Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 137 153 i. Women of India Otto Rothfeld Illustrations by M.V. Dhurandhar London: Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., undated ( c .1920) First Edition Frontispiece: ‘A Bombay Lady’. 9.7 x 7.6 in (45.8 x 19.4 cm) Cover: Ornamental hardback 326pp / 48 full-page colour illustration plates with tissue-guard printed with titles Binding: Hardbound (original) Condition: Good ii. The Peoples of Bombay Percival & Olivia Strip Illustrated by Rao Bahadur M.V. Dhurandhar Bombay: Thacker & Co., Ltd, 1944 First Edition 9.8 x 6.7 in (25.2 x 17.2 cm) Cover: Bottle green rexin with title in gold 61-62pp / 15 col plates (1 plate loose) Binding: Hardbound (original) Condition: Good iii. The Bombay Revival of Indian Art A Descriptive Account of the Indian Room Constructed and Decorated by the Staff and Students of the School of Art W. E. Gladstone Solomon Illustrated by the Students of Art, J.J. School of Art, Bombay Photographs by Messrs Chaudhary and Shivshankar Bombay: Sir J.J. School of Art. Published with the permission of the Government of Bombay, undated ( c .1920) First Edition Frontispiece: ‘Ganapati Procession’, wall panel by A.A. Bhonsale 7.2 x 4.8 in (18.0 x 12.0 cm) Cover: Printed with image of a woman with a basket on her head 199pp / 41 b/w reproductions and 21 b/w illustrations Binding: Softbound Condition: Good iv. The Print Collector’s Quarterly February 1938 Edited by A.H. Stubbs Missouri: The Print Collector’s Quarterly, 1939 7.1 x 4.6 in (17.8 x 12.3 cm) 126pp; 8 b/w reproductions Binding: Softbound Condition: Good Special Reference: ‘The Graphic Art of Mukul Dey’ by J.H. Bender pp 50 –65 v. Twenty Portraits Mukul Dey Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. Ltd., 1943 First Edition Autographed presentation copy: ‘To Dudley with love from Mukul March 16, 1943’ Includes a loosely inserted single-leaf sepia- printed greetings card from 1986, with the handwritten ink inscription: ‘Dear Dudley and family, Dec. 3. 1985 Bina, Manjari and Mukul’ [Dey] with a reproduction of Mukul Dey’s drypoint work, ’Welcome Dance in the New Year 1986’. 11.0 x 9.0 in (28.0 x 22.9 cm) 26pp / 1 b/w and 20 sepia-toned hand- tipped plates of portraits done between 1917–42: Sri Aurobindo Ghose/ Sir Maurice Gwyer/ Rabindranath Tagore/ Annie Besant/ Sir John Anderson/ C.F. Andrews/ W.W. Pearson/ Albert Einstein/ Sven Hedin/ Sarojini Naidu/ Sir Francis Younghusband/ Ernest O’G. Kirwan/ Sarat Chandra Chatterjee/ George S. Arundale/ Sir Dorabji Tata/ Rukmini Devi/ Bimala Churn Law/ Werner Keventer/ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi & Abanindranath Tagore Binding: Softbound with printed cover Condition: Fragile vi. Glimpses of India A Unique Collection of Landscape & Architectural Beauties S.G. Thakur Singh Preface by Dr. James H. Cousins Foreword by Rabindranath Tagore Amritsar: Thakur Singh School of Arts, early 1950s Revised Edition 13.0 x 9.9 in (33.0 x 25.2 cm) Cover: Brown rexin, half-bound, with title in silver and a printed dustjacket 60pp / 26 col hand-tipped plates Binding: Hardbound (original) Condition: Good vii. The Art of Damayanti Chowla Foreword by M.S. Randhawa New Delhi: Dhoomi Mal Dharam Das, not dated c .1950s First Edition 13.0 x 9.3 in (33.0 x 23.7 cm) Cover: Plain green cloth without lettering 48pp / 15 col & 6 b/w tipped-in plates. The gures on p78 from P.R. Ramachandra Rao’s Modern Indian Painting, was rst published in 1953. Binding: Rebound copy Condition: Fair Damayanti Chowla was part of the Delhi Shilpi Chakra. INR 100,000 – 125,000 USD 2,250 – 2,800 (Set of 7)