Saffronart: Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Maps, Photographs, and Letters , 72424, Mumbai

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Auction Date
July 24, 2024 - July 25, 2024
Page Size: 93 items in 4 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 A S G Butler

The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens [3 Volumes]

London 1950 USD 1,810.00 - 2,410.00 USD 17,349.00
52 Nandalal Bose

Nandalal Bose [Signed book by Nandalal Bose] + Pictures from the Life of Buddha

USD 965.00 - 1,205.00 USD 3,470.00
53 Sir Mohammed Iqbal

Iqbal: Poet of the East [Signed and numbered in English and signed in Urdu by Chughtai]

Lahore 1968 USD 3,015.00 - 3,615.00 USD 4,048.00
54 Khalid Mohamed

88 Husain in Oils 003 [Husain signed book along with a sketch by him]

Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai 2003 USD 1,810.00 - 2,410.00 USD 7,229.00
55 William Daniell

The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected with it (from the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With illustrative Prints, engraved by William Daniell, from pictures painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights

Whitefriars. 1814 USD 965.00 - 1,205.00 USD 2,169.00
56 Thomas Moore

Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance [Along with a Fore-edge Painting]

London 1842 USD 1,810.00 - 2,410.00 USD 1,880.00
57 Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill

Gitanjali + Poems of Kabir

London 1912 USD 1,810.00 - 2,410.00 USD 7,952.00
58 Rudyard Kipling

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling [Signed and limited deluxe edition]

London 1912 USD 1,205.00 - 2,410.00 USD 8,675.00
59 Charles Freer Andrews

The Tagore Birthday Book: Selected from the English Works of Rabindranath Tagore [Signed book by Tagore]]

London 1928 USD 2,410.00 - 3,615.00 USD 15,904.00
60 Ramananda Chatterjee

The Golden Book of Tagore: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday [Limited Edition Copy]

Calcutta 1931 USD 1,810.00 - 2,410.00 USD 3,470.00
61 Rabindranath Tagore and Sakti Burman

L'Offrande Lyrique [Limited Edition Copy]

Paris 1993 USD 2,410.00 - 3,615.00 USD 7,952.00
62 Johnston and Hoffmann

"Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Calcutta Presented by Maharaj-Kumar Sir Prodyot Coomar Tagore", Tagore Castle, Calcutta, January 1906 [Presentation Copy]

Calcutta 1906 USD 1,810.00 - 2,410.00 USD 1,880.00
63 Rabindranath Tagore

Personality: Lectures Delivered in America [Signed by the Author in English and Bengali]

London 1918 USD 1,810.00 - 2,410.00 USD 5,494.00
64 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Jung Indien: Aufsatze aus den jahren 1919 bis 1922 (Young India: Essays from the years 1919 to 1922) [Signed copy by Gandhi]

Erlenbach-Zurich, Leipzig - Munich 1924 USD 4,220.00 - 5,425.00 Not Sold
65 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Ahmedabad 1929-33 USD 3,615.00 - 4,820.00 USD 4,048.00
66 Jawaharlal Nehru

Discovery of India [Signed by Nehru]

Calcutta 1956 USD 1,810.00 - 2,410.00 USD 7,952.00
67 Captain Dhyan Chand

Goal [Signed book by the Author]

Madras 1952 USD 905.00 - 1,205.00 USD 2,313.00
68 Edmund Hillary and James Ramsey Ullman

High Adventure + Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing [Signed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay]

London 1955 USD 1,205.00 - 1,810.00 USD 3,181.00
69 Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Babasaheb Ambedkar)

Constitution of India [Set of six editions till date]

1955 USD 6,025.00 - 7,230.00 USD 6,940.00
70 Thomas Daniell

The Chalees Satoon in the Fort of Allahabad on the River Jumna

USD 4,820.00 - 6,025.00 USD 7,229.00
71 Thomas Daniell after James Wales

Tin-Tali / Rameswara [Set of 2]

USD 6,630.00 - 9,040.00 USD 6,940.00
72 Henry Merke

A View of the Government House and Council Chamber, Madras

London 1807] USD 4,820.00 - 7,230.00 USD 5,060.00
73 John William Hill after Henry Salt

Mosque at Lucknow

London. 1809 USD 2,410.00 - 3,615.00 USD 2,747.00
74 Robert Havell after James Baillie Fraser

Assemblage of Hillmen Series: Series: Views in the Himala Mountains

1820 USD 2,410.00 - 3,015.00 USD 3,181.00
75 Dickinson & Co. after William Prinsep

Calcutta from the Water Gate of Fort William

USD 4,820.00 - 6,025.00 USD 5,060.00
  • Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
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    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.
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    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
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    18 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy
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