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Auction Info

Auction Name
Indian and Islamic Art Online
Auction Date
12/09/2025 - 12/09/2025
Sale Number
#31318
Total Lots
62
Sold Lots
42.0
Lots Sold
67.74%
Unsold Lots
20
Total Sales (GBP)
36,544.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
30,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
42,400.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
53,200.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
75,200.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
48.60%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

A bifolium from a small Qur'an written in eastern kufic

late 9th-early 10th Century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,176.00
173

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Steinbach, The Punjaub; Being a Brief Account of the Country of the Sikhs

1846 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,176.00
8

An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Muhammad al-Isfahani

dated Tuesday 26th Jumadi II 1203/24th March 1789 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,048.00
142

A large chromolithograph of Maharajah Duleep Singh, after the portrait in the Royal Collection by Franz Xavier Winterhalter

1854 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,920.00
168

Joseph Davey Cunningham, A History of the Sikhs from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej

1918 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,920.00
201

An illustration from a Bhagavata Purana series: Krishna and Balarama approaching a palace, where they are later seen in discourse with pandits

circa 1720-30 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,920.00
3

Pir Muhammad ibn Piri Ahmad bin Khalil, Kitab Anis al-'Arifin, on poetry

dated AH 995/AD 1586-87 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,536.00
9

Mullah Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi Majlisi, Kitab Zad al-Ma'ad (Provisions for the Hereafter), copied by 'Abd al-Wahab

dated AH 1250/AD 1834-35 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,536.00
169

Major Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, A Year on the Punjab Frontier in 1848-49, two volumes

1851 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,536.00
143

A carte de visite of Maharajah Duleep Singh

circa 1864 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,408.00
176

Deutschlands Gegner im Weltkriege [Adversaries of Germany in the World War], containing colour plates of Sikh and Indian troops and of other combatant nations in the First World War

1920 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,408.00
166

Two folios from an illustrated Persian treatise in Urdu on ragas, depicting fakirs seated in landscapes

circa 1830-40 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,280.00
153

Two large prints depicting the Maharaja of Patiala's estate at Chail near Simla

dated 1944 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,280.00
131

The birthplace of Guru Ram Das in Lahore

late 19th/early 20th Century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 896.00
132

A group of three photographs of Sikh religious buildings and their surroundings, depicting Gurdwara Khadur Sahib, the Gurdwara at Tarn Taran, and a procession of Akalis at the Golden Temple

late 19th/early 20th Century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 896.00
147

Maharajah Duleep Singh: Christie's, Elveden Hall, Thetford, Norfolk: the Property of the Earl of Iveagh, 21st-24th May 1984, in 8 volumes, in original slipcase

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 832.00
141

Maharajah Duleep Singh, the frontispiece from Charles Stewart Hardinge's Recollections of India

1847 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 768.00
124

Jupji: the Sikh Prayer, translated with an introduction by Khushwant Singh

no date [but post-1947] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 768.00
162

The Storming of Mooltan, January 2nd, 1849, by J. Harris after Henry Martens, from a series depicting incidents in the Anglo-Sikh Wars

1851 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 768.00
5

Al-Jazuli, Dala'il al-Khayrat, prayers, with two stylised diagrams of the minbar in the Mosque of the Prophet at Medina, and the tombs of the Prophet and of Abu Bakr and Umar

dated AH 1281/AD 1864 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 640.00

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