Jaffer Amin Eds (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition, some marks on DJ but otherwise no faults. This lavishly illustrated book examines the real and perceived worlds of the maharaja from the early eighteenth century to 1947, when the Indian Princes ceded their territories into the modern states of India and Pakistan.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket of this catalogue of an exhibition of Indian art and artefacts held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich in 2009-10. Dust Jacket: pictorial, laminated with photograph of turban ornament to front on gold ground and Indian water-colour to rear, white lettering to front and spine on gold ground; in very good , bright clean condition with only the slightest signs of shelf wear; not price clipped (now protected). Cover: white paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; very clean and bright, perhaps the slightest sign of darkening to edges; otherwise few signs of shelf wear. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no inscriptions or marks; red end papers and paste-downs. Lavishly illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. 240 pp. A large and heavy book which may incur increased postage charges outside the UK. …

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. 240 p. 31 cm. Mainly colour illustrations with some b&w. Tiny tear at top front and some light scratches to covers. Includes paintings, jewellery, textiles and dress from 1700 to 1947.