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SEGG, J. P. & Co. (publisher). London and Fashionable Resorts, (Illustrated): A Complete Guide to the Places of Amusement, Objects of Interest, Parks, Clubs, Markets, Docks, Leading Hotels. London: J.P. Segg & Co., 1894. 4to (269 x 180mm.) Numerous advertisements, leaves with neo-classical borders blocked in gold. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, decorative gilt, g.e. (wear to spine ends, fading to gilt). Provenance: Beverley A. Battersly (ink inscribed to front pastedown). Note: at the considerable price of twenty-one shillings, this was an exclusive tourist guide.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. 4to (247 x 175mm.) 40 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning, blanks replaced.) Original tan cloth, pictorial gilt (rebacked with raised spines, endpapers replaced). - And a further three volumes illustrated by Arthur Rackham (including Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl Grimm's 'Hansel and Grethel', 1920, 4to, and 'The Ingoldsby Legends', 1909, 4to) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas. - W.F. WELLS and J. LAPORTE (engravers). A Collection of Prints Illustrative of English Scenery, from the Drawings and Sketches of Thos. Gainsborough. London: John and Josiah Boydell, [n.d. but circa 1819]. Folio (425 x 290mm.) 60 soft-ground etched plates, many hand-coloured. (Occasional light soiling, spotting to front and rear blanks.) Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, densely infilled gilt borders, g.e. (extremities rubbed and scuffed, small section of spine panel chipped but retained).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HASSELL, John. Tour of the Isle of Wight. London: John Jarvis, 1790. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (218 x 131mm.) 2 additional engraved titles, 30 tinted aquatint plates with tissue-guards, 11pp. list of subscribers. (Blanks replaced, mild toning, tear to one tissue-guard.) Near contemporary Spanish calf, green and black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (light rubbing). Provenance: E.W. Wynne Pendarves (bookplates to the front pastedowns) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

ROSSETTI, Christina. - Florence HARRISON (illustrator). Poems. London: Blackie and Son., [1910.] 4to (258 x 195mm.) Introduction by Alice Meynell, 36 tipped-in colour plates on grey card, numerous black and white illustrations, captioned tissue-guards. (Light spotting to title, toning.) Original cream buckram, pre-Raphaelite pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (joints splitting, wear to spine ends).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

JONES, Owen (illuminator). The Song of Songs, Which is Solomon's. [London:] Longman & Co., 1849. 4to (201 x 134mm.) 32 chromolithographed pages illuminated by Owen Jones. (Toning, spotting to endpapers.) Original decorative blind-stamped calf, g.e. (light rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

[GLASSE, Hannah. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. London: A. Millar, circa 1767.] 8vo (195 x 121mm.) With 48pp. appendix and 23pp. index to rear. (Lacking title-page and all before A3, browning, moderate spotting throughout.) Near contemporary diced calf (upper cover nearly detached, rubbing, blanks replaced). Provenance: J. Humphrey (paper name-plate in manuscript mounted on front blank). - And a related volume (a manuscript of recipes, 22 leaves [1875-1877], 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

