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Auction Name: Islamic and Indian Art
Auction Date: 11/12/2025 - 11/12/2025
Sale Number: #31075
Total Lots: 49
Sold Lots: 31.0
Lots Sold: 63.27%
Unsold Lots: 18

Total Sales (GBP): 207,630.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 82,800.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 117,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 144,800.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 207,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 100.11%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
16	opied by al-Hajj Ahmad al-Kamil	A fine, large calligraphic composition, copied by al-Hajj Ahmad al-Kamil (1868-1941), in a carved wood frame signed by the maker, Kalkandelenli Halid	AH 1344/AD 1926	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 57,550.00
167	General Sir Eyre Coote	A collection of letters relating to General Sir Eyre Coote (1726-83), the East India Company Commander-in-Chief, and the political situation in Mysore	1780 and later	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 19,200.00
17	, attributed to 'Abdullah Bokhari	A couple in an erotic embrace, attributed to 'Abdullah Bokhari	mid-18th Century	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 17,920.00
20	copied by Amir 'Abd al-Hamid Bahreyni	A manuscript in scroll form on astronomy, calendars and the astrolabe, copied by Amir 'Abd al-Hamid Bahreyni	Ramadan 1215/January-February 1801	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 16,640.00
258		Lahore: its history, architectural remains and antiquities with an account of its modern institutions, inhabitants, their trade, customs &c., by Syad Muhammad Latif Khan Bahadur, with 105 illustrations	1892	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 12,800.00
127	Collection Henri Moser-Charlottenfels,	Collection Henri Moser-Charlottenfels, Oriental Arms and Armour	1912	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 7,040.00
229	Lowes Dickinson after Emily Eden,	Portraits of the Princes & Peoples of India	1844	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 7,040.00
214	Max Arthur Macauliffe,	The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, 6 volumes bound in three	1909	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 6,400.00
168	Tippoo Sultaun	Official Documents relative to the Negotiations carried on by Tippoo Sultaun with the French Nation, and other Foreign States, for Purposes Hostile to the British Nation	1799	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 6,400.00
183		A letter written by a British medical officer in the Madras army of General Harris, including eyewitness descriptions of the siege and eventual breach of Seringapatam and the combat and resulting spoils of war	10th June 1799	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 5,120.00
180	Major Alexander Dirom	Major Alexander Dirom (1757-1830), A Narrative of the Campaign in India which terminated the war with Tippoo Sultan in 1792	1793	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 5,120.00
181	by Francesco dal Pedro (1740-1806) after Singleton and Mather Browne	Five coloured engravings depicting the final events of the capture of Seringapatam and the defeat of Tipu Sultan,	circa 1799	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 4,864.00
235	Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-59),	Voyages dans L'Inde, in two volumes	1850-51	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 3,840.00
226	after A. Soltykoff,	De Rudder after A. Soltykoff, Chir Singh [Sher Singh] Maharaja des Siks, Roi de Panjab avec sa suite/Lahore Avril 1842, from Voyages dans L'Inde	1850	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,584.00
300		An unusual lithograph copy of Abul Fazl's Ai'n-e-Akbari, The Administration of Akbar, published by Sayyid Ahmad Khan, with 42 illustrated pages	AH 1272/AD 1855-56	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 3,328.00
277	Gerald Spencer Pryse (British 1882-1956)	Two prints depicting Sikh troops on the Western Front during the First World War: troops in bivouac at night, and Indians and motor buses near Poperinge	circa 1914	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,200.00
222	Charles William Bartlett (British, 1860-1940)	The Entrance to Golden Temple. Amritsar	circa 1919	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,560.00
282		An illustrated leaf from a manuscript in praise of the Shia Imams, depicting the Tenth Imam, 'Ali al-Naqi al-Hadi, with angels above heralding his coming	late 16th/early 17th Century	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,560.00
18		An illuminated Qur'an	late 18th Century	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,560.00
12		A small Safavid illuminated Qur'an	17th-18th Century	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,304.00

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