Indian lithographic printing
Women's health and conduct, and general medicine, collection of works, 19th and early 20th century
£378
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Chavasse, Henry. Bharyahit, or Hindi Translation of the English Work "Advice to a Wife" ... by Diwan Bahadur Chowbe Raghunath Dass, C.S.I, Diwan, Kotah State, Rajputana. Lucknow: Nawal Kishore, 1917. 8vo, contemporary half cloth, 329 pp., title-page in English and Hindi, printed in blue and red with decorative border, main text in Hindi;
Muhammad 'Azim Allah Sahib. Fimil Farmakupiya al-ma'ruf Tabib al-Nisa [Urdu title, i.e. 'The Female Pharmacopeia, or The Woman's Doctor']. Lahore: Karimi Press, c.1900. 8vo, contemporary cloth, 736 pp., text in Urdu, decorative border to title-page damp-staining to boards and outer leaves, wear to head and foot of spine;
Goswami, Radha Gharan. Vidhava Vivah Vivaran. Or a Treatise on Widow Marriage in Accordance with the Authorities of Reason, Shastras and Law. Mirzapur: Anand Kadambini Press, 1888. 8vo, contemporary cloth, 57 pp., text in Hindi, title-page with ink-staining, ownership inscription and private library ink-stamp, repair to final leaf;
Lal Narayan Das. Mufid al-ajsam ma' fawa'id 'ajibah [Urdu title, i.e. 'The Benefactor of Bodies, with Marvellous Benefits']. Delhi: Matba' Iftikhar, 1891. 8vo, recent quarter leather, 60 pp., text in Urdu, decorative border to title-page, includes information on venereal diseases (e.g. gonorrhoea at p. 35), a few stains;
and 5 others similar, in Hindi or Urdu, on various subjects, including Iksir-i A'zam [Urdu title: 'The Great Elixir'], Kanpur: Matba' Nizami, c.1900, 4to, in Urdu, wormed and browned, covers detached, possibly a compendium of classical medicine (Hippocrates and Galen mentioned on title-page), works on Hinduism, etc., collations not fully established, the lot sold as seen