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Olympia Auctions: Live Sale: Indian, Islamic, Himalayan and South-East Asian Art 2026

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Auction Name	Live Sale: Indian, Islamic, Himalayan and South-East Asian Art 2026	Total Sales (GBP)	53,378.00
Auction Date	May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	11,650.00
Sale Number	#52026	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	18,050.00
Total Lots	22
Sold Lots	18.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	13,750.00
% of Lots Sold	81.82%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	21,250.00
Unsold Lots	4	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	251.19%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
53		AN ILLUSTRATION TO A NAYIKA SERIES, GULER, CIRCA 1770-80	circa 1770-80	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 20,800.00
5	Muhammad Husayn al-Kashmir	A QUATRAIN FROM SADI'S GULISTAN, SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN AL-KASHMIR, PERSIA, DATED 1591-92	1591-92	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 7,800.00
71	Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017)	SIR HOWARD HODGKIN CH CBE (1932-2017)	1987	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 4,160.00
7	Muhammad al-Isfahani	A FINE ILLUMINATED QUR'AN COPIED BY MUHAMMAD AL-ISFAHANI, PERSIA, DATED 1878-9	1296 (1878-9)	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 3,900.00
65	A. W. Devis	A POTTERY WITH THE VARIOUS UTENSILS IN GENERAL USE, AFTER A. W. DEVIS	N/A	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 2,860.00
64	Thomas Daniell	'GATE OF THE TOMB OF THE EMPEROR AKBAR, AT SECUNDRA, NEAR AGRA', 1795, AFTER THOMAS DANIELL	1795	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 2,600.00
31		A COPY OF THE BHAGAVAT GITA, KASHMIR, 19TH CENTURY	19th century	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,340.00
1		A FOLIO FROM A TIMURID COPY OF THE SHAHNAMA, PERSIA, SECOND HALF 15TH CENTURY	second half 15th century	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,690.00
72	Somnath Hore (1921-2006)	SOMNATH HORE (1921-2006)	1995	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,560.00
8		A QAJAR ILLUMINATED COPY OF THE QUR'AN, PERSIA, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY	second half 19th century	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,040.00
4	Abdullah al-Murwarid	A CALLIGRAPHIC FOLIO ATTRIBUTED TO 'ABDULLAH AL-MURWARID, PERSIA, LATE 15TH CENTURY	902 (1496/7)	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 780.00
3	Muhammad b. Darwish Muhammad al-Katib al-Tabrizi	AN ILLUMINATED FOLIO FROM A SIGNED MASNAVI, PERSIAN OR OTTOMAN, CIRCA 1570-90	circa 1570-90	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 715.00
14	Sayyid Muhammad Kamil	AN ILLUMINATED HAJJ CERTIFICATE, HYDERABAD, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY	1324 (1906)	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 715.00
13		TWO OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS (FIRMAN), INDIA, THE FIRST DATED 1826	1826; ND	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 585.00
63	Robert Melville Grindlay	INTERIOR OF THE GREAT CAVE TEMPLE AT ELEPHANTA, NEAR BOMBAY, AFTER ROBERT MELVILLE GRINDLAY, 1826-30	1826-30	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 585.00
11	Najaf	THE OPENING FOLIO OF A ROYAL TALPUR COPY OF TAKMILA-I HAMLA-I HAYDARI OF NAJAF, SINDH, CIRCA 1820	circa 1820	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 520.00
40	Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami	AN ILLUMINATED FOLIO FROM JAMI'S HULYAT AL-HULAL, WESTERN PERSIA, LATE 15TH CENTURY	late 15th century	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 390.00
9	Abd al-Majid	A CALLIGRAPHIC EXERCISE IN SHIKASTA, SIGNED 'ABD AL-MAJID, PERSIA, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY	1287 (1871)	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 338.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000

Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000

Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000

Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000

Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000