SIGNED, FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION BOOKS (16-17 MAY 2023)

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Lot 37

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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) 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 90,000 - 1,25,000 $1,115 - 1,545 Details	Winning bid Rs 96,000 \| $1,185 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 38

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Karl Khandalavala 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. 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 80,000 - 1,00,000 $990 - 1,235 Details	Winning bid Rs 84,000 \| $1,037 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 40

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Barjorjee Nowrosjee 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) 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 60,000 - 75,000 $745 - 930 Details	Winning bid Rs 60,000 \| $741 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 43

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C P Ray and P Shome Art of Mr H Majumdar P Shome and C P Ray, Art of Mr H Majumdar: Volume III, Calcutta: Indian Academy of Art, c.1927 11 plates including 1 tipped in colour plate on brown thick paper; original decorated card covers enclosed in a full leather folder 11.5 x 9 x 0.25 in (29.2 x 23.2 x 1 cm) Signed, dated and inscribed "With Warmest regards to- / S. N Mallik Esq. / Hemendranath signature's / 8/3/25" on the front endpaper. 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 60,000 - 75,000 $745 - 930 Details	Winning bid Rs 90,000 \| $1,111 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 44

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Richard Bartholomew and Shiv S Kapur Husain Richard Bartholomew and Shiv S Kapur, Husain, New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc., Circa 1972 242 pp, with 60 pages of text and over 200 pages of about 192 illustrations with 53 hand tipped plates in full colour; hardbound in maroon cloth binding with a Husain drawing printed in silver on the cover with original dust jacket 11 x 11.75 in (28 x 30 cm) The book is a presentation copy by the author Shiv S Kapur inscribed in ink on the front endpaper "For Asha, / with much love / the authors signature" and dated 1972. It also has Husain's signature in English, Urdu, Hindi and Malayalam and dated "3 VIII' 73" on the half title page. 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,00,000 - 1,25,000 $1,235 - 1,545 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,32,000 \| $1,630 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 49

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Sourindro Mohun Tagore The twenty principal Kavyakaras of the Hindus, or extracts from the works of twenty of the most renowned literati of India Sourindro Mohun Tagore, The twenty principal Kavyakaras of the Hindus, or extracts from the works of twenty of the most renowned literati of India: An offering to the Sixth International Congress of Orientalists, to be held at Leyden in September 1883, Calcutta: I C Bose and co., 1883 [18], 46 [2] blank pages including lithographed frontispiece; original full leather bound in morocco with elaborate gold tooling borders on both upper and lower boards, a beautiful monogram of gilt Saraswati on both upper and lower boards, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt 11.75 x 9.5 x 0.5 in (30 x 24.5 x 1.3 cm) Inscribed on a bookplate pasted on the front pastedown mentioning "PRESENTED / BY / O. Browning M.A. / Senior Fellow / 1903" 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,25,000 - 1,50,000 $1,545 - 1,855 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,32,000 \| $1,630 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

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