POLYGAMY. - [Martin MADAN.] Thelyphthora; or, a Treatise of Female Ruin, in its Causes, Effects, Consequences, Prevention, and Remedy; considered on the basis of the Divine Law. London: J. Dodsley, 1781. Vol. 1 (only). Second edition, 8vo (228 x 135mm.) (Toning, occasional browning, front blank with minor loss, rear blank partially adhering to pastedown.) Near contemporary vellum-backed boards (damp-stained, rubbing to extremities, soiling). Note: a defence of polygamy as a solution to the problem of prostitution. It caused a storm of outrage. Provenance: George West (name-plate to the front pastedown). - And a further eight miscellaneous volumes (including the fourth edition of Isaac Taylor's 'Scenes in Africa', 1824, 12mo, and C.M. Delagardette's 'Règles des Cinq Ordres D'Architecture de Vignole', 1823, 4to) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BIBLE, In English. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. Oxford: by the University, 1705. 12mo (122 x 60mm.) Portrait frontispiece of Queen Anne, 47 engraved plates, with the Psalms of David. (Ten plates loose, toning, corner creases.) Early 18th century black morocco, elaborate gilt to spine, g.e. (light rubbing). Provenance: R. Harris (name inscribed on initial blank). - And a further four religious volumes (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Two bifolia from a manuscript of the Qur'an written in Eastern kufic script on vellum Persia or Mesopotamia, 11th-12th CenturyArabic manuscript on vellum, two bifolia mounted and framed together, seven lines to the page written in eastern kufic script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red, two leaves with sura headings in gold with a stylised floret in gold with blue highlights extending into outer margin, circular marginal devices in gold and blue each leaf 107 x 93 mm.; each bifolium 107 x 187 mm.; frame 33.5 x 28 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceMilo Cleveland Beach: acquired in the late 1960s from the heirs of Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl, Cambridge, Massachusetts.TextUpper bifolium (recto):Right:Sura LXXXII, al-Infitar, The Cleaving Asunder, part of verse 15 to end of verse 19 (end of sura). Left: Sura LXXXV, al-Buruj, Signs of the Zodiac, part of verse 9 to part of verse 11. Lower bifolium (recto): Right: Sura LXXXVI, al-Tariq, The Night Visitor, last two words of verse 17 (end of sura); Sura LXXXVII, al-A'la, The Most High, verses 1 to part of verse 5.Left: Sura LXXXIX (89), al-Fajr, The Break of Day, part of verse 15 to end of verse 18.Bifolia apparently from the same manuscript were offered at Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic Worlds, 5th October 2011, lot 53; 25th April 2012, lot 405; and at Christie's, Indian and Islamic Works of Art, 7th April 2006, lot 397.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Nizami, Khamsa, copied by ibn Husain Murad 'Ali Damavandi, with 29 illustrations Persia, dated Thursday, the beginning of Rabi' I 1061/23rd February 1651Persian manuscript on paper, 303 leaves, 25 lines to the page written in nasta'liq script in black ink in four columns, coloured intercolumnar rules, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, headings written in red ink, opening illuminated headpiece, five further illuminated headpieces, 29 illustrations in gouache and gold, brown morocco with central lacquered medallions 370 x 220 mm.Footnotes:The scribe is not recorded, other than being listed as katibeh-negar (a scribe of inscriptions on monuments (see http://damavandfamous.blogfa.com, retrieved on 13 February 2022).The manuscript was in the library of the Qajar Prince Farhad Mirza (grandson of Fath 'Ali Shah and brother of Muhammad Shah), who wrote that it entered his library on 15th Shawwal 1298/10th September 1881. He gives his name as 'Farhad son of the Crown Prince' (i.e. 'Abbas Mirza). Another note, not written by Farhad Mirza, says that the manuscript was bought from Qizi in Shawwal 1298/1880-81. There is also a note by another owner:'Muhammad [...] in the capital Tehran. The oval seal impression of a certain 'Abdullah appears twice next to the colophon.The illustrations, it has been suggested, are by an artist in the school of Muhammad Zaman and his pupils, e.g. 'Ali Quli Jabbadar. The scene of four maidens picknicking is strikingly similar in terms of composition and dress to an illustration from a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, dated to the middle of Rajab 1071/March-April 1661, with illustrations close to the manner of Mu'in Mussavir, offered at Christie's Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 20th October 2016, lot 41 (illus.).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Qajar silk and metal thread brocade panel with painted details, depicting a Qajar official dressed partly in religious robes and carrying prayer beads Persia, late 19th Centuryrectangular, woven and embroidered with gold metal thread and polychrome silks, the beard, face and hat in polychrome paint, framed 108 x 53 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe collection of Bryan Wilkins (1950-2021), son of Fraser Wilkins (1908-89), Inspector-General of the US Foreign Service 1964-71, US Ambassador to Cyprus 1960-64.Purchased in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1942 (where Bryan Wilkins was born).The identification of the official depicted here is uncertain. It is also peculiar that he wears on the one hand a plain robe associated with religious devotions, but retains the tall black hat so familiar from Qajar full-dress uniforms. The nature of the painting itself is also unusual, combining painted elements with brocade details. It is also possible that the painting is a fragment of a larger, multi-figure work.A possible candidate for its subject is Hajji Mirza Suleyman Khan, Rukn al-Mulk (1838-1912), Chief Secretary to Mas'ud Mirza, Zil al-Sultan, who later appointed him deputy governor of Isfahan. When Hajji Mirza died he was buried in a mosque in Isfahan which he himself had endowed, and portrait tiles were incorporated into its exterior decoration, based on a watercolour portrait by Abu Turab Ghaffari (executed circa 1880-89). For Hajji Mirza and the portrait, see L. Diba, Royal Persian Paintings: the Qajar Epoch 1785-1925, New York 1998, p. 254-55; also G. Fellinger et al, L'Empire des Roses: chefs d'oeuvre de l'art persan du XIXe siecle, Lens 2018, pp. 388-389, no. 389. The portrait combines the full beard, long robe (rather than tunic etc.), and tall hat.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Hafiz, Divan, with an extended prose preface Qajar Persia, dated three times, Sha'ban 1275/March-April 1859; Rajab 1275/February-March 1859; and again, Sha'ban 1275/March-April 1859Persian manuscript on paper, 222 leaves, 17 lines to the page written in fine nasta'liq script in black ink in two columns with headings and significant phrases in red, green and blue, inner margins ruled in black and gold, three illuminated headpieces, several smaller illuminated headings, prose preface (4 leaves), lacquer binding with front and back covers with designs of a butterfly perched amidst flowering plants, with red leather slipcase, with flap 220 x 137 mm. Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Property of a Lady.The descendants of Begum Iskandar Mirza, wife of Iskandar Ali Mirza, first President of Pakistan (1899-1969, president 1956-58).The usual text of the Divan here has an extended version of a prose preface attributed to a certain Muhammad Gol Andam, apparently a contemporary of Hafiz. The added text is in praise of the Prophet and Imam 'Ali. In addition, the poems start with the qasa'id instead of ghazals.It is dated three times: at the end of the preface Sha'ban 1275/March-April 1859; at the end of the ghazals, Rajab 1275/February-March 1859; and in the final colophon Sha'ban 1275/March-April 1859. Therefore the preface was copied after the entire text was completed.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An unusual group of 38 album pages illustrating scenes from Firdausi's Shahnama, Nizami's Khamsa, Jami's Haft Awrang and other texts Persia, late 18th/19th Centurypaintings in gouache and some gold, most with identifying inscriptions in nasta'liq script, gold- and silver-decorated coloured inner borders, outer borders of each variously decorated with stylised floral designs or more naturalistic floral and vegetal motifs, on grounds of several different colours, each framed separately paintings approximately 240 x 170 mm. and slightly smaller; album pages 330 x 230 mm.(38)Footnotes:ProvenanceThe collection of Bryan Wilkins (1950-2021), son of Fraser Wilkins (1908-89), Inspector-General of the US Foreign Service 1964-71, US Ambassador to Cyprus 1960-64.The subjects are as follows:From Firdausi's Shahnama1: Two young boys before Jamshid, inscribed: The image of Jamshid-e jam.2: Afrasiyab bound and brought before Kay Khosraw and Rustam, inscribed: The image of Kay Khusraw [and] Rustam son of Zal and the killing of Afrasiyab.3: Kay Kavous in his flying machine, inscribed: Kay Kavous, known as Nimrud, flying to the sky.4: Faridun places a crown over his son's head, inscribed: The image of Faridun and him rewarding his sons with crowns. Two figures at the back are identified as 'Salm' and 'Tur'.5: The Indian Raj before Nushirvan, inscribed: The image of Nushirvan. The young Indian is described as the Indian Raj.6: Rustam about to break the ring with one hand, inscribed Rustam son of Zal breaks the ring, with the one-handed Rustam.7: Giv and Nawdhar before Siyavash and Rustam, inscribed: Image of Siyavakhsh [sic] with Rustam the crown-giver. The two figures are identified as Giv ibn Gudarz and Bahram ibn Gudarz.8: Bijan and Manijeh in bed, inscribed: The image of Bijan son of Giv with Manijah, the daughter of Afrasiyab.9: Brains of youths being prepared to feed the snakes on Zahhak's shoulders, inscribed: The image of Zahhak, the one with snakes on his shoulder and food [remainder illegible].From Nizami's Khamsa10: Shirin visits Farhad in Bistun (from Khosraw and Shirin), inscribed: Shirin and Farhad. 11: Gol Andam comes across Bahram hunting (from Haft Paykar), inscribed: The image of Bahram and Gol Andam.12. Bahram-e Gur amazed at seeing Gol Andam carrying an ox with ease on her shoulder up a flight of stairs (from the Haft Paykar). Caption: 'Image of Bahram and Gol Andam'. Hoping to regain Bahram's favour, she practices carrying a newborn ox up a flight of stairs on her shoulders.13: Layla goes to see Majnun in the wilderness (from Layla and Majnun), inscribed: The image of Layla and Majnun.14: Bahram-e Gur seizes the crown that had been placed between two lions and prepares to kill the second lion (from Haft Paykar), inscribed: Bahram taking the crown placed between two lions.15: Khusraw out hunting observes Shirin bathing (from Khusraw and Shirin), no inscription. For this scene, with a very similar composition, used on the lacquer binding of a manuscript of Nizami's Khusraw va Shirin, dated to the beginning of the 19th Century, see G. Fellinger (ed.), L'Empire des Roses: chefs d'oeuvre de l'art persan du XIXe siecle, Lens 2018, p. 264, no. 253.From Jami's Haft Awrang16: Yusuf is offered for sale in the market and Zulaykha bids for him (from Yusuf and Zulaykha), inscribed: Selling of Yusuf - peace be upon him – in the city of Misr.17: Women guests cut their fingers instead of oranges at seeing Yusuf (from Yusuf and Zulaykha), inscribed: The image of the cutting of oranges of Yusuf and Zulaykha. The original text features lemons.From Muhammad Quli Salim Tehrani's Qada va qadar, on predestination (2)18: Exact subject unknown. Caption: 'Qada and Qadar'.19: A figure pulled from the sea: exact subject unknown. Caption: 'Qada and Qadar of Muhammad Quli Salim'.From 'Attar's Mantiq al-Tayr20: Shaykh San'an goes to see the Christian maiden, inscribed: The image of Shaykh San'an.21: The Christian maid offers wine to Shaykh San'an, inscribed: The image of Shaykh San'an.From 'Ayyuqi's Varqah and Golshah22: Golshah offers wine to Varqah, inscribed: The image of Varqah and Golshah.From 'Unsuri's Wamiq and 'Adhra 23: 'Adhra receives Wamiq and embraces him, inscribed: The image of Wamiq and 'Adhra. From Naw'i Khabushani's Suz and Godaz24: The husband is being prevented from throwing himself into the fire after the death of his wife, inscribed: Suz and Godaz. However, in the original text, it is the wife who throws herself into the fire after the husband's death.Two scenes depicting Seljuk rulers25: Alb Arsalan, inscribed: The image of Alb Arsalan, the Sal Juqi [sic].26: Three youths before Sultan Malik Shah, inscribed: The image of Sultan Malik Shah, the Sal Juqi [sic].Two scenes depicting Timur and his son Shahrukh27: Timur gives a spear to a young boy, inscribed: The image of Amir Timur Gurkani. The name Timur is misspelt.28: Shahrukh watches men wrestling, inscribed: Shahrokh ibn Amir Timur.A scene from the Mehr and Mah of Hamid ibn Fadlluh Jamali (d. AH 942/AD 1535-36) 29: Mah dreams of being with Mehr [?], inscribed: The image of Mehr and Mah.A scene from the Hamzeh-nameh30: Hamzah and Mehr Negar, Nushrivan's daughter, meet while 'Umar is playing an instrument for Bozorgmehr, inscribed: The image of Hamzah and Mehr Negar/Baba 'Umar/Buzorjmehr.Miscellaneous:31. Ahmad-e Jam, the Sufi, author and poet (d. 1141), riding a lion, holding snakes in his hands as reins and whip. The subject sometimes appears in falnamehs. Caption: 'Zheneh Pir Ahmad-e Jami'.32. A man and a youth counting grapes before Pharaoh, as scene from the Bible [?]. Caption: 'The image of Pharaoh and the Satan'. The youth in the window is perhaps Satan.33. A young prince offering wine to a young lady, Sayf al-Muluk, the son of the king of Egypt and the princess Badi' al-Jamal depicted sitting on a throne, a story from the Thousand Nights and One Night. Caption: 'Sayf al-Muluk [and] Badi' al-Jamal Pari'. Sayf al-Muluk is misspelt.34. A young man killing a man. Caption: 'The mad Qandaruz [?] being killed by Badi' al-Zaman [?]' (spelled as Badi'ad zaman). Text unidentified.35. A man (Mulla Nasr al-Din) leading two men and a dog on leads. Caption: 'Mulla Nasir al-Din'. Exact subject unknown.36. A young man feeding a dragon with a deer before a king, while cutting its horns off. No caption, exact subject unknown.37. Two figures before a seated figure, identified as Rustam son of Zal (the young boy) and Zal son of Sam (the old bearded man) before Sam son of Nariman (the seated figure). These are characters from Firdausi's Shahnama, but this does not appear to correspond with a known scene.38. A young boy offering food to a man lying ill in bed. Exact subject unknown.