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Auction Name ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART INCLUDING MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART Total Sales (GBP) 156,750.00
Auction Date October 23, 2017 - October 23, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 100,500.00
Sale Number #24198 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 146,500.00
Total Lots 86
Sold Lots 28 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 352,500.00
% of Lots Sold 32.56% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 521,000.00
Unsold Lots 58 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 30.09%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
77 Muhya al-Din Lari (d. 1526),

Kitab Futuh al-Haramayn, a guide in Persian verse for pilgrims on the Hajj, illustrating the stations of the pilgrimage and the rituals to be observed, with 18 coloured drawings of the holy shrines and sites, and including some verses by Jami, copied by M

 1818 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 22,500.00
4

A large leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Qur'an written in elongated kufic script on vellum

 circa 750-800 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
18

An illuminated Qur'an copied by Ibn Mirza Beg Nur-al-Din Muhammad al-Razi

 1682 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
81 Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad bin Salman al-Jazuli,

Dala'il al-Khayrat wa Shawariq al-Anwar, prayers, copied by Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Habli

 1771-72 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
3

A large Qur'an leaf written in kufic script on vellum

 9th-10th Century GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
82

An illuminated Qur'an, copied by 'Ali al-Rushdi al-Ispartawi, better known as Pasha-zade, a pupil of Mustafa al-Halawi, better known as Haluji-zade

 1842 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,500.00
60 Zakariya bin Muhammad bin Mahmud al-Qazwini (d. 1283-84), Aja'ib al-Mukhluqat wa Ghara'ib al-Mawjudat,

The Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence, illustrated with 405 miniatures, and copied by Shaykh 'Ali Lakabri [?]

 1831 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,875.00
25 Baha' al-Din Muhammad ibn Husain al-'Amili (1547-1622),

a collection of four treatises in one volume on mathematics and astronomy

 second half of the 17th Century GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
32 Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad bin Isma'il al-Jami' al-Bukhari,

al-Jami' al-Sahih, volumes III, IV and VI

 late 16th/17th Century GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
10

An illuminated Qur'an

 second half of the 16th Century GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 GBP 4,375.00
83

A large illuminated Qu'ran copied by Mahmud al-Zuhdi, a pupil of Mahmud al-Wehbi

 1862-63 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,000.00
13

Shihab al-Din Ahmad bin Muhammad bin 'Umar al-Khafaji al-Misri (d. Cairo 1658), Khabaya al-zawaya fi ma fi al-rijal min al-baqaya, an anthology written in prose and verse, comprising the biographies of poets, the text arranged in five sections: the poets

mid-17th Century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
22

An illustrated leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Gushtasp-nameh of Daqiqi: Arjasp's high official pays tribute to Esfandiyar after the massacre of Arjasp's army

 late 16th Century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
43

Mansur bin Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Yusuf bin Faqir Ilyas (fl. 15th Century), Tashrih-i badan insan, an anatomical manuscript, illustrated with 12 diagrams

 1661-62 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
72

A small illuminated Qur'an

 1804 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
78 Abu'l-fadl Iyad bin Musa bin Iyad al-Yahsubi (d. AD 1149-50),

Kitab al-Shifa' fi ta'rif huquq al-Mustafa, The Restoration of the Prerogatives of the Elect, a biography of the Prophet Muhammad, copied by Abdullah al-Zuhdi, a descendant of Tamim al-Dari

 1850-51 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
16

Kitab Madkhal al-'Abadah wa Irshad al-'abad Li-Subul al-rashad, an Arabic translation from an original French text, apparently written by Saint Marie Francis Salasius [?], Bishop of Genoa

 circa 1700 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,500.00
17 'Ala' al-Din 'Ali ibn Abi al-Hazm al-Qurashi

Ala' al-Din 'Ali ibn Abi al-Hazm al-Qurashi, better known as Ibn al-Nafis (d. AD 1288), Kitab al-Mujiz fi'l-Tibb, The Concise Book of Medicine, also known as Kitab mujiz al-Qanun, The Epitome of the Canon

 dated 1693 in the Christian calendar GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,500.00
64

An illustrated medical text, perhaps a version of the Tashri-i Mansuri or of Avicenna's Qanun, with seven anatomical diagrams

 19th Century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,500.00
11

A bifolium from a manuscript of the Qur'an written in gold

 14th-15th Century GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,125.00
24 Badr al-Din Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Misri al-Dimashqi, better known as Sibt (Ibn Bint) al-Maridini,

a collection of three treatises on astronomy and mathematics in one volume

 1619-20 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 2,750.00
57

An illustrated treatise on artillery, including a large section on catapults

 second half of the 19th Century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,500.00
73

An illuminated Qur'an with European-style rococo decoration

 late 18th/early 19th Century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,500.00
34 Abu'l Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad bin 'Ali al-Qarshi al-Basti al-Qalsadi,

Kashf al-jalabat 'an 'ilm al-hisab, a treatise on arithmetic

 1893 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
38 Al-Jazuli,

Dala'il al-Khayrat wa shawariq al-Anwar, with two illuminated depictions of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina

 19th Century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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