Lot 138
Indian art
Collection of works
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Hendley, Thomas Holbein. Journal of Indian Art and Industry. Indian Jewellery. Vol. XII, Nos. 95-97 and 99-107. London: W. Griggs & Sons, Ltd, 1906-9. 12 numbers, folio, original wrappers, 152 plates (of which 30 in colours, often heightened in metallic pigments), numbers 95, 100 and 106 wrappers split along spines, with 4 further numbers of the Journal of Indian Art and Industry including Vol. XVI No. 123, Notes on a Collection of Brooches worn in India, by Mrs J. H. Rivett-Carnac;
Jones, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Folio, original cloth, chromolithographic title-page, 110 chromolithographic plates numbered 1-100, binding defective (covers near-detached; front free endpaper detached);
Mehta, Nanalal Chamanlal. Studies in Indian Painting. Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., 1926. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, slipcase, 17 tipped-in colour plates (one partly detached), lengthy gift inscriptions to front free endpaper and a few marginal annotations in the same hand;
Coomaraswamy, Ananda. History of Indian and Indonesian Art. New York: E. Weyhe, 1927. First edition, 4to, original green cloth, halftone photographic plates;
and 10 others (these not collated, including: Datta, A Few Pre-Historic Relics and the Rock Paintings of Singanpur, Raigarh State, Calcutta, 1931; Man, The Arts of the Andamanese and Nicobarese, 1878, offprint, original wrappers, plates; Birdwood, The Industrial Arts of India, 1890, 2 volumes in 1, original cloth; Muraqqa-i-Chughtai, Paintings of M. A. Rahman Chughtai … With Full Text of Diwan-i-Ghalib and Foreword by Sir Muhammad Iqabal, Lahore, c.1928, 4to, modern half leather, colour plates; Nosu, Mulaghandaktu Vihara Wall-Paintings, Benares, c.1940, oblong 4to, orginal quarter cloth, string-bound, colour plates; and similar)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA