Great Books of the Western World -54 Volume Set
– Full brown cloth cover
– Gilt title on grey label on spine
– All edges gilt (aeg)
– Good condition
Hand-picked editions that combine rarity, provenance and timeless appeal – unique collectable and enduring.
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Secret Visions Of The 5th Dalai Lama
– Black cloth cover
– Gilt title on cover and spine
– Dust jacket (DJ)
– Black slipcase
– Book in Near mint condition, Slipcase in Good Condition
Indian Tibetan Bronzes
– Red cover with gilt title to spine
– Gilt decoration on cover
– Blue slipcase with gilt embossing and decoration
– Lots of coloured photographic illustrations inside
The Topkapi Saray Museum : Costumes, Embroideries and other Textiles
- Steel grey cloth with gilt title to cover and spine
- Dust jacket
- Slipcase
- Lots of photographic illus. inside
The Sistine Chapel – 2 Volume Set
- Cloth binding with gilt title to spine
- Maroon box decoration on spine
- Lots of coloured illustrations.inside
- 2 volume set in a single slipcase
- Slightly yellowed on the spine and corners
- Inside pages, prints, and photos not affected
- Limited Edition, Number 179 out of 500 copies
Early Muslim Architecture – 2 Volume Set
- Full green cl. with gilt title to cover & spine,
- Dust jacket included (torn in parts)
- 690 line & half-tone illus.
- 140 clrd. plates
A Collection Of Famous Paintings Of The Sung Dynasty Formerly Preserved By The Tien Lai Studio.
- 15 Full-Paged Clrd Pasted Illus., With Dec. Border
- Beautiful Cloth Cover
- Folio Style With Purple Tassels
“A COLLECTION OF FAMOUS PAINTINGS OF THE SUNG DYNASTY FORMERLY PRESERVED BY THE TIEN LAI STUDIO”
Fine Bird Books 1700-1900
- New binding with marbled paper front cover and red cloth spine
- Gilt title to spine
- Large-sized book
- Full-page plates of birds inside the book with descriptive text.
- Limited Edition
- THIS EDITION HAS BEEN MADE AND DESIGNED FOR WILLIAM COLLINS…LONDON, AND D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY…NEW YORK BY GEORGE RAINBIRD AND RUARI MCLEAN.
- PLATES PRINTED IN 8-COLOUR PHOTO-LITHO OFFSET AND COLLOTYPE MONOCHROME.
- TEXT PAGES SET IN MONOTYPE BEMBO, PRINTED BY CHISWICK PRESS, LONDON.
- BINDING BY MANSELL OF LONDON.
- 295 NUMBERED COPIES PRINTED ON PANNEKOEK MOULD-MADE PAPER AND 2000 COPIES ON GELDERLAND MILL PAPER
The World’s Great Collection Oriental Ceramics – 10 Volume Set
- All books in individual slip case with printed paper on cover
- Lots of coloured images inside
- Dust jacket included
- Vol1-Tokyo National Museum
- Vol 2- National Museum of Korea, Seoul
- Vol 3 -Pusat, Jakarta
- Vol 4- Iran Bastan Museum,Teheran
- Vol 5 – The British Museum, London
- Vol 6- Percival David Foundation Of Chinese Art, London
- Vol 7- Musee GuiMet, Paris
- Vol 8- Museum Of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm
- Vol 9- The Freer Gallery Of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Vol 10- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
By Imperial Command An Introduction to Ch’ing Imperial Painted Enamels- 2 Volume Set
- Full blue color binding
- Dust jacket
- Original box with printed-paper cover
- Original cardboard box
- Includes 87 colored plates
Tibetan Medical Thangka of the Four Medical Tantras
- Oblong
- Maroon rexine with gilt title to cover and spine
- Red ribbon
- Folio-style cover with printed paper and gilt title
- Lots of b/w and colored images inside along with text
Tibetian Medical Paintings
- Red cloth Binding with gilt lettering on spine and cover
- Dust Jacket included
- In a slip case
- lots of coloured and b/w images
Collection of Persia- 2 Volume Set
– Volume 1: 1-50 colored plates
– Volume 2: 51-100 colored plates
– Full pink and white cloth cover
– Title (PERSIAN DYED)on white sticker in Japanese
– Pages bound with mustard-colored ribbon
– Green cloth slipcase with title on white sticker
– Original publisher’s cardboard box
Picasso in his Posters Image and Work – 4 Volume Set.
- Blue binding with cream drawing on cover, title on spine
- Lots of coloured images of artworks incl.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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
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
- 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.
Lalla Rookh – An Oriental Romance
Illustration:
- 13 full pages with b/w stipple engravings including frontis and title page,
- Water stains to page margins with little/no harm to plates
- Tissue guards.
Illustration Condition: Good
Binding:
- 8.2×5.8”
- Pages viii, 392
- Full black morocco with heavy decoration
- Gilt border and motif to cover
- 5 raised bands to decorated spine with gilt title
- All edges gilt
- Inner dentelles
- Border to all pages
- Edges thumbed
- Inscription to inside front page
- Spine worn at joints
- Pages slightly yellowed
Binding Condition: Average+
NON-EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA
The World’s Greatest Paintings : Selected Masterpieces Of Famous Art Galleries-3 Volume Set
- Illustration: 100 full pp. photographic colour prints,
- Sl. foxing to pp. ends, but no harm to plates.
- Binding: 12”x 8.5”, orig.
- Full brown leather and blue leather binding with gilt title to cover and sp.,
- All volumes are with self-embossed leather on cover and spine
- Dust jacket included (torn in parts)
- Very sl. foxing throughout, but the text is clean
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Medicinal Plants : Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal Plants …and Products of Medicinal Value – 4 Vol Set
Illustration: 306 hand clrd. full pp. plates, each accompanied with text, pp. brittle, else fine.
Illustration Condition: Average
Binding: 24x17cm, orig. green morocco, 4 raised bands to sp. with gilt title, marbled epps., cover and sp. frayed, few covers loose, pp. brittle, teg, sl. foxing.
Binding Condition: Average
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Lalla Rookh – An Oriental Romance
Illustration: None
Binding :
- 27.5×21 cm.
- Pages 405
- Gilt title to spine and cover decorated with gilt border
- New leather binding
- All edges blue
- Slight water staining
- Marbled endpapers
Binding Condition : Good
NON-EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA
Cochin Murals – Collotype Reproductions of the Mural Paintings of Cochin, Based on Photography
Volumes: Two volumes plus additional “TEXT” volume
Text Volume: Published under the special authority of His Highness the Maharajah of Cochin – Devi Press, Madras, 1940
Edition: 500 copies of this edition have been printed, of which 100 copies have already been distributed, and the remaining 400 copies only, are now offered for sale to the public, of which this set is #051
Publication: Vol 1 & 2: Published Under the special authority of His highness the Maharajah of Cochin – New Book Co., Bombay, India.
Text Volume: Published Under the special authority of His highness the Maharajah of Cochin – Devi Press, Madras, 1940
Printed in Collotype by Benrido, Takeya-Cho Minami, Shinmachi Dori, Kyoto, Japan
Illustration: Vol 1: Comprising 20 collotype plates dealing with Hindu Mythology.
Vol 2: Comprising of 20 collotype plates depicting important scenes of the Ramayana.
Illustration Condition: Good
Binding: Vol 1&2: 20×15”, Text volume-10.5×8”, loose plates in paper folders with ribbon ties, pp. yellowed
Binding Condition: Good
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Indian State Railways Magazine
6 issues bound in One Volume :
- November 1930
- May 1931
- October 1931
- November 1931
- December 1931
- January 1932
- February 1932
Illustration: A large number of b/w photo prints, few clrd.
Illustration Condition: Good+
Binding: 27x20cm.,new leather binding, orig. covers of magazines retained and bound
Binding Condition : Very Good+
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The Imperial Gazetteer of India-14 Volume Set
- Illustration: Every volume has a folded colored map at the beginning of the book.
- Illustration Condition : Very Good
- Binding: 22.5cm x 14cm, half maroon cloth over green cloth binding,Printed title to white paper to spine, has a gilt emblem of the ‘Stoke Newington Public Library’ on every cover. The binding is slightly loose, edges thumbed
- Binding Condition: Good
This series has been withdrawn from the Woolwich Public Libraries, and has a few stamps of the same on the title page as well as on the inside covers of the books.
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The Oriental Annual
Author:
Vol. 1 : Thomas Bacon, Esq, F.S.A, Engraving by W. and E. Finden, from Sketches by the Author and Captain Meadow Taylor
Vol. 2 : Thomas Bacon, Esq, F.S.A, Engraving by W. and E. Finden, from sketches by the Author.
Vols. 3-6 : Rev. Hobart Caunter
Title: 1. The Oriental Annual -1840
- The Oriental Annual -1839
- The Oriental Annual -1835
- The Oriental Annual -1836
- The Oriental Annual -1834
- The Oriental Annual -1837
Publication:
1. Charles Tilt, London, 1840
2. Charles Tilt, London, 1839
3. Bull & Churton, London, 1835
4. Edward Churton, London, 1836
5. Edward Bull, London, 1834.
6. Charles Tilt, London, 1837
Illustration: Several full pp. b/w steel engravings throughout with individual tissue guards, frontis, title page, occasional foxing.
Illustration Condition: Vols. 1,3,4,6 : Average
Vols. 2,5 : Average+
Binding: Orig. brown morocco with gilt elephant to cover, gilt title to sp. with gilt camel, sp. frayed in parts, edges sl. thumbed, all edges gilt, paper sl. yellowish.
Binding Condition: Vols. 1,3,4,5,6 : Average
Vol. 2 : Good
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