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A collection of items relating to the 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire held by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Persia and Europe, circa 1971comprising a copy of the official menu of the state dinner, printed on vellum by Tolmer, Paris; a cased silver box with applied gold crown marked 'Husayn', 'Isfahan' and '84'; a cased Spode porcelain 'Imperial Plate of Persia' with printed description in original envelope; a cased gold plated replica of an Achaemenid sword; placement for 'S. Exc. M. Alan John Oxley' the plate 27 cm. diam.(4)Footnotes:ProvenanceAlan John Oxley, South African Consul in Tehran (1970-1973) and thence by descent. The lavish menu included: crayfish mousse, roast lamb with truffles, quail's eggs stuffed with caviar, roast peacock stuffed with foie gras, and a sorbet of vieux champagne (Moet 1911), prepared by Maxim's of Paris.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Persian translation of The History of Alexander, originally made for Prince 'Abbas Mirza, Governor of Adharbayjan, and son of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar, by an Englishman, James Campbell, in his service in AH 1228/AD 1813, with unusual finely marbled borders Afghanistan, Kabul, copied by ibn Muhammad Khan Safdar 'Ali, dated Monday 8th Rabi' II 1291/25th May 1874Persian manuscript on paper, 119 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in neat nasta'liq script in black ink, occasional headings and significant words in blue, inner margins ruled in gold and blue, outer borders throughout decorated with fine marbling, one illuminated opening headpiece, one further illuminated heading, burgundy leather binding 336 x 230 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Property of a Lady.The descendants of Begum Iskandar Mirza, wife of Iskandar Ali Mirza, first President of Pakistan (1899-1969, president 1956-58).The manuscript was copied by Ibn Muhammad Khan Safdar 'Ali in Kabul on Monday 8th Rabi' II 1291/25th May 1874. The name Safdar 'Ali is given on the opening page in a different hand: 'By Safdar 'Ali, the calligrapher (khosh-navis)'. The preface states that Ibn Muhammad Khan Safdar 'Ali is to produce this text as well as the History of Peter the Great. Mehdi Bayani records the scribe as an obscure nasta'liq calligrapher of the 19th Century, with his only recorded work being a calligraphic page in the Archaeological Museum in Delhi, signed Sayyid Safdar 'Ali (see M. Bayani, Ahval va athar-e khawshnavisan, vol. 2, Tehran 1346sh, p. 330).The text deals with Alexander the Great, starting with his origins in Macedonia, his conquests, from Egypt to parts of India and Turkestan, and his burial in Alexandria.James Campbell was an assistant surgeon in the East India Company, and went to Persia with Sir John Malcolm. From 1810 to 1814 he was surgeon to Prince Abbas Mirza, son of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar, and who was then Governor of Adharbayjan. He accompanied Sir Gore Ousley to Russia in 1814. There is a record of an application of 'Mr Assistant Surgeon Campbell to be permitted to draw (with arrears) his field pay and allowances in addition to the salary he receives as being attached to His Royal Highness Prince Abbas Mirza in Persia.' For a very similar manuscript see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 26th October 2017, lot 123, with the same fine, distinctive marbled borders, and eleven lines of text to the page. This is a translation of Voltaire's Histoire de l'Empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand (as well as his Histoire de Charles XII, roi du Suede), and so very possibly the text mentioned in the preface of our manuscript), copied by the same scribe, Safdar 'Ali. (It was catalogued as 'Qajar' rather than having been copied in Afghanistan, and the scribe is not mentioned). From the catalogue photographs it also bears the seal impression of an Afghan library, though this has not been possible to confirm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine double-page illuminated frontispiece, consisting of the opening to the Guy va chawgan, The Ball and the Polo Stick (also known as Hal-nameh, Book of Ecstasy), by Mahmud ibn Muhammad 'Arifi Heravi (d. AH 853/AD 1449-50) Persia, circa 1500Persian manuscript on paper, each leaf with five lines of text in nasta'liq script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, text in stylised kufic script in white within illuminated cartouches above and below main text panel, ruled inner margins in colours and gold, profuse illumination in colours and gold flanking text panel and in outer margins, seal impression in upper border of right-hand leaf, in mount, framed each leaf 195 x 120 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Sir Bernard Eckstein (1894-1948).Sotheby's, Extremely Fine Persian and Moghul Miniatures, Oriental Manuscripts, etc., The Property of the Late Sir Bernard Eckstein, Bt., 7th February 1949, lot 13.Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008), until the late 1960s.Milo Cleveland Beach: acquired from Welch in the late 1960s, until the present.ExhibitedWilliams College Museum of Art (temporary loan, label on backboard).M. C. Beach taught at Williams College between 1969 and 1984, and the piece was loaned to the College for teaching purposes and not for a particular exhibition.The seal impression reads: 'His [God's] hoping servant, Sultan Mas'ud, AH 1259/AD 1843-44'. (This does not refer to Sultan Mas'ud Mirza, later titled Zill al-Sultan, and a son of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar, born in 1850.The text, Guy va Chawgan, or Hal-nameh, is a mystical poem by 'Arifi (d. circa 1449), which hinges on the metaphor of the polo ball and the mallet of the rider as a representation of the lover's yearning for and being spurned by the beloved.For a manuscript of 14 leaves consisting of selections from the Guy va Chawgan, copied by Muhammad Husain al-Husaini, dated AH 965/AD 1557-58, see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 8th April 2008, lot 205.There are various handwritten notes on the backboard of the frame. The note at the upper left was written by M. C. Beach, as were the comparisons at lower right. The remainder, including the sketch, are by Cary Welch.Sir Bernard Eckstein (1894-1948)Sir Bernard Eckstein was a connoisseur and collector of wide interests, whose family wealth derived from Sudanese cotton and mining interests in South Africa. He became a director of various companies involved in these areas. He bought widely and was able to donate works of art to various institutions, such as the National Gallery, London, and Persian drawings and miniatures to the British Museum, the acquisition of which were said to have 'undoubtedly immensely increased [the national collection's] importance and interest'. These bequests scarcely dented his extensive collections, which were auctioned (mainly by Sotheby's) in a series of sales during 1948 and the two following years: paintings (8 December 1948), Chinese jade and hardstone carvings (9 December), books (24 January 1949), autograph letters and documents (25 January), Persian and Mughal miniatures (7 February), silver (10 February), clocks, furniture and tapestries (25 February), English pottery and porcelain (29 March) – by which time the Eckstein collections had realised £196,000 - equivalent to a present day value of some £6,300,000.