The first-ever study of one of the most outstanding collections of gemstones and jewellery of a fabulously wealthy dynasty of India that ruled the Deccan for seven generations.

Published by Univ of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1976. Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Published. First Edition. Unused pristine copy of the 1986 . "The Great Lakes Forest, lying in a tension zone between the oak-hickory and northern coniferous forests, occupies the northern half of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and some of the Upper peninsula. It is Michigan's cool North Woods.and [its] Thuja swamps which provide the richest habitat for mosses." from the acknowledgements.

Howard Crum, among the foremost authorities on mosses, offers a thorough inventory of one of the more conspicuous and attractive features of the region. His book, though written with the students at the University of Michigan in mind, is also tailored for use in a broader area, in fact much of eastern North America. The introductory key includes all Michigan genera, and the text gives incidental means of identifying all of Michigan's mosses and most of those of the entire Great lakes-St. Lawrence River area.

PP 404, original binding. Size 173 x 254 mm

Calcutta: Indian Museum, 1987. 4to (23.5x28.5cm), 15pp, 12 plates, in original pictorial binding. Paintings and Drawings of The Kalighat Style.

Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 1995. 4to (30x22cm), 176pp, 126 colour photographs, map, glossary and bibliography, in original hard binding with dust jacket, good condition.

In the 15th century, perhaps as a reaction to the increasingly ascetic direction in which Hinduism was going, there was born in Vraja, in North India, a new offset of Krishna worship called Pushti Marga, the Path of Grace.

The founder, Vallabhacharya, stressed worship through the joys of life and living, and devotion to Krishna as the royal child Shrinathji through song, dance, dress, decoration and painting. The Paintings constitute the Nathdvara school so named because the image of Shrinathji is enshrined in a temple in Nathdvara, Rajasthan.

With over 120 colour reproductions, this book is the first major work on the subject. Says the well-known art historian Ratan Parimoo, "The books is a valuable study of a sub-school of Rajasthani painting linking it with other Indian styles of painting from the British Colonial period. Till now this school had only been associated with pichhvais on attention to the exquisite miniatures on paper in their true religious context."

New Delhi: Delhi Art Gallery, 2005. First Edition, 4to (24x23.5cm), 300pp, in original hard cover binding, nice condition.

New Delhi: National Book Trust, 1973. First Edition, 4to (28x22cm), 162pp with numerous black and white illustrations, in original cloth binding, title in gilt on spine.

London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1913. 4to (24x26.5cm), 398pp, with 32 tissue guarded illustrations in color, Original pictorial canvas hardcover binding, Picture of lord Ganesha on the front cover, title in gilt on spine and front.  

The illustrations are reproduced from water-colour drawings executed specially for this book by Indian artists Abanindra Nath Tagore, Nanda Lal Bose, K. Venkatappa, Khitindra Nath Mazumdar et, under the supervision of Mr. Abanindro Nath Tagore, C.I.E., Vice-Principal of the Calcutta School of Art, who has himself contributed some of the pictures.

Capetown: A. A. Balkema, 1974. Folio (39x56cm), 131pp, 30 plates, in full leather binding, title in gilt on spine and front cover, excellent condition.

A Facsimile reprint of the original 1849 edition of hand-coloured lithography with a new introduction by Frank R. Bradlow.

Ahmedabad: Victoria and Albert Museum and Mapin Pulishing, 1992. 4to (29x22cm), 240pp, 152 colour & 7 b/w illustrations, in original binding with dust jacket.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972. First Edition, 4to (25x19cm), 298pp, 74 illustrations, in original binding with dust jacket.