Ader: Archaeology & Arts of Islam and India, 172370, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025

Page Size: 118 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
99	Jacques MAJORELLE (1886-1962),	Les Kasbahs de l'Atlas, edited by Lucien Vogel for Jules Meynial,	Paris	1930	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 13,650.00
100	P. F. Dominico Germano de Silesia,	Fabrica linguae Arabicae cum interpretatione Latine, & Italica, accomodata ad vsum linguae vulgaris, & scripturalis,	Rome:	1639	EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 3,640.00
101		Koran section,	Near East or North Africa,	second half of 9th century	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 19,500.00
102		Three Koran folios,	Abbasid Iran	11th-12th century	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 4,940.00
103		Qur'an folios	Iran	13th-14th century	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
104		Folio from a monumental Qur'an,	Egypt or Syria	late 15th - early 16th century	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 390.00
111		Audience scene, Timurid Empire	Iran or Central Asia,	mid-15th century	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
112		Folio from a Shahnameh manuscript by Ferdowsi	Iran	15th century	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
113		Double frontispiece from a Koran,	Timurid Iran or Turkey	15th century	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 780.00
114		Two consecutive folios of a bilingual Koran,	Eastern Safavid Iran	17th century	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 520.00
115	FERDOWSI, Shahnameh	Composite Manuscript	Safavid Iran	16th century	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 520.00
116		Folio from a manuscript of Jami's Haft Awrang, the story of Yusuf and Zouleikha	Iran	16th century	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
117		Qet-e bandi composition	Safavid Iran, Shiraz	16th century	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
118		Poetic manuscript folio	Safavid Iran, Tabriz	16th century	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
119		Punishment,	Western Safavid Iran	late 16th century	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,560.00
120		Composite qet-e bandi composition	Safavid and Qajar Iran	17th-19th centuries	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 845.00
121		Man with a rose	Safavid Iran	17th century	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
122		Portrait of an old man after Reza-e Abbasi	Safavid Iran	17th century or later	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
123		Man seated on a rock	Safavid style, Iran qajar	19th century	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
124		Album page	Iran, Safavid style, and Ottoman Empire	19th century	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 286.00
125		Man attacked by dragons	Iran qajar	late 19th - early 20th century	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 650.00
126		Two folios from a manuscript of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh	Iran	19th century	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 325.00
127		Couple in an Interior	Iran Zand, , attributable to Mohammad ibn Khodadad	1784	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
128		Wine-drinking couple	Iran Zand,, attributable to Mohammad ibn Khodadad	1789	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
129		Portrait of a woman	Iran Zand	late 18th century	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 975.00

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Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.
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Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

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Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

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Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

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Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.