Lot 74
Tagore, Sourindro Mohun
Mani-Mala, or a Treatise on Gems
£1,197
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Calcutta: printed by I. C. Bose & Co., Stanhope Press, and published by the author, 1879. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, modern half morocco, text in English, Hindi, Sanskrit and Bengali, [22] iv [2] 1-496, [4] xiv ii [9] 509-1046 pp., 4 lithographic plates only (of 10), approximately 15 wood-engraved illustrations of Indian musical instruments in the text, lacking at least the portrait frontispiece, additional decorative title-page, letterpress English title-page and pp. 497-506 in volume 1, and 5 preliminary leaves including English title-page in volume 2 (all supplied in photocopy), worming
Footnote
Note:
A working copy of a genuine rarity of Indian printing. The second volume is often absent. 'S.M. Tagore was a 19th century Bengali musicologist who founded the Bengal Music School (1871) and Bengal Academy of Music (1881) and published extensively on music theory. In the early 1880s he set Indian translations of God Save the Queen to popular Indian melodies as national anthems for the Indian Empire' (Royal Collection cataloguing, online).
