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Art and Rare Books On India, Central Asia and the Islamic World
Indoislamica.com has an extensive stock of
rare books, prints, watercolours, miniatures, calligraphy and photographs
all relating to India, Central Asia and the Islamic world.
Indoislamica.com has been created by Shahid
Hosain, Yasmin Hosain and Simon
Brandenburger to provide material
of high quality at realistic prices to collectors with either modest
or more substantial budgets, as well as to museums and academic institutions.
Previously, for a quarter of a century,
Yasmin and Shahid Hosain ran their gallery in London’s West End where clients included some
of the world’s major collectors and institutions.
Now based in London’s Hampstead, the Hosains and Simon Brandenburger
are offering the same personal attention backed up by their own expertise
and that of a remarkable team of specialists. (See who we are).
They will be producing regular catalogues.
Their inventory includes such rarities
as:
- an extraordinary Provincial Mughal
miniature, circa 1750, of an assembly of noblemen and saints, each
identified in nasta’liq
script (MI000036)
- the first printed edition of the
Qur’an
in English, published in London in 1649 - John Evelyn’s
own copy (BK000013)
- a View of the Mosque at Mounheer from
the S.E., lithograph by William Hodges with hand-colouring almost
certainly by the artist himself. Published in London 1785-1788, from
the celebrated Archer Collection. (PR000037)
- a fine calligraphic
panel by Imad-al-Hussaini, signed and dated 1021 A.H. (1612 A.D.),
written on cloudbands against a floral background, enclosed by a
border illumined with gold flowers and birds (CAL000017)
- an atmospheric watercolour
view of Simla from Prospect Hill, summer capital of British India,
by Major Reginald Mitford, author of the classic To Caubul with the
Cavalry Brigade, London, 1881. (WC000020)
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