Lot 18
Hutchison, John and Jean Philippe Vogel
History of the Panjab Hill States
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Lahore: Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1933. First edition, one of 500 copies (according to the printer's colophon), 2 volumes, 4to, original red cloth, [4] ii 372, [4] ii 373-729 xiii pp., addenda slip to volume 2;
Together with 10 other works on or printed in the Punjab: Sir Denzil Ibbetson, Panjab Castes, Lahore: Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1916 (first separate edition, one of 1,000 copies, original cloth, ex library, library plates removed from front pastedown, ink-stamp to half, title, binding worn and shaken, contents browned, tears to half-title and title-page); Selections from the Records of the Government of India … No. II. Report on the Administration of the Punjab for the Years 1849-50 and 1850-51, Calcutta: T. Jones, 1853 (first edition, original red cloth, recased, folding lithographic map printed on glazed linen, damp-stain to head of map and prelims, pencilled annotations to rear pastedown); Selections from the Records of the Government of India … No. XVIII. General Report on the Administration of the Punjab Territories, from 1854-55 to 1855-56 Inclusive, Calcutta: John Gray, 1856 (first edition, original red cloth, 4 folding lithographic maps (2 with hand-colouring), binding marked, damp-staining to foot of each cover, rear joint split, pencilled annotations to rear pastedown); A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, Lahore: Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1919 (volume 1 only, first edition, one of 655 copies, original cloth); 5 lithographic works in Urdu, all printed in Lahore (e.g. Mysteries of Brahmoism, Ganesh Prakash Press, 1886; Rai Kunhya Lall, Poetical Essays in Persian, on Moral Subjects, entitled Goolzar-i-Hindee, 1870, wrappers titled in English and Urdu; etc.); a later Company School-style watercolour depicting a Sikh soldier from the era of Ranjit Singh; and 1 other similar (13)