Sothebys: Oriental Manuscripts And Miniatures, SHANGRI,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 15, 1970 - July 15, 1970
Page Size: 465 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
300 ISFANDIYAR BRINGING A PRISONER Shiraz

1570-80

 USD - 180.00
301 Two KINGS RIDING ELEPHANTS Shiraz

c. 1570-80

 USD - 115.00
302 ZULAYKHA UPON A CAMEL LED BY A GROOM Shiraz

USD - 180.00
303 THE HORSE CONSTELLATION Persia

USD - 52.00
304 A RAM PRANCING and turning its head backward Persia

USD - 48.00
305 THE CONSTELLATION OF ORION Persia

USD - 84.00
306 THE BULL CONSTELLATION shown as the forepart of the animal with feet raised and head turned to the left Isfahan

USD - 72.00
307 CASSIOPEIA Isfahan

USD - 43.00
308 ISKANDAR GAINING VICTORY OVER THE ZANGI Shiraz or Isfahan

c. 1630

 USD - 168.00
309 THE ASCENSION OF SOLOMON TO HEAVEN Turkish

USD - 312.00
310 Two GIRLS KNEELING ONE BEHIND THE OTHER Isfahan

USD - 432.00
311 Two SAGES IN A LANDSCAPE Persia

USD - 96.00
312 PORTRAIT OF A HOLY MAN SEATED Persia

USD - 180.00
313 AN EMACIATED HORSE Persia

USD - 36.00
314 A WARRIOR Persian

USD - 76.00
315 SA'DI Shiraz

USD - 1,080.00
316 A HISTORY OF THE PROPHETS Mashhad

dated 1006/1597-8

 USD - 600.00
317 QASIM I ANWAR Diwan Persia

USD - 216.00
318 THE DEATH OF YAZDIGIRD I Shiraz

c. 1440

 USD - 100.00
319 A SEA BATTLE IN PROGRESS Persian

USD - 108.00
320 A RULER OUT RIDING WITH HIS ENTOURAGE IN A LANDSCAPE Shiraz

c. 1560-70

 USD - 240.00
321 A KING OUT HUNTING Shiraz

USD - 132.00
322 A PRINCE is MURDERED BY AN OLD MAN Shiraz

USD - 48.00
323 A MAN PRAYING IN A SMALL ROOM Shiraz

USD - 72.00
324 A PRISONER IS BROUGHT BEFORE AFRASIYAB Shiraz

USD - 48.00
325 A TRAITOR HUNG FROM GALLOWS Shiraz

USD - 52.00
326 A GROUP OF six WISE MEN Qazwin

c. 1570

 USD - 67.00
327 THE MI'RAJ or ascent of the Prophet to heaven Khurasan

c. 1580

 USD - 91.00
328 A POLO MATCH OUTSIDE A PAVILION Shiraz

USD - 240.00
328A AN INDIAN YOUTH HOLDING A VINA Isfahan

USD - 480.00
329 A PORTRAIT OF A YOUTH WEARING A EUROPEAN HAT Isfahan

c. 1620-30

 USD - 2,400.00
330 A PRINCE ENTERTAINED Isfahan

USD - 72.00
331 ISFANDIYAR SLAYING THE SIMURGH

USD - 132.00
332 BAHRAM KILLING A DRAGON

USD - 100.00
333 GUSHTASP AND THE DRAGON

USD - 33.00
334 KHUSRAW PARWIZ PURSUES AN OPPONENT

USD - 24.00
335 SHAH 'ABBAS II AS A PRINCE Isfahan

USD - 156.00
336 The ascension of the Prophet Persia

USD - 28.00
337 A FINE PERSIAN PAINTED LACQUER MIRROR CASE Persia

USD - 1,080.00
338 LACQUER BINDING Persia

USD - Not Sold
339 LACQUER PANELS Persia

USD - 28.00
340 LACQUER PANELS Persia

USD - 67.00
340A A PERSIAN PAINTED LACQUER CASKET Persia

USD - 2,160.00
341 A PAINTED LACQUER MIRROR CASE Persia

USD - 91.00
342 PAINTED LACQUER BOOKCOVER Persia

USD - 43.00
343 A painted lacquer pen-box Persia

USD - Not Sold
344 LACQUER BOOKCOVERS Persia

USD - 38.00
345 LACQUER BOOKCOVERS Persia

USD - 33.00
346 A painted lacquer panel with a hunting scene bordered by a scrolling pattern enclosing portraits and animals Persia

