British India (modern Pakistan)
Monograph on Swat State, 1933
£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
by Major W. R. Hay, C.I.E., Political Agent, Dir, Swat and Chitral. Simla: Government of India Press, 1934. 8vo, original cloth-backed printed boards, [4] 36 pp., folding lithographic sketch map loose in end-pocket as issued, text-leaves wire-stitched, stitching corroded, title-page, final leaf and conjugate blanks detached, textblock loose in binding, binding worn and marked, ink-stamps and markings of the library of the economic adviser to the government of India, bookplate removed from initial blank, short tear to end-pocket (map unaffected)
Footnote
Note: Marked 'confidential' on the front board, and very rare: the printer's slug at the end of the text suggests that 100 copies were printed. One institutional copy traced, at the British Library; no copies in auction records.