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L‘Offrande Lyrique [Limited Edition Copy] - Rabindranath Tagore and Sakti Burman - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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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"Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Calcutta Presented by Maharaj-Kumar Sir Prodyot Coomar Tagore", Tagore Castle, Calcutta, January 1906 [Presentation Copy] - Johnston and Hoffmann - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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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Personality: Lectures Delivered in America [Signed by the Author in English and Bengali] - Rabindranath  Tagore - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)

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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Jung Indien: Aufsätze aus den jahren 1919 bis 1922 (Young India: Essays from the years 1919 to 1922) [Signed copy by Gandhi] - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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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The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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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Discovery of India [Signed by Nehru] - Jawaharlal  Nehru - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)

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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Goal [Signed book by the Author] - Captain  Dhyan Chand - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Captain Dhyan Chand (1905 - 1979)

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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High Adventure + Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing [Signed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay] - Edmund Hillary and James Ramsey Ullman - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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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Constitution of India [Set of six editions till date] - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Babasaheb Ambedkar) - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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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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The Chalees Satoon in the Fort of Allahabad on the River Jumna - Thomas  Daniell - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Thomas Daniell (1749 - 1840)

The Chalees Satoon in the Fort of...
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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Tin-Tali / Râmêswara [Set of 2] - Thomas Daniell after James Wales - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Tin-Tali / Râmêswara [Set of 2]
a) Thomas Daniell after James Wales
Tin-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 Wales
Râmêswara
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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A View of the Government House and Council Chamber, Madras - Henry  Merke - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Henry Merke (b.1799 - 1820 (fl.))

A View of the Government House and...
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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Mosque at Lucknow - John William Hill after Henry Salt - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Mosque at Lucknow
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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Assemblage of Hillmen Series: Series: Views in the Himala Mountains - Robert Havell after  James Baillie Fraser - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Assemblage of Hillmen Series: Series:...
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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Calcutta from the Water Gate of Fort William - Dickinson & Co. after William Prinsep - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Calcutta from the Water Gate of Fort...
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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Views of Kot Kangra and the surrounding Country [Set of Six]  - George Childs, J Picken, Thomas S Boys and W Walton after Lieutenant-Col. Alexander Jack - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Views of Kot Kangra and the surrounding ...
a) George Childs after Lieutenant-Col. Alexander Jack
Crossing 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 Jack
Crossing 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 Jack
Showing 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 Jack
View 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 Jack
Gilt 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 Jack
Fortress 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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St. Paul‘s Cathedral, Calcutta - Dickinson & Co.   after Sir Charles D`Oyly - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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St. Paul‘s Cathedral, Calcutta
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)

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Remains of an Ancient Building near Firoz Shah‘s Cotilla, Delhi - Thomas  Daniell - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Thomas Daniell (1749 - 1840)

Remains of an Ancient Building near...
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)

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The Taje Mahal at Agra - Thomas  Daniell - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Thomas Daniell (1749 - 1840)

The Taje Mahal at Agra
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)

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The Surrender of the Children of Tippoo Sultaun on the 4th of May 1799 - Charles Turner after Thomas Stothard - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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The Surrender of the Children of Tippoo ...
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)

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