Lot 205
Bombay Presidency
Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
No. I - New Series. On the Supply of Water to Bombay. Bombay: printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1854. Large 8vo, original limp diagonal-ribbed cloth, printed paper label to front cover, iv [2] 149 pp., 14 lithographic maps and plates (most of them folding), stitching perished and contents in unsecured quires, a few maps with splits to folds, one map ('Outline of the Islands of Bombay, Trombay and Salsette' with paper disruption along one fold to slight loss, library plates and blind stamps of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia;
No. XXXVIII. - New Series. Correspondence relating to the Tenure of the Possessions in the Deccan held by His Highness Jyajee Rao Sindi under the Treaty of Surje Anjugaum. [Bound with:] No. XXXIX. (In Two Parts.) - New Series. Part I. Reports on the Resources of the Districts of Neriad, Matur, Mondeh, Beejar [etc.] in Guzerat: Accompanied by Brief Notes relative to the Condition of that Province previous to the Close of the Last Century. With Memoirs on the Districts of Jhalawar, Kattywar Proper, Muchoo Kanta [etc.] in Kattywar … by the Late Colonel Alexander Walker. Part II. Reports of the Measures … adopted … for the Suppression of Female Infanticide … Compiled and edited by R. Hughes Thomas. Bombay: for the Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856. 2 works in 1 volume, large 8vo, modern leather with earlier spine relaid, [4] 82 pp., xxi [3] 315 x [1] 318-721 pp., folding table;
Bengal Presidency. Selections from the Records of the Bengal Government. No. VII. Report on the Electric Telegraph between Calcutta and Kedgeree. By W. B. O'Shaughnessy. Calcutta: F. Carbery, Military Orphan Press, 1852. 8vo, later half cloth, 20 viii pp., lithographic plate, browning, small strip of worming, ink-stamp of the government library, Agra;
Government of the North Western Provinces. Selections from the Records of Government, North Western Provinces. Part XXIX. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1856. 8vo, quarter cloth, iv 465-511 xviii pp., 2 folding tables, browning, damp-staining to one corner;
Government of the United Provinces. A Hand-Book to the English Pre-Mutiny Records in the Government Record Rooms of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. By Douglas Dewar, I.C.S. Allahabad: Government Press, United Provinces, c.1920. Large 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, vii v 486 ii pp., paper browned and slightly brittle, prelims loose;
Government of India. Military Secretaries from 1774 to 1909. Simla: Government Central Branch Press, 1909. One of 12 copies, folio, later cloth, 24 pp.;
and 9 similar, governmental reports and selections from presidency records, Indian imprints (17)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA