Lot 203
Engineering - India
Collection of official reports including Roorkee imprints, 19th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Report of the Committee of the North West Provinces Agricultural Exhibition. Roorkee: Thomason Civil Engineering College Press, 1864. 4to, original cloth-backed printed boards, rebacked, 45 v pp., 5 albumen-print photographic plates including frontispiece (mounted, with printed captions to mounts), depicting specimens of Indian livestock including a Bactrian camel, lithographic plan, lithographic plate, damp-staining to lower margins of text and plates (not affecting photographs);
Roorkee Hydraulic Experiments. By Capt. Allan Cunningham, R. E. Roorkee: Thomas College Press, 1880-1. 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth-backed printed card wrappers, ownership inscriptions and ink-stamps of William Hammond Hall (American civil engineer), 52 lithographic plates (in dedicated volume);
Operations for the Improvement of the Navigation of the Ganges from Revelgunge to Allahabad. Roorkee: Thomas Civil Engineering College Press, 1855. Folio, 50 pp., later half cloth;
Report on the Daranggiri Coalfield, in the Garo Hills, Assam, by Professor W. Galloway, F. G. S. [?Calcutta: no printer], 1904. Possibly one of 25 copies (pencil annotation on front board), folio, original cloth-backed boards, wire-stitched, 20 pp., 6 lithographic maps printed partly in colour (mostly folding), 4 plates, diagram, 12 gelatine silver print photographs mounted on 3 stiff card leaves;
Types of Modern Indian Buildings at Delhi, Agra, Allahabad, Lucknow, Ajmer, Bhopal, Bikanir, Gwalior, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur, with Notes on the Craftsmen employed on their Design and Execution. Allahabad: Government Press, United Provinces, 1913. Folio, original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, photographic plates, a few small worm-holes;
and 6 others (including: Completion Report and Schedules, Chanab Canal, Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1904, one of 300 copies, folio, original boards, textblock detached, large folding plan in end-pocket; Report on the Drainage of the City of Delhi, Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1852, folio, later half cloth, textblock detached; and similar)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA