Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1158, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Page Size: 394 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176

Middle East.- Commentary on a treatise from a vizier to his sultan

probably Egypt 1277 AH 1861 CE. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 378.00
177

Middle East.- Eastern Tour 1873

1873 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,260.00
178 Frith (Francis)

Lower Egypt

London Glasgow & Edinburgh 1862 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,386.00
179

Mediterranean & Middle East.- Views of Gibraltar

c.1885-1892. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
180

Middle East.- Manuscript

perhaps Egypt 1800 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
181 Khan (Muhammad Abdallah), Attributed to.

Panoramic bird's-eye view of Mecca,

London 2010 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
182

Middle East.- A private collection of 98 pieces of Islamic calligraphy

17th-19th century GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 175,000.00
183 Scaliger (Joseph Justus) and Thomas Erpenius.

Proverbiorum Arabicorum

Leiden 1623 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,024.00
184 Tassin (Jean-Baptiste)

Map of eastern Asia

Calcutta 1840 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,276.00
185 Attiret (Jean Denis)

A particular Account of the Emperor of China's Gardens near Pekin,

1752 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,386.00
186 Chinese measurement of time.- Bayer (Theophilus Siegfried)

De horis Sinicis et Cyclo Horario

St. Petersburg 1735 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
187

China.- Photograph Album of China and Hawaii

1912 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,024.00
188 Mann (Helen E.)

Map of The Shooting Districts Lying Between Hangchow-Nanking-Wuhu

1909 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 693.00
189 Wade (H.T.)

The Shooting Distrcits lying between Wuhu and Shanghai

1903 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,008.00
190

China.- Yangtze Valley.- Chinese School (19th century) Three strip maps surveying the waterways and

probably late 19th century or slightly later GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
191

India.- Al-Hariri. Maqamat [Persian translation]

Lucknow India 1895 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 378.00
192

India.- Shah Jahan Begum. Khizanat al-lughat [Dictionary of corresponding terms in 6 languages],

Bhopal India 1304 AH 1886 CE. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 378.00
193 Ali (Majuma Qasaid Hazrat)

A Collection of Devotional Poetry on 'Ali and his attributes,

perhaps Lucknow India 1177 AH 1763 CE. GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,394.00
194

India.- [Anvar-i Suhayli manuscript excerpts]

probably Hyderabad 1847 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 504.00
195

India.- Bhagavad-Gita scroll

North India 19th century. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
196

India.- Bhagavad-Gita

North India 19th century. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 756.00
197

India.- Chakra

North India 19th century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
198 Edy (John William)

Seven plates from 'Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore the

1793 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,032.00
199

India.- Fifty-One Photographic Illustrations taken by order of the Government of India of some

1883 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,520.00
200 Hazin (Muhammad Ali)

Tazkira [Autobiography]

Bengal India 1282 AH/1865 CE. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
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