British India and the Raj. [Amir Khusrau/Amir Khusrow & ...

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£350

British India and the Raj. [Amir Khusrau/Amir Khusrow & Mir Amman (translator)], [The Tale of the Four Dervishes/Bāgh o Bahār/Kissah-i Chahar Darwesh], [?Delhi], [c. 1860], printed in Urdu, contemporary ?English quarter-calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, red-speckled edges, 8vo, another book, unrelated, Judaica, 12 numbers of an illustrated Jewish periodical, bound as one, 1888, printed in ?Hebrew, calligraphic overall title-page printed in gilt, presumably an annual run complete in itself, in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter-roan over cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine, 4to, (2). 

Provenance: 1st: ? presumably the Sgt. William Forbes Mitchell, formerly of the Crimean War and accidentally of the Indian Mutiny/Rebellion of 1857, whose 1857-59 memoirs (London, 1893) captured the public's attention. ; No. 3715/William Mitchell/No 8 Company/HM's 93rd Highlanders/Rawul Pindee [i.e. Rawalpindi, Pakistan]/28th October/1860, ink manuscript ownership inscription, another later, to verso: Wm Mitchell/Commissariat Department/Campbellpore [sic, Campbellpur, but i.e. Attock, Pakistan]/13th September/1861.