£2,772
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Musannifuhu wa-mu'allifuhu [compiled and composed by] Babu Salig Ram. Lahore: Rifah-i 'Am Steam Press, 1913. 8vo (21.2 x 13.2cm), contemporary green cloth with red calico backstrip, 200 pp., lithographed throughout, text in Urdu, 21 full-page illustrations showing women from different ethnic groups (e.g. Parsi, Bengali, Burmese, Kashmiri), further illustrations including foetuses in utero (several full-page), original wrappers bound in, uniform browning, mild paper-disruption in gutter towards rear. Together with 2 similar works (both lithographic pamphlets in Urdu by one Hakim Gulam Nabi, Medical Practitioner, Mochi Gate, Lahore, with Urdu and English titles to front and rear wrappers respectively, comprising: 1) Seixual Sciench [sic]. [Urdu title: Ikhtiyar al-nasl va-ikhtisar al-nasl], Lahore: Islamic Steam Press, 1903, 8vo, original lithographic wrappers, [4] 60 pp., stitching renewed, a few spots to wrappers and faded ownership inscription to rear; 2) A Manual of Several Sences. A Practical Treatise on Social Sence [sic], Lahore, c.1900. 8vo, original lithographic wrappers, 100 pp., front wrapper tape-repaired, marginal worming to last few leaves)
Note: Rare manual of women's health and pregnancy, no other copy traced. The Rifah-i 'Am press in Lahore was established by Mumtaz Ali (1865-1915), an Islamic scholar remembered as a pioneering advocate of women's rights and author of a work titled Huquq al-Niswan ('Rights of Women').