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
201	Manavadharmasatra Manu	Institutes of Hindu Law...	Calcutta	1794	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
202	Niccolao Manucci	Storia do Mogor or Mogul India 1653-1708		1907-08	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,270.00
203	Thomas Marshall	Statistical Reports on the Pergunnahs of Padshapoor, Belgam, Kalaniddee and Chandgurh, Khanapoor, Bagulkot and Badamy, and Hoondgoond; in the Southern Mahratta Country	Bombay	1822	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 762.00
204	William E. Marshall	A Phrenologist amongst the Todas or the study of a primitive tribe in South India		1873	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,016.00
205	Sir John Marshall	The Monuments of Sanchi	[Calcutta]	[1940]	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 10,795.00
206	Major General Claude Martin	The Last Will and Testament...Derniere Volonte et Testament	Lyons	1803	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,286.00
207	Joseph-Francois Michaud	Histoire des Progres et de la Chute de l'Empire de Mysore, sous les regnes d'Hyder-Aly et Tippoo-Saib	Paris	1801	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 177.80
208		Mining in India.- [2 Albums containing c.260 photographs, including mining operations in India], locations include "Oosman Pit" & "Batten Pit" Yellandu, "Ootegum Mine, Kolar"...		[c.1907]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 889.00
209	Robert Montgomery	Statistical Report of the District of Cawnpoor...published by Order of the Honorable the Lieutenant Governor, North-Western Provinces	Calcutta	1849	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 698.50
210	Edward Moor	[Sri Sarva Deva Sabha] The Hindu Pantheon		1810	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 3,048.00
211	Dr. Max Muller	Rig-Veda-Sanhita, the Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans; together with the commentary of Sayanacharya		1849	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 508.00
212	Innes Munro	A Narrative of the Military Operations, on the Coromandel Coast..		1789	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 431.80
213	Neamet Ullah.	The History of the Afghans		1829-36	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 482.60
214		New Delhi.- Laying out, &c., the new Capital of India (Delhi)		1916	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 20,955.00
215	Dorothy Newsome	See India. Travancore state	Bombay	[1930s]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 889.00
216	Dorothy Newsome	Lucknow. The City of Gardens	Calcutta	[1935]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 889.00
217	Innocent Nicholas	A Vocabulary of English and Teloogoo Words...and the First Rudiments of Grammar	Madras	1832	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 508.00
218	Prince Henry d' Orleans	From Tonkin to India by the Sources of the Irawadi January '95 - January '96		1898	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 381.00
219	S.L. Maddox	Orissa.- Report on the Settlement of the Province of Orissa. 1890 to 1900 A.D., proof copy with extensive annotations/corrections and some inserts by George Toynbee	Cuttack	1900	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
220	Robert Orme	A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, from the year MDCCXLV		1780-78	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 698.50
221	William Orme	Kuttull Minor Delhi, after Thomas Daniell		19th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 558.80
222	Outram (Lieut.-Gen. James)	Smith, Elder & Co. (Printers, London) Three maps relating to Lieut. General Outram's Campaign in India in 1857-8		[circa 1860]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,016.00
223		Pair of Leaves depicting Rulers of Bijapur, opaque pigment on paper, heightened with gold, both approx	India	[c. 1700]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 330.20
224	James Peggs	Pilgrim Tax in India		[1830]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 114.30
225	Thomas Pennant	[Outlines of the Globe] The View of Hindoostan		1798	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,016.00

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.