparently in Punjabi (Gurmukhi script), lithographed throughout, wrappers slightly chipped; 4) [?Compendium of legal rulings or specimen legal texts issued by the court of Madho Singh II, Maharajadhiraja of Jaipur], Jaipur: Raj Press, 1893. Folio, 111 pp., lithographed throughout, Urdu and Hindi text in double column, minor loss to lower fore corners of first few leaves, occasional soiling); and a chromolithographic portrait on card of Henry Hardinge as governor-general of India, [Bombay:] Ravi Varma Press, c.1900, 35 x 25cm, small chip to one corner Qty: (5) Note: No other copy of any of these items traced. The main contributor to the account of the 1893 Jeypore Exhibition is Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard; there are also a few entries by his wife and Rudyard's mother Alice.
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India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century 1) The Rajasthanic Naya Prubundh. A Code of Penalties adopted by Certain Native States in the Province of Kattywar. Rajkot: printed at the Kattywar Agency Gazette Press by D. Sealy, 1864. Folio, 20 pp., stitched, title-pages in English and Gujarati, remainder of text in Gujarati, light damp-staining and soiling to outer leaves, faint transverse central crease where previously folded, slightly nicked along fore-edges, short closed tear to Gujarati title-page; 2) Jeypore Exhibition, 1883 [cover-title]. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited, 1883. Folio, original wrappers, 64 pp., 2 folding plans, restitched, wrappers and last few text-leaves chipped; 3) Philology of Upper Indian Dialects by Pandit Guruprasad, Head Pandit, Oriental College, Lahore, published under the Auspices of the Punjab University. [Lahore:] Anjumani Punjab Press, 1885. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 63 pp., folding tables, apparently in Punjabi (Gurmukhi script), lithographed throughout, wrappers slightly chipped; 4) [?Compendium of legal rulings or specimen legal texts issued by the court of Madho Singh II, Maharajadhiraja of Jaipur], Jaipur: Raj Press, 1893. Folio, 111 pp., lithographed throughout, Urdu and Hindi text in double column, minor loss to lower fore corners of first few leaves, occasional soiling); and a chromolithographic portrait on card of Henry Hardinge as governor-general of India, [Bombay:] Ravi Varma Press, c.1900, 35 x 25cm, small chip to one corner Qty: (5) Note: No other copy of any of these items traced. The main contributor to the account of the 1893 Jeypore Exhibition is Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard; there are also a few entries by his wife and Rudyard's mother Alice.
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