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Auction Name: Islamic and Indian Art
Auction Date: 05/22/2025 - 05/22/2025
Sale Number: #30703
Total Lots: 71
Sold Lots: 43
Lots Sold: 60.56%
Unsold Lots: 28

Total Sales (GBP): 295,398.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 166,400.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 247,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 250,800.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 367,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 80.34%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
238	India Ancient and Modern: A Series of Illustrations of the Countries and People of India and Adjacent Territories, by William Simpson & Sir John William Kaye, first edition in original wrappers, with 50 chromolithographic plates	1867	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 51,200.00
246	Three illustrations from a Janamsakhi series, depicting episodes in the life of Guru Nanak	early 19th Century	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 21,760.00
278	An album of sixty paintings depicting Sikh rulers, monuments, and tradespeople	circa 1840-60	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 17,920.00
145	An autograph letter from Lord Cornwallis, Governor-General of India, addressed to an unknown noble recepient ('My Dear Lord'), discussing how the British had underrated Tipu Sultan as a commander	1790	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 16,640.00
146	An autograph letter from Lord Cornwallis to Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm comprising instructions given in the field during the Third Anglo-Mysore War	1791	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 16,640.00
286	Hari Singh Nalwa, the General in command of the Sikh Khalsa army, seated at an alcove window	circa 1835	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 14,080.00
227	An illustrated and illuminated manuscript of the Razmnama or Razm-nameh, The Book of Wars, the Persian prose translation of the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, with eighteen paintings	first half of the 19th Century	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 14,080.00
6	An illuminated Qur'an	17th-18th Century	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 10,240.00
289	Maharajah Duleep Singh, after Franz Xavier Winterhalter	early 20th Century	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 9,600.00
15	Twenty-nine illuminated Qur'an ajza', copied by Muhammad Sadiq al-Husaini al-Yazdi	dated AH 1243/AD 1827-28	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 9,600.00
239	A preliminary etching of Thomas Daniell's Durbar at Poonah, 6 August 1790, illustrating the conclusion of a treaty between the Marathas and the East India Company	circa 1805	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 8,960.00
292	Maharajah Narinder Singh of Patiala (reg. 1845-62) on horseback	circa 1850-55	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 7,680.00
256	Maharajah Ranjit Singh seated in a European-style chair on a terrace, holding a flower and prayer beads	circa 1830-40	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 7,680.00
257	Maharajah Ranjit Singh	circa 1830-40	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 7,040.00
254	Guru Arjan receives two Sikhs while an attendant fans him with a peacock-feathered fly-whisk under a canopy	circa 1860-70	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 6,400.00
89	A printed map of the city of Tabriz	1297/ 1880	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 5,120.00
277	An Akali-Nihang armed with a matchlock on horseback	circa 1830-40	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 4,864.00
90	A large printed map of the city of Tehran	20th Century	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,480.00
276	A portrait of an akali, Jai Singh Nihang, by Mortimer Menpes (British, 1860-1938)	circa 1903	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,096.00
258	Maharajah Ranjit Singh seated on a terrace	mid-19th Century	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 3,840.00

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