Lot 57 Details

Absolute Tuesdays - Rare Books 13 May 2025

Multiple Artists

Untitled [Set of ...

• Coronation Durbar, Delhi. State...

Lot 46 Details

Absolute Tuesdays: Prints 5 September 2023

Multiple Artists

a) Paresh Maity (b....

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d) Ananda Moy Banerji (b.1959)
Untitled
Signed and dated 'Anandmoy Banerji 98' , inscribed 'JELU GAGADI' and '30/50' (along the lower edge)
1998
Serigraph on paper
Print size: 13 x 10 in (33.2 x 25.4 cm)
Sheet size: 15 x 11 in (38.1 x 27.9 cm)

Thirtieth from a limited edition of fifty

e) Bulbul Sharma (b. 1952)
Untitled
Signed 'Bulbul' (lower right)
1999
Serigraph on paper
Print size: 12.5 x 9.5 in (31.7 x 24.1 cm)
Sheet size: 15 x 11 in (38.1 x 27.9 cm)

f) Dhiraj Choudhary (1936- 2018)
Untitled
Signed 'Dhiraj' (lower right) and inscribed '4/15' (lower left)
1999
Serigraph on paper
Print size: 13 x 9.5 in (33.2 x 24.1 cm)
Sheet size: 15 x 11 in (38.1 x 27.9 cm)

Fourth from a limited edition of fifteen

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Rs 32,400
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Lot 9 Details

Absolute Tuesdays: Old Maps and Vintage Prints 28 February 2023

Multiple Artists

Set of Eight...

a) Hanhart after W...

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e) F Waller
Crossoptilon Tibetanum (White Eared-Pheasant)
1879
Chromolithograph on paper
9.75 x 6.25 in (25 x 15.6 cm)

f) F Waller after E Neale
Crus Leucogeranus
1879
Chromolithograph on paper
9.75 x 6.25 in (24.5 x 16 cm)

g) F Waller after E Neale
Ithaginis Cruentis (Blood Pheasant)
1879
Chromolithograph on paper
9.75 x 6.25 in (24.5 x 16 cm)

h) F Waller after E Neale
Callus Stanleyi
1879
Chromolithograph on paper
9.75 x 6.25 in (24.7 x 16 cm)

(Set of eight)

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Rs 26,400
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Lot 75 Details

Rare Books 21 September 2022

LALIT KALA AKADEMI‘S CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART SERIES (SET OF 17 VOLUMES)   by   Multiple Artists

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Lot 27 Details

Old Maps and Vintage Prints 26 July 2022

Multiple Artists

Set of four...

a) R Caton Woodville Jr. from a...

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c) Hounsom Byles after Lionel James
A Curious Interruption to a Polo Tournament in India
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
Print size: 12 x 9 in (30.5 x 23 cm)
Sheet size: 12.25 x 9.75 in (31.2 x 24.8 cm)

d.1) A Naga House in Manipur
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
6 x 9.25 in (15.2 x 23.5 cm)

d.2) Manipuri Polo Players and their ponies
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
6.5 x 9 in (16.2 x 23 cm)

Published in The Illustrated London News, No 2715, May 2, 1891.

(Set of four)

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Lot 46 Details

Old Maps and Vintage Prints 26 July 2022

Multiple Artists

Set of four...

a) Lorieux
Entree du Temple...

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c) Lorieux
Entree de la grande Pagode souterraine de Keneeri dans l ile de Salcette
1821
Later hand-coloured engraving on paper
Print size: 7 x 8.75 in (18 x 22.5 cm)
Sheet size: 9.25 x 11.5 in (23.5 x 29.5 cm)

Plate no. 79 from Monuments anciens et modernes de l'Hindoustan (Ancient and modern monuments of Hindustan), by Louis Langles, 1821, Paris.

d) Daudet
Le Djenouassa, ou le lieu des noces
1821
Later hand-coloured engraving on paper
Print size: 7 x 8.75 in (18 x 22.5 cm)
Sheet size: 9.25 x 11.5 in (23.5 x 29.5 cm)

Plate no. 44 from Monuments anciens et modernes de l'Hindoustan (Ancient and modern monuments of Hindustan), by Louis Langles, 1821, Paris.

(Set of four)

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Lot 50 Details

Old Maps and Vintage Prints 26 July 2022

Multiple Artists

Set of four...

a) RCH after William...

