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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
186

Portrait of a notable

Mughal India late 17th century EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,170.00
187

Kakubha or Gauri Ragini, Ragamala scene

Mughal India 19th century EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 845.00
188

Two portraits of kneeling men

North India, Upper Punjab 19th century EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
189

Grieving woman on a terrace

North India, Punjab, Pahari school, Kangra early 19th century EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,200.00
190

Diwali festival

North India, Pahari style early 20th century EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
191

Arjuna before Krishna and Radha

North India, Pahari school 19th century EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 286.00
192

Army of the Rakshasas demons

North India, 20th century EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
193

Hanuman prostrate at Rama's feet, illustration from the Ramayana

North India, Rajasthan, Jaipur late 19th century EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
194

King Sugriva receives the demons

North India early 19th century EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,170.00
195

Wild boar hunting

North India, Rajasthan, Bundi 19th century EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,690.00
196

Raja hunting a tiger on the back of an elephant

North India, Rajasthan, probably Kota late 19th - early 20th century EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
197

Hunting scene

North India, Rajasthan 19th century EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
198

Raja smoking a huqqa

North India, Rajasthan, Jodhpur late 19th century EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 260.00
199

Sadhous performing ablutions

North India, Punjab or Rajasthan 19th century EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
200

Kedara Ragini, Ragamala scene

North India, Rajasthan, possibly Sirohi 19th century EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
201

Two gallant scenes

North India, Rajasthan, Jaipur 19th century EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 234.00
202

Scenes of life in a palace

North India late 19th century EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 234.00
203

Jain composition,

India, Gujarat or Punjab Hills 18th or 19th century EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,690.00
204

Thangka, Buddha and the ten avatars of Vishnu

North India or Nepal 19th century EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,340.00
205

Two folios from a Ramayana manuscript

North India, Mewar 19th century EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
206

Sufi shaykh reading,

India, Delhi or Lucknow 19th century EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,900.00
207

Raja on horseback,

India early 20th century EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
208

Narcissus foot,

India, 20th century EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 260.00
209

The Prophets of Islam,

India, Deccan, probably Hyderabad, attributable to Taj al-din, circa 1900 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,430.00
212

Krishna on the serpent Kaliya,

South India, Tanjore, 20th century EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 260.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000