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PASSAGES TO INDIA: A JOURNEY THROUGH RARE BOOKS, PRINTS, MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND LETTERS (24-25 JULY 2024)

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Lot 41
The Chamber of Princes (Narender Mandal), Delhi, 13th March 1939 - A R Datt - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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The Chamber of Princes (Narender...
 1939

Silver gelatin print on paper

Photograph Size: 12 x 21 in (30.6 x 53.5 cm)
With Caption: 17.1 x 21 in (43.5 x 53.5 cm)
With Mount: 20.4 x 34.4 in (52 x 87.5 cm)
With frame: 27.5 x 36.8 x 1.3 in (70 x 93.5 x 3.5 cm)

A silver gelatin print of a large group of ruling princes and chiefs by A. R. Datt which is mounted on a custom decorative foliage mount with an original printed caption listing names of all attending Maharajas mounted on a wooden frame from the photographer’s studio bearing a brass plaque at the lower centre etched "The Chamber of Princes / Delhi / Narendra Mandal / March 1939."

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Lot 42
Delhi Sketch Book [Set of 2] - Anonymous - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Delhi Sketch Book [Set of 2]

a) Anonymous, The Delhi Sketch Book, [Delhi], 1852

Volume III, June 1, 1852, No. II
Volume III, July 1, 1852, No. III
Volume III, September 1, 1852, No. V
Volume III, August 1, 1852, No. IV
Volume II, March 1, 1852, No. XI
Volume II, April 1, 1852, No. XII
Volume III, May 1, 1852, No. I

With roughly about 250 pages; half leather bound with gilt text at the spine and 5 raised bands, marbled end papers
28.5 x 22.5 x 3 cm

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Lot 43
Cartoons from the Hindi Punch: Being the Political and Social History of the Country during the year told in humorous cartoons, &c. [6 Volumes] - Barorjee Nowrosjee - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Cartoons from the Hindi Punch: Being the Political and Social History of the Country during the year told in humorous cartoons, &c. [6 Volumes]

Barjorjee Nowrosjee, Cartoons from the Hindi Punch for 1910: Being the Political and Social History of the country during the year told in humorous cartoons & C., Bombay: Barjorjee Nowrosjee at the "Hindi Punch" office, Bombay Samachar Press, Frere Road, Fort, 1910

6 volumes [Volumes for the years 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1911 and 1913]
Uniformly bound in half leather with maroon cloth with title and volume number embossed on spine in gilt (each)
28 x 22.5 x 1.6 cm (each)

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Lot 44
The Stupa of Bharhut: A Buddhist Monument ornamented with Numerous Sculptures illustrative of Buddhist Legend and History in the Third Century BC - Alexander Cunningham - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Alexander Cunningham (1814 - 1893)

The Stupa of Bharhut: A Buddhist Monument ornamented with Numerous Sculptures illustrative of Buddhist Legend and History in the Third Century BC

Alexander Cunningham, The Stupa of Bharhut: A Buddhist Monument ornamented with Numerous Sculptures illustrative of Buddhist Legend and History in the Third Century BC, London: W H Allen and Co.; Trübner and Co.; Edward Stanford; W.S. Wittingham and Co.; Thacker and Co., 1879, first edition

vii, 143, [1] pages, 57 lithographic plates on 29 sheets, with 115 mounted Woodburytypes of architectural details; publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, red edges
34 x 26.5 x 2.5 cm

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Lot 45
India. Photographs and Drawings of Historical Buildings. 100 Plates Reproduced By W. Griggs. From the Collection in the Late Office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India - William Griggs - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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William Griggs (1832 - 1911)

India. Photographs and Drawings of Historical Buildings. 100 Plates Reproduced By W. Griggs. From the Collection in the Late Office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India

William Griggs, India. Photographs and Drawings of Historical Buildings. 100 Plates Reproduced By W. Griggs. From the Collection in the Late Office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India, London: Griggs, 1896

100 plates with short introductory texts at beginning of each chapter; overall, there are 49 chromolithographic plates including gold printing of which 9 are folding; the black and white plates are photographs of monuments, and are depicting artefacts, or are architectural plans, drawings and sections (many of which are folding); the bulk plates (about 70) are connected to Islamic artand architecture; original red full-cloth with upper cover richly decorated in gilt and blind tooled on back enclosed in a customised red leather slipcase
37.5 x 28.5 x 3 cm
39 x 31.5 x 4 cm (with slipcase)

