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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

Harvard Business Review: Small Business Series

Harvard Business Review

79,000
  • Each title/series consists of articles reprinted on a single topic.
  • Full maroon color with gilt title to cover & spine
  • Near mint
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

Tibetan Medical Paintings -  2 Volume Set

Tibetan Medical Paintings –  2 Volume Set

45,000

Sections and Content:

  • The Plates: ix, pp. 1-172
  • List of 77 Color Plates
  • Foreword: by the 14th Dalai Lama
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Medical Paintings of Tibet by Fernand Meyer
  • The Structure and Contents of the Four Tantras and Sangye Gyamtso’s Commentary, the Blue Beryl by Gyurme Dorje
  • Plates and Summaries on Facing Page

 

Indian Tibetan Bronzes

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 Sistine Chapel – 2 Volume Set

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
Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 (2 Copies)

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

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
Indian Japanese Prints (Written In Pencil)

Indian Gauze/Sarasa of the world (Japanese Prints)

Book In Japanese Language (Name of the book Sarasa of the world )

  • Over 100 Full Pp. Coloured Pics., Real Cl.Also Stuck In Few Places.
  • Maroon Cl. With Black Title To Spine,
  • Maroon Folio Case With Ivory Clips
  • Original Cardboard Box.
  • Near Mint.