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This portrait of Princess Sophia of Hanover was painted by Gerrit van Honthorst, a court artist to her parents — Frederick V, the Winter King of Bohemia, and Queen Elizabeth — while the family were living in exile

Estimate: £30,000-50,000
19 September, London






Andreas Gursky manipulated this image to create his own version of the Dubai World project, an archipelago of man-made islands shaped like a map of the Earth in the Persian Gulf

Estimate: CNY2,200,000-3,500,000
21 September, Shanghai






Ed Ruscha created some of the most important artist’s books in history. This small library includes 17 of them (first or only editions, of which six are signed and numbered) as well as four exhibition catalogues

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
27 September, New York






This photograph of Abraham Lincoln is from 1864, the year he won his second term as President. It was taken by Mathew Brady, one of America’s earliest photographers

Estimate: $5,000-7,000
2 October, New York


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