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NICHOLAS ROERICH AND HIS
FOLLOWER: 5 BOOKS
HIMALAYAS - ABODE OF LIGHT
By Nicholas Roerich
With illustrations from his paintings
BOMBAY: Nalanda Publications/ LONDON: David
Marlowe Ltd
June 1947
pp. 176 + colour frontispiece + 1 colour and 22
monochrome plates tipped in across the text
The last book by the great painter, traveler and
mystic, published 6 months before his death.
Paper-covered boards with title printed on cover
Size: 9 x 7 inches
Condition: Good, except for water stain along
bottom margin of cover
NICHOLAS ROERICH PAINTINGS
Introduction by A. S. Raman
NEW DELHI: Dhoomi Mal Dharam Das
1947
1 page of Introduction with image of Roerich pasted
on top followed by 14 plates with images of Roerich
paintings pasted.
Stiff wrappers with dust jacket which also has a
painting pasted on it.
13 x 10 inches
NICHOLAS ROERICH
NEW DELHI: Lalit Kala Akademi
1992
10-page essay by M. S. Nanjunda Rao, genealogical
table, 33 illustrations, biodata
Stiff cards withdust jacket
7 x 5 inches
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY NICHOLAS
AND SVETOSLAV ROERICH
By H. Goetz
In complete issue of "Bulletin of the Baroda State
Museum and Picture Gallery", Vol. III, Pt I (August
1945 to January 1946) editedby Hermann Goetz and
published in Baroda in 1947.
5-page essay + 1 plate carrying 3 b&w reproductions
of works by the Roerichs in the Plates section
Hermann Goetz was curator of the Baroda Museum.
This issue also has another essay by Goetz - "The role
of Gujarat in Indian art history".
CONDITION: Ex-library softcover in very good
condition. No stamps except on cover.
Size: 10 x 7.5 inches
ENCHANTED HIMALAYAS
A collection of eleven plates, of which seven are in
colour& four in monochrome
By V R Chitra
Foreword by Prof. Nicholas Roerich with his printed
signature
Pictorial paragraphs by T N Srinivasan
Offset lithograph & collotype by The Kogabo Process
Sha, Kanda, Tokio, Japan
Portfolio distributedby New Book Co., Bombay
No. 289 of a limited edition of 500 copies
Card portfolio with 11 plates, tipped-in on thick
sheets, 7 of them in colour and 4 in monochrome
Each signed in the print and dated 1935 or 1936
Plates vary in size from6 x 7 inches to 6 x 10 inches
With a 7-page booklet [13 x 9 inches / printed
at Devi Press, Madras] loosely inserted. This has
a 2-page 'foreword' by Nicholas Roerich with his
printed signatures, signed in Naggar, Kulu Valley
Title ticket [8 x2.6 inches] pasted on cover of the
portfolio
The portfolio was originally issued as a collection of
loose plates. This is a bound copy of the same with
portfolio covers retained and the booklet also bound
in.
Size: 18 x 13.5 inches
Thelist of titles of plates is lacking. But another copy
shows the 11 plates are titled:
1.Hills and dales as seen from the foot of the
Himalayas
2.Sunrise behind the mountains as seen from
Almorah
3.Waterfall in Shillong, Assam
4.Nilkanta as seen from Hanuman Chatty
5.The pilgrim route to the sacred Badrinath
6.Morning mist on Kanchanjunga
7.Melting snows
8.Kashmir valley and the river Jhelum
9.A Himalayan waterfall
10. Wular Lake and Pir Panjal range
CONDITION: Rebound in paper-covered boards with
cloth spine. List of plates lacking. Bound-in portfolio
covers cracked at joints.
Rs 1,20,000-Rs 1,50,000
$1,850-$2,310