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
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	GBP 279.40
52	Richard, Marquess Wellesley Wellesley	The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence...during his Administration of India		1836-37	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,143.00
53	Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone	Afghanistan.- An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul		1815	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,810.00
54	Sydney H. Shadbolt	Afghanistan.- The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880		1882	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 609.60
55	Nazir Ahmad	The Taubatu-n-Nasuh (Repentance of Nussooh)		1886	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
56	Oleg Akimushkin	The St. Petersburg Muraqqa' Album of Indian and Persian Miniatures...	Milan	1996	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
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	GBP 53,975.00
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	GBP 1,016.00
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	GBP 2,794.00
60		[Album containing photographs of Indian forts and views with 4pp. descriptive typescript], typescript leaves headed "Pratapgad", "Purandar", "Shanwar Wada" & "Arnala" respectively		N/A	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 889.00
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	GBP 431.80
62	Capt. Alexander Allan	Views in the Mysore Country		[1794]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 5,334.00
63	Major R.H. Skinner	Angling.- With Rod and Line in Kashmir	Lahore	[1942]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 304.80
64	Anonymous photographer (active in India, early 20th century)	Portrait of P.A. Krishrarna Rajah		[early 20th century]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 12.70
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	GBP 2,032.00
66	George Francklin Atkinson	Atkinson (George Francklin) "Curry & Rice" on Forty Plates		[1860]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 406.40
67		Bagh o Bahar [or the Four Dervishes], text in Urdu	Bombay	1282	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 698.50
68	Alexander Baillie	Kurrachee: (Karachi) Past: Present: and Future	Calcutta & London	1890	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,651.00
69	Lieutenant-General Ezekiel Barton	Landscape study showing rural Indian life		[circa 1820s]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
70	Henry Walter Bellew	A Dictionary of the Pukkhto or Pukshto Language...		1867	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 584.20
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	GBP 254.00
72	Francois (1605) Bernier	[The History of the late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogol...]		[1671]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
73	Francois (1605) Bernier	Travels in the Mogul Empire		1826	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 952.50
74	Joseph Beschi	A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, termed Shen-Tamil...	Madras	1822	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 889.00
75	Bhaskara	Lilawati: or a Treatise on Arithmetic and Geometry	Bombay	1816	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,048.00

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.