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c) William Simpson
Dowlutbad, in the territory of Nizam of Hyderabad, India
Circa 1870s
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
Print Size: 9.75 x 14.5 in (24.5 x 37 cm)
Sheet Size: 10 x 15.25 in (25.5 x 38.5 cm)

Published in Illustrated London News, 1887

d) Anonymous
The Old Palace at Bhurtpor, India
1876
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
Print Size: 9.75 x 13.5 in (24.7 x 34.4 cm)
Sheet Size: 10 x 14.25 in (25.7 x 36.2 cm)

Published in Illustrated London News, 12 March 1870

(Set of four)

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Rs 41,040
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Lot 52 Details

Old Maps and Vintage Prints 26 July 2022

Multiple Artists

Set of two...

a) Anonymous
The city and environs ...

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b) Alexis Soltykoff
The City of Delhi Before the Siege
Circa 1850s
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
10.25 x 14.75 in (26 x 37.2 cm)

Roughly toward the left side of the map:-
1. The Jumna
2. Offshoot of the Jumna
3. Pontoon Bridge
4. Salimghur, an ancient fort [on the river just north of the Red Fort, though its number seems to be missing or obscured]
5. Palace and Gardens
6. The Marble Hall, or Throne-room
7. Main street of Delhi, Chandni Chauk
8. Canal-street
9. The Banking-house
10. The Jumma Musjid
11. The Sadoola Khan [a large chauk or square created by Shah Jahan's vazir]
13. Negumbod Gate [near Nigambodh Ghat]
21. Turkoman Gate
22. Delhi Gate [of the city, not the Palace]
23. Gaol
24. Lunatic asylum
25. English church [the old Residency, between the church and the Magazine]
26. Magazine and Store Houses
27. Skinner's House
30. Kutub Minar
31. Ruins of Ancient Delhi

Roughly toward the right side of the map:-
2. Offshoot of the Jumna
12. The Musjid Fetihpore
14. Cashmere Gate
15. Moree Gate
16. Cabul Gate and Water Gate
17. The Canal
18. Lahore Gate [of the city, not the Palace]
19. Hindoo College [the Madrasa of Ghazi ud-din Khan]
20. Ajmere Gate
28. Customs House
29. Martello Towers [guard posts, marked at various points around the walls]

Published in The Illustrated London News, January 16, 1858.

This is the only historic walled city map of Old Delhi or Purani Dilli. It was named Shahjahanabad in 1639, when Shah Jahan decided to shift the Mughal capital from Agra. The construction of the city was completed in 1648, and it remained the capital of the Mughal Empire until its fall in 1857, when the British Raj took over as paramount power in India. It was once filled with mansions of nobles and members of the royal court, along with elegant mosques and gardens.

The surrounding walls, 12 feet (3.7 m) wide and 26 feet (7.9 m) tall, originally of mud, were replaced by red stone in 1657. In the Mughal period, the gates were kept locked at night. The walls have now largely disappeared, but 5 of the original 14 gates of the walled city of Delhi are still standing. They include: 1. Ajmeri Gate: Facing Ajmer in Rajasthan 2. Delhi Gate: Road to earlier cities of Delhi 3. Turkman Gate: Named after pious saint Hazrat Shah Turkam 4. Lahori Gate: Facing Lahore in Pakistan 5. Kashmiri Gate: Pointing North to Kashmir

(Set of two)

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Lot 16 Details

Absolute Tuesdays 5 July 2022

Multiple Artists

A Portfolio of...

Silkscreen on paper

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Sheet size: 15 x 10.75 in (38 x 27.4 cm)

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$2,132
Rs 1,62,000
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Lot 9 Details

Absolute Tuesdays 19 October 2021

Multiple Artists

A Portfolio of...

Silkscreen on paper

View Dimensions Print size: Variable
Sheet size: 15 x 10.75 in (38 x 27.4 cm)

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Rs 1,76,940
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Lot 15 Details

FROM RAJ TO SWARAJ: RARE BOOKS EDITION 5 October 2021

12 full-page colour illustrations, being covers or inside illustrations of Italian and French magazines of the pre-Independence era showing the Delhi Durbar and Indian nationalist agitations, including by Mahatma Gandhi   by   Multiple Artists

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Rs 99,360
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Lot 4 Details

Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021

Multiple Artists

Set of four...

a) Ludwig Beckmann
A Royal Tiger ...

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c) After a drawing by Rich Frise
In the Jungle
1891
Later hand-coloured wood engraving on paper
10 x 14.25 in (25 x 36.5 cm)

Published in The illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 1891

d) After H Bird
Tiger's Attacking Nylghaie in their Native Jungle
1899
Later hand-coloured photolithograph on paper
8.25 x 12.5 in (21.5 x 32.5 cm)

Published in Illustrated London News,1899

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Rs 17,730
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Lot 8 Details

Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021

Multiple Artists

Set of four...

a) R Caton Woodville...

