Forum Auctions: Online sale: Travel Books, Maps & Atlases, 977, London

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March 13, 2025 - March 13, 2025
Page Size: 295 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Asia.- [Goguryeo Mural Pattern]

 1962 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 378.00
2 Bushell (Stephen W. )

Chinese Art

 1905 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 945.00
3 Chinese Export School (19th century)

Three scenes: Chinese nobleman on a palanquin; Young family dining at a table; Mother nursing

 19th century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
4 Tsiu-Sen (Lin)

Meisterwerke Chinesischer Malerei 12. Bis 18. Jahrhundert, title in red and black

 1944 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
5 Hunter (G. W.)

Mohammedan "Narratives of the Prophets" covering the period from Zachariah to Paul, first edition

 c.1916 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 107.10
6 Hodgson (B. H.)

A Disputation Respecting Caste

 1831 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 18.90
7 Malet (H. P.)

Circle of Light, or Dhawalegeri

 1869 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,394.00
8

Kostbahrer Munchner-Schatz, Wider Verhoffen, Jedermann offen, Niemand verdecket, Allen Er klecket.

 [1691] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,008.00
9 Hindoglu (Artin)

Theoretisch-pracktische Turkische Sprachlehre fur Deutsche, scattered spotting

 1829 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 428.40
10 Chesney (Lieut.-Colonel)

A Map of Arabia and Syria Laid down chiefly from Original Surveys... [with 13 others related]

 1850 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,780.00
11 Du Loir (Nicolas)

Les Voyage [sic] du Sieur du Loir ensemble de ce qui se passa a la mort du seu Sultan Mourat dans le Serrail

 1654 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
12 Selden (John)

De Dis Syris Syntagmata II, engraved portrait frontispiece

 1680 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 554.40
13 Peter (Rene)

La Creation du Monde

 [1912] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 693.00
14 Mylonas (Cyriacus Dion)

De Smyrnaeorum rebus gestis: pars prima, early portrait photograph to front pastedown

 1866 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,016.00
15 Sparrman (Anders)

Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance et Autour du Monde avec le Capitaine Cook

 1787 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 428.40
16 Various cartographers (18th and 19th century)

Collection of over 40 folding maps of the British Isles

 1911 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,134.00
17 Arnot (Fred S.)

Garenganze; or, Seven Years' Pioneer Mission Work in Central Africa

 c.1890 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
18 Baker (Sir Samuel White)

The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources

 1866 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 163.80
19 Barbot (Alexandre)

Souvenirs d'Egypt

 c.1850 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
20 Budge (E.A. Wallis)

The Nile. Notes for Travellers in Egypt

 1902 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 352.80
21 Burton (Sir Richard Francis)

The Lake Regions of Central Africa

 1860 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
22 Casati (Maj. Gaetano)

Ten Years in Equatoria

 1891 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
23 Davis (Rev. Nathan)

Evenings in my Tent; or, Wanderings in Balad Ejjareed...Various Arab Tribes of the African Sahara

 1854 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 579.60
24 Dickinson (Captain F. A.)

Lake Victoria to Khartoum with rifle & camera

 1910 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.00
25 Drummond (Henry)

Tropical Africa

 1888 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
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    Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
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    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500
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    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000
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    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000
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    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
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    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
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