Indoislamica: art and rare books relating to India, Central Asia and the Islamic world

De Bode, Baron Clement A. Bokhara: its Amir and its People. (Translated from the Russian of Khanikoff.)

London 1845.

Lithographed frontispiece and folding map. Original cloth and printed paper label (dulled). Errata page present. pp. xxvii, 316. 8vo. RARE.

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Hughes, A. W. The Country of Balochistan; its Geography, Topography, Ethnology and History. With a Map, Photographic Illustrations, and Appendices containing a Short Vocabulary of the Principal Vocabulary in Use...

Hughes, of the Bombay Civil Service, was also the author of the first comprehensive Gazetteer of Sind.

London 1877.

Mounted Woodburytype frontispiece and 6 Woodburytype photographic plates, large folding map in pocket. Original decorative cloth, recased, unobtrusive library blind stamps at edge of plates, shelf number on spine. pp. vi, (ii), 294. 8vo. SCARCE.

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Alder, G.J. British India’s Northern Frontier 1865-95; A Study in Imperial Policy.

Covers Eastern Turkistan; Kashmir and the Tribal Territories; The Upper Oxus Frontier of Afghanistan; and the first, second and third Pamir crises.

London 1963.

3 maps. Cloth, dustwrapper. pp. xiv, 392. 8vo.

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Edwards, Lieutenant William. Sketches in Scinde.

Published by Henry Graves and Co., London 1846.

Half morocco, the original pictorial cartouche on cover set-in. Plates inter-leaved with acid-free paper. This copy is complete in all respects and comprises: (i) Tinted lithographed frontispiece, with portrait of General Napier, and his facsimile signature. (ii) Dedication leaf. (iii) Letterpress, printed in blue, containing a description of the plates. (iv) Plan of Scinde. (v) 10 fine lithographed plates, with superb architectural detail. Large folio.

See Abbey: Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey: a bibliographical catalogue. Volume II, no. 469. London 1957.

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Obhrai, Rai Bahadur Diwan Chand. The Evolution of North-West Frontier Province.

Peshawar 1938.

Frontispiece, 51 photographic and other plates, folding map. Royal 8vo. pp. xxx, 362, (i-errata).

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Chowdry, Anita. Shamsa Installation.

The design and structure of a twelve pointed shamsa is used here for the stairwell installation of large steel structures, finished in white and mirror polish.

Laser-cut powder-coated steel, coated on both sides, contains holes for fixing - can be either wall-mounted or suspended. 1 m diameter (39.5 ins), 3mm thick steel.

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Chowdry, Anita. Julia Dragon.

The Julia dragon was constructed using a computer programme called “Ultra Fractal” and is based on the classic Mandelbrot and Julia structures modified by a mathematician called Shigehiro Ushiki. The dragon or cloud shape comes from reiterated elements in exponentially growing and receding proportion.

Black & white print, digital fractal image using an “Ultrafractal” programme. 200 mm x 200 mm (7.8 x 7.8 ins).

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Chowdry, Anita. Shamsa geometry.

A study in geometry. Ruled lines of pure gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper build up a twelve pointed star which grows exponentially from the centre.

2008

Painted, gold and silver on indigo dyed paper (natural pigments). 370 mm x 370 mm (14.5 x 14.5 ins).

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Chowdry, Anita. Black Shamsa.

The design and structure of a twelve pointed shamsa is simplified using a palette of flat black with red outlines, offset from its central disc of silver and gold.

A contemporary painted illumination, mineral colours and gold on paper. 380 mm x 380 mm (15 x 15 ins).

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Chowdry, Anita. Classic Shamsa.

A carefully rendered shamsa, painted using natural pigments ground by hand from metals and minerals.

Classic illumination painted, mineral pigments and gold on Gampi paper. 365 mm x 360 mm (14.5 x 14 ins).

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Bernier, François. The History of The Late Revolution of The Empire of the Great Mogol; together with the most considerable Passages, for 5 years following in that Empire.

London 1671.

Engraved folding map (often missing). Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked. pp. (xvi), 258, 176, 102, (i – publisher’s advertisement). 8vo. (2 volumes in one).

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Workman, William Hunter and Fanny Bullock Workman. The Call of the Snowy Hispar; A Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier of India.

London 1910.

2 gravure and and 84 sepia and tinted plates from photographs by the authors (including 4 folding panoramas), 19 text illustrations and 2 folding panoramas in Appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati and Dr. Mathias Koncza. Pictorial cloth, gilt. 8vo.

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