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Rare Books on Indian Art and Culture
Rare Books on Indian Art and Culture

Ashvita's presents a curated selection of Rare Books on Indian Art and Culture that chronicles the artistic and historic achievements of India represented through iconic publications like the The Modern Review, The Times of India Annuals, The Cambridge History of India and authors like E.B Havell, Karl Khandavala, Percy Brown.

Sale No: 000028
( 32 lots )
19 August 2021, 10:00 AM to 20 August 2021, 07:00 PM
Bidding is closed

Auction Overview

No. Percentage
Total Lots 32 100%
Total Lots Sold 23 72%
Total Low Estimate Value 2,94,000
Total Sale Value 2,94,360

A list of the top 5 lots

Lot No. Lot Title Total Price (Incl. buyer’s premium) ()
Lot 11 A 1928 Chronical on the History of Persian Navigation 77,000
Lot 23 A Set of 72 Issues of Modern Review Bound in Volumes of 12. 53,900
Lot 14 Set of Five Volumes of The Times of India Annuals from 1926 to 1953 and 1953 Times of Ceylon Annual 20,900
Lot 7 Set of Three Volumes of The Cambridge History of India 16,500
Lot 4 Set of Two Books on the History and Archaeology of Gujarat 16,500
Lot 1
Estimate  :   2,500 - 5,000
This lot offers a unique insight into the story and history of British enterprise in India. Parry's as it stands today is one of India's biggest conglomerates based out of Chennai. Thomas Parry was a welsh merchant who started ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
3,800
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 380.00
Total
4,180
Lot 2
Estimate  :   2,500 - 3,500
Originating from the lectures delivered at the Annamalai University in 1934 this second edition offers a comprehensive account of the art and science of war in Ancient India and consecutively an account of history military ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
4,200
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 420.00
Total
4,620
Lot 3
Estimate  :   9,500 - 14,000
This present lot offers a set of two books of which one is written by an anonymous 'Indian Mohamedan' commissioned by the British and another by The book contains a history of British India and the conduct of the English in India ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
9,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 900.00
Total
9,900
Lot 4
Estimate  :   16,000 - 18,000
This lot offers a set of two books on the history, culture and archaeology of Gujarat. Authored by two professors of Indian History and Culture, both accounts offer an anthropological insight into the ancient province of Gujarat....
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
15,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 1500.00
Total
16,500
Lot 6
Estimate  :   2,000 - 4,000
A First edition Old Assamese Chronicle of the Tungkhungia Dynasty of Ahom Sovereigns 'The object of the whole book has been to present to the world a history of Assam of the Tungkhungia period as told by its own historians....
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
2,200
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 220.00
Total
2,420
Lot 7
Estimate  :   15,000 - 18,000
The Cambridge History of India was a major work of historical scholarship published in five volumes between 1922 and 1937 by Cambridge University Press. Volumes IV was assigned to Wolseley Haig, former Civil Servant in Indian and ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
15,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 1500.00
Total
16,500
Lot 8
Estimate  :   3,000 - 4,000
In 1952, M.S University, Baroda and Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune came together in a joint venture to 'test the truth of Mahishmati and its relations to the problem to the colonization of the Narmada ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
3,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 300.00
Total
3,300
Lot 9
Estimate  :   5,500 - 7,000
This lot offers the 1956 (third) edition of Indian Architecture by Percy Brown. This volume chronicles the Hindu and Buddhist architecture of India with over 500 drawings, photographs and maps. Brown begins his exhaustive account ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
7,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 700.00
Total
7,700
Lot 10
Estimate  :   4,000 - 5,000
This lot offers the Second edition of Indian Sculpture and Painting by E B Havell. Originally published in 1908, Havell in his foreword recognises the changing interest in Indian art by Indians and Europeans alike between the ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
9,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 900.00
Total
9,900
Lot 11
Estimate  :   75,000 - 90,000
A history of Persian navigation is a historical book written by Hadi Hassan who was the professor of Persian at the Muslim University at Aligarh. Published in 1928, Hasan concluded that whilst the land empire of Sassanids ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
70,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 7000.00
Total
77,000
Lot 12
Estimate  :   4,500 - 6,500
