- WOMEN OF INDIA by Otto Rothfeld
With 48 full-page illustrations in colours by RAO BAHADUR M.V. DHURANDHAR
Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala, 1928 [2nd impression]
Pp viii, 223 + 48 colour plates showing women of all parts of India
Size: 8 x 6inches
Blue cloth binding with gilt title on spine
- THE PEOPLES OF BOMBAY
By Percival Strip and Olivia Strip
With illustrations in colour by RAO BAHADUR M.V. DHURANDHAR
BOMBAY: Thacker & Co.
1944
pp. 48 + 15 plates.br.size 10 x 7 inches
Original green pebbled cloth with gilt title on cover
- DECCAN NURSERY TALES or Fairy Tales from the South
By C. A. Kincaid
With 8 colour plates carrying paintings by M. V. Dhurandhar
LONDON: Macmillan.br.1914
pp. 135
Size 8.5 x 6.5 inches
- PAINTINGS OF INDIAN WOMANHOOD
By S. G. Thakur Singh
Foreword by J. P. Gangooly/ Introduction and Notes by Principal Shamsher Singh
Amritsar: Thakur Singh School of Arts
No date [c. 1935]
pp. vi + 22 tipped-in colour plates with descriptive text facing each plate
size: 12 x 9.5 inches
Stiff card covers with a colour plate pasted
Smaller version of one colour plate [Evening Toilet] also pasted in Introduction
Condition:Good. Corners bumped, one small moth hole across blank part of pages.
- GLIMPSES OF INDIA - A Unique Collection of Landscapes and Architectural Beauties
By S. G. Thakur Singh
Preface by Dr James H. Cousins/ Foreword by Rabindranath Tagore [and a note by Nicholas Roerich]
Revised Edition
Amritsar: Thakur Singh School of Arts
No date [c. 1950]
Pp x + 25 colour tipped-in plates on thick paper with descriptive text facing each
Size: 13 x 10 inches
Paper covered hardback with dust jacket with a colour plate pasted
Condition: Very fine. Cousins, Tagore, Roerich and Singh contributions carry their facsimile signatures.
This lot will be sold in "as is" condition.
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