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Lalla Rookh – an oriental Romance

Lalla Rookh – An Oriental Romance

85,000
  • Gilt title spine and cover decorated with gilt border
  • 27.5x21cm.,
  • Pp.405;
  • New leather binding, all edges blue,
  • Slight water staining, marbled endpapers

NON-EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA

Lalla Rookh – an Oriental Romance

Lalla Rookh – an Oriental Romance

75,000

Illustration: 13 full pp. b/w stipple engravings incl. Frontis and title pp., water stains to pp. margins with little/no harm to pl., tissue guards.

Illustration Condition: Good

Binding: 8.2×5.8”, pp. viii, 392 ; full black morocco with heavy dec. gilt border and motif to cover, 5 raised bands to dec. sp. with gilt title, aeg, inner dentelles, border to all pp., edges thumbed, inscription to inside front pp., sp. worn at joints, pp. sl. yellowed.

Binding Condition: Average+

NON-EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA

Ajanta, The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta frescoes based on Photography

Ajanta, The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on Photography

59,500

Ajanta, The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on Photography

  • Volumes: 1,2 and 4 of the “Plates” available.
    Explanatory Text by G. Yazdani, M.A., Intro by Laurence Binyon Colour pl. by Henry Stone & Son, Banbury & F. Bruckmann, Munich. Text and Collotypes by John Johnson, Oxford.
  • Part 1: 16 Colour and 24 monochrome Plates of Cave 1
    Part 2 : 18 Colour and 31 Monochrome Plates of Cave 2
    Part 4 : 17 Colour and 65 Monochrome Plates of Caves 17-27
  • Full pp. plates , several clrd., collotypes, loose portfolio containing loose sheets.
  • Plates Condition: Near mint
  • Binding: Large, full cloth binding, portfolio style with tie-up ribbon on one side, gilt title in silver/gold on cover, marbled epps., loose sheets, sl. foxing, watermark on the cover of Vol. 4.
  • Binding Condition: Good+

 

  • NON EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA

 

KINDLY NOTE – EACH VOLUME IS SOLD INDIVIDUALLY, AND THE PRICE MENTIONED IS PER VOLUME.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

45,000

Translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With an introduction by. A.C. Benson. Reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe.

Illustration: Colored photographic prints throughout, full pp. and vignettes, gilt and ornate clrd. Border to all illus., highly colorful and dec. frontis and title pp.

Condition: Good.

Binding: 32×23.5cm, pp.16, notes, list of illus.; full creme cl. with heavy gilt peacock made to cover, gilt dec. sp. with title, cover dirty and worn in parts, teg, dec. epps, highly gilt dec. calligraphic text throughout in red and black, light foxing throughout.

Binding Condition : Average+

 

NON-EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA

The Hindu Temple

The Hindu Temple

44,990

The Hindu Temple

Illustration: Several line drawings throughout, b/w full pp. pl.

Condition: Average.

Binding: 12×10”, pp.xi, 295, 299-466; orig. jute cl. with brown title to cover and sp., dj sl. frayed, inscription in pen to inside front pp., pp. yellowed

 

Textile Designs Of Japan – 3 Volume Set

Textile Designs Of Japan

36,900
  • B/w cloth binding with black title to spine
  • Each volume in individual cardboard boxes
  • Dust jacket incl.
  • Lots of coloured images inside
  • Complete set of 3 vols.
Eastern Love

Eastern Love

33,000

Eastern Love

English Versions by E. Powys Mathers. Copper plate engravings by Hester Sainsbury and printed and hand colored by Messrs. A. Alexander and Sons, Ltd.

Illustration: Numerous hand colored line drawings, frontis, tissue guards.

Condition: Very Good

Binding: 9.2×6”, half peach cl. over black cl. with gilt figure to cover, gilt title to sp, teg, untrimmed, sp. and edges sl. frayed.

The Armies of India

The Armies of India

29,990

Publication: Adam & Charles Black, London, 1911.

Illustrations: 72 full pp. clrd. prints from photographs with printed tissue guards, frontis., title pp.

