Antiquarian Books

Adi Granth by Dr Ernest Trump

Reference Code: 8MN1251N

First edition of ‘Adi Granth: The Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs’ the first English transalation by the German scholar Dr Ernest Trump in 1877.

Peter Bance Collection

India As I Knew It

Reference Code: 8MN1251N

First Edition of Sir Michael O’Dwyer’s biography where he defended the actions of General Dyer at Jallianwala Bagh. Signed personal copy with a later handwritten letter from O’Dwyer’s wife loosely inserted, describing how her husband was shot.

35 Years in the East

Reference Code: 8MN1251N

Two volume set of Dr Johan Honigberger’s time in Punjab. Honigberger was Court Physician to Maharajah Ranjit Singh. The first part includes his medical notes and herbal medicine treatmenst, whilst the second part is about the history and Court of Lahore

Court & Camp of Runjeet Sing

Reference Code: 8MN1251N

First edition of W.G.Osborne’s record of his visit to Lahore as military secretary to Lord Auckland, the Governor General of India in 1837. The book was published in 1840 when Osborne returned to England by which time the Maharajah had died.

Peter Bance Collection

Inscriptions on the Seikh Guns

Ref: 4560

Inscriptions on the Seikh Guns Captured by the Army of the Sutledge 1845-46’, With Plans of Ordnance Captured by the Army of the Sutledge by Captain Ralph Smyth, 1847

Capt Smyth of the Bengal Artillery, whose extensive research into the mechanics of the guns was published in these two volumes