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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
76	James Bird	Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions...	Bombay	1847	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,048.00
77		Bolton Fine Art Litho Works (Printer, Bombay) See India. The Chhattar Manzil Lucknow		[circa 1920]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 381.00
78		Bombay Register and Directory (The), for 1831. In Four Parts, with tipped-in note of succession of William IV (torn)...	Bombay	[1830]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 4,318.00
79	Edwin Ruthven Boyd	A Tripper in the East	Glasgow	1910	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 457.20
80		British India Press, Bombay (printer) [Ask the Station Master for train times...]		[circa 1920s]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 762.00
81	Charles Philip Brown	A Dictionary, Telegu and English explaining the Colloquial Style used in Business and the Poetical Dialect...	Madras	1852	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 635.00
82	James Silk Buckingham	The Oriental Herald, and Colonial Review		January 1824 - March 1825	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
83	R. St.G. & Norah Burke	Jungle Days: A Book of Big-Game Hunting		1935	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 482.60
84		Burma.- Burmese School (late 19th century) Four sections from a folding manuscript, or parabaik, of various scenes of royalty, processional ceremonies, and stories of deities, opaque pigments on stiff handmade paper, each with blank verso		[circa 1870-1900]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 508.00
85	John Crawfurd	Burma.- Journal of an Embassy from the Governor General of India to the Court of Ava...		N/A	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 431.80
86	William Daniell	Burma.- Three plates from Captain James Kershaw's 'Views in the Burman Empire'		[1831]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,524.00
87	Joseph (1825) Moore	Burma.- Ten plates from 'Rangoon Views, and Combined Operations in the Birman Empire'		[1825-1826]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 952.50
88	Joseph (1825) Moore	Burma.- Six plates from 'Rangoon Views, and Combined Operations in the Birman Empire'		[1825-1826]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 482.60
89		Burma.- [Photograph Albums of the Royal Navy in and around Burma]		c.1930s	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 952.50
90	Major J. J. Snodgrass	Burma.- Narrative of the Burmese War...May 1824...February 1826		1827	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 177.80
91	Thomas Abercromby Trant	Burma.- Two Years in Ava, from May 1824 to May 1826		1827	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 482.60
92	Richard F. Burton	Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry		1870	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 241.30
93		Calcutta Cup.- Tourists' Guide (The) to the Principal Stations between Calcutta and Mooltan and Allahabad and Bombay	Calcutta	[c.1875]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,778.00
94	Samuel William Reynolds	Calcutta residents.- Bishop of Calcutta.- The Right Revd. Reginald Heber, D.D., Lord Bishop of Calcutta, after Thomas Pillips		N/A	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 215.90
95	James (1809) Caldwell	Five original studies of Indian temples and views		circa 1807-1808	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 8,890.00
96	Donald Campbell	A Journey over Land to India, partly by a Route never gone before by any European		1795	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 635.00
97	W. Carey	The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company, being Curious Reminiscences illustrating Manners and Customs of the British in India during the Rule of the East India Company from 1600 to 1858	Calcutta	1906-07	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 152.40
98	C.P. Carmichael	Report on the Administration of the Police of the North-Western Provinces for the year 1870	Allahabad	1871	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
99		Ceylon.- Company School (Sri Lanka, 19th century) Fresco design with seated Royal, possibly the King of Kand		[19th century or later]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,048.00
100	Samuel Daniell	Ceylon.- A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates		1808	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 13,970.00

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.