L‘Offrande Lyrique [Limited Edition Copy]
Rabindranath Tagore and Sakti Burman, L'Offrande Lyrique , Paris: Les Pharmaciens Bibliophiles, 1993 pp. 96 in 12 sections, illustrated with 14 colour lithographs, 6 of them double-page, each with titles in Bengali and French printed on the reverse of each lithograph, each of the lithograph has a descriptive text in French printed on a folded sheet; the sheets are all unstitched as issued and contained in a saffron rag paper chemise with the signatures of Rabindranath Tagore and Sakti Burman in Bengali impressed on its cover. This is contained in a blue velvet box with the title and names embossed in silver on the spine. 15.5 x 12 in (38.7 x 30 cm) This is 90th from a limited edition of 150 copies meant for the members.
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Rs 2,00,000 - 3,00,000
$2,410 - 3,615
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Rs 6,60,000 |
$7,952
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"Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Calcutta Presented by Maharaj-Kumar Sir Prodyot Coomar Tagore", Tagore Castle, Calcutta, January 1906 [Presentation Copy]
Johnston and Hoffman, Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Calcutta Presented by Maharaj-Kumar Sir Prodyot Coomar Tagore , Calcutta: Tagore Castle, January 1906 12 mounted platinum print photographs by Johnston & Hoffmann and a lithographic title page, all mounted on rectos of stiff card leaves, with printed captions and credits at the foot; images measuring 18 x 31 cm or similar, except for three smaller ones (approximately 10 x 15 cm); contemporary morocco gilt with gilt text at the spine; all edges gilt 29.2 x 43 x 2.5 cm Author-signed presentation inscription to the title in honour of Mr. R.T. Greer.
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Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000
$1,810 - 2,410
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Rs 1,56,000 |
$1,880
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Personality: Lectures Delivered in America [Signed by the Author in English and Bengali]
Rabindranath Tagore, Personality: Lectures Delivered in America , London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1918 [Signed by the Author in English and Bengali] vii + 184 pages including black and white frontispiece and 5 black and white photographic plates; bound in quarter cream calf with patterned boards and gilt decorative patterned and text at the spine along with original marble end papers 20.5 x 14 x 2 cm Signed by Rabindranath Tagore at two places in English and Bengali.
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Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000
$1,810 - 2,410
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Rs 4,56,000 |
$5,494
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Jung Indien: Aufsätze aus den jahren 1919 bis 1922 (Young India: Essays from the years 1919 to 1922) [Signed copy by Gandhi]
Mahatma Gandhi, Jung Indien: Aufsätze aus den jahren 1919 bis 1922 (Young India: Essays from the years 1919 to 1922) , Erlenbach-Zürich, Leipzig - Munich: Rotapfel-Verlag, 1924, 1st edition xix + 518 + [6] pages; half-linen bound; black, grey-embossed, illustrated cover paper, beige, grey-embossed spine, coloured head edge in green with green end papers 20.5 x 13 cm Signed and dated by the author on the title page, “London / 1931 / Yours sincerely / M K Gandhi"
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Rs 3,50,000 - 4,50,000
$4,220 - 5,425
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth , Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press and Navajivan Karyalaya, 1929-33 Volume I: [12] + 602 pages including author's halftone photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard; 1933, reprint of the 1927 first edition. Volume II: viii + 608 pages including author's halftone photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard; 1929, first edition Original beige cloth boards with spine and front panel lettered black, uncut edges (each) 9.25 x 6.25 x 2 in (23.6 x 16 x 4 cm) (each) Mahatma Gandhi's classic autobiography.
