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Auction Report
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

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
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    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
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    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
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