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Six portraits of European officers and officials serving with the Sikhs Punjab, circa 1840-50gouache and gold on paper, each with white panel at top containing identifying inscription in Urdu in nasta'liq script, inner border with stylised intertwining motifs in gold on a dark blue ground, pink outer border with red margin rules, one inscribed Lawrence verso 240 x 153 mm. and slightly smaller(6)Footnotes:ProvenanceThe collection of Bryan Wilkins (1950-2021), son of Fraser Wilkins (1908-89), Inspector-General of the US Foreign Service 1964-71, US Ambassador to Cyprus 1960-64.The readings of the inscriptions, and hence the identifications of the sitters are not certain, given the difficulty of expressing unfamiliar European names in Urdu. The inscriptions (on five of the six) are as follows: A. shabih-i ajitan S-D-D-L sahib bahadur, 'Portrait of Adjutant [...] Sahib Bahadur'.B. shabih-i KH-S-B sahib bahadur, 'Portrait of Khosep [Joseph?] Sahib Bahadur'.A possible identification is Henri Joseph de Facieu, who is listed as the commander of a regiment in Ranjit Singh's army (see C. Grey, European Adventurers in Northern India, 1785 to 1849, Lahore 1929, p. 350). Jean-Louis Alexis de Facieu (1788-1843) was a French officer of cuirassiers who arrived in the Punjab in 1839 and enlisted in the service of the Lahore Durbar during the reign of Maharajah Kharak Singh. He held the rank of Colonel. (His son, Henry Joseph, served in the same regiment with the rank of Captain). He was accorded the honour of a full military funeral by the British authorities. His tomb still survives.C. shabih-i kaptan iklat sahib bahadur, 'Portrait of Captain Iklat [Quilette?] Sahib Bahadur'.This is probably a certain Quilette who is recorded as an instructor of Artillery in Ranjit Singh's army (see Grey, op. cit., pp. 350-351. D. shabih-i alaran sahib bahadur, Portrait of Alaran [Halloran] Sahib Bahadur'.This is probably the Irishman, Halloran, variations on whose name are found in records in connection with the army of Ranjit Singh (see Grey, p. 352). E. shabih-i dakthar sartand [?] sahib bahadur, 'Portrait of Dr. Sartand [Sergeant? Surgeon?] Sahib Bahadur.Three doctors are mentioned on the payroll of the Sikh army: the Transylvanian Johann Martin Honigberger, a Frenchman called Benet, and an Englishman called Harvey (see Grey, pp. 334-345).Six paintings, almost certainly from the same series (with the Urdu inscriptions within a panel, the same types of chairs, the distinctive striped carpets, the plain coloured backgrounds, and the same borders, were sold at Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 7th October 2008, lot 244. Two paintings, in a very similar style (featuring the same chairs), but with different background features, dated circa 1845, were sold at Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 10th April 2014, lots 182 and 183.Finally, for slightly different but related portraits of Sir Henry Fane (British Commander in Chief) and Frederick Currie (agent to the Governor-General, Lord Hardinge, and later Resident at Lahore), significant figures in British involvement with the Punjab, see Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 7th October 2015, lot 286. The model for such individual portraits may be larger works featuring a number of figures, such as the depiction of the signing of the Treaty of Bhairowal in December 1846, by a Punjabi artist, circa 1846-47, which depicts four English officers alongside the Sikh contingent (British Museum, 1948.10-9.0109; illustrated in S. Stronge (ed.), The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, London 1999, pp. 24-25, fig. 18).Lahore was full of European servicemen and adventurers. Davinder Toor, discussing a tulwar which once belonged to Colonel Francis Henri Mouton, who served with the Sikhs and took part in the Anglo-Sikh Wars, comments as follows:Mouton was among the last of a bevy of foreign (firangi) mercenaries and adventurers who travelled to Lahore in search of fame and fortune in the service of the Sikhs. The French contingent was particularly well represented. Besides Mouton, its cavalry officers included General Allard, Commander de la Roche, Mr Garron (or Carron), Messrs de Facieu (father and son) and Captain Argoud. The infantry wing was served by Captain de la Font, Mr Amise, Mr Dubuignon, Mr de la Ust and Mr Gervais, while General Court oversaw artillery operations. Finally, Dr Benet served briefly as Maharajah Ranjit Singh's medical physician and the surgeon-general of the Sikh army.Every one of them had to agree to certain pre-conditions of employment, including the growing of their beards, abstaining from eating beef, marrying locally and promising to remain loyal to the Sikh court, even if it meant going to war against their countrymen. Besides adopting a blend of European and Punjabi dress, many of them also chose to wear Punjabi-made weapons.(Davinder Toor, In Pursuit of Empire: Treasures from the Toor Collection of Sikh Art, London 2018, pp. 194-195).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lady Login, Sir John Login and Duleep Singh, rare first (and only) edition, in original blue cloth embossed with the coat of arms of Maharajah Duleep Singh London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1890580 pp., lithographed frontispiece portrait of Sir John Login, introduction by Colonel G. B. Malleson CSI, blue cloth binding, embossed in gold, bookplate of George Whitley (pencil superscription of Gabriel Ludham), 230 x 160 mm.; and Original Papers of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, including 'An Account of Blo' Norton Hall', by Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, inscribed by Prince Frederick for Herbert Hudson, 1925-26, Norwich 1914, the article on pp. 211-260, various plates and diagrams, paper covers 225 x 150 mm.(2)Footnotes:In 1909, after some years spent house-hunting, Prince Frederick (1868-1926), a younger son of Duleep Singh, bought the 16th Century moated house, Blo' Norton Hall, near Thetford in Norfolk. He was a keen antiquarian, having read History at Cambridge, and he was particularly interested in the Stuarts and Charles I. He was a member of numerous historical societies, but was most associated with the Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society, joining in 1897 and becoming its President in 1924.For a stand-alone, bound version of the same account of Blo' Norton Hall, and also inscribed to Herbert Hudson, see the sale in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 30th March 2021, lot 137.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Dwarka Dass (India, second half of the 20th Century) Guru Nanak with Bala and Mardanaoil on board, signed lower centre 61 x 46.5 cm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Dwarka Dass (India, second half of the 20th Century) Guru Nanak at Baghdad, during one of his four spiritual journeys (udasis)oil on board, signed lower left 60 x 45.5 cm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Dwarka Dass (India, second half of the 20th Century) Guru Nanak and the Mughal Emperor astonished by the chakki moving of its own accordoil on board, signed lower centre 60 x 45.5 cm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Guru Nanak as a boy, seated beneath a tree by Bodhraj, circa 1980watercolour on paper 46 x 34 cm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Guru Amar Das by Bodhraj, 1979watercolour on paper, signed lower left, inscribed with date and other details verso 34 x 44 cm.Footnotes:The scene perhaps depicts the exertions of the future Guru Amar Das in the service of his predecessor, Guru Angad.