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Chughtai‘s Paintings - Dr. James H. Cousins - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Chughtai‘s Paintings

Dr James H Cousins, Chughtai’s Paintings, Lahore (India): Jahangir Book Club, Chabuk Sawaran, no date but Circa 1940 and thus first edition.

pp 24 + 39 tipped-in plates in all (34 plates in colour, 2 pencil drawings, 3 monochromes) with tissue guards carrying the title; rebound in half leather bound with 4 raised bands at the spine and slate-grey paper-covered boards with title pasted on the front board, new end papers. Introduction and critical annotations by Mrs. Razia Siraj-ud-Din.

Presentation copy from the Author. Bearing presentation inscription "With deepest regards / Abdur Rahman Chughtai's signature / 29/10/37" on the page facing "List of Plates"

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Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists - Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita (Margaret E Noble) - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita (Margaret E Noble), Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists, London: George G Harrap and Company Ltd., 1913

pp. xii, 400 pages with 32 very fine colour plates including a frontispiece, all the plates by Indian artists such as Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, K Venkatappa, Surendra Nath Kar, Kshitindra Nath Mazumdar and Asit Kumar Haldar all working under Tagore; finely printed on Japanese vellum, with captioned tissue guards for plates; publisher's vellum over boards, with gilt titles to spine and blind decoration of GANESHA to the upper board, top edge gilt; others untrimmed.
9.8 x 7 x 2.6 in (24.5 x 17.5 x 6.5 cm)

An out-of-series copy from a limited edition of just 75 copies of which this is an unnumbered copy. Other copies were numbered and signed by George G Harrap & Co. This is the Deluxe first edition.

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Buddha Gaya: The Hermitage of Sakya Muni - Rajendralala  Mitra - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Buddha Gaya: The Hermitage of Sakya Muni

Rajendralala Mitra, Buddha Gaya, The Hermitage of Sakya Muni, Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1878, first edition

xiii + [2] + 257 pages including 12 original tipped-in autotype photographs, 38 lithographic plates and 1 photozincograph plate in blue ink; rebound in contemporary full leather with ornamental floral pattern debossed on the front and back boards, gilt leather title ticket pasted on the front board and at the spine with 5 raised boards, new end papers
12 x 9.5 x 2 in (31 x 24.5 x 5 cm)

The book is a historical and archaeological account of the Buddhist pilgrimage site of Bodh Gaya, located in the present-day Indian state of Bihar.

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Indian Round Table Conference - Emery  Kelen - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Emery Kelen (1896 - 1978)

Indian Round Table Conference

Emery Kelen, Indian Round Table Conference, London: Emery Kelen, 1930-32

Unpaginated; publisher's title page with 85 loose plates further housed in a customised solander box measuring 16 x 12 x 1.5 in (40.5 x 31 x 4 cm)

The album was printed and hand-colored in a limited edition of 200 copies. 50 copies of this edition were on hand-made paper and contained in a leather portfolio and numbered 1 to 50. 150 copies were on high-class paper contained in an Art-cloth portfolio and numbered 51 to 200. This lot has loose plates and are further housed in a customised solander box.

This copy is an unnumbered copy unlike the other copies which were numbered and signed by the artist.

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British and Indian Troops in Northern France: War Sketches by Paul Sarrut 1914-1915 - Paul  Sarrut - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Paul Sarrut (1882 - 1969)

British and Indian Troops in Northern France: War Sketches by Paul Sarrut 1914-1915

Paul Sarrut, British and Indian Troops in Northern France: War Sketches by Paul Sarrut 1914-1915, Arras: H Delepine, 1914-15

60 (of 70) loose plates with tinted lithographs mounted on thick brown sheets, some sheets having 2 or 3 pictures mounted; loose as issued in publisher's portfolio cloth with ribbon
19 x 12 x 0.75 in (48.3 x 30.5 x 2 cm)

A note, signed in manuscript by the artist, on the title page explains that this is Copy No. 211 of 250. Signed by Paul Sarrut.

