Lot 168
Indian languages
Collection of grammars, primers and translations, 19th-20th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Singh, Jawahir. The Urdu Teacher. Amballa: by Lala Jaggan Nath, at the Empress Press, 1898. First edition, 4to, later half cloth, [4] iv [2] 2 [4] 206 12 28 6 pp., worming and repairs, Urdu ownership inscriptions (possibly ‘Sandhu Lal Bhattacharya’);
[Tamil printing]. First Lessons in English and Tamul: designed to assist Tamul Youth in the Study of the English Language. Manepy [Manipay, Sri Lanka]: Press of the American Mission, 1836. Part 2 of 2 only, 16mo, contemporary cloth-backed boards, 96 pp., boards near-detached, ink-stamps to front pastedown and title-page;
[Hindi printing]. A Hindi Grammar, for the Instruction of the Young: in Easy Questions and Answers. Benares: Medical Hall Press, 1866. Small 8vo, contemporary half cloth, 66 pp.;
[Gujarati]. Tohuftul Hind. Or Religious Preaching. Translated into English from Gujarati. Published by Gulam Mahomed Bin Hafej Sadak, Rander, Zillah Surat. Surat: ‘Deshi Mitra’ Press, 1899. 8vo, contemporary half cloth, [2] xvii 204 pp., browning and worming, rear inner hinge split and pp. 193-4 loose;
Ranking, G. S. A. Talim-i-Zaban-i Urdu: a Guide to Hindustani. Calcutta; Thacker, Spink & Co., 1889. First edition, 8vo, original yellow cloth, one folding leaf of lithographic Hindi and Urdu text;
Phillott, D. C. Khazina-e Muhawarat, or Urdu Idioms. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1912. First edition, 8vo, contemporary cloth;
and 29 others (these not collated, including: Maulvi Ikram 'Ali, Ikhwanu-s-Safa; or, Brothers of Purity, translated from the Hindustani by John Platts, 1869, first edition thus, original cloth, rear board near-detached; Hand Book to Hindoostanee Conversation, Calcutta, 1857, fifth edition, 12mo, original cloth, front free endpaper loose; John Shakespear, A Dictionary, HIndustani and English, and English and Hindustani, 1861, fourth edition, 4to, later half leather, worming; Yule and Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, 1886, first edition, quarter morocco library binding; Rustom Pestonji Bhajiwalla, Maulana Shibli and Umar Khayyam, Surat: I. P. Mission Press, 1932, first edition, inscribed presentation copy, one of 1,000 copies printed, a few worm-tracks; and similar) (35)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
One institutional copy traced for the First Lessons in English and Tamul, at the British Library. The Benares-printed Hindi Grammar (1866) is otherwise untraced.