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Lot 46
Portfolio of Indian Architectural Drawings: Part I, Issued by the Government North-West Provinces and Oudh - Edmund W Smith - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Edmund W Smith (1877 - 1938)

Portfolio of Indian Architectural Drawings: Part I, Issued by the Government North-West Provinces and Oudh

Edmund W Smith, Portfolio of Indian Architectural Drawings: Part I, Issued by the Government North-West Provinces and Oudh, London: W H Allen & Co.; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.; Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.; Bombay: Thacker & Co., Ltd. and Allahabad: The Supt. Govt. Press, North-West Provinces and Oudh, 1897

Title page, [2], 52 loose photolithographed plates by W Griggs including 50 black and white plates and 2 colour plates (plate nos. 39 and 40) each measuring 56 x 38.2 cm; loose as issued in publisher's portfolio cloth with ribbon and gilt text on the front board measuring 56 x 38.2 x 2.8 cm

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Lot 47
Vintage Raja Ravi Varma Postcards [Set of 30] - Raja Ravi Varma Press - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Vintage Raja Ravi Varma Postcards [Set...


Including a set of 22 Halftone Postcards, Divided back, Circa 1905
Printed front (on each): The title
Printed verso (on each): The Original caption and The Ravi Varma-Press Karla Series No. 804, 805, 806, 807, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833 and 834 respectively.
5.4 x 3.3 in (13.6 x 8.65cm) (each)

a) Gajagauri, Goddess Parwati.
b) Saraswati, The Goddess of Learning.
c) Hanuman, The monkey God with Sanjeeva-parvata in hand.
d) Laxmi, The Goddess of wealth.
e) Victory of Indrajit, Indrajit brings Indra as a captive before his father Ravana with the riches and the nymphs of Indra-Loka.
f) Sita's Marriage, Marriage of Sita with Rama.
g) Gangavataran, Shankar receives the river Ganga on his head in compliance with the prayers of Bhageeratha.
h) Krishna Shisthayi, Shree Krishna as an ambassador at the court of Duryodhan.
i) Shankar, God Shankar with his son Ganapati and his wife Parvati and his vehicle Nandi or the sacred bull.
j) Mohini, The Goddess of beauty sitting on a swing.
k) Ram Sagar-Darpaharan, Rama while crossing the river on his way to Lanka, brings down the pride of the king of sea, who surrenders to Rama.
l) Radha-Vilas, A love scene between Radha and her consort Lord Krishna.
m) Damayanti Vanawasa, Damayanti was the daughter of the king Bhimaka. She was a wife of Nala, who lost his kingdom being defeated in playing dice and went to a forest to suffer hardships. Damayanti also went with him. afterwards the king Nala left her alone in the forest and went away. This picture represents her in thought and great misery.
n) Jatayuwadha, Ravana, while carrying away Sita, is being attacked by the bird Jatayu, with whom he fights.
o) Kirat & Bhilli, God Shankar dressed as a hunter and Goddess Parvati as huntress.
p) Sita-Vanvas, Sita, when captured by Ravan the king of Lanka was carried and kept in a forest named Ashok-van by him, and he ordered demons to watch her. This picture represents Sita sitting in thought under a tree.
q) Birth of Shakuntala, Menaka sent by Indra to disturb sage Vishwamitra in his penances, succeeds in her mission and gets a child by him. While going back to Indra-loka, she offers the child to Vishwamitra, who feeling penitent for his weakness tries to avoid Menaka and disown the child.
r) Damayanti, Being separated from her husband Nala, the fair Damayanti enters her father’s place, yet feeling deeply for her husband, she is represented as sitting in a moon light, her maid standing by her side.
s) Haunsa-Damayanti Sanvada, The bird Haunsa goes and extols to Damayanti all about Nala, when she is in a garden.
t) Vishnu Garud-vahan, God Vishnu with his wives, the goddesses of the earth, and the wealth, is represented as riding on his vehicle Garud.
u) Vishwamitra-Menaka, This scene shows Menaka as tempting the great sage Vishwamitra, who yields to her and gets Shakuntala by her.
v) Shakuntala Patra-lekhana, Shakuntala, while dwelling in a forest, near the river Malini, writes a letter on a lotus leaf to Dushyanta, feeling doubtful that he loved her.

