Search Results: Indian Art from Design Books

Tokyo: Heibonsha Ltd. Publishers, 1971. This is a near fine hardcover copy in the original pictorial publishers slipcase. Some wear to edges of slipcase. Completely clean inside, but for a short neat collector name to the front endpaper, dating information added in pencil to some plates. Text in Japanese. Table of contents and plate list in English. Classic study of the cave temples and murals of Ajanta. Photographs by Mikihiro Taeda. 179 photographs in color and black & white. 13" high X 11" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Baroda, India: Baroda State Press, 1938. This is a very good hardcover copy in printed red cloth covers, with only light wear outside. Inside generally clean, but foxing sporadically throughout. This report by the Director of Archeology in Baroda State, recounts the activities of the Department in the years 1936-37. Information about exploration of recently unearthed structures, finds of sculptures, coins, and other archeological material, plus conservation efforts. Also included is an appendix with the accounts of a Dutch traveller to Baroda State in 1625. This is a presentation copy signed by the author and dated 1941 on the front endpaper. The book has been less than carefully bound, in that the pages show wrinkling down the center or "gutter" of the book where the pages are glued together. 14 plates in black & white, including 1 color plate of a fresco. Large slender 4to, 12" high X 8" wide, 46 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped… Read More

Paris: Picard, 2005. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. Illustrated in color and black & white. Maps. Bibliography. Glossary. 11" high X 8" wide, 167 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

India : Sagi Publishing , 2014. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear, with a plain black die-cut card slipcase. Also the bookmark designed by the artist with a building outline, laid in. Completely clean. Signed by the architect/artist, Savio Lobo, in ink on the title-page and dated 2014. Not inscribed to anyone, just signed and dated. This book is an album of drawings of buildings in Bandra, India. Many street perspectives, horizon lines, maps etc. Glossary. 8" high X 11" wide, 164 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Artist.. Soft Cover. Fine.

London: Sotheby's, 1979. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's London on October 8-9, 1979. Sale code: "LAYLA". The sale featured Mughal miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a miniature attributed to La'l, ca. 1590. Also Deccani, Central Indian and Rajasthani miniatures from the 16th to 19th centuries, including a group ancestral portrait of the rulers of Jaipur, ca. 1760. 333 lots in the sale. Many illustrated, some in color. Price estimates sheets included, but not hammer prices. 10" high X 7" wide, 175 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Delhi, India: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation , 1969. This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside. Covers lightly sunned. A comprehensive early survey of the cave temples of India. 98 black & white illustrations. 11" high X 7" wide, 536 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Cloth. Very Good.

Bombay: D.B.Taraporevala Sons & Co., Ltd., 1982. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket and glassine wrapper. There is just a little chipping to the glassine wrapper at the top of the spine, otherwise no wear. Very clean inside and out. One tiny ink number (price in India?) to the dark gray front endpaper. This is the later printing of S. N. Dar's 1969 classic on Indian and Pakistani dress. 142 illustrations including 4 in color. Bibliograpy. Vocabulary. 11" high X 8 1/2" wide, 244 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Calcutta/London: Thacker Press and Directories, 1950. This is a very good hardcover copy bound in red boards with title in gilt on the front cover. Very clean inside and just a few marks to the red covers. Slight bump to top right corner of the last pages of the book. Introduction by Kim Christen. Texts by D. P. Ghosh, Nirmal Kumar Bose, and Y. D. Sharma. Line drawings by Gopal Ghose and Phoni Bhusan. Black & white photographs by A. Goswami. 13" high X 11" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Cornell University Press,, 1972. This is a near fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket, price-clipped, but complete, one short closed tear to rear cover top edge. Completely clean. Stated first edition. Illustrated throughout in black & white with 90 photographs + 5 figures in the text + 11 tables. From the jacket flap " Along the reaches near Bombay, the flanks of the Deccan plateau have been tunnelled, carved. and polished into a series of cathedral-like caves. These sanctuaries are among the most imposing and sophisticated works of Indian religious art and were, for Buddhist India. the equivalent of the great cathedrals of mediaeval Europe." Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide, 240 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New Delhi,: National Museum, , 1980. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with just light wear. 36 color plates + 263 black & white illustrations. Maps. 11" high X 10" wide, 304 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Sotheby's, 2005. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. No marks to lots or illustrations. This is a sale catalog for a sale held at Sotheby's in London on May 25, 2005. The sale consisted of a variety of material from both fine and decorative arts all somewhat Colonial in nature, the things that the Colonizing powers would have collected. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 195 pages. Prices realized sheet included.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

South Kensington, England: Christie's, 2013. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. This is a sale catalog for an auction held in London at Christie's South Kensington location on June 10, 2013. Sale code: EPCS-9966. 45 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Auction Results sheet included. 11" high X 8" wide, 58 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Poona, India: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1987. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean, just a small old price in rupees stamped at the lower edge of the front endpaper. This bibliography of Indus Valley wrtings and documents grew out of Dandekar's earlier volumes on Vedic Bibliography. Now all of the earlier Indus Valley material plus the original research on Harappan Culture is brought together in one volume. Thousands of entries on all aspects of Indus Valley culture. Not illustrated. 9" high X 6" wide, 495 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Delft: Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, 1991. This is an almost very good softcover copy. The foot of the spine is worn with some of the surface taken off. Otherwise fine, completely clean inside and out. Text in Dutch and English. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, in Delft, from September 7 to December 8, 1991. The exhibition explored the work of Hasan Djaafar (1919- 1995) who was born in Sumatra, Indonesia and only started painting as a serious artist after World War II. Illustrated in black & white with vintage photographs and in color with 12 plates. Bibliography. Limited edition of 750 copies. 10" high X 7" wide, 60 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Limited Edition 750 Copies. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Roma: Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente. ; Museo nazionale d'arte orientale Giuseppe Tucci, 2002. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in Italian. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Rome at the Palazzo Brancaccio from April 18 to July 21, 2002. Curated by Pierfrancesco Callieri and Anna Filigenzi. Essays by Callieri, Filigenzi, Luca Maria Olivieri, Laura Giuliano, Ciro Lo Muzio, Massimiliano A. Polichetti, and Domenico Faccenna. Illustrated in black & white + 12 color plates. Maps. Bibliography. 12" high X 8" wide, 222 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Sotheby's, 2002. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's New York on November 14, 2002. Sale code: 7846 "KISHANGARH". 95 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 132 pages.This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: Abrams /Metropolitan Museum, 1997. This is a near fine softcover copy with virtually no wear. Completely clean. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York from March 25 to July 6, 1997. 83 works in the exhibition. All illustrated in color. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 142 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Philadelphia in 2001. Texts by Darielle Mason, Alvin O. Bellak, Terence McInerney, John Seyller, and B.N. Goswamy. Illustrated throughout in color. Bibliography. 11" square, 216 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Cambridge at the University Press, 1916. This is a very good hardcover ciopy in the original publisher's brown decorated cloth with just light wear. Very clean inside and out. Pre-Buddhist birth-tales from India. Illustrated with 8 black & white plates. 10" high X 6" wide, 488 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Stockholm: Östasiatiska Museet, 1974. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Swedish. Katalog no. 21 in the Östasiatiska Museet series. 30 black & white plates. 8" square, 71 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.