India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century
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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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India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century
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