Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 133 147 i. Indian Courtly Life 1590-1947 Introduction by Stuart Cary Welch Text by Naveen Patnaik New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Doubleday & Company Inc., 1985 First Edition Frontispiece: ‘A Rajput Ruler submits to Emperor Akbar, Mughal, c .1590 (detail)’ 9.6 x 9.0 in (24.5 x 22.9 cm) Cover: An image of ‘Entertainment in a Harem Garden, Mughal, Faizabad, c .1765 192pp / 88 col, 50 sepia-toned and 2 b/w reproductions with 1 map Binding: Softbound Condition: Good ii. A Journey to Hindoostan Graphic Art of British India 1780 – 1860 Prints from the Max Allen & Peter Allen Collection (Exhibition Catalogue) Curated by Thomas P. Bruhn Introduction by Mildred Archer Connecticut: William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 1987 Frontispiece: ‘Govinda Ram Mittee’s Pagoda, Calcutta’ by Thomas & William Daniell, 11.0 x 8.4 in (27.8 x 21.5 cm) 68pp / 1 col and 75 b/w reproductions Binding: Softbound with printed cover Condition: Good INR 40,000 – 50,000 USD 900 – 1,150 (Set of 2) viii. The Palaces of India Maharaja of Baroda Photographs by Virginia Fass London: Collins, 1980 First Edition 12.2 x 9.6 in (31.3 x 24.6 cm) Cover: Black rexine with title embossed in gold on spine. Printed dustjacket. 242pp / 143 col, 111 b/w and 31 map reproductions Binding: Hardbound (original) ix. India of Rajahs Louis Rousselet Text on Indian Costumes by Philippa Scott Introduction by Stephen Jamail Foreword by Diana Vreeland Milan: Franco Maria Ricci, 1985 First Edition 12.0 x 12.0 in (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Box: 12.4 x 12.6 in (32.0 x32.3 cm) Cover: Black deluxe cloth with a plate having the image of a Rajah on the cover. Title embossed in gold on the cover and spine, contained in a box 261pp / 17 col and18 sepia-toned tipped-in plates with 49 col and 13 b/w reproductions Binding: Hardbound (original) The front endpaper has two old slips tipped in. One of them states in manuscript that ‘Updated list of credits for the drawings by Sewak Ram’. The other is a card with ‘checked’ in English written on it. Printed on sky-blue handmade paper this is No. 1042 of a limited edition of 5000 copies x. Costumes and Textiles of Royal India Ritu Kumar London: Christie’s Books Ltd., 1999 First Edition Frontispiece: Maharaja of Indore (1909- 1961) by Bernard B. de Monvel (1934) Title Page: Maharaja of Indore (1909-1961) by Bernard B. de Monvel (1934) Half Title Page: Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar the tenth and the Maharani of Mysore, by Raja Ravi Varma 13.3 x 10.3 in (33.5 x 26 cm) Cover: Black cloth with title embossed in gold on front and spine. Printed dustjacket. 339 pp/ 323 col, 8 sepia-toned and 133 b/w reproductions Binding: Original xi. The Maharaja & the Princely States of India Foreword by Arvind Singh Mewar Text by Sharada Dwivedi Photographs by Amit Pasricha, Dheeraj Paul, Karoki Lewis, Jean Louis Nou, Pramod Kapoor, Rajpal Singh Concept and Design by Pramod Kapoor New Delhi: Lustre Press Pvt. Ltd., 1999 First Edition Frontispiece: ‘Royal Sword. The Rajput worships his horse, his sword and the sun, and attends more to the Martial Song of the Bard than to the Litany of the Brahmin’, Lt. Col. James Tod, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, 1829 12.2 x 12.2 in (31.0 x 31.0 cm) Slipcase: 12.4 x 12.4 in (31.7 x 31.7 cm) Cover: Black paper with the image of Arvind Singh Mewar in full regalia and the title in gold on the cover and spine. Printed dustjacket 156pp / 160 col, 38 sepia-toned and 4 b/w reproductions Binding: Hardbound (original) INR 160,000 – 200,000 USD 3,600 – 4,500 (Set of 11)