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Rs 3,00,000 - 4,00,000
$3,615 - 4,820
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Rs 3,36,000 |
$4,048
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Discovery of India [Signed by Nehru]
Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India , Calcutta: The Signet Press, April 1956, sixth edition xiii, 711 pages; original green cloth with gilt text at the spine 21.5 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm Signed and dated by the author on the front endpaper, “Jawaharlal Nehru June 1957"
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Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000
$1,810 - 2,410
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Rs 6,60,000 |
$7,952
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Goal [Signed book by the Author]
Captain Dhyan Chand, Goal , Madras: Sport & Pastime, 1952 xii + [2] + 136 pages including 33 black and white plates + 8 advertisement pages at the end; original pictorial hardbound 21.2 x 13.5 x 1.7 cm Signed and inscribed by Dhyan Chand on front free endpaper: "With best wishes & good luck / to Major F.B.Uphoald. / Yours / DhyanChand / 22.12.52"
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Rs 75,000 - 1,00,000
$905 - 1,205
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Rs 1,92,000 |
$2,313
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High Adventure + Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing [Signed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay]
a) Edmund Hillary, High Adventure , London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955 226 including 1 colour frontispiece and 31 black and white photographic plates, 14 sketches by George Djurkovic in text and 7 maps by A Spark; original cloth bound covered with dust jacket 21 x 15 x 2.5 cm Signed by Hillary in blue ink to colour frontispiece from photograph depicting him at the summit of Mount Everest, 29 May 1953, and signed by fellow mountaineer and member of the successful 1953 British Mount Everest expedition George Lowe (1924-2013) on front free end paper. Hillary's first book and his account of his introduction to climbing and the 1953 climb to the summit of Mount Everest.
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Rs 1,00,000 - 1,50,000
$1,205 - 1,810
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Rs 2,64,000 |
$3,181
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
Constitution of India [Set of six editions till date]
a) Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Babasaheb Ambedkar), Constitution of India , 1955, M/s National Printers, New Delhi [1] + State Emblem of India or the National Emblem of the Republic of India page + 1 loose page with list of illustrations slightly smaller in size + 1 loose page slightly smaller in size with a brief history of the 1st Constitution of India copy + 1 "Preamble" page + 231 illustrated colour broadside including 22 drawings by Nandalal Bose for each chapter + 2 pages; original full black rexine with gilt title to cover & spine, elaborate gilt decoration to cover 16.3 x 12.5 x 1.3 in (41.5 x 32 x 1.1 cm)
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Rs 5,00,000 - 6,00,000
$6,025 - 7,230
Winning bid
Rs 5,76,000 |
$6,940
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The Chalees Satoon in the Fort of...
1795
Colour aquatint on paper
Print size: 18.1 x 23.5 in (46 x 59.8 cm) Sheet size: 18.7 x 24.2 in (47.5 x 61.5 cm) With Mount: 24 x 29.1 in (61 x 74 cm)
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Rs 4,00,000 - 5,00,000
$4,820 - 6,025
Winning bid
Rs 6,00,000 |
$7,229
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
Tin-Tali / Râmêswara [Set of 2]
a) Thomas Daniell after James WalesTin-Tali [Teen Tal] 1 June 1803 Hand-coloured aquatint on paper Print Size: 17.9 x 23.6 in (45.5 x 60 cm) Sheet Size: 19 x 25.5 in (48.3 x 65 cm) With Mount: 25.3 x 31.8 in (64.5 x 81 cm)
b) Thomas Daniell after James WalesRâmêswara 1 June 1803 Hand-coloured aquatint on paper Print Size: 17.7 x 23.7 in (45 x 60.2 cm) Sheet Size: 18.8 x 25.5 in (48 x 65 cm) With Mount: 25.3 x 31.8 in (64.5 x 81 cm)
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Rs 5,50,000 - 7,50,000
$6,630 - 9,040
Winning bid
Rs 5,76,000 |
$6,940
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
A View of the Government House and...
1807
Hand coloured aquatint on paper
Print Size: 19.2 x 25.6 in (49 x 65.2 cm) Sheet Size: 20.3 x 27.1 in (51.6 x 69 cm) With Mount: 26.7 x 33.6 in (68 x 85.5 cm)
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Rs 4,00,000 - 6,00,000
$4,820 - 7,230
Winning bid
Rs 4,20,000 |
$5,060
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
Mosque at Lucknow
May 1, 1809
Hand coloured aquatint on paper
Print Size: 17.9 x 24.4 in (45.5 x 62 cm) Sheet Size: 19 x 25.5 in (48.3 x 65 cm) With Mount: 25.3 x 31.6 in (64.5 x 80.5 cm)
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Rs 2,00,000 - 3,00,000
$2,410 - 3,615
Winning bid
Rs 2,28,000 |
$2,747
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
Assemblage of Hillmen Series: Series:...
