India
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# 49462
GOPINATH & S. V. RAMANA RAO
The classical dance poses of India (Yvonne Audette’s copy)
Madras : Natana Niketan Publications, 1955. Second edition. Quarto, plain papered boards, cloth spine, in illustrated dustjacket (silverfished and foxed), unpaginated, illustrated with the Mudras (the twenty four basic hand gestures) and 105 classical dance poses. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930), her wet stamp to the endpaper, acquired in 2025.
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# 49492
ARCHER, W. G.
Indian miniatures (Yvonne Audette’s copy)
Greenwich, CT : New York Graphic Society, 1960. Folio, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (a couple of short tears), offsetting and tape marks to endpapers, pp. 16, 100 plates (mostly tipped-in colour plates) with adjacent leaves of descriptive text, a very good copy. Includes Indian manuscripts. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930), her wetstamp …
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# 49228
WALSH, E. H. C.
The Tibetan anatomical system
Hertford : printed by Stephen Austin and Sons for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1910. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 1215 – 1245, unopened, text in English with some words in Sanskrit, large folding anatomical diagram, a fine copy. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, October, 1910
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# 49242
TRENDELL, A. J. R.
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.
A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …
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# 48934
São Tomás de Aquino, Paulo de
Oraçaō funebre da muito alta, e muito poderoza Senhora D. Maria, 1ª. Rainha fidelissima de Portugal, Brazil, e Algarves, &c.
Pronunciada por Fr. Paulo de SM. Thomas de Aquino, Arcebispo Eleito de Cranganor ; no dia 7 de Maio, de 1817, nas solemnes exequias, que o leal Senado de Macao, fez celebrar na Cathedral da mesma cidade. [Macao?] : [s.n.], [1817?]. Small octavo, later half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; title-leaf with early …
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# 48517
WOOD, James
Wood’s Royal Southern Kalendar, Tasmanian Register, and General Australasian & East Indian Official Directory. 1850 :
Launceston : Henry Dowling, 1850. Small octavo (180 x 110 mm), early purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt (sunned); recased with new pastedowns, retaining Walch & Sons binder’s ticket; pp. xiv, [1-25 Kalendar], 26-252, [40 advertisements]; colour plates of Hobart Town and Launceston Signals on pp. 26-7; very clean throughout. Ferguson, 5587
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# 48879
EMPRESS SHOTOKU-TENNO (718 - 770 CE)
Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text that can be accurately dated (with the Jishin’in darani)
Japan : Nara period [764-770 CE]. Three-tier turned wooden pagoda made of hinoki (Japanese cypress), well preserved with remnants of the original white gesso wash made from seashells in the eighth century, very slight chips to the rims of the three tiers, separate turned katsura wood finial (edge chips to the rings), overall height 218 …
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# 48770
FARIA Y SOUSA, Manuel de
The Portugues Asia : or, the history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues;
containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battles by sea and land, sieges, and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel …
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# 48451
[CLIFT, Horace William]
[INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world
Calcutta : printed at the Calcutta School-Book Society’s Press, and sold at their Depository, Circular Road, 1846. Sixth edition. Octavo (177 x 110 mm), original plum cloth (faded and with scattered stains); ownership inscription to front free endpaper: ‘R. Moore of the 1 Company 6 Bn. Bengal Artillery Feby. 12 the [sic] 1857 Anno Domino …
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# 48537
"CRINGLE, Tom" [WALKER, William, 1838 - 1908]
Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java.
A series of letters reprinted from the “Times of India”. Bombay : printed and published at the “Times of India” Office, 1865. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered red cloth (rubbed and flecked), armorial bookplate of Francis Edward Stewart to front pastedown, wet stamp of Thomas Alexander of Melbourne, half-title, pp. vii; 273; a few finger marks and …
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# 48591
ELWIN, Verrier
The art of the north-east frontier of India
Shillong : North-East Frontier Agency, 1959. First edition. Large quarto (280 x 215 mm), publisher’s decorated cloth (fine), in the pictorial dust jacket (lightly marked); map endpapers; ex libris of Lorna and Walter Lippmann to verso of front free-endpaper; pp. xvi, 211, with hundreds of photographic plates (15 colour) and line-drawn illustrations; an excellent copy. …
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# 48585
ELWIN, Verrier
The tribal art of Middle India : a personal record
London : OUP, 1951. First edition. Quarto (255 x 195 mm), publisher’s yellow cloth with black lettering to spine (fine), in the pictorial dust jacket (chipped at corners and pine ends); pp. [16, last blank], 1-214; with 229 photographic plates (some in colour) and monochrome in-text illustrations; clean throughout, a very good copy. A scholarly …
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# 48628
[Photographer unknown].
Large group of villagers with three European men. India, c.1880.
Large form albumen print photograph, 220 x 280 mm; in good condition, with some very minor fading at edges of the print; on an early paper mount. There is no indication as to the location of the photograph. The large group comprises close to a hundred men, women and children. A picket fence on the …
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# 46956
STAFFORD, Ignatius
Istoria della celeste vocatione, missioni apostoliche, e gloriosa morte del P. Marcello Francesco Mastrilli,
Indiano felicissimo della Compagnia di Giesù. Viterbo : Bernardino Diotalleui, 1642. Quarto (215 x 165 mm), contemporary limp vellum, spine with faint manuscript lettering; initial blank leaf, title leaf with woodcut arms of the dedicatee, pp. 94, final errata leaf; woodcut initials and headpieces; occasional spotting and light marginal staining, a very good copy with …
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# 48366
GHOSH, Radha Kanta
Cholera and its treatment on homoeopathic principles
(Based mainly on the results of fourteen years practice as a homoeopath.) Calcutta : published for the author by Berigny & Co, 1887. Printed by G. P. Roy & Co, Calcutta. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with blind decoration, lightly rubbed at edges, pencilled ‘Duplicate’ on front free endpaper, title leaf, pp. ii; 56; (3), a fine …
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# 46721
Robert ASHTON (1950- )
Thin Air : a portfolio of 12 copperplate photogravure prints of Ladakh.
[Ladakh and Melbourne : the artist, 2013]. Complete suite of twelve copperplate photogravures, printed in an edition of 5; 290 x 390 mm (plate size), 395 x 485 mm (sheet size); all titled and dated 2013 by the artist lower left, and signed by the artist lower right in 2023; very fine, loosely housed in …