Extremely uncommon Second edition

just two copies - BL and Oxford - on Library Hub, WorldCat adds five more - NYPL, Yale, Harvard, universities of Minnesota and Missouri. One of the earliest commercial productions of this press, all Delhi imprints before 1850 are uncommon. Excellent copy of Lawrence's "fictionalised memoirs of Colonel Bellasis who joined the forces of the Sikh leader Runjeet Singh", further described by Riddick as "perhaps better read with George Frazier's sic fictional Flashman series than as a history". In fact Lawrence worked a great deal of fascinating and little-known information into his narrative of a freelance at large, which he had gleaned from his lengthy acquaintance with the Sikhs as a revenue surveyor in the North-Western Provinces; when administering the Ferozepore district as assistant to the governor-general's agent for the affairs of the Punjab and the North-West Frontier; and later during the First Afghan War, as political officer with Pollock's force, "he was given command of the Sikh contingent, which had been sent by the durbar to co-operate with the British" (ODNB).