India. Nesfield (John C., MA, Oxon), Brief View of the Caste...

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£150

India. Nesfield (John C., MA, Oxon), Brief View of the Caste System of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, together with an Examination of the Names and Figures Shown in the Census Report, 1882 [...], first edition, Allahabad: North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1885, [ii], v, bound-in errata slip, 132pp, extra-illustrated with lithographed Plates I-IV from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Part I, 1878, the contents browned and some spots, lower-margin of title chipped and just affecting one number of imprint date, first contents leaf with full-length horizontal tear without loss, a handful of further smaller tears in places, split at verso gutter affecting three or so gatherings, contemporary quarter-cloth over papered boards, ffep detached, folio (33 x 21cm); [&] Report on the Administration of the Punjab and its Dependencies for 1891-92, first edition, Lahore: Printed at the Punjab Government Press, 1893, [ii], xii, [ii], 13, [ii], 250, [vi], clxi pp, folding lithographed graph, original publisher's red cloth blue papered boards, chipped corners, split but holding, folio (34.5 x 22.5cm), (2) 


Provenance: 1st: Pandit Sundar Lal, Vakil, High Court, N.-W. P, Allahabad; 19th c book label to pastedown. 2nd: Kaiserliches    Statistisches Bibliothek, [Berlin]; their stamp to upper-cover.