Lot 142
Indian art, industry and handicrafts
Group of monographs and catalogues, 19th and early-20th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Ali, A. Yusuf. A Monograph on Silk Fabrics produced in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh. Allahabad: printed at the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1900. First edition, 4to, original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, 4 chromolithographic plates, 2 folding tables (paginated 109-112), cloth mottled, tide-mark to textblock, first folding table clumsily folded and with slight marginal loss;
Howe, Balch & Co. Indigo. New York: N. Y. Photo Gravure Co., 1891. Oblong 4to, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, 16 photogravure plates depicting indigo production and the Calcutta offices of Howe, Balch & Co., binding marked;
Lane-Poole, Stanley. Catalogue of the Mohammadan Coins preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888. First edition, 4to, original green cloth, 4 collotype plates, worming;
Pillai, S. A. (editor). Ravi Varma and his Art. Quilon [Kollam, Kerala]: S. A. Pillai, 1928. First edition, 4to, original cloth, 29 pp., 24 halftone photographic plates;
Baker, Aldred F. A Report on the Cottage Textile Industries of Kashmir and their Prospective Development. [Leeds]: Jowett & Sowry Ltd, 1933. 4to, original textured wrappers, rebacked, 120 pp., halftone photographic illustrations throughout, covers worn, worming to covers and endpapers, rear endpaper loose;
B. Sinha & Co. [Trade catalogue of locks and ironmongery]. Illustrated Catalogue No. 7. Calcutta, 1941. 4to, contemporary half leather, original wrappers bound in, illustrated throughout;
and 6 others similar, including Deshpande, Modern Ideal Homes for India, Poona, 1950 (third edition, 4to, original cloth) (12)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA