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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
51 Richard, Marquess Wellesley Wellesley

Notes relative to the Late Transactions in the Marhatta Empire, Fort William, December 15, 1803

 1804 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
52 Richard, Marquess Wellesley Wellesley

The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence...during his Administration of India

 1836-37 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
53 Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone

Afghanistan.- An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul

 1815 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
54 Sydney H. Shadbolt

Afghanistan.- The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880

 1882 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
55 Nazir Ahmad

The Taubatu-n-Nasuh (Repentance of Nussooh)

 1886 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
56 Oleg Akimushkin

The St. Petersburg Muraqqa' Album of Indian and Persian Miniatures...

 Milan 1996 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
57

[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities

 Pondicherry 1865 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
58

[Album of c.250 photographs or photographic cards or postcards], most India, including views of Bombay, Calcutta, Hyderabad & Mysore, some of Ceylon & Pakistan

 [early 20th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
59

[Album], c.270 vintage photographic prints, v.s., mounted on thin card leaves, each captioned by hand, one or two captioned in the negative, lacking free endpapers

 [c.1940s] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
60

[Album containing photographs of Indian forts and views with 4pp. descriptive typescript], typescript leaves headed "Pratapgad", "Purandar", "Shanwar Wada" & "Arnala" respectively

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
61

Album.- A Few Snaps Collected by Me during my Tour in Iraq and India October 1933 - December 1937

 1933-37 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
62 Capt. Alexander Allan

Views in the Mysore Country

 [1794] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
63 Major R.H. Skinner

Angling.- With Rod and Line in Kashmir

 Lahore [1942] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
64 Anonymous photographer (active in India, early 20th century)

Portrait of P.A. Krishrarna Rajah

 [early 20th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
65

Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature

 1806-07-01-09 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
66 George Francklin Atkinson

Atkinson (George Francklin) "Curry & Rice" on Forty Plates

 [1860] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
67

Bagh o Bahar [or the Four Dervishes], text in Urdu

 Bombay 1282 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
68 Alexander Baillie

Kurrachee: (Karachi) Past: Present: and Future

 Calcutta & London 1890 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
69 Lieutenant-General Ezekiel Barton

Landscape study showing rural Indian life

 [circa 1820s] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
70 Henry Walter Bellew

A Dictionary of the Pukkhto or Pukshto Language...

 1867 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
71

Bengal.- House of Commons. Report from the Committee...to whom the Petition of John Touchet and John Irving...and also the Petition of Warren Hastings...and also the Petition of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies

 1781 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
72 Francois (1605) Bernier

[The History of the late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogol...]

 [1671] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
73 Francois (1605) Bernier

Travels in the Mogul Empire

 1826 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
74 Joseph Beschi

A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, termed Shen-Tamil...

 Madras 1822 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
75 Bhaskara

Lilawati: or a Treatise on Arithmetic and Geometry

 Bombay 1816 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
  • <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Online: India<br>Ends 19th February 2026</center></b> <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 40<br>Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). <i>A Digest of the Different Castes of India,</i> 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 50<br>Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. <i>The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan,</i> 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 53<br>Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). <i>An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul,</i> first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 57<br>[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). <i>Views in the Mysore Country,</i> [1794]. £2,000-3,000 <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Online: India<br>Ends 19th February 2026</center></b> <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 76<br>Bird (James). <i>Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions...,</i> first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 100<br>Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). <i>A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 123<br>D'Oyly (Charles). <i>Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book,</i> lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 139<br>Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000 <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Online: India<br>Ends 19th February 2026</center></b> <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 140<br>Gantz (John). <i>Indian Microcosm,</i> first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 146<br>Grierson (Sir George Abraham). <i>Linguistic Survey of India,</i> 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 195<br>Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 205<br>Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. <i>The Monuments of Sanchi,</i> 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
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    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000
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    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
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