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Maharajah Ranjit Singh pictured with the figure of Guru Gobind Singh, and a troop of Sikh cavalry by Dwarka Dass (India, second half of the 20th Century)oil on board, signed lower right 50.5 x 60.5 cm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Punjab School, second half of the 20th Century Sardar Baghel Singh on a warhorse outside the gates of a fortressoil on board, inscribed verso in gurmukhi with brief biographical details 61 x 45.5 cm.Footnotes:Baghel Singh, who died circa 1802, was a general in one of the misls, or divisions of Sikh forces. He was engaged against both Mughal and Afghan forces during the early stages of Sikh military successes and expansion.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Dwarka Dass (India, second half of the 20th Century) Banda Bahadur in martial pose on the ramparts of a fortressoil on board, signed lower right 46 x 61 cm.Footnotes:Banda Bahadur (circa 1670-1716) was a prominent Sikh military commander, and a disciple of Guru Gobind Singh. He fought a series of successful actions against Mughal forces, including the sacking of the Mughal provincial capital, Samana, in 1709, and the siege of Sirhind in 1710, which resulted in Sikh control of territory stretching from the Sutlej to the Yamuna. He was captured in 1716 and died under torture.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Punjab School, second half of the 20th Century Hari Singh Nalwa seated at a fortress windowoil on board 61 x 45.5 cm.Footnotes:Hari Singh Nalwa (1791-1837) was commander in chief of the Sikh khalsa army, as well as Governor of Kashmir, Peshawar and other areas. He was responsible for several victories which expanded and consolidated the Sikh empire, fighting the Afghans and other opponents. In 1831 he led the first overtures to the British, leading to the Ropar meeting between Maharajah Ranjit Singh and Lord William Bentinck, Governor-General. Hari Singh Nalwa was killed in battle against the Afghan forces of Dost Mohammed Khan.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Punjab School, late 20th Century A devotee in contemplation before the Golden Temple, Amritsaroil on board 45.5 x 61 cm.Footnotes:'To stand on the terrace outside the Shish Mahal, surrounded by the golden domes and kiosks, is to revel in the glory of this joyous tribute to the Gurus. If their vision, faith and sacrifices has inspired their disciples to feats of valour, then here was the grateful offering of the disciples to the source of their inspiration. As the golden silhouettes of these domes and kiosks emerge in the early morning light and glow throughout the day in the intensity of the Panjab sun, before changing colour in the fading light at dusk, they are an unforgettable sight for the thousands who come daily to worship at the Darbar Sahib. When they step into the waters of the holy pool, and see the Harmandir's shimmering reflection, Sikhs feel as if they have been touched by the sacred'. (Patwant Singh, 'The Golden Temple', in S. Stronge (ed.), The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, London 1999, p. 57).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Jain mystic diagram Western India, late 17th Centurygouache and gold on cloth, remounted, stretched 820 x 585 mm.Footnotes:The central roundel contains a seated multi-armed goddess with her attributes and two attendants. Outside this the bulk of the composition is filled with multiple small images of seated jinas, and at the bottom of the painting is an enthroned jina flanked by two devotees, with auspicious symbols above him, this surmounted by a panel filled with nagari text.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illustration from a Ragamala series: Ramkari Ragini, depicting a prince begging forgiveness from a maiden on a palace terrace Murshidabad, circa 1760-70gouache and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with ivory borders and margins ruled in gold 230 x 190 mm. with bordersFootnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, Islamic, Indian, Southeast Asian Manuscripts, Miniatures and Works of Art, 4th July 1985, lot 170 (illustrated).With Eyre & Greig, London, 1987.Private collection, Virginia, USA, 1987-2013.With Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch: see Indian Painting, 1580-1850, New York 2013, p. 42, no. 22.For a very similar painting depicting Ramkari ragini in the British Library (Add. Or. 7), see J. P. Losty, L. Y. Leach, Mughal Paintings from the British Library, Indar Pasricha Fine Arts, London, n.d., no. 22; see also T. Falk, M. Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London 1981, no. 368 (iv). This (and our painting is closely related) was one of a group of thirty-six paintings originally collected by Sir Elijah Impey, of which eight are in the British Library, and others in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. (For an example of the series in the V and A (IS 71.1954), see Arts of Bengal: the Heritage of Bangladesh and Eastern India, London 1979, no. 77). In the Impey example, the maiden has turned her face away from the prince, and there is also a female attendant. For the ragamala subject, see K. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel 1973, nos. 195-197.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A manuscript text related to the Nala-Damayanti story, in Urdu, with 17 illustrations, copied by Mirza Amir Bayg, resident at the mosque of Vazir Khan Lahore, dated 9 Rajab 1275/12th February 1859Urdu manuscript on paper, 62 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in two columns in nasta'liq script in black ink, headings written in red, inner margins ruled in red, yellow, black and blue, catchwords, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, 17 illustrations in gouache and gold, green cloth binding 317 x 200 mm.Footnotes:The colophon states that the book of Nal Damatni [sic] was completed by Mirza Amir Bayg, resident at the mosque of Vazir Khan, which is in Lahore, on 9 Rajab 1275 (12 February 1859). The scribe is not recorded.The date AH 1244/AD 1828-29 also appears above the colophon, which perhaps records the date of composition of the Urdu version of the text, though it is not clear.The story of Nala and Damayanti is recounted by the Pandava brothers in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. They were happily married to each other, until an evil King seeking revenge entered Nala's body and altered his benevolent personality. As a result of Nala's subsequent misdeeds, they lost their possessions and were driven into exile. The 12th Century poem, Naishadha Charita, which expands upon the love of Nala and his wife Damayanti first detailed in the Mahabharata, is often illustrated in Pahari paintings.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An illustrated leaf from a dispersed manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, depicting Yazdgerd out hunting with the harp player Persia, 17th Centurygouache and gold on paper, retouched, text written in four columns of nasta'liq script in black ink, intercolumnar rules in gold, inner margins ruled in blue and gold text area within margins 150 x 120 mm.; 380 x 225 mm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: † R† VAT at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Four Timurid cuerda seca pottery Tiles Persia, 15th Centuryeach of square form, variously decorated in yellow, white and black outline on a blue reserve, with part inscriptions in floriated kufic and flowerheads 19.4 x 19.4 cm.