Indian lithographic printing
Collection of works on science, cookery and other subjects
£605
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
[Medicine] Muhammad A'zam Khan Chishti (1814-1902). Nira-i A'zam ['The Essence of A'zam']. Delhi: Matba' Mustafa, 1909. Folio, 88 pp., in Persian, recent half leatherette
[Medicine] Khazanchand Ahuja, LMS [Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery]. Risala-i Tibb, mawsum bi-Khazana-i Hikmat ['Epistle on Medicine, or The Store of Wisdom']. Sialkot: Punjab Press, 1896. 8vo, contemporary half calf (front board detached), 448 pp., in Urdu;
[Medicine] Ghulam Jilani. Makhzan al-adwiyah dukturi materia medica bi'l-tasawir ['The Doctor's Store of Medicines, or Materia Medica, Illustrated']. Lahore: Nawal Kishore, 1915. Volume 2 only, 8vo, contemporary cloth, 997-2412 pp., in Persian;
[Artillery]. Top Khanekee Kuwaed. Or, Translation of the Manuel of Field Artillery Exercises of 1861. Corrected up to date. Under the Order of His Highness the Maharajah Jeeyajee Rao Saheb Scindia Alejiah Badoor ... Gwalior: printed at the Military Press. By Nazmi Moonshee Luchman Das, 1870. 8vo, recent quarter leather, title-pages in English, Hindi and Urdu, text in Hindi and Urdu, numerous folding tables, chipping especially to outer leaves;
[Cookery]. Viyanjan[?] Prakash. Delhi: Matba' Iftikhar, c.1900. 8vo, recent quarter leather, 80 pp., in Urdu, illustrated throughout, annotations in Hindi;
[Horsemanship]. Zaynat al-Khayl ['The Beauty of Horses']. [Lucknow]: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1900. Large 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, 218 pp., illustrations in text, binding defective, worming;
and 5 similar including: [Hunting] Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahman Khan, Rahnama-i Shikar, 1932 (4 halftone photographic plates, chipping to outer leaves, crude tape-repair to title-page); a sammelband of cosmographical and 'aja'ib literature; another pharmacopeia (lacking the title-page); and others; collations not fully established and the lot sold as seen