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The Ascent of Everest - John  Hunt - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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John Hunt (1910 - 1998)

The Ascent of Everest

John Hunt, The Ascent of Everest, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1954, first edition, third impression

xx + 300 pages including 48 half-tone plates and many in-text illustrations after pen-and-ink sketches and 8 colour photographs, 4 maps, sketches, 9 appendices, glossary, and index; original blue cloth covers with gilt text at the spine without dust jacket
9 x 6 x 1.25 in (22.8 x 15 x 3.2 cm)

Hand-signed by Sherpa Tenzing in navy blue ink on the frontispiece.

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 From Russia With Love - Ian Lancaster  Fleming - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908 - 1964)

From Russia With Love

Ian Fleming, From Russia With Love, London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, 12th printing

206 pages, paperback
7 x 4.25 x 0.5 in (17.6 x 11 x 1.5 cm)

Signed to the inside page 'Ian Fleming'.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car and Thrilling Cities - Ian Lancaster  Fleming - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908 - 1964)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car and Thrilling Cities

. Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964

(In 3 Volumes)
Volume I,II,III: 48 pages with illustrations in colour & in b/w (both full page and within text) by John Burningham; hardbound in pictorial boards, matching unclipped dustjacket and pictorial endpapers (each)
9.25 x 6.5 x 0.25 in (23.6 x 16.5 x 1 cm) (each)

Ian Fleming's "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car" is a series of three volumes of children's books first published in 1964 and became an instant classic, beloved by children and adults alike.

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The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling [35 volumes, Limited Edition Complete Set, Signed by the Author in Volume One] - Rudyard  Kipling - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling [35 volumes, Limited Edition Complete Set, Signed by the Author in Volume One]

Rudyard Kipling, The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, London: Macmillan and Company, Sussex Edition, 1937-39

The Sussex Edition. Number 78 of 525 sets, signed by the author in volume one; hardbound in full crimson Niger morocco, bound by James Burn & Co. Ltd., with raised bands in six compartments, gilt, and double gilt fillet borders to upper and lower boards. Top edges gilt on rough, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Titles handsomely printed by R.& R. Clark Ltd. of Edinburgh on hand-made rag-paper by Messrs. Portals Ltd. in white on chestnut panels, printed on handmade paper with a watermark of Ganesha (each).
9.75 x 6.75 in (25 x 17.5 cm) (each)

The Sussex edition is universally considered as unquestionably the definitive and most desirable edition of Kipling's collected works. It is also one of the most splendid and extravagantly produced of all literary sets.

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Signed letter by English landscape artist Thomas Daniell - Thomas  Daniell - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Thomas Daniell (1749 - 1840)

Signed letter by English landscape artist Thomas Daniell

Signed and handwritten letter in black ink by Thomas Daniell, dated 21st September 1814, inviting William Upcot for tea, with rare stamp of unpaid postage, single page, 9 x 7 in (22.8 x 17.7 cm)

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Rubaiyat Poeme D‘Omar Khayyam - M Robert  Delpeuch - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Rubaiyat Poeme D‘Omar Khayyam

M Robert Delpeuch, Rubaiyat Poeme D'Omar Khayyam, Paris: Studio Edition: Librairie P Ollendorff, 1910

Complete set of 12 colour plates by Abanindranath Tagore tipped in on thick cardboard sheets with tissue guards as issued, each print set within grey borders printed on the board with tissue guards carrying the quatrain on which each painting is based printed in red, top edges gilt, with 16-page string-tied booklet printed in London (carrying the 75 quatrains in the first edition of Edward Fitzgerald's version published in 1859), translated into French by M Robert Delpeuch; set loose as issued in original cloth fold-over portfolio with paper cover label, ribbon ties
Size of prints: 7.5 x 5.25 in (19 x 13.3 cm)
Size of cardboard mounts: 12 x 9.5 in (30 x 24 cm)
Size of the book: 12.25 x 8.5 x 1 in (31.2 x 22 x 2.5 cm)

Limited Edition of 250 copies of which this is Copy No. 57

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The First Century. Portraits in Celebration of the Daimler-Benz Centennial 1886-1986 - Ken  Dallison - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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The First Century. Portraits in Celebration of the Daimler-Benz Centennial 1886-1986

