Name: Auction: Urdu lithographic printing Anwar al-nujum [The Lights of the Stars]
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 3528 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs 

Sale number: 725 Our Wednesday 08 February 2023 auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs include a superb copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the masterpiece of the private press movement, a unique association copy of the Cranwell edition of T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a first-edition set of The Lord of the Rings complete with the dust jackets, a remarkable naval document signed by Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, a dedicated section of books and manuscripts relating to India and South Asia including autograph letters by Mahatma Gandhi, and more.

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Tasnif sultan al-munajjimin [compiled by the 'lord of astronomers'], Mir Ghulam Hasan Sahib Dihlavi. Lucknow: Matba' Majma' al-'ulum, Munshi 'Abd al-Ghani, 1293 AH [i.e. 1876/7 CE]. 8vo, contemporary boards retaining fragments of cloth, text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, pp. 4, 260, title-page and colophon elaborately decorated with repeating floral design, some 20 illustrations in the text including the signs of the Zodiac, numerous tables, rubricated underlinings and marginalia, ownership inscriptions and other annotations to endpapers a few margins, retaining original lithographic rear wrapper, original front wrapper laid in (chipped), browning, pp. 59-64 with loss to upper fore corners not affecting text

Urdu lithographic printing

Anwar al-nujum [The Lights of the Stars]

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