Lot 84
£3,528
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Tasnif sultan al-munajjimin [compiled by the 'lord of astronomers'], Mir Ghulam Hasan Sahib Dihlavi. Lucknow: Matba' Majma' al-'ulum, Munshi 'Abd al-Ghani, 1293 AH [i.e. 1876/7 CE]. 8vo, contemporary boards retaining fragments of cloth, text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, pp. 4, 260, title-page and colophon elaborately decorated with repeating floral design, some 20 illustrations in the text including the signs of the Zodiac, numerous tables, rubricated underlinings and marginalia, ownership inscriptions and other annotations to endpapers a few margins, retaining original lithographic rear wrapper, original front wrapper laid in (chipped), browning, pp. 59-64 with loss to upper fore corners not affecting text
Note: Very rare 19th-century Indian manual of astrology and astronomy, no other copy traced.