Bonhams: Indian and Islamic Art Online, 31318, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025
Page Size: 62 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

A bifolium from a small Qur'an written in eastern kufic

Persia late 9th-early 10th Century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,176.00
2

Two illuminated leaves from different parts of a manuscript of Nizami's Makhzan al-Asrar

Bokhara 16th Century GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
3

Pir Muhammad ibn Piri Ahmad bin Khalil, Kitab Anis al-'Arifin, on poetry

Ottoman Turkey dated AH 995/AD 1586-87 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,536.00
4

Al-Jazuli, Dala'il al-Khayrat, prayers, with two images of the Ka'ba at Mecca and the Mosque of the Prophet at Medina, copied by Mulla Turrebaz

North India 18th Century GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
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

Ottoman Turkey dated AH 1281/AD 1864 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 640.00
8

An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Muhammad al-Isfahani

Persia dated Tuesday 26th Jumadi II 1203/24th March 1789 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,048.00
9

Mullah Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi Majlisi, Kitab Zad al-Ma'ad (Provisions for the Hereafter), copied by 'Abd al-Wahab

Qajar Persia dated AH 1250/AD 1834-35 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,536.00
10

A group of book covers and binding sections

Persia 16th-19th Century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 358.40
11

A calligraphic album page in shikasteh

Persia 19th Century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 358.40
12

A concertina album of text written in shikasteh, copied by Isma'il Banan Kermani

Persia 1893-1942 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 409.60
13

A Persian translation of Mirza Habib Isfahani's Khat va Khattatan, on Ottoman and Persian calligraphers, painters, illuminators and bookbinders

Persia late 19th/early 20th Century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
16

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 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 307.20
66

Two printed maps of Persia and Afghanistan

Edinburgh and London 1891 and 1912 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 358.40
122

Two colour prints after Sobha Singh, depicting Guru Nanak and Guru Govind Singh

Amritsar late 20th Century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 537.60
123

Sri Guru-Granth Sahib [English Version], translated by Dr Gopal Singh, Member of the Indian Parliament, volumes 1 and 2 only

Delhi 1960 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 640.00
124

Jupji: the Sikh Prayer, translated with an introduction by Khushwant Singh

London no date [but post-1947] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 768.00
125

Bhagat Lakshman Singh, A Short Sketch of the Life and work of Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth and Last Guru of the Sikhs

Lahore 1909 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
128

Five pairs of stereoscopic views of the Golden Temple and the city of Amritsar

USA variously dated 1903, 1907 and 1908 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 537.60
131

The birthplace of Guru Ram Das in Lahore

North India 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

Amritsar late 19th/early 20th Century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 896.00
133

Four photographs of gurdwaras in the Lahore region

North India late 19th/early 20th Century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
134

A photograph of the Gurdwara Boali Sahib

North India late 19th/early 20th Century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
135

Two photographs of paintings of Sikh subjects, one depicting Guru Gobind Singh, the second depicting Maharajah Ranjit Singh in durbar

Punjab, Amritsar early 20th Century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 512.00
140

An illustrated plate, depicting two views of the throne of Maharajah Ranjit Singh

London circa 1880s GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 115.20
141

Maharajah Duleep Singh, the frontispiece from Charles Stewart Hardinge's Recollections of India

London 1847 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 768.00
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