Condition: Good

India By Mortimer Menpes

India By Mortimer Menpes

29,990

India By Mortimer Menpes

Illustration: 18 full pp. clrd. reproductions of orig. paintings with tissue guards.

Condition: Good+

Binding: 8.9×6.5”, pp.xii, 216, adverts [4]; full red cl. with elaborate dec. to cover and sp. with gilt peacock and tree in blue and pink, cover and sp. faded in parts, pp. sl. yellowed, edges sl. thumbed, teg.

Climbing in the Himalayas

Climbing in the Himalayas

28,990

Illustration: Signed on front inside pp. Several b/w full pp. and vignettes prints throughout, 1 folded map with clrd. Outlines but brittle.

Illustration Condition: Average

Binding: 25×16.5cm., Pp. xxviii, 709, 1pp. of adverts.; full brown cl. with image of mountain-climbers in black and white to cover with black title, gilt title to sp. with image, minor wormholes, cover frayed and binding loose, title pp. missing, sl. underlining in color pencil by previous owner.

Binding Condition : Average+

Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and Hill.

Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and Hill.

18,950

Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and Hill.

Illustration: B/w frontis print of orig. painting.

Condition: Good+

Binding: 9×6”, pp. xii, 542; orig. green cl. with gilt bison head to cover with title, gilt title to sp. with reindeer head, sl. foxing, pp. sl. yellowed, inscription of ‘Mary O.A. Boreham’ to inside pp., ex libris of Mary O.A. Boreham.

British Birds with their Nests and Eggs

British Birds with their Nests and Eggs

13,990

Illustration: Throughout with full pp. b/w photographic images, clrd. frontis with tissue guards, minor wormholes with little/no harm to plates.

Condition: Good

Binding: 32.5x26cm., original green cloth with gilt title to cover and spine, cover worn and sp. torn at edges, pp. brittle with few wormholes, teg, binding loose.

Travels in Peru and India, while superintending the collection…and their introduction in India.

Travels in Peru and India

12,990

Travels in Peru and India, while superintending the collection…and their introduction in India.

Illustration: With maps and illustrations, pp. brittle, map torn at folds.

Condition: Average

Binding: 23×14.75cm, pp. xviii, 572; green buckram rebacked, gilt crest to cover, gilt title to sp., edges thumbed.

Binding Condition: Average

THIS TITLE IS NON-EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA

 

Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

12,500
  • Author: Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan
  • Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1913
  • Printer: Howard & Jones, London
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Size: 26 × 19 cm
  • Pages: xv pages + plates + unpaginated text
  • Frontispiece: Colored frontispiece illustration
  • Illustrations: Full-page black-and-white reproductions, each accompanied by a page of verse, minor foxing
  • Illustrations Condition : Very Good
  • Binding: 26x19cm, pp. xv + text [unpaginated] ; Original red cloth binding with elaborate floral decoration on cover and spine with gilt title on spine, top edge gilt, slight foxing throughout.
  • Binding Condition :  Good
Everest 1933

Everest 1933

9,990

Everest 1933

Illustration: 59 sepia toned reprints from photos, several multi-folding clrd. maps, tables in text, water staing to margins of few pl. in beginning, else fine.
Condition: Good+
Binding: 10.5×7”, pp. xv, 390; orig. blue buckram with gilt title to sp., sp. sl. sunned, binding sl. loose, edges thumbed, marginal foxing. Condition: Good

Wild Life of the World a descriptive survey of the Geographical Distribution of animals

Wild Life of the World A Descriptive Survey of the Geographical Distribution of Animals

9,990
  • Illustration: With over 600 prints from original drawings and 120 studies in color. Occasional wormholes.
  • Illustration Condition: Average+
  • Binding: 11×8″, orig. green cloth with gilt title to cover and spine, gilt lion to cover and gilt bird to spine, sp. frayed and torn in parts, wormholes throughout the book, binding loose, pp. getting brittle, edges thumbed.
  • Binding Condition : Average