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Auction Name
Online: India
Auction Date
02/19/2026 - 02/19/2026
Sale Number
#1074
Total Lots
273
Sold Lots
261.0
Lots Sold
95.60%
Unsold Lots
12
Total Sales (GBP)
522,307.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
149,200.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
215,450.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
155,650.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
224,150.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
233.02%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
57

[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities

1865 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 53,975.00
50 John (1863) Watson

The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan

1868-75 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 53,340.00
40 Kavali Venkata Ramasvami

A Digest of the Different Castes of India

1837 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 27,940.00
214

New Delhi.- Laying out, &c., the new Capital of India (Delhi)

1916 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 20,955.00
140 John Gantz

Indian Microcosm

1827 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 14,605.00
195

Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331

2nd July - 31st December 1834 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 14,605.00
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
250 Rajah Sourindro Mohun Tagore

The Eight Principal Rasas of the Hindus, with Murtti and Vrindaka, or Tableaux and Dramatic Pieces

1880 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 13,970.00
258 Lt.-Col. James Tod

Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India

1829-32 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 13,335.00
139 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, in English

1st March 1942 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,700.00
123 Charles D'Oyly

D'Oyly (Charles) Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book

[1828] GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 11,430.00
205 Sir John Marshall

The Monuments of Sanchi

[1940] GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 10,795.00
95 James (1809) Caldwell

Five original studies of Indian temples and views

circa 1807-1808 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 8,890.00
117 Thomas Daniell

The Old Fort Ghaut

[circa 1790 or slightly later] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 7,620.00
251 Rajah Sourindro Mohun Tagore

The Ten Principal Avataras of the Hindus

1880 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,350.00
27 Robert Home

Select Views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan

1794 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,334.00
62 Capt. Alexander Allan

Views in the Mysore Country

[1794] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
10

Asiatic Annual Register (The); or, A View of the History of Hindustan, and of the Politics, Commerce and Literature of Asia, for the Year 1799 [-1810-11]

1800-12 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,826.00
78

Bombay Register and Directory (The), for 1831. In Four Parts, with tipped-in note of succession of William IV (torn)...

[1830] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 4,318.00
106 Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke

Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, from the Sanscrit of Brahmegupta and Bhascara

1817 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 4,318.00

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