Hindu legends and real life
Modestly estimated at $3000-5000, a richly illustrated manuscript that presents in two finely bound folio volumes a pictorial record of the ‘Costumes et Plantes de L’Hindoustan’ made $80,000 (£58,395) in a New York auction.
Offered at Swann (25% buyer’s premium) on October 14, the first volume, which had a French manuscr…