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

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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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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Street Doctor / Karachi.

Circa 1950.

Photographic postcard. Unused.

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Lucknow - entrance gate to Secinder Bagh where 2000 mutineers were killed in 1857.

Also known as Secundra Bagh, a villa and garden estate on the outskirts of Lucknow. The scene of fierce fighting during the 'Indian Mutiny' of 1857, it was used by sepoys as a refuge from British troops.

Circa 1870.

Albumen print. Mounted on a contemporary album leaf with titling in contemporary ink. Verso another albumen print circa 1870 titled 'Lucknow - ruins of the residency - the memorial'. 235mm x 190mm. (9.25 x 7.5ins).

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[Michailow] Adventures of Michailow, A Russian Captive; Among the Kalmucs, Kirghiz, and Kiwenses.

Written by himself.

London 1822.

Modern cloth otherwise a good copy. pp. 46. 8vo.

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Stein, Sir Aurel. Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Iran. Carried out and Recorded with the Support of Harvard University and the British Museum. Antiques Examined and Described with the Assistance of Fred H. Andrews and Analysed in an Appendix by R.L. Hobson. With illustrations, plates of Antiques, Plans and Maps from Original Surveys.

London 1937.

34 plates of antiques (6 coloured), 88 photographic illustrations and 26 plates, 18 sketch plans, 2 skeleton maps and 2 large folding maps of Baluchistan, Kerman and the Gulf Coast in pocket at end.

Original decorative cloth, top edges gilt, remainder uncut. Leicester Libraries blind-stamp to upper outer corner of many leaves, but a very good, clean, bright, tight copy. Large 4to. p.p. xx, 267.

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Yate, Lieutenant A.C. England and Russia Face to Face in Asia; Travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission.

Edinburgh 1887.

Frontispiece, 4 sepia plates, 2 folding maps including large map in pocket. Original red cloth with some discolouring on parts of upper cover and at spine edge, half-title page slightly creased, but a very good, firm copy. 8vo. pp. viii, 481, 24pp. publisher’s advertisements.

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Yate, Major C.E. Northern Aghanistan; or Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission. With Route Maps.

Edinburgh 1888.

3 maps, including 2 folding in pocket. Original red cloth. 8vo. p.p. viii, 430.

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Allen, I.N. Diary of a March through Sinde and Affghanistan, with the Troops under the Command of General Sir William Nott.

London 1843.

Tinted lithographed folding panoramic frontispiece, and 7 tinted lithographic plates. Bright pictorial cloth. 8vo. pp. viii, 468, (iv – publisher’s advertisements).

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