Urdu lithographic printing Two veterinary treatises

Urdu lithographic printing Two veterinary treatises Tibb aspan [Treatment of horses]. Lahore: Nawal Kishore Steam Press, 1912. Large 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 296 pp., browning, wrappers with marginal chips, damp-stains and tissue-repairs;Tibb shutaran [Treatment of camels]. Lahore: Rifah-i 'Am Steam Press, 1906. Large 8vo, contemporary wrappers, 4 160 [4] pp., pictorial title-page, browning, front wrapper repaired, a few pencil markings to contentsNote: Note:The author of both works is named on the title-pages as one Khansahib Sayyid Sirdar Shah Gilani. No other copies traced; the work on camels is stated second edition on the title-page. The Rifah-i 'Am press in Lahore was established by Mumtaz Ali (1865-1915), an Islamic scholar remembered as a pioneering advocate of women's rights. The Nawal Kishore Press, founded at Lucknow in 1858 by Hindu entrepreneur Nawal Kishore (1836-1895), 'grew into the largest Indian-owned printing and publishing firm in South Asia. Supported by colonial patronage, the firm published an estimated 5,000 titles in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit and Hindi during Nawal Kishore's lifetime, while it also served as an intellectual hub for scholars, poets and literati. As one observer noted: "No other press in India was fortunate to have such a large number of huffaz, scholars, historians, writers and poets as were gathered simultaneously at this press"' (Ulrike Stark, 'Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur'an Printing in Colonial India', in Reese, ed., Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition, 2002, p. 158).