Prinseps auction: Bid for first-edition rare books and documents from the Indian

Live until January 26, the auction is a thoughtful celebration of the country's legacy of extraordinary political leadership and the journey to Indian Independence, documented with meticulous detail i

Jan 25, 2020, 08:19 IST2 min

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Calcutta Municipal Gazette: 23rd Anniversary and Indian Commemoration number - Dec 1947 Edited and signed by Amal Home, and published in the important year of 1947 Provenance: Rathindranath Tagore - Mira Chatterjee Estate

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Portraits of Mahatma Gandhi by Mukul Dey, 1948 A first-edition work by an important artist from Santiniketan from when he first met Mahatma Gandhi in 1918. Provenance: Estate of Rathindranath Tagore and Meera Chatterjee

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Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi This tome spans about 40 years of Gandhi"s life, and the lot offers 70 of the 100 volumes. It"s very rare to find so many volumes being sold. Singular volumes are being offered by other book sellers for about Rs60,000, so 70 volumes being sold at one time all together is a good opportunity for collectors. This is a first-edition print. The collection i

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Harijan Sevak by Mahatma Gandhi - 1953-54 Extremely rare to find, the Hindi version of Harijan, the weekly newsletter, was suspended during the Indian satyagraha movement in 1940. It discusses untouchability. In 1932, when Gandhi was arrested, his journal Young India was discontinued. To popularise the Harijan movement, Gandhi decided to introduce a new journal under the same name of Ha

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Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - 8 volumes - D G Tendulkar A rare compilation of Mahatma Gandhi"s letters, which tell the story of his life through correspondence between August 1942 and April 1944. Provenance: Private Collection

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The Springing Tiger - A Study of Subhas Chandra Bose by Hugh Toye, 1959 A first-edition book that displays the British perspective, The Springing Tiger is a historical account of the The Indian National Army published by British Colonel Hugh Toye. Toye worked as an intelligence officer in Burma during World War II. He was tasked with interrogating the The Indian National Army. This book

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The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru - 1946 The first edition of Nehru"s autobiography, written when he was imprisoned. Provenance: Rathindranath Tagore - Mira Chatterjee Estate

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The poster of Sardar Vallabhai Patel is another print published by Shyam Sunder Lal Agarwal. The original work was made by Rup Kishor Kapur his works were regularly engraved and printed by Shyam Sunder Lal at Kanpur. Patel was the first Deputy Prime Minister of India and was the leader of the Indian National Congress and is considered to be one of the founders of the Republic of India. He

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Subhas Chandra Bose Calendar, 1946 by Shiri Talashilkar. Posters made in the 1940s were often mass-produced, and became an easy way to inform the public. They often were nationalistic in character and were used to unite the masses against the British colonisers. Provenance: Private Collection

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