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c) H Caton Woodville
Dolce Far Niente: Life in an Indian Bungalow
Later hand-coloured photolithograph on paper
13.75 x 9.75 in (35 x 25 cm)

Published in Illustrated London News, 1896

d) Drawn by E Barnes (?)
Unwelcome Visitors: Crows at a Tennis Party in India
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
12.75 x 9.75 in (32.5 x 25 cm)

Published in The Graphic, 1894

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Rs 39,630
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Lot 9 Details

Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021

Multiple Artists

Set of two...

a) George Bouverie Goddard
Tiger ...

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b) In the Bengal Jungle: A Critical Moment
1880
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
13 x 20.6 in (33 x 52.32 cm)
Published in The Graphic, 1880

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Rs 8,970
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Lot 13 Details

Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021

Multiple Artists

Set of two...

a) John Harris after Henry Martens...

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b) John Harris after William Henry de Daubrawa
Bombay Light Cavalry
1846
Hand-coloured aquatint on paper
13 x 9.5 in (33.5 x 24.5 cm)

Published in "R Ackermann's Costumes of the British Army", Rudolph Ackermann, London 1846, plate 1

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Lot 16 Details

Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021

Multiple Artists

Set of two...

a) Louis Haghe, after James...

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b) W Gauci after David Roberts, after Thomas Bacon
Scene in the Zenana at Futtehpore Sikri
1841
Lithograph on paper
16 x 10.5 in (41 x 27 cm)

"Plate three from HH Wilson's 'The Oriental Portfolio'. In Wilson's words: "The principal object of notice at Futtehpore Sikri in the Durgah, or tomb of the saint, Sheikh Selim Chishtee, to the efficacy of whose prayers Akbur ascribed the birth of his son and successor, Selim, afterwards known as Jehangir...East and north of the Durgah, inclosed with stone walls, five or six miles in length, and diversified with battlements and towers, in the space formerly occupied by the emperor and his nobility and still strewed over to a great extent with the vestiges of princely dwellings...The ruins are very extensive, and present considerable variety of purpose as well as construction; thus we have a hall of audience, a sleeping chamber, stables, bath, a caravan serai, a royal race-stand, and different mahals or apartments of the emperor's wives. One of these is represented in the accompanying view, and displays the mixture of Mohammedan and Hindoo styles...These mahals are assigned, by local tradition,...to specific individuals, and we may have here the apartments of the fair daughter of Raja Birbul, the favourite associate of Akbur." (Source: British Library Board)

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Rs 31,710
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Lot 22 Details

Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021

Multiple Artists

Set of four...

a) R Caton Woodville...

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c) Leopard Shooting in India, A Lady makes a Handsome Contribution to the very Successful Days Bag
1893
Later hand-coloured photolithograph on paper
15 x 9.5 in (38.1 x 24.38 cm)

Published in The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, 1893

d) A Royal Ambush: The Prince Tiger-Shooting from a "Machan"
1906
Later hand-coloured photolithograph on paper
14 x 10 in (36.06 x 25.4 cm)

Published in The Illustrated London News, 1906

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Rs 16,740
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Lot 24 Details

Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021

Multiple Artists

Set of four...

a) After H Harral
The Late Lord...

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c) John Charlton
Pig Sticking on the Churs of the Berampootra: Surprised by a Tiger
1891
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
9 x 12.5 in (22.86 x 32 cm)

Published in The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, 1891

d) T L Temple
Indian Sports: Pig Sticking at Cawnpore
1884
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
10 x 14 in (25.4 x 35.56 cm)

Published in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 1884

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Rs 13,950
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Lot 25 Details

Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021

Multiple Artists

Set of four...

a) After a Drawing by G P...

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c) After a Drawing by Melton Prior
The Royal Salute: The Viceroy and the Duke of Connaught acknowledging the unfurling of the royal Standard
1903
Later hand coloured photolithograph on paper
14 x 9.5 in (35.56 x 24.13 cm)

Published in Illustrated London News, 1903

d) Drawn by S Begg after Melton Prior
The Delhi Durbar: A Distinguished arrival, a typical reception, the viceroy's officials welcoming the Maharaja Holkar of Indore
1903
Later hand coloured photolithograph on paper
10 x 13.5 in (25.9 x 34.29 cm)

Published in Illustrated London News, 1903

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Rs 34,140
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Lot 27 Details

Hindoostan Illustrated: Absolute Tuesdays 27 July 2021

Multiple Artists

Set of five...

a) General View of Bombay, from...

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d) A Street in Bombay
1875
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
9 x 13 in (23.36 x 33.52 cm)

Published in Illustrated London News, 1875

e) After a Drawing by S Begg
On the Apollo Bunder Bombay: Natives Waiting for the First Glimpse of the "Renown"
1905
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
13.5 x 10 in (34.54 x 25.4 cm)

Published in Illustrated London News, 1905

Winning bid
$720
Rs 52,590
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