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Iqbāl-i farang : dar shamah-yi sīr-i ahl-i farang bā farhang, bā tarjumah ān balafz̤ah bazabān ingrīzī / taṣnīf, Navab Iqbal ad-Daulah Bahadur.
اقبال فرنگ : در شمۂ سیر فرنگ با فرھنگ، با ترجمہ آن بلفظہ بزبان انگریزی تصنیف، نواب اقبال الدولہ بہادر.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DS475.8 .I63 1834
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iqbāl ad-Daulah Bahādur, Navāb.
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, Lord, 1774-1839.
- British--India--Social life and customs.
- Arts, British--India.
- Arts, British.
- British--Social life and customs.
- India.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rixon, Miss (former owner) (RBC copy)
- Trevelyan, Charles Edward, Baronet, 1807-1886 (former owner) (RBC copy)
- Callie, B. (inscription) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 197 pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 fold.) : portraits ; 17 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition]
- Other Title:
- Icbal-e-Furung or British prosperity : being a short description of the manners, customs, arts, and sciences of the enlightened British, by Nuwwab Icbal-ood Dowlah Buhadoor, accompanied by a literal translation into the English
- British prosperity
- Icbal e Furung PU
- Place of Publication:
- Kalkatah : Mat̤baʻ-i T̤ibī, 1239 hijri [1834]
- Language Note:
- In Persian, with literal translation into English on facing page.
- Notes:
- English imprint: Calcutta, Printed at the Medical Press, 1834.
- With three portraits printed on lithographic plates.
- Written by a descendant of the Nawabs of Awadh, seeking the restoration of pension from Governor General William Bentinck.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund.
- RBC copy contains a presentation inscription from Mr. B. Callie, Calcutta, dated 14 August, 1834, noting the account of Mr. [Charles] Trevelyan: ("Miss Rixon, the kind gift of Mr. Trevelyan, Calcutta, 14th August, 1834. Favored by Mr. B. Callie who will no doubt kindly give instruction as to its perusal").
- RBC copy purchased from John Randall (Books of Asia) in 2017.
- RBC copy bound in contemporary Indian straight-grain morocco; all edges gilt.
- OCLC:
- 956943856
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