Lot 245
India - Hyderabad Chloform Commission - Jah, Sir Asman
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 2 May 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Report of the Hyderabad Chloroform Commission. Bombay: The Times of India Steam Press, 1891. First edition, 4to, contemporary light brown morocco, g.e.; [with] Selected Tracings of Experiments with Chloroform and Ether of the Hyderabad Chloroform Commission .To accompany the Report. 4to, 26 albumen prints mounted on board with printed captions, most c. 6.5 x 22cm. , red morocco gilt, g.e., lightly rubbed; with a 4 pp. folio printed letter from Surgeon Lt. Col. E. Lawrie, President of the Hyderabad Chloroform Commission to His Excellency Sir Asman Jah Bahadur, Prime Minister of Hyderabad, relating to the commission, library stamps (3)
Footnote
Note: Rare. The accompanying printed letter from Surgeon Lt. Col E. Lawrie, President of the Hyderabad Chloroform Commission, to His Excellency Sir Asman Jah Bahadur, Prime Minister of Hyderabad, starts "I have the honor to forward twenty copies of the Report of the Hyderabad Chlorofom Commission, and twenty copies of an album containing photographs of selected tracings of the Commission's experiments, for presentation to the Government of India."