USD - 9.00
346A PAINTED LACQUER PANEL Persia

USD - 48.00
347 LACQUER PANELS Persia

USD - 38.00
348 LACQUER PANELS Persia

USD - 24.00
349 LACQUER PANELS Persia

USD - 48.00
350 A PERSIAN GILT-STAMPED BLACK MOROCCO BINDING Persia

USD - 960.00
351 VELLUM QUR'AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT Arabic

USD - 240.00
352 QUR'AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT Arabic

USD - 76.00
353 QUR'AN LEAVES IN KUFIC SCRIPT Arabic

USD - 12.00
354 QUR'AN LEAVES Arabic

USD - 60.00
355 QUR'AN LEAVES Arabic

USD - 60.00
356 QUR'AN LEAVES Arabic

USD - 19.00
357 QUR'AN LEAVES Persia

USD - 60.00
358 A firman written in eleven lines of cursive nasta'liq script beneath a heading in heavily-pointed red naskhi Indian

dated 1119/1707-8

 USD - 33.00
359 SAINT MATTHEW seated facing right on a stool with a red cushion Eastern Mediterranean

USD - 62.00
360 COPTIC MANUSCRIPT LEAVES East Mediterranean

USD - 4.00
361 THE LIFE AND MIRACLES OF ST. GEORGE OF LYDDA Ethopia

USD - 1,008.00
362 MAGICAL SCROLL Ethiopia

USD - 132.00
363 MAGICAL SCROLL Ethiopia

USD - 52.00
364 MAGICAL SCROLL Ethiopia

USD - 67.00
365 MAGICAL SCROLL Ethiopia

USD - 24.00
366 MAGICAL SCROLL Ethiopia

USD - 43.00
367 MALKE'A RAGU'EL Ethiopia

USD - 28.00
368 A BOOK OF PRAYERS Ethiopia

USD - 600.00
369 MAGICAL SCROLL Ethiopia

USD - 38.00
370 MAGICAL SCROLL Ethiopia

USD - 4.00
371 GERMA MOGAS Ethiopia

USD - 4.00
372 COPTIC MANUSCRIPT LEAVES Egypt

USD - 38.00
373 A Coptic-Arabic dictionary London

c. 1870

 USD - 9.00
374 KITAB AL-BAITARA [Levant]

843/1439

 USD - 38.00
375 QUR'AN [Persia]

1214/1799-1800

 USD - 48.00
376 QUR'AN [Turkish]

1225/1810-11

 USD - 19.00
377 QUR'AN Turkish

USD - 28.00
378 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Jurjani Ta'rifat

USD - 9.00
379 WAQIF. DIWAN PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT on paper

USD - 24.00
380 A ROMANCE entitled Mah Munir [Kashmir]

1194/1780

 USD - 43.00
381 COLLECTED VERSE including Sa'di's Bustan [Persia]

1243-5/1827-30

 USD - 48.00
382 ZIYA UD-DIN NAKHSHABI North India

c. 1830-40

 USD - 156.00
383 A series of eleven coloured drawings of Hindu gods and goddesses South India

USD - 4.00
384 RULERS OF OUDH Oudh

c. 1900

 USD - 43.00
385 A book of charms against poisons

USD - 7.00
386 Divination manual Sumatra

USD - 96.00
387 SYRIAC MANUSCRIPTS Syria or Palestine

USD - 62.00
388 COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN by John of Orotn

24th April 1074/1625

 USD - 120.00
389 ARMENIAN HYMNAL (SHARAKNOTZ) CONTAINING HYMNS Jerusalem?

USD - 360.00
390 A PRAYER-BOOK COMPRISING BREVIARY AND LITURGY with other prayers and sermons Thewanch, Erzerum province

1043 Arm./1593-4

 USD - 216.00
391 BIBLE New Djulfa, Isfahan

1110 Arm./A.D. 1660-1

 USD - 20,400.00
392 GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN Ethiopia

USD - 240.00
393 PSALTER containing Psalms Ethiopia

USD - 4.00
394 MAGICAL SCROLL Ethiopia

USD - 4.00
395 Psalter Ethiopia

USD - 4.00
396 CYRIACUS Ethiopia

USD - 24.00
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.