BOOKS ON INDIAN ART (SET OF 8)

• C Sivaramamurti, The Arts of India, New York: Harry N Abrams, 1974

603 pages; original cloth bound with printed text on spine and photograph of Indian sculpture on cover along with dust jacket
12.5 x 10 in (32 x 25.5 cm)

• C Sivaramamurti, South Indian Paintings, New Delhi: National Museum, 1968

173 pages including 107 illustrations; coloured pictures & monochrome; original cloth bound with gilt text on spine and cover along with tipped-in plate on the front board
13.25 x 10.5 in (34 x 27 cm)

• Amancharla Gopala Rao, Lepakshi, Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Lalit Kala Akademi, 1969

107 including 8 colour plates and 47 black and white photographs; beige cloth board with dust jacket
13.5 x 11 in (34.6 x 28.2 cm)

• Ghulam Yazdani, Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on Photography, London: Oxford University Press, 1930-46

(3 text volumes)
Text volume I: xix, [1], 55 pages including a folding map; published under the Special Authority of His Exalted Highness the Nizam, 1930
Text volume II: vii, [1], 70 pages including 8 plates and 12 illustrations in the text; published under the Special Authority of His Exalted Highness the Nizam, 1933
Text volume IV: viii, 130 pp. 5 plates, a few illustrations in the text; published under the Authority of the Government of Hyderabad, 1955

gilt-stamped cloth boards, dust jackets with pictorial cover labels (each)
12.5 x 10 in (32 x 25 cm) (each)

Superb examination of the Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India, comprising about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE. The caves include paintings and rock cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art. The Archaeological Department of the Government of the Nizam of Hyderabad restored the Ajanta paintings in the 1920's, and commissioned E L Vassey to photograph them. His photographs formed the basis of this monumental production. With an explanatory text by G. Yazdani, and an introduction by Laurence Binyon.

• Ghulam Yazdani, Bidar: Its History and Monuments, London: Oxford University Press, published under the special authority of his exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, 1947

pp. xv, 240 pages including 130 plates, 9 in colour, 2 folding plans; original cloth board with dust jacket.
11 x 8.75 in (29 x 22.5 cm)

An attractive and substantial work published by special authority of His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad in the last days of his rule. The first three chapters provide a survey of the physical features, history and architecture of Bidar, the remainder gives a detailed description of the city’s monuments.

• Mario Bussagli, Calembus Sivaramamurti, 5000 Years of the Art of India, New York: H N Abrams, 1971

335 pages with 397 colour illustrations; cloth board with dust jacket
12 x 10.25 in (31 x 26 cm)

• Douglas Barrett, Painting of the Deccan XVI- XVII Century, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1958

24 pages with 9 tipped-in plates, each with a descriptive text at the adjacent page; original stiff-card wrapper without the dust jacket
12 x 9.5 in (31 x 24.5 cm)

• Vasundhara Filliozat, George Michell, Splendours of the Vijayanagara Empire: Hampi, Bombay: Marg Publications, October 1, 1981

140 pages with black and white and colour illustrations, maps and plans; grey cloth boards, black design with white lettering on front cover; black and white illustrated dust jacket with red and gold lettering; black and white illustrated end pages
13 x 9.5 in (32.5 x 23.7 cm)

The rise and fall of the magnificent Vijayanagara Empire, which lasted for over 300 years in the Deccan, is an inspiring saga of human genius overcoming the odds. In order to fulfil their destiny in the space and time given to them, the monarchs of this truly great state created vast architectural complexes among the dramatic rocks, as monolithic architecture without architects. And they generated a whole world of temples and palaces and symbols which remind us of the wonder that was south India in the middle centuries.

(Set of 8)

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