Forum Auctions: Online: India, 1074, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 19, 2026 - February 19, 2026

Page Size: 273 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26		General Staff Army Headquarters India. Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920	Calcutta	1921	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
27	Robert Home	Select Views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan		1794	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 5,334.00
28	Ja'far Sharif	Qanoon-e-Islam, or the Customs of the Moosulmans of India		1832	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 635.00
29	Major H.M.L. Lawrence	Adventures of an Officer in the Punjaub		1846	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 635.00
30	Capt. Alexander Mackintosh	An Account of the Origin and Present Conditions of the Tribe of Ramoossies	Bombay	1833	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
31	Col. Sir John Malcolm	Observations on the Disturbances in the Madras Army in 1809		1812	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
32	Col. Sir John Malcolm	Sketch of the Sikhs; a Singular Nation, who Inhabit the Provinces of the Penjab...		1812	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,159.00
33	Major-General Sir John Malcolm	The Political History of India, from 1784 to 1823		1826	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 584.20
34	Major-General Sir John Malcolm	Report on the Province of Malwa and Adjoining Districts...	Calcutta	1927	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
35	Elizabeth Hamilton	Novels.- Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah; written previous to, and during the period of his residence in England		1801	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 139.70
36	Robert Orme	A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, from the year MDCCXLV		1763-78	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,079.50
37	W. R. Bingham	Poetry.- The Field of Ferozeshah, in Two Cantos, with other Poems		1848	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 107.95
38	Marianne Postans	Cutch; or, Random Sketches...in one of the Northern Provinces of Western India		1839	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 825.50
39	Henry T. Prinsep	Origin of the Sikh Power in the Punjab, and Political Life of Muha-Raja Runjeet Singh	Calcutta	1834	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 3,302.00
40	Kavali Venkata Ramasvami	A Digest of the Different Castes of India	Madras	1837	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 27,940.00
41	James Rennell	Hindoostan, from Rennell's 'Bengal Atlas'		1782	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,524.00
42	Emma Roberts	Hindostan: Its Landscapes, Palaces, Temples, Tombs...		[c.1845]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,397.00
43	Sir George Scott Robertson	The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush		1896	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 431.80
44	[Abu Mohammad Moshrefoldin Mosleh ebn Abdollah ebn Mosharraf]	Sa'di, of Shiraz. The Gulistan	Madras	1825	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 406.40
45	Daniel Augustus Sandford	Leaves from the Journal of a Subaltern during the Campaign in the Punjaub Sept.1848 to March 1849	Edinburgh & London	1849	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 889.00
46		Selections from the Public Correspondence of the Administration for the Affairs of the Punjab...vol.IV No. 1. Punjab Mutiny Report	Lahore	1859	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 762.00
47	Rev. William Tennant	Indian Recreations		1803-1808	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,079.50
48	Edward Thornton	The History of the British Empire in India		1841-45	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 406.40
49	Henry Vansittart	A Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal, from the Year 1760, to the Year 1764		1766	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 3,048.00
50	John (1863) Watson	The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan		1868-75	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 53,340.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.