Lot 124
Munshi Bulaqi Dass
A History of the Emperors of Delhi in the Mughal Family
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
(with 56 Photographs of Shahan and Begmats). Delhi: Mayor Press, c.1880. First edition, 8vo, contemporary vertical-ribbed black moiré cloth decorated in gilt, [2] 16 pp., 56 albumen-print photographic portraits from miniature paintings, mounted as issued, lithographic slip captions (also mounted), mounts with lithographic arabesque borders printed in red, repaired closed tear to title-page, spine worn and repaired
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
A very rare photographic survey of the male and female members of the Mughal dynasty, no copies traced in institutional libraries. The author also published a similar photographic account of the rulers of the Ghurid and Delhi Sultanate eras, titled Tawarikh-i Ghuri and with the text in Urdu. He describes himself on the title-page to the present work as the ‘son of late Rai Juggan Lal, Assistant Private Secretary in the British Government Agency, Delhi, and a Grandson of Rai Sona Mull, Risaldar in the Nizam’s States, Hyderabad, Deccan'.