(4)Footnotes:ProvenanceBonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 19 April 2007, lot 89.The inscriptions include the word li'llah or 'For God'.These four tiles relate in style, decoration, design and colour scheme to those embellishing the mausoleum dome of the madrasa of Gawharshad in Herat, built circa 1432 (Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision, Los Angeles, 1989, fig. 31, p.89).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An Uzbek or Mongol warrior reclining against a large Chinese vase in a landscape, laid down on an album page with a verse couplet above Persia, perhaps Qazwin, late 16th Centurypen and ink with some gouache on paper, two lines of verse in nasta'liq script in black ink within cloudbands within a panel at top, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, outer borders with stylised floral motifs in gold on a blue ground main image within inner margins 168 x 90 mm.; visible album page 198 x 117 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceMilo Cleveland Beach: acquired from the San Francisco dealer R.E. Lewis, circa 1960 or 1961.ExhibitedFogg Art Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts (on loan, date unknown, label on backboard).The poet of the couplet in the upper part of the page has not been identified. The text is as follows:buseh kardeh saghar-e ma bar sar-e khod mi-nahandsar-e shast-e naw mey parastan khatt-e dawr-e jam-e maTranslated roughly as:They kiss our cup and put it on their headThe fortune of the wine-worshippers is the writing around our cup[i.e. they will become poor, like the artist claims to be in the following inscription].The inscription on the band around the bowl held by the sleeping man reads:bandeh-ye faqir muhammad sharif mosavver, 'The poor servant [of God], Muhammad Sharif, the painter (musavvir)'. The painter has not been identified. On the backboard of the frame are handwritten comments by Beach: Banda-i-Qasr, Muhammad Sharif Musavvir BNG (1976). 'BNG' refers to B. N. Goswamy and his translation of the inscription on the bowl.While Uzbek or Mongol warriors (often prisoners) appear not infrequently in Persian painting of the 15th and 16th Century, this more relaxed figure seems to owe something at least to the archetypal Chinese figure of Li Bai. Li Bai (AD 701-762), also referred to as Li Po or Li Bo, was the foremost poet of the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907) and, together with Du Fu, remains one of the most famous poets in Chinese history. His ambition to serve the Emperor Huizong as a statesman was thwarted when the Emperor employed him as a palace poet composing mundane lyrics for the Court. Frustrated, he left the Court and spent the rest of his life wandering the country and indulging in his love for wine. See for example a quartz figure of Li Bai of the 18th-19th Century, sold at Christie's New York, Chinese Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, 12th September 2019, lot 777.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Sa'di, Kulliyat, copied by Muhammad al-Qawam al-Shirazi Persia, probably Shiraz, circa 1550-70Persian manuscript on paper, 374 leaves, 12 lines to the page written in fine nasta'liq script in black ink, further text written diagonally within inner margins, certain words and phrases written in blue and red, central text panel edged with gold-sprinkled border, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, triangular decorative illuminated panels containing flowers on a gold ground, headings written in white nasta'liq on a gold ground within panels, illuminated double-page frontispiece in colours and gold, preceded by a double-page index with titles in gold and white nasta'liq on gold or sky-blue grounds within cartouches (one leaf detached), seven further illuminated double-pages marking beginnings of books with headpieces and text written within cloudbands on a gold ground, endleaves with later inscriptions and stamps, Qajar painted lacquer floral binding 302 x 210 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Qajar Royal Library from 1851 until at least 1891.Private collection, USA: acquired by the seller's grandmother in the USA prior to 1969 (perhaps in Cleveland, Ohio); subsequently in the Florida collection of her mother since at least 1985, where it remained.The scribe is Muhammad Qawam al-Shirazi, who is likely to be the same as the one known by the attribute al-Hammami. He was a 16th Century scribe of Shiraz, whose recorded work is dated between AH 950/AD 1543-44 and AH 967/AD 1559-60. See M. Bayani, Ahval va athar-e khawshnavisan, vol. 3, Tehran, 1348sh, pp. 814-16. Another manuscript by the scribe, the Silsilat al-Dhahab of Jami, second half of the 16th Century, was at Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World and India, 1st April 2020, lot 30.According to a note on an endleaf, the manuscript was bought in Tehran and entered the Qajar Royal Library on the first of Rabi' II 1267/3 February 1851. It also bears two inspection seal impressions of the Qajar Royal Library dated AH 1308/AD 1890-91. There is also a marginal record of the birth of Ibrahim on 12 Muharram 1238/29th September 1822.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An Iznik pottery dish Turkey, late 16th Centuryof shallow rounded form with slightly everted rim, decorated in raised-red, cobalt blue, green and black outline with a central saz leaf surrounded by tulips, roses and other flowers, the rim with a band of partial lobed palmette motifs, the exterior with alternating vegetal motifs 29.6 cm. diam.Footnotes:ProvenanceArmand Hammer (1898-1990), acquired circa 1930.Private UK collection, acquired from Armand Hammer in the 1970s.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large composite album page with two sections from illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, with illustrations attributed to Mu'in Mussavir, depicting Kay Khusraw giving audience to Rustam, and Rustam celebrating his defeat of Afrasiyab, the page with later borders in the manner of Imami Persia, 17th Century and late 19th Centurygouache and gold on paper, text written in nasta'liq script in black ink in four columns, one heading written in red, two sections excised from manuscripts and laid down, one above the other, and laid down on an album page in Safavid style, late 19th Century, with borders depicting animals in their natural habitat, and youths and maidens picknicking in a landscape central painting and text area 280 x 165 mm.; album page 470 x 310 mm.Footnotes:For a similarly excised manuscript illustration by Mu'in, laid down on card and lacquered, as in the present lot, see Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 5th October 2011, lot 129.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: † R† VAT at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A 20-BORE PERCUSSION MICROGROOVE RIFLE BY BEETHAM, 31inch sighted octagonal barrel, border and scroll engraved bolted signed lock, hammer replaced, half stocked with chequered wrist, border engraved steel mounts. Ramrod lacking.

