£1,008
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
With Incidents and Descriptions of Many Scenes of the Mutiny, including Agra, Delhi, Lucknow, Cawnpore, Allahabad, etc. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1876. 4to, original green cloth, rebacked and relined with original spine laid down, [8] 86 [2] pp., 12 carbon-print photographs (mounted within lithographic borders as issued), all edges gilt, covers slightly marked, Newcastle University deaccession ink-stamps to half-title, title-page, final page and versos of plates, one plate (Cashmere Gate, Delhi) guard loose, light spotting to a couple of mounts
Note: Rare in commerce, eight copies traced in British and Irish libraries. Notable photographs include the tomb of Ranjit Singh (last ruler of the Sikh empire) at Lahore and the Golden Temple at Amritsar.