Ader: Archaeology & Arts of Islam and India, 172370, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025
Page Size: 118 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99 Jacques MAJORELLE (1886-1962),

Les Kasbahs de l'Atlas, edited by Lucien Vogel for Jules Meynial,

Paris 1930 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 13,650.00
100 P. F. Dominico Germano de Silesia,

Fabrica linguae Arabicae cum interpretatione Latine, & Italica, accomodata ad vsum linguae vulgaris, & scripturalis,

Rome: 1639 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,640.00
101

Koran section,

Near East or North Africa, second half of 9th century EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 19,500.00
102

Three Koran folios,

Abbasid Iran 11th-12th century EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,940.00
103

Qur'an folios

Iran 13th-14th century EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
104

Folio from a monumental Qur'an,

Egypt or Syria late 15th - early 16th century EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 390.00
111

Audience scene, Timurid Empire

Iran or Central Asia, mid-15th century EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
112

Folio from a Shahnameh manuscript by Ferdowsi

Iran 15th century EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
113

Double frontispiece from a Koran,

Timurid Iran or Turkey 15th century EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 780.00
114

Two consecutive folios of a bilingual Koran,

Eastern Safavid Iran 17th century EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 520.00
115 FERDOWSI, Shahnameh

Composite Manuscript

Safavid Iran 16th century EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 520.00
116

Folio from a manuscript of Jami's Haft Awrang, the story of Yusuf and Zouleikha

Iran 16th century EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
117

Qet-e bandi composition

Safavid Iran, Shiraz 16th century EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
118

Poetic manuscript folio

Safavid Iran, Tabriz 16th century EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
119

Punishment,

Western Safavid Iran late 16th century EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,560.00
120

Composite qet-e bandi composition

Safavid and Qajar Iran 17th-19th centuries EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 845.00
121

Man with a rose

Safavid Iran 17th century EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
122

Portrait of an old man after Reza-e Abbasi

Safavid Iran 17th century or later EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
123

Man seated on a rock

Safavid style, Iran qajar 19th century EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
124

Album page

Iran, Safavid style, and Ottoman Empire 19th century EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 286.00
125

Man attacked by dragons

Iran qajar late 19th - early 20th century EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 650.00
126

Two folios from a manuscript of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

Iran 19th century EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 325.00
127

Couple in an Interior

Iran Zand, , attributable to Mohammad ibn Khodadad 1784 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
128

Wine-drinking couple

Iran Zand,, attributable to Mohammad ibn Khodadad 1789 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
129

Portrait of a woman

Iran Zand late 18th century EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 975.00
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