Lot 113
Sikhs and the Punjab
Collection of works, 19th-20th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Latif, Syad Muhammad. History of the Panjab from the Remotest Antiquity to the Present Time. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited, 1891. First edition, 4to, modern half cloth, xix 652 pp., folding lithographic map, browning, light worming, title-page and final leaf laid down on Japanese tissue, map backed on linen, ink-stamps of the Calcutta Student Library to title-page and text;
Cunningham, Joseph Davey. A History of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej … Reprinted from the Edition of 1849. Lahore: ‘Sun’ Printing Works, 1897. Third edition, and the first published on the Indian subcontinent, 8vo, later amateur binding of black cloth decorated in gilt, title-printed on yellow paper, 2 lithographic maps (one folding), folding genealogy of the Sikh gurus, apparently lacking title-page (but retaining original printed on yellow paper, the front wrapper also containing the title), ownership inscriptions of one Dalip Singh, pencil annotations throughout;
[Punjab Government]. Punjab in Memoriam. Death of His Majesty King Edward VII, Emperor of India, May 6th, 1910. Proclamation of the Accession of His Majesty King George V, Emperor of India, May 12th, 1910. Simla: Punjab Government Branch Press, 1910. First edition, 4to, modern half leather, ii [2] 221 pp., half-title;
Mackenzie, H[ector]. Report on the Revised Settlement of the Goojerat District, in the Rawul Pindee Division. Lahore: Hope Press, 1861. Folio, original boards, rebacked and relined, x 160 [4] pp., folding lithographic map, frequent ink underlining;
Wace, E. G. Final Report on the First Regular Settlement of the Simla District in the Punjab. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Co., Ld., 1884. 8vo, later cloth, vii 8 11 62 lxi pp., folding lithographic map in end-pocket (splits to intersections of folds);
[Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh]. Selections from the Vernacular Newspapers published in the Panjab, North-Western Provinces, Oudh, Central Provinces, Central India, and Rajputana, received up to 4th January, 1887 [… 27th December, 1887]. Allahabad: N. W. P. and Oudh Government Press, c.1888. 8vo, contemporary brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, 825 pp., the volume apparently bound up from separately published weekly reports for the year (continuously paginated, but each part with printer's colophon and ii pp. contents, and with longitudinal central crease throughout implying folding for postage);
Muir, Sir William (introduction). Panjabi Sketches by Two Friends. London: Marshall Brothers, 1899. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, 8 photographic plates including a frontispiece of Amritsar;
Bruce, J. F. A History of the University of the Panjab. Lahore: printed by E. G. Tilt, at the Civil and Military Gazette, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 14 photographic plates;
Newell, H. A. Lahore (Capital of the Punjab). A Guide to Places of Interest with History and Map. Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1917. 8vo, wire-stitched in original printed wrappers, 77 pp., folding lithographic map, ink-stamps (Army YMCA, Lahore cantonment), losses to spine;
and 7 others (these not collated, comprising: Singh, A History and Guide the Golden Temple, Amritsar, c.1930; John Murray, Handbook of the Punjab, 1883; Hargreaves, Handbook to the Sculptures in the Peshawar Museum, 1930; Garrick, Report of a Tour in the Panjab and Rajputana in 1883-84, 1887; Mohan, An Imaginary Rebellion, Lahore, 1920; Cracroft, Report on the Settlement of the Rawulpindee District, Lahore: Punjabee Press, c.1864; Sarsfield, Betrayal of the Sikhs, c.1946) (16)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA