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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
126	Andrew Stuart	East India Company.- A Letter to the Honourable the Directors of the East-India Company...respecting the Conduct of Brigadier-general James Stuart at Madras		1778	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 406.40
127		East India Company.- Papers respecting the Negociation with His Majesty's Ministers for a Renewal of the East-India Company's Exclusive Privileges...		1813	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 152.40
128	Maj. Herbert B. Edwardes	A Year on the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49		1851	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 584.20
129		Equestrian Portrait of a Noble	India	[1800]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 177.80
130	John Fergusson	A Dictionary of the Hindostan Language		1773	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 1,397.00
131	Lieutentant-Colonel George Augustus Fitzclarence	Journal of a Route Across India, through Egypt, to England		1819	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,794.00
132	James (1749) Forbes	Oriental Memoirs		N/A	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,413.00
133	Sir William Foster	The English Factories in India 1618-1621 [a continuous run to 1670-1677]		1906-36	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 889.00
134	William Francklin	Inquiry concerning the Site of Ancient Palibothra...		1815-22	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 889.00
135	Jacinto Freire de Andrade	The Life of Dom John de Castro, the Fourth Vice-Roy of India wherein are seen the Portuguese's Voyages to the East-Indies...		1664	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,206.50
136	Charles McCann	Game-hunting.- A Shikari's Pocket-Book	London & Bombay, Calcutta, Madras	1927	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 431.80
137	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Satyagraha in South Africa	Madras	1928	GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
138	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth	Ahmedabad	1940	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
139	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, in English	Sevagram, Wardha [Maharashtra, India]	1st March 1942	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 12,700.00
140	John Gantz	Indian Microcosm	Madras	1827	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 14,605.00
141	John Gantz	The Choultry in the sea off the Island of Rameswaram		[early 19th century]	GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	GBP 2,286.00
142	Michael Geddes	The History of the Church of Malabar		1694	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 330.20
143	J. Geoghegan	Some Account of Silk in India	Calcutta	1872	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,524.00
144		Government of India White Paper on Hyderabad	Delhi	1948	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
145	Maria Callcott	Journal of a Residence in India	Edinburgh	1812	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 457.20
146	Sir George Abraham Grierson	Linguistic Survey of India	Calcutta	1903-28	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 1,905.00
147	William (1830) Griggs	India: Photographs and Drawings of Historical Buildings		1896	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,079.50
148	Henry Beveridge	Gurkhas.- Autograph Letter signed concerning the Gurkhas of North India	Hampstead, London	15 January, 1858	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 69.85
149	Franz Xaver Habermann	Der Plaz Namchas zu Lahor/ La Place Namchas a Lahor		[18th century]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
150	Nathaniel Brassey Halhed	A Code of Gentoo Laws, or, Ordinations of the Pundits, from a Persian Translation, made from the Original, written in the Shanscrit Language		1777	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 355.60

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.