The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam [Limited Edition Copy with ilustrations by Abanindranath Tagore]
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; drop-over portfolio with paper-covered boards along with ribbons and a cloth spine, and with the title-ticket pasted on the cover. Size of prints: 7.5 x 5.25 in (19 x 13.3 cm) Size of cardboard mounts: 12 x 9.6 in (30 x 24 cm) Size of the book: 12.4 x 8.8 x 1 in (31.2 x 22 x 2.5 cm) Limited edition of 250 copies of which this is copy number 36.
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Rs 75,000 - 1,00,000
$905 - 1,205
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Rs 2,88,000 |
$3,470
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Nandalal Bose [Signed book by Nandalal Bose] + Pictures from the Life of Buddha
a) Nandalal Bose pp. 32 including the covers + 8 plates tipped-in on one side of each sheet, 2 in colour; thread-stitched softcover catalogue for the show with a black and white illustration by Nandalal Bose on cover with his printed signature. 29 x 23 x 0.5 cm Signed and dated in pencil on the half-title page, “Nandalal Bose / 7.8.56" A souvenir of the exhibition held March-April 1954. The exhibition was held under the joint auspices of Santiniketan Asramika Sangha and Government College of Art and Crafts, Calcutta.
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Rs 80,000 - 1,00,000
$965 - 1,205
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Rs 2,88,000 |
$3,470
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Delhi Sketch Book [Set of 2]
a) Anonymous, The Delhi Sketch Book , [Delhi], 1852 Volume III, June 1, 1852, No. II Volume III, July 1, 1852, No. III Volume III, September 1, 1852, No. V Volume III, August 1, 1852, No. IV Volume II, March 1, 1852, No. XI Volume II, April 1, 1852, No. XII Volume III, May 1, 1852, No. I With roughly about 250 pages; half leather bound with gilt text at the spine and 5 raised bands, marbled end papers 28.5 x 22.5 x 3 cm
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Rs 1,25,000 - 1,50,000
$1,510 - 1,810
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Rs 3,84,000 |
$4,627
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Vintage Raja Ravi Varma Postcards [Set...
Including a set of 22 Halftone Postcards, Divided back, Circa 1905 Printed front (on each): The title Printed verso (on each): The Original caption and The Ravi Varma-Press Karla Series No. 804, 805, 806, 807, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833 and 834 respectively. 5.4 x 3.3 in (13.6 x 8.65cm) (each) a) Saraswati , The Goddess of Learning. b) Gajagauri , Goddess Parwati. c) Hanuman , The monkey God with Sanjeeva-parvata in hand. d) Laxmi , The Goddess of wealth. e) Victory of Indrajit , Indrajit brings Indra as a captive before his father Ravana with the riches and the nymphs of Indra-Loka. f) Sita's Marriage , Marriage of Sita with Rama. g) Gangavataran , Shankar receives the river Ganga on his head in compliance with the prayers of Bhageeratha. h) Krishna Shisthayi , Shree Krishna as an ambassador at the court of Duryodhan. i) Shankar , God Shankar with his son Ganapati and his wife Parvati and his vehicle Nandi or the sacred bull. j) Mohini , The Goddess of beauty sitting on a swing. k) Ram Sagar-Darpaharan , Rama while crossing the river on his way to Lanka, brings down the pride of the king of sea, who surrenders to Rama. l) Radha-Vilas , A love scene between Radha and her consort Lord Krishna. m) Damayanti Vanawasa , Damayanti was the daughter of the king Bhimaka. She was a wife of Nala, who lost his kingdom being defeated in playing dice and went to a forest to suffer hardships. Damayanti also went with him. afterwards the king Nala left her alone in the forest and went away. This picture represents her in thought and great misery. n) Jatayuwadha , Ravana, while carrying away Sita, is being attacked by the bird Jatayu, with whom he fights. o) Kirat & Bhilli , God Shankar dressed as a hunter and Goddess Parvati as huntress. p) Sita-Vanvas , Sita, when captured by Ravan the king of Lanka was carried and kept in a forest named Ashok-van by him, and he ordered demons to watch her. This picture represents Sita sitting in thought under a tree. q) Birth of Shakuntala , Menaka sent by Indra to disturb sage Vishwamitra in his penances, succeeds in her mission and gets a child by him. While going back to Indra-loka, she offers the child to Vishwamitra, who feeling penitent for his weakness tries to avoid Menaka and disown the child. r) Damayanti , Being separated from her husband Nala, the fair Damayanti enters her father’s place, yet feeling deeply for her husband, she is represented as sitting in a moon light, her maid standing by her side. s) Haunsa-Damayanti Sanvada , The bird Haunsa goes and extols to Damayanti all about Nala, when she is in a garden. t) Vishnu Garud-vahan , God Vishnu with his wives, the goddesses of the earth, and the wealth, is represented as riding on his vehicle Garud. u) Vishwamitra-Menaka , This scene shows Menaka as tempting the great sage Vishwamitra, who yields to her and gets Shakuntala by her. v) Shakuntala Patra-lekhana , Shakuntala, while dwelling in a forest, near the river Malini, writes a letter on a lotus leaf to Dushyanta, feeling doubtful that he loved her. Set of 5 Black and white Postcards, Divided back, Circa 1900 Printed front (on each): The title Printed verso (on each): The Original caption [2] and P S Joshi, Oriental Publishing House, Ghatkopar (Bombay). Printed in Saxony No. 21, 28, 82, 86 and 100, respectively. 