A 4MM GERMAN PERCUSSION SCHUTZEN GALLERY TARGET RIFLE, 27.5inch over all sighted blued barrel with 6.5inch working barrel stamped WEILHAMMER IN TEGERNSEE, internal hammer to the tang, set triggers, half stocked with steel mounts, scroll trigger guard.

A 20-BORE DOUBLE BARRELLED PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY SNOWDON, 28.25inch sighted barrels, border and scroll engraved back action signed locks, half stocked with chequered wrist, border and scroll engraved steel mounts, brass topped wooden ramrod. Hammer noses repaired.

A 17TH CENTURY NORTH EUROPEAN WHEEL-LOCK COMBINATION TOOL, comprising triple spanner and powder measure, together with a sprung flint knapping hammer. (2)

A BRASS PERCUSSION BOXLOCK BAYONET BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL, 5.5inch barrel, converted from flintlock, hammer and nipple lacking, border and floral engraved action, undersprung bayonet released by the sliding trigger guard, bag-shaped wooden butt.

A CASED SIX-SHOT PINFIRE REVOLVER, 4inch sighted blued barrel, border engraved blued cylinder and frame, burnished steel hammer and folding trigger, chequered wooden grips, contained in its green baize lined oak case with later oil bottle and turnscrew.

A CASED .31 CALIBRE FIVE-SHOT COLT SIDE HAMMER OR ROOT POCKET REVOLVER, 3.5inch sighted barrel stamped with the manufacturer's details, the cylinder with Pioneer scene, sheath trigger, varnished wooden grips, serial no. 1532, contained in its faded burgundy velvet lined mahogany case complete with period and later accessories. Good traces of original blued finish

A .360 OBSOLETE CALIBRE HAMMER ROOK RIFLE BY REILLY & CO, 27.75inch sighted blued barrel fitted with rear leaf sights and engraved E. M. REILLY & CO. OXFORD ST. LONDON. signed back action lock, rotary under lever mechanism, half stocked with chequered fore-end and wrist, serial no. 23012.

A DETACHED LOCK FOR A MINIE RIFLE, border engraved lock engraved 1852 over TOWER and with a crown over VR at the tail, various Inspector's and Ordnance stamps to the back and front of the lock and hammer.

A Vintage Rustic Wooden Sledge Hammer, 62cm Long

A Makita 36 V hammer drill in plastic case (no battery)

A Makita 36 V hammer drill in plastic case (no battery)

Two Dutch silver brandy bowlspseudo Dutch marks Oval lobed form the small example with import marks for London 1903, importers mark for Alfred Lewis, length 23.4cm and 18cm, weight 10.9oz. (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A cased set of four Edwardian novelty silver owl card / menu holdersLevi & Salaman, Birmingham 1906 Each modelled with a pair of perched owls on weighted circular bases, all contained in a silk and velvet lined box, the interior of the cover stamped 'Leighton Lancaster', height 4cm. (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A 19th century Russian silver tankard and coverPeter Moller, St Petersburg 1825, assay master Mikhail Mikhailovich KarpinskyCylindrical form with flared lip, the pull off cover featuring a chased floral border and a Roman centurion head finial, opening to reveal a gilt lined interior, externally a scrolled handle surmounted by a matching Roman centurion head, the main body bordered with embossed laurel leaves and applied Roman vignettes, classical maidens dancing around the lower border to a cherub playing a lyre, height 18cm, weight 11.9oz.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An American silver 'Lap Over Edge' serving spoonTiffany & Co, also stamped Sterling, PAT 1880, decoration number 910, also with French import mark With a gilt shaped leaf bowl, the tapering spot hammered stem with an applied ladybird to the front and trailing vines extending from the front to the reverse, length 26.5cm, weight 3.9oz.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An extensive Belgian silver table service of flatware and cutleryWolfers Frères, stamped with maker's mark and also stamped A 835 The plain stems with a thread edge, predominately placings for twelve, comprising: fourteen table forks, table spoons, table knives with steel blades, dessert forks, dessert spoons, dessert knives with steel blades, fish forks, fish knives, pastry forks, cake knives with steel blades, sorbet spoons, teaspoons, coffee spoons, and ten serving implements to include two pairs of serving forks and spoons, two sauce ladles, another serving fork and spoon, a pastry/cake slice and another slice, weight excluding knives with steel blades 182oz.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large silver model of HMS VictoryItalian, post 1968 mark for Florence, also stamped 925Realistically modelled, fully rigged, on a stepped black slate base, height 75cm, length 100cm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A George II silver mugThomas Rush, London 1743Plain baluster form with scroll handle on a circular stepped spreading foot, height 9.7cm, weight 6.6oz.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An 18th century Irish silver salvermaker's mark IW with pellet between, Dublin, circa 1750 Shaped-circular, scroll border embellished with acanthus scrolls, the centred engraved with a rococo cartouche surrounded with a chased border of flowers, scrolls, trailing fruiting vines and fishscale panels, on three scroll feet, these are possibly the arms for the Irish family of FOLLIOT from Hollybrooke co. Sligo. , diameter 31.4cm, weight 32.5oz.Footnotes:The FOLLIOTT family were descended from the extinct lords FOLLIOTT (1716) of Ballyshannon.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A George II silver coffee potmaker's mark to the underside, London 1748 Tapering form, the domed hinged cover with artichoke finial, a leaf-capped and part fluted spout, wood scroll handle, on a circular stepped foot, height 26cm, weight total 23.4oz.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A pair of Victorian silver four-light candelabraWalter Knowles & Co, Sheffield, one 1844 the other 1845 The screw fitting detachable branch section, with three leaf embellished scroll arms issuing from a central light, fitted with a snuffer finial, anthemion knopped fluted baluster columns on spreading shaped-square loaded bases, height 56cm. (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com