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Gros & Delettrez: Travel: Asia - Books, Atlas and Cartography, 162978, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 27, 2025 - March 27, 2025
Page Size: 234 items in 10 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 AGUILAR (Jose Raul).

El interprete chino. Coleccion de frases, sencillas y analizadas para aprender el idioma oficial de China.

Madrid 1861 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 610.00
2 ANDERSON (Aeneas).

Relation de l'ambassade du Lord Macartney a la Chine, dans les annees 1792, 1793 et 1794.

Paris an IV (1795) EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
3 ANVILLE (Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d').

Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet contenant les cartes generales et particulieres de ces pays ainsi que la carte du Royaume de Coree, la plupart levees sur les lieux par ordre de l'Empereur Cang-Hi.

La Haye 1737 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,904.00
4 APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE (Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d').

Instructions sur la navigation des Indes Orientales et de la Chine, pour servir au Neptune Oriental, dedie au Roi.

Paris, Demonville, Brest, Malassis 1775 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 183.00
5

Atlas minier de l'Indochine.

(Hanoi) 1901-1926 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,952.00
6 AUBARET (Gabriel).

Vocabulaire francais-annamite et annamite-francais. Precede d'un traite des particules annamites.

Bangkok 1861 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 3,904.00
7 AUBERT (general), Dir.

Histoire militaire de l'Indochine francaise des debuts a nos jours (juillet 1930) etablie par des officiers de l'etat-major du general de division Aubert, commandant superieur des troupes du groupe de l'Indochine

Hanoi-Haiphong 1930 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 219.60
8 BAKER (Thomas Turner).

The recent operations of the British Forces at Rangoon and Martaban.

London 1852 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
9 BARD (E.).

Les Chinois chez eux.

Paris 1899 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
10 BEAUVOIR (Ludovic Hebert).

Pekin, Yeddo, San Francisco. Voyage autour du monde.

Paris 1872 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
11 BEAUVOIR (Ludovic Hebert).

Voyage autour du monde. Australie, Java, Siam, Canton, Pekin, Yeddo, San Francisco.

Paris 1873 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
12 BELL (Archie).

The Spell of China.

New York 1917 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
13 BERGERON (Pierre).

Voyages faits principalement en Asie dans les XII, XIII, XIV, et XV siecles, par Benjamin de Tudele, Jean du Plan-Carpin, N. Ascelin, Guillaume de Rubruquis, Marc Paul Venitien, Haiton, Jean de Mandeville, et Ambroise Contarini : accompagnes de l'histoire

La Haye 1735 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,708.00
14 BERNANOSE (Marcel).

Les Arts decoratifs au Tonkin.

Paris 1922 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 183.00
15 BERNIER (Francois).

Voyages de Francois Bernier... contenant la description des Etats du Grand Mogol, de l'Hindoustan, du Royaume de Kachemire, &c.

Amsterdam 1699 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 366.00
16 [Birmanie].

The British Burma Gazetteer in two volumes. Compiled by Authority.

Rangoon 1880-1879 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 366.00
17 BJORNSTJERNA (Magnus Frederik Ferdinand).

Tableau politique et statistique de l'Empire britannique dans l'Inde, examen des probabilites de sa duree et de ses moyens de defense en cas d'invasion.

Paris 1842 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
18 BONAPARTE (Roland).

[Documents de l'epoque mongole des XIIIe et XIVe siecles.

Paris 1895] EUR 40.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
19 BOUCHOT (Auguste).

Histoire du Portugal et de ses colonies.

Paris 1854 EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 36.60
20 BOUHOURS (Dominique).

La vie de saint Francois Xavier de la Compagnie de Jesus, apostre des Indes et du Japon.

Paris 1692 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
21 BOUINAIS (Albert), PAULUS (A.).

La Cochinchine contemporaine.

Paris 1884 EUR 60.00 - 70.00 EUR 146.40
22

[Missions].

XVIIe s EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,196.00
23 BROUGHTON (Thomas Duer).

Les Marattes ou moeurs, usages et costumes de ce peuple.

Paris 1817 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 183.00
24

BULLETIN de la Societe Academique Indo-Chinoise. Deuxieme serie - Tome premier. Annee 1881.?

Paris 1882 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 73.20
25 CAILLOT (Antoine).

Beautes des lettres edifiantes anciennes et nouvelles ornees de gravures, et suivies d'un Precis historique sur les Kalmuks, extrait des voyages de Pallas et de B. Bergmann.

Paris 1835 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 36.60
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    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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