Bonhams: Islamic and Indian Art - Online, 31243, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025

Page Size: 203 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
58		Three illuminated leaves from an album containing hadiths of the Prophet	Ottoman Turkey	17th Century	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,024.00
59		A large illuminated firman relating to the restoration of previous administration and taxation in the province of Bolu in northern Turkey, after an appeal by the local people	Ottoman Turkey, reign of Sultan Mahmud II (1808-39)	dated 1 Rabi' al-Awwal 1238/1822	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,048.00
60		Four musicians seated on a divan	Turkey	19th Century	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
61	Bernard-Romain Julien (1802-71) after Court	A lithograph portrait of Cem Sultan (1459-95), youngest son of Sultan Mehmet II, the Conqueror	Paris	circa 1840	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 256.00
62	Sir Frank Brangwyn RA (British, 1867-1956)	The Ortakoy Mosque	Constantinople		GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 768.00
63		The Topkapi Saray Museum	Boston	1986-88	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 704.00
65		A gilt-copper calligraphic plaque with sufi genealogy	North Africa	18th Century	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
68		An anthology of early Arabic poetry, Kitab al-rawd al-nadir, abyat wa nawadir, The Book of the Bright Garden, Couplets and Wonders, by the scholar Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq	Perhaps Constantinople	dated AH 1262/AD 1846	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 5,888.00
69		A calligraphic composition in Arabic on an embroidered silk hanging scroll, by the scribe Muhammad 'Isa	China	20th Century	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 768.00
87		A group of twelve Qajar lacquer playing cards	Persia	19th Century	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 640.00
91		Nizami, Makhzan al-Asrar, the first book of the Khamsa, copied by Fazlullah, son of the deceased Mirza Fazlullah, the calligrapher (khosh-nevis)	Qajar Persia	dated Rajab 1328/July-August 1910	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 1,280.00
97		L. Binyon, J. V. S. Wilkinson, B. Gray, Persian Miniature Painting, including a critical and descriptive catalogue of the miniatures exhibited at Burlington House, January-March 1931	London	1933	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
98		A world map, printed by the Ministry of Sciences for use in state schools	Qajar Persia	dated Rajab 1320/October-November 1902	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,024.00
99		A group of documents relating to General Thomas Edward Gordon (1832-1914), Indian Army officer, and later Oriental Secretary and Military Attache to the British Legation in Tehran	Persia and Great Britain	circa 1889-1910	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 256.00
100		A facsimile printing of Eugene Flandin's Perse Moderne, part of Voyage en Perse pendant les annees 1840 et 1841	London	1976	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 486.40
154		A Yantra and mantra panel	North India	19th century	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 153.60
155		An illustrated Hindu devotional scroll	Kashmir	19th century	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,432.00
156		Aryandrapad Jain cosmological diagram	Gujarat or Rajasthan	19th Century	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,024.00
157		Three Jain cosmological and devotional diagrams	Gujarat or Rajasthan	18th-19th Century	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 435.20
158		A group of five Jain cosmological and devotional diagrams	Gujarat or Rajasthan	18th-19th Century	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 140.80
159		Twenty bound leaves from a Jain cosmological manuscript, with several diagrams and illustrations	Gujarat or Rajasthan	18th-19th Century	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 89.60
160		A group of eight Jain cosmological diagrams and lotus yantras	Gujarat or Rajasthan	18th-19th Century	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 115.20
161		Three examples of Jambu-dvipa, cosmological charts representing the earth as part of the cosmos	Gujarat or Rajasthan	18th-19th Century	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 960.00
162		Eight yantras	Gujarat	17th-19th Century	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 128.00
163		Five leaves from the same manuscript relating to cosmology, with illustrative diagrams	Gujarat or Rajasthan	18th-19th Century	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 76.80

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