Auction: India and British Museum

[Michael Pritchard]

Two lots of particular photography interest are being offered over the next few weeks. Stephen Thompson's Photographs of British Museum Antiquities (1872) be at Lyon and Turnbull on 25 February and estimated at £700-1000. In an online auction ending on 19 February property from the late Professor Malcolm Yapp (1931-2025) is being offered which includes John Forbes Watson & John William Kaye's The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, in eight volumes (1868-75) estimated at £4000-6000. 

For the Thompson lot see here and the Watson & Kaye here.