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
251 Sauer, M.[artin] --- Par J. Castera (translator)

Voyage fait par ordre de l'imperatrice de Russie Catherine II, dans le nord de la Russie asiatique, dans la mer glaciale, dans la mer d'Anadyr, et sur les cotes de l'Amerique, depuis 1785 jusqu'en 1794, par le commodore Billings.

Paris , an X (1802) USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
252

(Scandinavia) Collection of 12 works in 23 volumes

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
253 Schefferus, Johannes

Lapponia id est regionis Lapponum et gentis nova et verissima descriptio.

Frankfurt 1673 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
254 Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon

Journal ou Relation exacte du voyage dans les Indes: Par un nouveau destroit, & par les grandes Mers Australes qu'il a descouvert, vers le Pole Antartique.

Paris 1618 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,600.00
255 Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon

Diarium vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi Itineris, factia Guilielmo Cornelli Schoutenio, Hornano. Annis 1615, 1616 & 1617.

Amsterdam 1662 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
256 Scott, Captain Robert Falcon

National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Album of Photographs and Sketches with Portfolio of Panoramic Views.

London 1908 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 9,000.00
257 Scott, Captain Robert Falcon

Scott's Last Expedition.

London 1913 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,040.00
258 (Scott, Robert Falcon, Captain) --- Griffith Taylor

With Scott: The Silver Lining.

London 1916 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,200.00
259 (Scott, Robert Falcon, Captain)

Collection of 14 works in 18 volumes

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,560.00
260 (Scott, Captain Robert Falcon)

Collection of 15 works in 21 volumes, mainly relating to the voyage of the Discovery, with a photograph of Scott

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 600.00
261 (Scott, Captain Robert Falcon)

Collection of 10 works in 12 volumes

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 7,800.00
262 Selden, John

Mare Clausum; The Right and Dominion of the Sea in Two Books,..

London 1663 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 840.00
263 Seller, John

Atlas Coelestis Containing the Systems and Theoryes of the Planets, The Constellations of the Starrs, and other Phenomina's of the Heavens, with Necessary Tables Relateing thereto Collected

. [London ca.1677] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,400.00
264 Sevillano, Joseph Garcia

Nuevo Regimen de la Navegacion.

Madrid 1736 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 840.00
265 Shackleton, Ernest Henry

The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

London 1909 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,200.00
266 Shackleton, Ernest Henry

The Heart of the Antarctic.

London 1909 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,200.00
267 Shackleton, Ernest Henry

South. The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917.

London 1919 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 6,600.00
268 (Shackleton, Ernest Henry)

Three works relating to the Shackleton--Rowett Expedition, or the Quest Expedition (1921-1922)

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,200.00
269 (Shackleton, Ernest Henry, et al.)

The South Polar Times.

London; Cambridge 1907-1914; 2010 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,000.00
270 (Shackleton, Ernest Henry) --- Frank Worsley

Shackleton's Boat Journey.

London [1933] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,200.00
271 (Shackleton, Ernest Henry)

A collection of 13 works in 14 volumes

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,880.00
272 (Shackleton, Ernest Henry)

Collection of 22 works in 25 volumes

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,400.00
273 (Shipwrecks and Other Adventures)

Collection of 13 works, including fiction, in 17 volumes

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
274

(Siberia) Collection of 15 works in 19 volumes on Siberia

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
275 Simpson, Thomas

Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America, Effected by the Officers of the Hudson's Bay Company.

London 1843 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
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