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

Compton, Herbert. A Particular Account of the European Military Adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784-1803.

London 1892.

6 plates, 2 text illustrations, folding map. Gilt-lettered cloth. 8vo. pp. 419.

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De Lesdain, Count. From Peking to Sikkim; through the Ordos, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet.

London 1908.

Frontispiece, 31 photographic plates, and a folding route map. Decorative cloth, top edges gilt. 8vo. xii, 297.

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Plan of Fort St. George and the City of Madras.

Numbered key for White Town, Comer Pete Town, Black Town and Mutial Peta. Places of interest referred to include ‘Governours House’, ‘Portugese Church’, ‘Pagans Burying Ground’, ‘Armenian Church’ etc.

Mid eighteenth century.

Hand-coloured copper engraving. 125 x 210mm. (4.25 x 8ins).

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Ars Islamica.

Volume VII, Parts 1 and 2, and Volume VIII.

University of Michigan Press, Anne Arbor 1940-1941.

Collotype gravure plates, text figures and plans (some folding). Black buckram with original wrappers bound in. pp. 177, 214. Large 4to.

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Husain, Maqbool Fida (1915-). British Raj (large size).

Artist’s proof, signed in pencil by M.F. Husain.

Lithograph on paper. 1005 x 520mm. (39.5 x 20.5 ins).

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Atkinson, James (1780-1852). The Durbar-Khaneh of Shah Shoojah-Ool-Moolk, at Caubul.

Published by Longman, Brown, Green & Longman, Henry Graves & Company and W.H. Allen. London 1842.

Tinted lithograph with fine later hand-colour. Wide margins. Approx. 365 x 537mm. (14 x 21ins).

Abbey Travel 508 no. 23. J.R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey: a bibliographical catalogue. London 1957.

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D'Oyly, Bart., Sir Charles (1781-1845). Hindoo Mut in the Chitpore Bazaar.

From Views of Calcutta and its Environs, the rare coloured edition of the work.

Published by Dickinson & Co., 114 New Bond Street, London 1848.

Lithograph with original hand-colour heightened with gum Arabic. Approx. 340 x 540mm. (13 x 21ins).

Abbey Travel 497 no. 23. J.R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey: a bibliographical catalogue. London 1957.

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Husain, Maqbool Fida (1915-). Krishna (large size).

Artist’s proof, signed in pencil by M.F. Husain.

Lithograph on paper. 700 x 990mm. (27.5 x 39 ins).

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Daniell, Thomas R.A. (1749-1840) and Daniell, William (1769-1837). North East View of the Cotsea Bhaug on the River Jumna, Delhi.

From Oriental Scenery (Part 1, plate 3), May 1795. Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan, taken in the years 1798 and 1790.

Published by Robert Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London 1795-97.

Hand-coloured aquatint by and after Thomas Daniell. A fine impression on thick Whatman paper with rich, unfaded colour, wide untrimmed margins and platemark.

Abbey Travel 420 no. 4. J.R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, from the library of J.R. Abbey: a bibliographical catalogue. London 1957. Archer I, plate 3.

M. Archer, Early Views of India: The Picturesque Journeys of Thomas and William Daniell 1786-1794. London 1980.

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Wingate, Lieut. Thomas (1807-1869). View of the Gateway.

From the Storming of Ghuznee and Kelat, the rare coloured edition of the work.

Published by T. McLean, London 1842.

Tinted lithograph with later hand-colour. Possibly originally mounted on card, as trimmed to image. Separate contemporary printed title preserved ' a near view of the Gateway, the day after the action'. Approx. 420 x 290mm. (16.5 x 11.5ins).

Abbey Travel 509 no. 8. J.R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey: a bibliographical catalogue. London 1957.

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Wingate, Lieut. Thomas (1807-1869). Storming of Ghuznee.

From the Storming of Ghuznee and Kelat, the rare coloured edition of the work.

Published by T. McLean, London 1842.

Tinted lithograph with original hand- colour by Weld Taylor. Possibly originally mounted on card, as trimmed to image. Lithographed by Weld Taylor. Approx. 420 x 290mm. (16.5 x 11.5ins).

Abbey Travel 509 no. 3. J.R. Abbey, Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey: a bibliographical catalogue. London 1957.

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Wingate, Lieut. Thomas (1807-1869). March across the Desert.

From the Storming of Ghuznee and Kelat, the rare coloured edition of the work.

Published by T. McLean, London 1842.

Tinted lithograph with original hand-colour. Possibly originally mounted on card, as trimmed to image. Lithographed by Weld Taylor. Approx. 420 x 290mm. (16.5 x 11.5ins).

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