Ken Dallison, The First Century. Portraits in Celebration of the Daimler-Benz Centennial 1886-1986, Montvale, New Jersey: Mercedes-Benz of North America Inc., 1986

127 pages including 50 full-color illustrations by Dallison; oversized landscape-format original black leather binding [approx. 13.25 x 17.25 in (34 x 44 cm)] with the Mercedes-Benz logo blind stamped on front board and beveled board edges housed in original linen clam shell slipcase furnished with blue velvet [approx. 15 x 18.5 in (38 x 47 cm)]

This Limited Edition of The First Century is limited to 2,050 copies, signed and numbered by the artist, Ken Dallison. Of these, 2,000 copies are numbered 1 to 2,000; and 50 copies, identified as Artist's Proofs, are numbered 1 to 50. All have been specially bound and boxed. This is edition no. 1277.

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High quality printed Quran in a customized box with Intarsia - Anonymous   - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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High quality printed Quran in a customized box with Intarsia

High quality printed Quran with 516 pages measuring 13.5 x 10 x 1.25 in (34.5 x 25.5 x 3.5 cm) with full leatherbound and gilt decoration on the boards enclosed in a box decorated with Intarsia measuring 15.5 x 11.5 x 4 in (39.5 x 29.5 x 10.2 cm), cladded with red velvet from inside.

This exquisite box exemplifies the Islamic-inspired Intarsia technique, which is entirely formed of geometrical patterns and, as such, is more difficult to put within a specific context.

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Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix - J K Rowling - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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J K Rowling (b.1965)

Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix

J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2003, first edition, first impression

766 pages; original illustrated boards with fine dust jacket having cover illustration by Jason Cockcroft
8 x 5.5 x 2.75 in (20.5 x 14 x 7 cm)

Signed by J K Rowling on a bookplate on the endpaper.

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Songs of the Sea from Rudyard Kipling’s Verse - Rudyard  Kipling - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

Songs of the Sea from Rudyard Kipling’s Verse

Rudyard Kipling, Songs of the Sea from Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1927

xi + 99 pages including 12 colour plates and numerous monotone illustrations throughout by Donald Maxwell; original quarter vellum with light blue-grey paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, housed in original slipcase.
11.5 x 9.5 x 0.75 in (29.5 x 24 x 2 cm)
12 x 9.5 x 1 in (30.5 x 24.5 x 3 cm) (with slipcase)

Signed by the author to the limitation page. First edition, one of 500 large paper copies.

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The Royal Tour in India. A Record of the Tour of T. R. H. The Prince and Princess of Wales in India and Burma, from November 1905 to March 1906 - Stanley  Reed - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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The Royal Tour in India. A Record of the Tour of T. R. H. The Prince and Princess of Wales in India and Burma, from November 1905 to March 1906

Stanley Reed, The Royal Tour in India. A Record of the Tour of T. R. H. The Prince and Princess of Wales in India and Burma, from November 1905 to March 1906, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co, 1906, first edition

xxiv, 518 pages, [10] pp.; frontispiece portraits with tissue guards, full-page map, illustrated after photographs throughout, half-title; printed on specially made thick art glossy paper, containing 30 full-page portraits of British Royal families, Princes, Princesses, Governors, Indian Kings, 57 full-page images of different ceremonies, processions, rituals, different places in India and 213 small pages of aforesaid items; original publisher's maroon morocco leather binding with gilt text on the front boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt
12 x 9.25 in (30.4 x 23.4 cm)

This is a special deluxe binding edition which was done only for a few copies. Most of the copies are found to be bound in plain blue cloth.

