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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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