Set of 5 Black and white Postcards, Divided back, Circa 1900
Printed front (on each): The title
Printed verso (on each): The Original caption [2] and P S Joshi, Oriental Publishing House, Ghatkopar (Bombay). Printed in Saxony No. 21, 28, 82, 86 and 100, respectively.
14 x 9 cm (each)

w) Kadambri
x) Savitri and Satyawan
y) Rama-Sagar-Darpaharan, Rama's oath to destroy the sea and his submission.
z) Krishna-Lia, Gopis are begging the God Shri-Krishna to return the clothes which he has taken high up on Kadam-tree, and which were left by them on the river-bank.
z1) The Fruit Girl

z2) 1 colour postcard with divided back printed in Saxony. Numbered 665 on verso.

Set of 2 handwritten letters in ink on a stamped and sealed postcard with Raja Ravi Varma's print on the left-hand side of the front and advertisement at lower bottom. The written text of the letter continues to the verso (each)

z3) Allibhoy Esmailjee, Printer and Commission Agent, 171, Abdul Rehman Street, Bombay
z4) AGENCY OF BOMBAY. We are Supplying Country & Foreign Goods at Moderate Rate. Ramgulam Dwarkadass, Kandevadi, Bombay

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Lot 48
Indian Jewellery [Signed by Hendley] - Thomas Holbein Hendley - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Thomas Holbein Hendley (1847 - 1917)

Indian Jewellery [Signed by Hendley]

Thomas Holbein Hendley, Indian Jewellery, Volume XII. Nos. 95-107, London: The Journal of Indian Art, July 1909

[6], 189, [2], iv pages with 167 plates of which 32 are in colour, some heightened in gilt, the others mostly photographic, 135 in monochrome; hardbound. original green gilt embossed publisher's cloth boards
37.5 x 28 x 2.6 cm

Author-signed presentation copy. Inscribed "To / Jasper Burne / With the author's sincere regard / T.Holbein Hendley / December 25th 1909"

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Lot 49
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam [Limited Edition Copy with ilustrations by Abanindranath Tagore] - M Robert Delpeuch - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam [Limited Edition Copy with ilustrations by Abanindranath Tagore]

M Robert Delpeuch, Rubaiyat Poeme D'Omar Khayyam, Paris: Studio Edition: Librairie P Ollendorff, 1910

Complete set of 12 colour plates by Abanindranath Tagore tipped in on thick cardboard sheets with tissue guards as issued, each print set within grey borders printed on the board with tissue guards carrying the quatrain on which each painting is based printed in red, top edges gilt, with 16-page string-tied booklet printed in London (carrying the 75 quatrains in the first edition of Edward Fitzgerald's version published in 1859), translated into French by M Robert Delpeuch; drop-over portfolio with paper-covered boards along with ribbons and a cloth spine, and with the title-ticket pasted on the cover.
Size of prints: 7.5 x 5.25 in (19 x 13.3 cm)
Size of cardboard mounts: 12 x 9.6 in (30 x 24 cm)
Size of the book: 12.4 x 8.8 x 1 in (31.2 x 22 x 2.5 cm)

Limited edition of 250 copies of which this is copy number 36.

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Lot 50
Nicholai Konstantinovich Roerich, His Life and Creations During The Past Forty Years 1889-1929 - A V Yaremenko - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Nicholai Konstantinovich Roerich, His Life and Creations During The Past Forty Years 1889-1929

A V Yaremenko, Nicholai Konstantinovich Roerich, His Life and Creations During the Past Forty Years 1889-1929, New York: Central Book Trading Co., 1931

A complete suite of unbound 119 colour and black and white reproductions of Roerich's paintings, of which 36 are in four colours and 86 in two colours or tinted half tones, printed on heavy stock paper and Nubian paper, with each plate captioned at the lower bottom on a tipped in silver paper + picture of Roerich museum + frontispiece + cover illustration + 32 page introductory text titled "Anniversary Publication on Nicholas Roerich 1889-1929," unbound and in original wax paper; original cloth-backed suede with mounted portrait of Nicholas Roerich by his son, patterned end papers; enclosed in a marbled slip-case.
34 x 26 x 5.5 cm
34.5 x 26 x 6 cm (with slipcase)

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Lot 51
The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens [3 Volumes] - A S G Butler - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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A S G Butler (1888 - 1965)

The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens [3 Volumes]

A S G Butler, The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, London: Country Life Limited / Antique Collector Club Ltd, 1950, 1st edition

In 3 Volumes
Volume I: Country Houses; 60 pages, 110 architectural drawings and 271 black and white photographic plates
Volume II: Gardens: Lay-Outs and Town Planning: Bridges: Imperial Delhi: Johannesburg Art gallery: The Washington Embassy: University Buildings; 52 pages, 121 Architectural drawings and 277 black and white photographic plates
Volume III: Town and Public Buildings: Memorials: The Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool; 59 pages, 107 architectural drawings and 173 black and white photographic plates

Original green cloth boards with gilt text on the front board and gilt text on the brown leather label at the spine (each)
42 x 31.5 x 3.5 cm (each)

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Lot 52
Nandalal Bose [Signed book by Nandalal Bose] + Pictures from the Life of Buddha - Nandalal Bose - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Nandalal Bose (1882 - 1966)

Nandalal Bose [Signed book by Nandalal Bose] + Pictures from the Life of Buddha

a) Nandalal Bose

pp. 32 including the covers + 8 plates tipped-in on one side of each sheet, 2 in colour; thread-stitched softcover catalogue for the show with a black and white illustration by Nandalal Bose on cover with his printed signature.
29 x 23 x 0.5 cm

Signed and dated in pencil on the half-title page, “Nandalal Bose / 7.8.56" A souvenir of the exhibition held March-April 1954. The exhibition was held under the joint auspices of Santiniketan Asramika Sangha and Government College of Art and Crafts, Calcutta.

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Lot 53
Iqbal: Poet of the East [Signed and numbered in English and signed in Urdu by Chughtai] - Sir Mohammed Iqbal - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Sir Mohammed Iqbal (1877 - 1938)

Iqbal: Poet of the East [Signed and numbered in English and signed in Urdu by Chughtai]

Sir Mohammad Iqbal (1877-1938), Iqbal: Poet of the East, Lahore: Nissar Art Press, 1968

462 pages including 36 tipped-in colour plates printed by City Engraving Company, Hull, 25 photogravures printed in England, 8 calligraphic plates printed in letter-press and 1 etching; each painting and photogravure has the English translation of Iqbal's quatrain on which it is based on the facing page; original padded leather binding with fine dust jacket as brought out in the deluxe edition by Haji Basheer of Ambala Binders, Lahore
13.9 x 11.6 x 1.9 in (35.5 x 29.5 x 5 cm)

This is the special deluxe edition. Limited to 275 copies printed on Japanese Vellum handmade paper. Signed and numbered by the artist Chughtai. This is copy no. 210.

Signed and numbered in English and signed in Urdu by Chughtai at the last page.

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Lot 54
88 Husain in Oils 003 [Husain signed book along with a sketch by him] - Khalid Mohamed - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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88 Husain in Oils 003 [Husain signed book along with a sketch by him]

Khalid Mohamed, 88 Husain in Oils 003, Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai: Galerie 88, Vadehra Art Gallery and Pundole Art Gallery, 2003

196 pages with a total of 88 plates including 22 plates each of the "Bombay Suite", "Kolkata Suite", "New Delhi Suite" and "Paris Suite"; hard bound with dust jacket
39.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm

The book includes a gold-inked, signed sketch of Husain's iconic horses by the artist, measuring 38.5 x 29.5 cm, on the beginning endpaper.

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Lot 55
The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected with it (from the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With illustrative Prints, engraved by William Daniell, from pictures painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights - William Daniell - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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William Daniell (1769 - 1837)

The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected with it (from the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With illustrative Prints, engraved by William Daniell, from pictures painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights

William Daniell, The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected With It (From the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With Illustrative Prints, Engraved by William Daniell, From Pictures Painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights, London: Printed For William Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square. By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars., 1814

[2], 99, [1] pp. frontispiece and 16 black and white aquatint plates on mounted India-proof paper with tissue guards engraved by William Daniel after Robert Smirke; half leather bound with 5 raised bands and gilt text along with decorative motif on the spine, marbled boards.
42.5 x 33 x 2.8 cm

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Lot 56
Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance [Along with a Fore-edge Painting] - Thomas Moore - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)

Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance [Along with a Fore-edge Painting]

Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842, 20th edition

396 pages; green full morocco, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, intricate design patterns on both the boards a beautiful, engraved goblet within borders, a sumptuous copy
23.5 x 16.2 x 3.5 cm

The leather-bound volume is adorned with a fore-edge painting depicting a scene of a passage to the Red Fort, Old Delhi with persons on foot, horse, and elephant in a common area in front of a palace and other structures with ogival-domed roofs.

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Lot 57
Gitanjali + Poems of Kabir - Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Gitanjali + Poems of Kabir

a) Rabindra Nath Tagore, Gitanjali (Song Offerings): A Collection of Prose Translations made by the Author from the Original Bengali, London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for the India Society, 1912

pp. xvi; 64 pages including a tissue-guarded portrait of Tagore in photogravure by William Rothenstein to whom the book is dedicated; original cream silk binding with gilt title on cover and spine
22.5 x 15 x 1 cm

750 copies were printed for the India Society of which only 250 were for sale, according to a note printed on the back of the title page. The title on the title page and the first letter of each stanza printed in red.

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Lot 58
Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling [Signed and limited deluxe edition] - Rudyard Kipling - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling [Signed and limited deluxe edition]

Rudyard Kipling, Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912

xix + 477 pages; bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling along with swastika symbol to the spine, front and rear panels along with a embossed gilt elephant on the front board, top edges gilt, others uncut
27.5 x 21.2 x 5.5 cm

An attractive Signed limited first deluxe edition of Rudyard Kipling's Collected Verse printed on Japanese vellum, limited to 100 copies signed by Kipling, of which this is number 95.

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Lot 59
The Tagore Birthday Book: Selected from the English Works of Rabindranath Tagore [Signed book by Tagore]] - Charles Freer Andrews - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Charles Freer Andrews (1871 - 1940)

The Tagore Birthday Book: Selected from the English Works of Rabindranath Tagore [Signed book by Tagore]]

Charles Freer Andrews, The Tagore Birthday Book: Selected from the English Works of Rabindranath Tagore, London: Macmillan and Co., 1928

pp. xix + 321 [unpaginated] + 4 pages of the publisher’s other Tagore books at the end. With colour frontispiece and 3 black and white plates; original striped cloth with gilt leather title ticket pasted on spine. Top edge gilt.
19 x 13 x 3 cm

Signed and inscribed by Tagore on front free endpaper: "To Her Excellency / Lady Irwin / in memory of her visit / to Santiniketan / Rabindranath Tagore / Santiniketan / 20 January / 1929".

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The Golden Book of Tagore: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday [Limited Edition Copy] - Ramananda Chatterjee - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Ramananda Chatterjee (1865 - 1943)

The Golden Book of Tagore: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday [Limited Edition Copy]

Ramananda Chatterjee, The Golden Book of Tagore: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday, Calcutta: Golden Book Committee, 1931, 1st edition

xx, (2), pp. 374, (2), 30 plates including 1 Frontispiece [Photogravure portrait of Tagore, after a photograph by Martin Vos], 29 plates, many of them tipped-in colour plates [with tissue guards carrying title and artist's name] by Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, A D Thomas, Gaganendranath Tagore, Samarendranath Gupta, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Ramendranath Chakraborty. Others are reproductions of works by a Chinese and a Japanese artist, portraits of Tagore done by eminent Indian and Western artists and early photographs of Tagore; bound in silk with a roundel in red and golden vegetal design pasted on the cover. A paper title ticket pasted on spine, most pages remain uncut along the top edge, new end papers. Facsimile reproduction of a handwritten and signed letter by Tagore on Santiniketan letterhead relating to the publication pasted on front pastedown.
11.75 x 9 x 2 in (30 x 23 x 5 cm)

This is the 405th edition of a limited edition of 1500 copies of the 1st edition.

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