Lot 19
India, 1930s
Collection of printed documents including viceregal tour programmes and government memoranda
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
1-5. Tour Book of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and the Marchioness of Linlithgow in Burma. Rangoon: Supdt., Govt. Printing and Stationery, Burma, 1937 (one of 120 copies); Programme of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and the Marchioness of Linlithgow’s Visit to Bikaner, November, 1937 [cover-title] (one of 80 copies, 14 pp., leaves perforated along gutter for removal, a few pencil markings); Programme of His Excellency the Viceroy’s Tour to Peshawar and Dehra Dun, April-May 1938 [cover-title] (one of 100 copies), 42 pp., perforated as above; Tour Programme Their Excellencies the Viceroy and the Marchioness of Linlithgow to Rajputana (Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur) in February-March, 1939 [cover-title] (one of 94 copies, 46 pp., wrappers spotted); Winter Tour Programme of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and the Marchioness of Linlithgow to Cochin, Travancore, Bangalore, Mysore, Kolhapur and Bombay in January, 1939, Part II (one of 144 copies, wrappers spotted). All in original wrappers, small 8vo or similar, marked ‘confidential’ or ‘private on title-pages or front covers.
6-10. Certain Extra-Territorial Rights, Privileges, etc. of the Sangli Durbar, [no place, c.1930] (marked confidential, 15 pp.); Memorandum on Federal Finance by Sir B. N. Mitra, Chamber of Princes 1936-1937, Bhopal: Government Press, c.1937 (marked confidential, 30 pp., spine split, repairs); Memorandum on Federal Finance by Mr. Manu Subedar, Chamber of Princes 1936-1937, Bhopal: Government Press, c.1937 (marked confidential, 47 pp., tears and repairs to wrappers); Provisional Views of the Rajkot State with Regard to the Draft Instrument of Accession and the Federal Legislative List (39 ff., rectos only); Proposals for the Accession of Janjira State, Deccan States Agency to the Federation of India, Bombay: Times of India Press, 1937 (58 pp.). These all foolscap, original wrappers, with punch-holes to inner margins.
11. Visit to Bikaner of Their Highnesses the Ruling Princes on the Occasion of the Celebrations to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of Highness the Maharajah’s Accession to the Throne, 1937 [caption-title] (folio, 11 pp., wire-stitched).
12. Nabha Administration: a Review of Recent Years, Lahore: Civil & Military Gazette Ltd., c.1930 (4to, 32 pp., original wrappers).
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