Lot 23
Indian lithographic printing
Collection of rare works in Urdu on various subjects
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
all stitched or in wrappers.
[Jaipur]. Tughra-i Nastaliq. Jaipur: Hira Lal Press, c.1890. Folio, original pictorial wrappers, [8] pp. text, 11 double-page plates including portraits of Mughal and contemporary Indian rulers including Queen Victoria, captions in Hindi, as well as Urdu, wrappers, text and plates printed in various colours throughout, wear to spine, wrappers slightly spotted and with a few nicks;
[Gynaecology]. ‘Ilm al-Nisa [’The Science of Women']. Sexual Science, 1904. Stiff red card wrappers, 104 pp., etc., closed tear in final leaf;
[Astrology]. Intikhab al-Nujum ['Selecting the Stars']. [Lucknow]: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1900. Later wrappers, 96 pp.;
[Indian detective play]. Chandar raka, ma'ruf bi Pulis Drama, Musannifuh Mister Ram Das ['A Few Stops, or, Police Drama, by Mister Ram Das']. Agra: 'Azizi Press, c.1900. 64 pp., later wrappers;
[Gwalior]. Akhbar-i Gwalior [Gwalior News, volume 8, issue 33], 1912. Folio, 3 leaves, stitched, Hindi and Urdu text in double column, a little staining, stitching separating;
and 15 others including Urdu novels, e.g. Muhammad ‘Abd al-Halim, Badr al-Nisa ki Musibat [The Trouble of Badr al-Nisa], Lucknow: Qawmi Press, 1896
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Footnote
Another edition of the first item (Tughra-i Nastaliq), printed in Kanpur and sold by Lyon & Turnbull on 8th February 2023, contained a biography in English of the author, named as Heera Lal of Jaipur, who was born in 1853 and describes himself as a tutor to 'several of the Rajput nobles of the Jeypore State amongst whom Thakur Mahtab Singh of the Rajawat clan, the Chief of Siwar, is one of my best and intelligent students'.