Name: Auction: India Collection of 22 rare works in Urdu
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 6930 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 792Our June Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs auction featured a superb presentation copy of Ian Fleming's <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/280" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Casino Royale</a>, inscribed by the author, one of 500 hardback copies of the first edition of <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/262" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone</a><a href="/stories/rare-harry-potter-first-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">,</a> a complete deluxe set of <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/256" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A. A. Milne’s</a> Winnie-the-Pooh books, signed in each volume by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard and presented in exceptional condition throughout, an extensive single-owner collection of early photography including calotype prints by Hill and Adamson, important signed letters by historical titans including <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/219" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Oliver Cromwell</a> and <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-792/lot/41" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Winston Churchill</a>, and a delightful collection of original sketches by Louis Wain.&nbsp;Sale Contact<a href="/about/specialists/cathy-marsden" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cathy Marsden</a> | 0131 557 8844 | <a href="mailto:cathy.marsden@lyonandturnbull.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cathy.marsden@lyonandturnbull.com</a>Buyers Guide

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Ian Fleming | British 1908 - 1964

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Fleming, Ian | Casino Royale | London: Jonathan Cape, 1953 | First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author

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Lithographically printed and in recent quarter leather or cloth bindings with gilt spines, 8vo and 4to, decorative floral title-pages, titles include: [Munshi Muhammad 'Abd al-Ghafur]. Gulshan-i Umara ['The Rose Garden of Princes], 1878, title-page in Hindi and Urdu, main text in Hindi, containing lithographic miniature-style portraits of Indian rulers; [Nawal Kishore press]. Fihrist kitabkhana tijarati matba' Munshi Nawal Kishore, Lukhnau ve-Kanpur ve-Lahur [Catalogue of books issued by the Nawal Kishore printing press, Lucknow, Kanpur and Lahore']. Lucknow, c.1880; Famine Report. [Urdu title:] Ripurt Qaht. Ajmer: Mayo Press, c.1900; [Bhagavad Gita, in Urdu, illustrated], Delhi, 1927, text in Urdu and Hindi, numerous hand-coloured lithographic plates (several folding), lacking title-page; [Urdu grammar]. Safwat al-masadir, [Lucknow], Nawal Kishore, 1886 (containing conjugation tables in Urdu); ['Abd al-Wasi' Hansavi]. Risalat ‘Abd al-Wasi’. Kanpur: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1900 (Library of Congress: 'On the grammar, rhetoric and figures of speech of Persian language; includes critical study of Persian poetry'); and 16 others similar (22)

Collection of 22 rare works in Urdu

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Collection of 22 rare works in Urdu

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