Mooltan, during and after the Siege. Being Twenty-one Drawings, from Sketches taken on the Spot by John Dunlop, M.D. Assistant Surgeon H.M.'s 32nd Regiment. And lithographed in Tints, by Andrew Maclure. With a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege.
Published by Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1849
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- Hardcover
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Seller: Coronet House, London, United KingdomCoronet House
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Condition: Used - Good
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Folio (370 × 265 mm). A deluxe bound copy, bound exacty like the regular red cloth copies with same gilt titles and ornate borders but this is in full red leather by publisher. skillfully rebacked with skilfully rebacked perserving original marbled endpapers, preserving most of the original spine, new leather spine label. Edges and corners rubbed, some light marginal foxing, offsetting to the tissue-guards, very good. Hand-finished tinted lithographic pictorial half-title and 21 similar plates, original tissue-guards intact. First edition. Uncommon plate book recording the Second Sikh War's five month siege of Mooltan, now Multan in Punjab, Pakistan. The attempt of the British to impose a new ruler on the city led to the defiance of Dewan Mulraj, and to the siege which precipitated the Second Sikh War. The plates include images of the city itself, the participants including "Moolraj" and his brothers, and key moments during the siege, the text offers a reasonably full description of events, partly drawn from Dunlop's own account. Abbey Travel 474; Bruce 4215; Colas 912; Lipperheide 1498. A most superior copy, the binding suggests possibly a deluxe presentation copy. Copy comes from a Norfolk Estate from where it has been in the same family for 150 years, ie. since new.…
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- Title
- Mooltan, during and after the Siege. Being Twenty-one Drawings, from Sketches taken on the Spot by John Dunlop, M.D. Assistant Surgeon H.M.'s 32nd Regiment. And lithographed in Tints, by Andrew Maclure. With a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege.
- Author
- John Dunlop
- Publisher
- Wm. S. Orr & Co.
- Publication year
- 1849
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Coronet House
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