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Sothebys: Arts of the Islamic World

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Auction Name Arts of the Islamic World Total Sales (GBP) 1,654,250.00
Auction Date October 25, 2017 - October 25, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 767,000.00
Sale Number #L17223 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 1,120,000.00
Total Lots 114
Sold Lots 56 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,676,000.00
% of Lots Sold 49.12% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,484,000.00
Unsold Lots 58 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 66.60%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
98

An illustration from the Fraser Album: Khan Bahadur Khan with Members of his Clan

 circa 1816-20  GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 296,750.00
90

An illustration to the Ramayana: the first combat of Sugriva and Bali

 circa 1710-20  GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 156,250.00
1

A monumental Qur'an leaf in Kufic script on vellum

 early 9th century AD GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 110,000.00
23

Kamal al-Din al-Farisi (d.1320 AD), Kitab tanqih al-manazir li dhawi al-absar wa’l-basair ('Book of Correction of Optics for those who have Sight and Mind')

 dated 899 AH/1494 AD GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 110,000.00
14

Ali ibn al-‘Abbas al-Majusi (latinised as 'Haly Abbas', d. circa 994 AD), two volumes from juz' II of Kitab kamil al-sina’ah al-tibbiyah ('The Complete Book of the Medical Art'), signed by Ibn al-Awani

 dated 616 AH/1219-20 AD GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 87,500.00
31

Abd al-Rahman Jami (d.1492), Yusuf va Zuleykha, attributed to Salim Nishapuri

 second half 16th century GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 87,500.00
38

A waqfnama bearing the tughra of Sultan Bayezid II (r.1481-1512 AD),

dated 897 AH/1491 AD GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 62,500.00
93

A monumental painted three-panel screen depicting the City Palace at Udaipur and Lake Pichola

 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 56,250.00
52

Mehmed ibn Salih Yazicioglu (d.1451-52), Muhammediyye, poetry in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, signed by Hasan ibn Ibrahim

 dated 1237 AH/1822 AD GBP 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 GBP 43,750.00
44

A traveller's talismanic compendium, signed by Muhammad ibn Hasan

 dated 1151 AH/1738-39 AD GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 40,000.00
12

Two poems in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, signed by Tughan al-Nasiri

 dated 804 AH/1401 AD GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 37,500.00
32

Abd al-Rahman Jami (d.1492), A collection of works

 dated 972 AH/1565 AD GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 37,500.00
67

An illuminated Qur’an, copied by ‘Ali Reza ibn Haji Muhammad Ja’far

 dated 1258 AH/1842 AD GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 37,500.00
24

Kalila wa Dimna, signed by Alti ibn ‘abd al-‘Aziz ibn Alti Ahmad

 dated 747 AH/1347 AD   GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 32,500.00
13

‘Ali ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Ali al-Husayni al-Jurjani, known as Al-Sayyid al-Sharif (d.1413), Sharh tadkira (a commentary on al-Tusi's Kitab al-tadhkira, on astronomy)

 dated 813 AH/1410 AD GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 31,250.00
25

Abu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abdullah ibn al-Hasan ibn 'Ali ibn Sina, known as Avicenna (d.1037 AD), Urjuzah fi'l-tibb, a poem on medicine

 14th century GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 30,000.00
19

Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn Isma’il ibn Ibrahim al-Bukhari al-Ju’fi (d.870 AD), Al-Jami’ al-Sahih (a canonical collection of traditions), vol.I

 circa 1412-21 GBP 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 23,750.00
10

A Qur'an bifolium in Maghribi script

 late 12th/13th century AD GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 22,500.00
18

Abu'l-Husayn 'abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Umar al-Sufi (d.998 AD), a section from Kitab (Risalat) al-‘amal bi’l-asturlab (a treatise on operations with the astrolabe)

 early 16th century GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 18,750.00
47

An illuminated Qur’an, copied by Mustafa Kutahi

 dated 1170 AH/1756-57 AD GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 18,750.00
70

An illuminated Qur’an, copied by Muhammad Vasfi

 dated 1283 AH/1866-67 AD GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 18,750.00
4

A Qur'an leaf in Maghribi script

 late 12th/13th century AD GBP 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 GBP 17,500.00
76

A princess with attendants on a terrace

 late 17th/early 18th century GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 16,250.00
54

Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma’il ibn Ibrahim al-Bukhari (d.870 AD), Volume II of Al-Jami’ al-Sahih (a canonical collection of traditions)

 14th century  GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
26

Zahir al-Din Faryabi (d.1201 AD), Diwan, signed by Ghiyath al-Qasimi

 dated 883 AH/1478 AD GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
  • 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.
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