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Sakoontala, or the Lost Ring - Monier  Williams - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Monier Williams (1819 - 1899)

Sakoontala, or the Lost Ring

Monier Williams, Sakoontala, or the Lost Ring: An Indian Drama. Translated into English prose and verse, from the Sanskrit of Kalidasa, by Monier Williams, MA, Professor of Sanskrit at the East-India College, Haileybury, formerly Boden scholar at the University of Oxford, Hertford: Stephen Austin, 1855

pp 227 + 27+ xxv, 17 plates; most impressive elaborate binding - for the publisher, Stephen Austin of Hertford - by Zaehnsdorf, full green Moroccan calf leather, heavily decorated in gilt with a central pictorial roundel within a floral design, title also gilt decorated, title in gilt on spine, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, elaborate endpapers; title enclosed within red-ruled border; colour printed head and tail-pieces, borders, and an added colour-printed title, plus 16 colour-printed plates.
8.75 x 7.25 x 1 in (22.5 x 18.5 x 2.7 cm)

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Pahari Miniature Painting - Karl  Khandalavala - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Pahari Miniature Painting

Karl Khandalavala, Pahari Miniature Painting, Bombay: The New Book Company Private Limited, 1958

pp. 584 including 47 tipped-in colour plates; 91 black and white photographic plates and 68 black and white illustrations; cloth-backed publisher's illustrated boards with dust jacket covered in mylar.
15 x 10.5 in (38.1 x 26.6 cm)

This copy is numbered 461 out of a limited-edition of 1000 copies.

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Indian Charivari: Volume V, 1879-80 - Anonymous   - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Indian Charivari: Volume V, 1879-80

Anonymous, Indian Charivari, Calcutta: Office No. 7 D'Acres Lane, Volume V: 3 January 1879 - Volume VIII: 18 December 1880

Volume V: January to May 1879
3 January: pp.1-11 / 17 January: pp.13-24 / 31 January: pp.25-36 / 14 February: pp.37-48 / 14 March: pp.61-72 / 28 March: pp.73-84 / 11 April: pp.85-96 / 25 April: pp.97-108 / 9 May: pp.109-120
Volume VI: July to December 1879
24 October: pp.97-108 / 7 November: pp.109-120 / 21 November: pp.121-132 / 5 December: pp.133-144 / 19 December: pp.145-156
Volume VII: January to June 1880
2 January: pp.1-12 / 16 January: pp.13-24 / 30 January: pp.25-36 / 13 February: pp.37-48 / 27 February: pp.49-60 / 12 March: pp.61-72 / 26 March: pp.73-84 / 9 April: pp.85-96 / 23 April: pp.97-108 / 7 May: pp.109-120 / 21 May: pp.121-132 / 4 June: pp.133-144 / 18 June: pp.145-156
Volume VIII: June to December 1880
2 July: pp.1-12 / 16 July: pp.13-24 / 31 July: pp.25-36 / 14 August: pp.37-48 / 28 August: pp.49-60 / 11 September: pp.61-72 / 9 October: pp.85-96 / 23 October: pp.97-108 / 6 November: pp.109-120 / 20 November: pp.121-132 / 4 December: pp.133-144 / 18 December: pp.145-156

Half leather binding with gilt title and 5 raised bands and marbled boards
12.5 x 10.5 x 1.5 in (31.6 x 26.5 x 4 cm)

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Cartoons from Hindi Punch for 1910 - Barjorjee  Nowrosjee - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Cartoons from Hindi Punch for 1910

Barjorjee Nowrosjee, Cartoons from the Hindi Punch for 1910: Being the Political and Social History of the country during the year told in humorous cartoons & C., Bombay: Barjorjee Nowrosjee at the "Hindi Punch" office, Bombay Samachar Press, Frere Road, Fort, 1910

vi + 36 unpaginated pages of advertisements in English and Gujarati in the beginning + 116 pages including mostly single full page cartoon till page no.100 with the caption in English, pages 5-6, 11-12, 35-36, 45-46, 47-48, 71-72, 79-80, 95-96, 99-100 have double spread cartoons including captions in English + pages 101-116 are Gujarati translation of the English captions + 34 unpaginated pages of advertisements in English and Gujarati at the end; rebound in contemporary half leather binding with gilt text at the spine retaining the original cover page inside.
11.25 x 8.75 x 0.75 in (28.5 x 22.5 x 2.2 cm)

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