14 x 9 cm (each) w) Kadambri x) Savitri and Satyawan y) Rama-Sagar-Darpaharan , Rama's oath to destroy the sea and his submission. z) Krishna-Lia , Gopis are begging the God Shri-Krishna to return the clothes which he has taken high up on Kadam-tree, and which were left by them on the river-bank. z1) The Fruit Girl z2) 1 colour postcard with divided back printed in Saxony. Numbered 665 on verso. Set of 2 handwritten letters in ink on a stamped and sealed postcard with Raja Ravi Varma's print on the left-hand side of the front and advertisement at lower bottom. The written text of the letter continues to the verso (each) z3) Allibhoy Esmailjee, Printer and Commission Agent, 171, Abdul Rehman Street, Bombay z4) AGENCY OF BOMBAY. We are Supplying Country & Foreign Goods at Moderate Rate. Ramgulam Dwarkadass, Kandevadi, Bombay
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Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000
$1,810 - 2,410
Winning bid
Rs 3,12,000 |
$3,759
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Iqbal: Poet of the East [Signed and numbered in English and signed in Urdu by Chughtai]
Sir Mohammad Iqbal (1877-1938), Iqbal: Poet of the East , Lahore: Nissar Art Press, 1968 462 pages including 36 tipped-in colour plates printed by City Engraving Company, Hull, 25 photogravures printed in England, 8 calligraphic plates printed in letter-press and 1 etching; each painting and photogravure has the English translation of Iqbal's quatrain on which it is based on the facing page; original padded leather binding with fine dust jacket as brought out in the deluxe edition by Haji Basheer of Ambala Binders, Lahore 13.9 x 11.6 x 1.9 in (35.5 x 29.5 x 5 cm) This is the special deluxe edition. Limited to 275 copies printed on Japanese Vellum handmade paper. Signed and numbered by the artist Chughtai. This is copy no. 210. Signed and numbered in English and signed in Urdu by Chughtai at the last page.
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Rs 2,50,000 - 3,00,000
$3,015 - 3,615
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Rs 3,36,000 |
$4,048
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The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected with it (from the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With illustrative Prints, engraved by William Daniell, from pictures painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights
William Daniell, The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected With It (From the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With Illustrative Prints, Engraved by William Daniell, From Pictures Painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights , London: Printed For William Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square. By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars., 1814 [2], 99, [1] pp. frontispiece and 16 black and white aquatint plates on mounted India-proof paper with tissue guards engraved by William Daniel after Robert Smirke; half leather bound with 5 raised bands and gilt text along with decorative motif on the spine, marbled boards. 42.5 x 33 x 2.8 cm
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Rs 80,000 - 1,00,000
$965 - 1,205
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Rs 1,80,000 |
$2,169
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The Golden Book of Tagore: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday [Limited Edition Copy]
Ramananda Chatterjee, The Golden Book of Tagore: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday , Calcutta: Golden Book Committee, 1931, 1st edition xx, (2), pp. 374, (2), 30 plates including 1 Frontispiece [Photogravure portrait of Tagore, after a photograph by Martin Vos], 29 plates, many of them tipped-in colour plates [with tissue guards carrying title and artist's name] by Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, A D Thomas, Gaganendranath Tagore, Samarendranath Gupta, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Ramendranath Chakraborty. Others are reproductions of works by a Chinese and a Japanese artist, portraits of Tagore done by eminent Indian and Western artists and early photographs of Tagore; bound in silk with a roundel in red and golden vegetal design pasted on the cover. A paper title ticket pasted on spine, most pages remain uncut along the top edge, new end papers. Facsimile reproduction of a handwritten and signed letter by Tagore on Santiniketan letterhead relating to the publication pasted on front pastedown. 11.75 x 9 x 2 in (30 x 23 x 5 cm) This is the 405th edition of a limited edition of 1500 copies of the 1st edition.
