Sothebys: The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure - online 11/25, N11633, New York

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Auction Date
December 09, 2024 - December 09, 2024
Page Size: 312 items in 13 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Pointis, Jean-Bernard-Louis Desjean de

Relation de l'expedition de Carthagene fait Par les Francois M. DC. XCVII.

Amsterdam 1698 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
227 Pointis, Jean-Bernard-Louis Desjean de

Monsieur de Pointi's expedition to Cartagena ...

London 1699 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
228

(Polar Exploration) Collection of 6 works in 6 volumes

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
229

(Polar Exploration) Collection of 10 works in 11 volumes

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
230

(Polar Exploration) Collection of 13 works in 15 volumes with 2 maps and a collection of 51 Antarctic and Arctic stamped envelopes

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
231

(Polar Exploration, Norwegian) A collection of 5 works in 13 volumes

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,160.00
232 Portlock, Nathaniel

A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America.

London 1789 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,560.00
233 [Potgieter, Barent Jansz]

Historisch ende Wijdtloopigh Verhael van 'tghene de vijf Schepen (die int Jaer 1698 [i.e. 1598] tot Rotterdam toegherust zijn, om door de Straet Magellana haren handel te dryven) wedervaren is, tot den 7. September 1599....

Amsterdam 1617 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,560.00
234 Rae, John

Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847.

London 1850 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,000.00
235 Raleigh, Sir Walter

The History of the World.

London 1614 [but 1621] USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,600.00
236 (Rasmussen, Knud)

Collection of 10 works in 13 volumes

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
237 Ritter, Franz

Astrolabium, das ist: Grundliche Beschreibung und Unterricht wie solches herzliche und hochnutzliche Astronomische Instrument.

Nuremberg [1660] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
238 Robson, Joseph

An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's Bay.

London 1752 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 960.00
239 Rogers, Captain Woodes

A Cruising Voyage round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope... 1708... 1711.

London 1712 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
240 Ross, James Clark

A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions.

London 1847 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
241 (Ross, James Clark)

Collection of 9 works in 9 volumes

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 720.00
242 Ross, John

A Voyage of Discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty in his Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a North-West Passage.

London 1819 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,440.00
243 Ross, John

Narrative of the Second Voyage of Captain Ross to the Arctic Regions.

London 1834 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,800.00
244 Braithwaite, John

Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of A Second Voyage in the Victory, in Search of a North-West Passage ...

London 1835 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
245 Ross, John --- Sabine, Edward

Sabine, Captain Edward. Remarks on the Account of the Late Voyage of Discovery to Baffin's Bay,

London 1819 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,360.00
246

(Russia) Collection of works, in Russian, English and other languages

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,200.00
247

(Russia and the Soviet Union) Collection of 6 illustrated works

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
248 Sacro Bosco, Johannes de

Sphaera mundi. Add: Georgius Purbachius: Theoricae novae planetarum. Regiomontanus: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta.

Venice 4 October 1490 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,000.00
249

(Sailors and seamanship) Collection of approximately 35 works in 38 volumes

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,040.00
250 Saltonstall, Charles

The Navigator shewing and explaining all ye chiefe principles and parts both theorick & practick, that are contayned in the famous art of navigation.

London 1636 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,160.00
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