Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 22693, London - King Street

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Auction Date
December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024
Page Size: 170 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 [FOSTER, George (fl. 1735-1740)] -- Robert SAYER (1735-1794).

A New & Correct Map of all America, with the West India Islands, according to the definitive treaty concluded at Paris, 10th Feby. 1763.

London n.d. but probably 1763-1767. GBP 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
127 COOK, Captain James (1728-1779) and Captain James KING (1750-1784)

Troisieme voyage de Cook, ou voyage a l'ocean Pacifique... pour faire des decouvertes dans l'hemisphere nord...Traduit de l'anglois par M.D[emeunier].

Paris 1785 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
128 BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, vicomte de (1707-1788)

Collection des animaux quadrupedes.

Paris n.d. but c. 1790 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
129 VANCOUVER, George (1757-1798)

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; in which the coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed ... and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795.

London 1798 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 88,200.00
130 LABILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-1834)

Voyage in Search of La Perouse.

London 1800 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 37,800.00
131 [Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)]

A George III mahogany writing slope, c.1800

c.1800 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 35,280.00
132 FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)

A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in his Majesty's Ship the Investigator.

London 1814 GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 119,700.00
133 Major General William Thomas Eden (1768-1851), youngest son of Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland

A panoramic view of Calcutta, 1812

1812 GBP 120,000.00 - 150,000.00 GBP 327,600.00
134 [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)]

Sense and Sensibility.

London 1811 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 35,280.00
135 [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817).]

Pride and Prejudice.

London 1813 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 81,900.00
136 [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)]

Mansfield Park: A Novel.

London 1814 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 16,380.00
137 [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)]

Emma: A Novel.

London 1816 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,120.00
138 [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)]

Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion.

London 1818 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,710.00
139 REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840)

Douze Bouquets Dessines et composes par P. J. Redoute lithographies par A. Prevost et Pointel du Portail.

Paris and New York n.d. but c.1835 GBP 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
140 BONAFOUS, Matthieu (1793-1852)

Histoire naturelle, agricole et economique du mais.

Paris and Turin 1836 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,930.00
141 HUGO, Victor (1802-1885)

Notre-Dame de Paris.

Paris 1836 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 1,890.00
142 LABORDE, Leon, Comte de (1807-1869)

Voyage de la Syrie par Mrs. Alexandre de Laborde, Becker, Hall, et Leon de Laborde.

Paris 1837 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
143 [TATIKIAN, Bogos (fl.1840s-?), attributed to]

Chronologie des empereurs ottomans.

Smyrna c.1852 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,820.00
144 LIENARD, Jean-Felix (1812-1894)

Catalogue des champignons observee et recuillis dans le dept de la Meuse et figurant dans le collection de Monsieur F. Lienard.

Verdun 1855-1871-1875-1880 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
145 GOULD, John (1804-1881)

The Birds of Great Britain.

London 1862-1873 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 40,320.00
146 [BERKELEY, Robert Valentine (1853-1940), artist, and Miles Joseph BERKELEY (1803-1889), editor and compiler]

Lancashire fungi [thus titled on spine].

Sibbertoft 1872-1885 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
147 MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879)

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.

Oxford 1873 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 15,120.00
148 MAREY, Etienne-Jules (1830-1904) and Maxime GUERIN-CATELAIN (fl. late-19th century)

Four original photographs of a jumping military horse. gelatin silver prints 16.3 x 23cm; 16.3 x 23cm; 16.2 x 23cm; and 16.3 x 23cm. Photographed c.1895-1898

c.1895-1898 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
149 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

Uber die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Warme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flussigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen.' Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4th Series, vol. 17.

Leipzig 1905 GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 113,400.00
150 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

'Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhangig?' Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4th Series, vol. 18.

Leipzig 1905 GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 81,900.00
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