This lot offers a set of three rare works on the history, politics and beauty of Kashmir. a) Kashmir Under the Sultan Mohibbul Hassan Iran Society, Calcutta 1959 b) Kashmir in Crucible Prem Nath Bazaz Pamposh Publications, ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
4,600
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 460.00
Total
5,060
Lot 14
Estimate  :   20,000 - 30,000
This present lot offers a set of six magazines, of which first compilation has four Times of India Annuals bound together with The Times of Ceylon Annual from 1953. And the second, is an extremely rare Times of India Annual from ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
19,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 1900.00
Total
20,900
Lot 17
Estimate  :   6,000 - 7,000
One of the most outstanding collections of gemstones and jewellery was acquired by the Indian governmet in 1995. Sometimes worn but never shown, these jewels once belonged to the Nizams of Hyderabad, reputed to be the richest men ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
6,500
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 650.00
Total
7,150
Lot 19
Estimate  :   6,500 - 7,500
Karl Khandalavala, an eminent art critic and the editor of the Third Edition, has brought the text up-to-date by appending Notes at the end of each chapter. Since Vincent Smith's times, fresh research and new discoveries have ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
7,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 700.00
Total
7,700
Lot 20
Estimate  :   2,500 - 3,500
This present lot offers a composite account of the paintings of Ishwar Dass, written by Manu Thacker. Based out of Lucknow, Dass was a student of Asit Kumar Haldar. His works were inspired by the regality of Lucknow’s nawabi ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
4,800
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 480.00
Total
5,280
Lot 22
Estimate  :   7,000 - 8,000
Published in 1936 under the reign of Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV, this historical chronicle starts from the coronation of his predecessor, Chamaraja Wodeyar X, Maharaja of Mysore. This rare account offers a glimpse into the political ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
6,500
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 650.00
Total
7,150
Lot 23
Estimate  :   30,000 - 50,000
Begun in 1907 by Ramananda Chatterjee, the Modern Review quickly emerged as a vital forum for the nationalist intelligentsia. It carried essays on politics, economics and society, but also, being run by a Bengali, poems, stories, ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
49,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 4900.00
Total
53,900
Lot 24
Estimate  :   3,000 - 4,000
This present lot offers a set of three volumes of Flora of the Presidency of Bombay. 'The necessity for " local " or " regional " Tloras to supplement Sir Joseph Hooker's great work, ' The Flora of British India,' which deals ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
7,500
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 750.00
Total
8,250
Lot 25
Estimate  :   8,000 - 10,000
On its first hundredth anniversary in 1953, the Railway Ministry came out with a book, the first ever history of the railways of India, titled Indian Railways — One Hundred Years: 1853—1953. This general work authored by J N ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
8,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 800.00
Total
8,800
Lot 27
Estimate  :   10,000 - 12,000
Originally published in 1889, this book is divided into five parts providing an exhaustive chronicle on the hydrography, history and politics of Punjab. Starting from ancient history, the author systematically lays down different ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
10,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 1000.00
Total
11,000
Lot 28
Estimate  :   1,000 - 2,000
This first edition work with a foreword by Sarat Chandra Roy studies the Agaria tribe of iron-smelters and blacksmiths found in Central India. Elwin shows that though the Agaria share customs and habits with other tribes, they ...
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
1,100
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 110.00
Total
1,210
Lot 30
Estimate  :   3,000 - 4,000
This lot offers a biographical account of Raja Man Singh of Amer (which later became Jaipur in the Rajputana). He was a Kachwaha raja, a close and trusted general of Akbar and one of his Navaratnas.
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
2,800
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 280.00
Total
3,080
Lot 32
Estimate  :   2,000 - 2,500
This lot offers a unique travel guide for visitors for the Caves of Elephanta. Published in 1934, this guide is an illustrated record of the topography, history, art, architecture and archaeology of the Elephanta caves.
The lot has ended
Hammer Price :
2,600
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 260.00
Total
2,860
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