March 1, 1820
Original hand-coloured aquatint with etching on paper
Print Size: 18.1 x 23.4 in (46 x 59.5 cm) Sheet Size: 19.8 x 25.3 in (50.5 x 64.5 cm) With Mount: 21.8 x 28.9 in (55.5 x 73.5 cm)
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Rs 2,00,000 - 2,50,000
$2,410 - 3,015
Winning bid
Rs 2,64,000 |
$3,181
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Calcutta from the Water Gate of Fort...
Circa 1845
Later hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Print Size: 16.3 x 31.1 in (41.5 x 79 cm) Sheet Size: 17.1 x 32.8 in (43.5 x 83.5 cm) With Mount: 22.6 x 38.3 in (57.5 x 97.5 cm)
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Rs 4,00,000 - 5,00,000
$4,820 - 6,025
Winning bid
Rs 4,20,000 |
$5,060
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
Views of Kot Kangra and the surrounding ...
a) George Childs after Lieutenant-Col. Alexander JackCrossing the River Beeas 1847 Hand-coloured lithograph on paper Print Size: 12.8 x 19.1 in (32.7 x 48.7 cm) Sheet Size: 17.5 x 24 in (44.5 x 61 cm) b) J Picken after Lieutenant Colonel Alexander JackCrossing the River Guj 1847 Hand-coloured lithograph on paper Print Size: 18.7 x 12.4 in (47.5 x 31.6 cm) With Mount: 24.4 x 17.9 in (62 x 45.5 cm)
c) J Picken after Lieutenant Colonel Alexander JackShowing part of the road by which guns were taken up above the town of Milkera 1847 Hand-coloured lithograph on paper Print Size: 18.8 x 12.7 in (48 x 32.5 cm) Sheet Size: 24 x 17.3 in (61 x 44 cm) d) J Picken after Lieutenant Colonel Alexander JackView of the Mountains round Kot Kangra 1847 Hand-coloured lithograph on paper Print Size: 12.3 x 18.5 in (31.3 x 47.2 cm) With Mount: 17.9 x 24.6 in (45.7 x 62.5 cm) e) Thomas S Boys after Alexander JackGilt temple in the town of Mulkera 1847 Hand-coloured lithograph on paper Print Size: 18.5 x 12.2 in (47 x 31 cm) With Mount: 24.6 x 17.7 in (62.5 x 45.2 cm) f) W Walton after Lt Col Alexander JackFortress of Kot Kangra 1847 Hand-coloured lithograph on paper Print Size: 13.4 x 19.1 in (34.2 x 48.7 cm) Sheet Size: 17.5 x 24 in (44.5 x 61 cm)
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Rs 3,00,000 - 4,00,000
$3,615 - 4,820
Winning bid
Rs 10,80,000 |
$13,012
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
St. Paul‘s Cathedral, Calcutta
1848
Colour lithograph on paper
Print Size: 15.5 x 21.5 in (39.5 x 54.8 cm) Sheet Size: 16.4 x 22.5 in (41.8 x 57.3 cm) With Mount: 24.3 x 29.6 in (61.8 x 75.2 cm)
Estimate
Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000
$1,810 - 2,410
Winning bid
Rs 3,84,000 |
$4,627
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)
Remains of an Ancient Building near...
September 1795
Original hand-coloured aquatint with etching on paper
Print Size: 18.1 x 23.2 in (46 x 59 cm) Sheet Size: 18.3 x 23.6 in (46.5 x 60 cm) With Mount: 23.2 x 29.7 in (59.2 x 75.5 cm)
Estimate
Rs 3,50,000 - 4,50,000
$4,220 - 5,425
Winning bid
Rs 3,84,000 |
$4,627
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The Taje Mahal at Agra
July 1796
Original hand-coloured aquatint with etching on paper
Print Size: 18.3 x 22.2 in (46.5 x 56.5 cm) With Mount: 23.4 x 25 in (59.5 x 63.5 cm)
Estimate
Rs 3,50,000 - 4,50,000
$4,220 - 5,425
Winning bid
Rs 4,80,000 |
$5,783
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The Surrender of the Children of Tippoo ...
1800
Colour Mezzotint on paper
Print Size: 21.5 x 27.3 in (54.8 x 69.5 cm) With Mount: 27.9 x 33.8 in (71 x 86 cm)
Estimate
Rs 2,50,000 - 3,00,000
$3,015 - 3,615
Winning bid
Rs 3,84,000 |
$4,627
(Inclusive of Buyers Premium)