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

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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
176 Mackenzie, Alexander

Voyages from Montreal, on the river of St. Laurence, through the continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the years 1789 and 1793.

New-York 1802 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,680.00
177 Macrobius, Aurelius Theodosius

In Somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia.

Venice 29 October 1500 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,640.00
178 (Magellan)

Collection of 6 works in 6 volumes

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
179 Magnus, Olaus

Historia Olai Magni Gothi archiepiscopi Upsalensis de gentium septentrionalum uariis conditionibus...photo cont...

Basil s.d. [1567] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
180 Mandy, George William

Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821.

London 1822 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
181 (Maps, Mapping, Meterology and Magneticsm)

Collection of works

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,120.00
182 Marra, John

Journal of the Resolution's Voyage, in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. On Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere ... also a Journal of the Adventure's Voyage, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774.

London 1775 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
183 Martens, Friderich

Spitsbergische oder Gronlandische Reise Beschreibung gethan im Jahr 1671.

Hamburg 1675 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,680.00
184 Martyr d'Anghiera, Peter, et al.

Libro Primo [--Secundo, Ultimo] della historia de l'Indie Occidentali (title on verso of title-page: Summario generale historia de l'Indie Occidentali cavato da libri scritti dal signor Don Pietro Martyre ...

Venice 1534 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,600.00
185 May, Walter W.

A Series of Fourteen Sketches made during the Voyage up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin.

London 1855 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,560.00
186 M'Clure, Robert

The North-West Passage. Capt. M'Clure's Despatches from her Majesty's Discovery Ship "Investigator," Off Point Warrent and Cape Bathurts.

London 1853 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,600.00
187 Alexander M'Donald

A Narrative of Some Passages in the History of Eenoolooapik, A Young Esquimaux, who was brought to Britain...[and] An Account of the Discovery of Hogarth's Sound.

Edinburgh 1841 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,600.00
188 Meares, John --- J.B.L.J. Billecocq

Voyages de la Chine A la Cote Nord-Ouest d'Amerique, Faits dans les Annees 1788 Et 1789.

Paris [1794] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
189 Medina, Pedro de

L'arte del navegar.

Venice 1554 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,040.00
190 Mendoza y Rios, Joseph de

Colleccion de tablas para varios usos de la navegacion.

Madrid 1800 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
191 Metius, Adriaan

De genuino usu utriusque globi tractatus.

Franeker 1624 [bound with:] Mensura geographica. Franeker USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
192 [Molina, Juan Ignacio]

Compendio della storia geografica, naturale e civile del regno del Chile.

Bologna 1776 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
193 Montauban, Etienne de

Relation du voyage de Sieur de Montauban.

Bordeaux 1697 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,800.00
194 Morris, Isaac

A Narrative of the Dangers and Distresses which befel Isaac Morris and seven more of the Crew, belonging to the Wager Store-Ship, which attended Commodore Anson, in his Voyage to the South Sea: ...

Dublin, 1752 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
195 Morris, Isaac

A Narrative of the Dangers and Distresses which befel Isaac Morris and seven more of the Crew, belonging to the Wager Store-Ship, which attended Commodore Anson, in his Voyage to the South Sea: ...

London [ca. 1752] USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,000.00
196 Muller, Gerhard Friedrich

Voyages from Asia to America for completing the discoveries of the North West Coast of America, edited by Thomas Jefferys, second edition in English,...

London 1764 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
197 (Nansen, Fridtjof)

A collection of 15 works in 20 volumes plus 6 works in parts

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 960.00
198 Narborough, Sir John, et al.

An Account of Several Late Voyages & Discoveries to the South and North. Towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. ...

London 1694 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,040.00
199 Narborough, Sir John, et al.

An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries: I. Sir John Narbrough's Voyage to the South-Sea by the Command of King Charles the Second: ...

London 1711 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
200 Nares, George

The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition.

London 1876 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 8,400.00
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