Lot 96
£353
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
all in Urdu, lithographed throughout, comprising:
Kuhne, Louis. Sayins af fayshal iksprishin [Title in English, transliterated into Urdu, i.e. The Science of Facial Expression]. Meerut: Swami Press, 1925. 6 177 pp. only (lacking at least one leaf at rear and rear wrapper, the final page cited by index being p. 179), text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, 20 plates (counted in pagination), of which one folding, stitching fragile and contents working loose, front wrapper and text-leaves browned, plate at pp. 145/6 with closed tear, folding plate bound in upside-down;
?Rockwell, G. W. Frinuluji ... musannifuhu Miknesh Sahib ki Urdu tarjuma [Phrenology, translated into Urdu by Miknesh Sahib]. Lahore: Munshi Mahbub 'Alim, 1895. 8vo, contemporary blue half cloth, marbled sides, 184 pp., lithographic illustrations in the text including a portrait of Franz Josef Gall, putative head shapes, cranial conditions (e.g. hydrocephaly), original wrappers bound in, browning, light worming not affecting legibility, bound with 3 other Urdu texts at rear including a trade catalogue of clocks and watches, in English and Urdu, illustrated, 28 pp.);
Ram, Beli. Diseases of the Heart and Lungs, in Urdu, by Beli Ram, L. M. S., Assistant Surgeon, in Charge of the Kasur Dispensary. Lahore: Empress Press, 1882. First edition (stated on title-page), 8vo, recent boards, 400 [4] pp., title-pages in English and Urdu, text mainly in Urdu, illustrations in text (occasionally hand-coloured), paper browned and friable, title-pages spotted and slightly chipped, pp. 121-4 misprinted (leaves numbered 123/2 121/4, pp. 123/2 chipped with loss of text, pp. 121/4 repaired), minor paper disruption to pp. 213/14, pp. 325-8 crudely repaired, closed tear to head of last few leaves;
[Medicine]. Tibb shihabi manzum Hindi [i.e. Shifa' al-marad by Shihab al-Din al-Nagawri, 14th-century Persian physician, on the treatment of illnesses, translated into Urdu verse]. Daftar Hikmat Hindi. Mumbai: Matba' Haydari, 1300 AH [1883 CE]. 8vo, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, 64 pp. in 2 parts, text-block detached from binding, browning, light marginal worming, bound with a similar text at rear, Mufid al-ajsam ma'hu fawa'id 'ajabiya, 1883 CE
Note: Louis Kuhne (1835-1901) was a German naturopath known for his advocacy of vegetarianism and hydropathy; The Science of Facial Expression appears to have been first published in 1917.