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Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000
$1,810 - 2,410
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Rs 2,88,000 |
$3,470
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The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth , Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press and Navajivan Karyalaya, 1929-33 Volume I: [12] + 602 pages including author's halftone photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard; 1933, reprint of the 1927 first edition. Volume II: viii + 608 pages including author's halftone photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard; 1929, first edition Original beige cloth boards with spine and front panel lettered black, uncut edges (each) 9.25 x 6.25 x 2 in (23.6 x 16 x 4 cm) (each) Mahatma Gandhi's classic autobiography.
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Rs 3,00,000 - 4,00,000
$3,615 - 4,820
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Rs 3,36,000 |
$4,048
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Goal [Signed book by the Author]
Captain Dhyan Chand, Goal , Madras: Sport & Pastime, 1952 xii + [2] + 136 pages including 33 black and white plates + 8 advertisement pages at the end; original pictorial hardbound 21.2 x 13.5 x 1.7 cm Signed and inscribed by Dhyan Chand on front free endpaper: "With best wishes & good luck / to Major F.B.Uphoald. / Yours / DhyanChand / 22.12.52"
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Rs 75,000 - 1,00,000
$905 - 1,205
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Rs 1,92,000 |
$2,313
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High Adventure + Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing [Signed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay]
a) Edmund Hillary, High Adventure , London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955 226 including 1 colour frontispiece and 31 black and white photographic plates, 14 sketches by George Djurkovic in text and 7 maps by A Spark; original cloth bound covered with dust jacket 21 x 15 x 2.5 cm Signed by Hillary in blue ink to colour frontispiece from photograph depicting him at the summit of Mount Everest, 29 May 1953, and signed by fellow mountaineer and member of the successful 1953 British Mount Everest expedition George Lowe (1924-2013) on front free end paper. Hillary's first book and his account of his introduction to climbing and the 1953 climb to the summit of Mount Everest.
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Rs 1,00,000 - 1,50,000
$1,205 - 1,810
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Rs 2,64,000 |
$3,181
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Mosque at Lucknow
May 1, 1809
Hand coloured aquatint on paper
Print Size: 17.9 x 24.4 in (45.5 x 62 cm) Sheet Size: 19 x 25.5 in (48.3 x 65 cm) With Mount: 25.3 x 31.6 in (64.5 x 80.5 cm)
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Rs 2,00,000 - 3,00,000
$2,410 - 3,615
Winning bid
Rs 2,28,000 |
$2,747
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Assemblage of Hillmen Series: Series:...
March 1, 1820
Original hand-coloured aquatint with etching on paper
Print Size: 18.1 x 23.4 in (46 x 59.5 cm) Sheet Size: 19.8 x 25.3 in (50.5 x 64.5 cm) With Mount: 21.8 x 28.9 in (55.5 x 73.5 cm)
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Rs 2,00,000 - 2,50,000
$2,410 - 3,015
Winning bid
Rs 2,64,000 |
$3,181
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St. Paul‘s Cathedral, Calcutta
1848
Colour lithograph on paper
Print Size: 15.5 x 21.5 in (39.5 x 54.8 cm) Sheet Size: 16.4 x 22.5 in (41.8 x 57.3 cm) With Mount: 24.3 x 29.6 in (61.8 x 75.2 cm)
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Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000
$1,810 - 2,410
Winning bid
Rs 3,84,000 |
$4,627
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Remains of an Ancient Building near...
September 1795
Original hand-coloured aquatint with etching on paper
Print Size: 18.1 x 23.2 in (46 x 59 cm) Sheet Size: 18.3 x 23.6 in (46.5 x 60 cm) With Mount: 23.2 x 29.7 in (59.2 x 75.5 cm)
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Rs 3,50,000 - 4,50,000
$4,220 - 5,425
Winning bid
Rs 3,84,000 |
$4,627
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The Surrender of the Children of Tippoo ...
1800
Colour Mezzotint on paper
Print Size: 21.5 x 27.3 in (54.8 x 69.5 cm) With Mount: 27.9 x 33.8 in (71 x 86 cm)
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Rs 2,50,000 - 3,00,000
$3,015 - 3,615
Winning bid
Rs 3,84,000 |
$4,627
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