An Urdu tour of Delhi
Rahnuma-yi Dihli [Guide to Delhi].
8vo. 4, 488 pp., lithographed throughout. With 12 folding lithograph plates, elaborate lithograph borders on title-page, and over 100 pages of facsimiles reproducing stone carvings and other documents in a variety of languages. Half marbled boards and cloth, spine replaced.
€ 2,500.00
A scarce traveller's guide to Delhi, written in Urdu by an Englishman, with folding lithograph plates and the original lithograph wrappers bound in. Only one other copy is held in institutions on OCLC (University of Pennsylvania).
This fascinating volume concludes with over one hundred pages of facsimiles of stone carvings, manuscripts, and other documents from Delhi and its surroundings, from ancient monoliths to British colonial gravestones. The work itself is illustrated with 12 folding plates of delicately rendered views, including Delhi's Red Fort (Lal Qila), St James's church (the church of the British Viceroy), Jama Masjid, and various street scenes, ruins, and more, building a picture of Delhi in the second half of the 19th century.
Browned, marginal worming, closed tear, subtly repaired; plates occasionally split or detached along folds, with some edgewear.
Cf. OCLC 123000157
