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

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Auction Report
Auction Date
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
228 Cassini (Giovanni Maria)

Emisfero Terrestre Meridionale...

1789 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 214.20
229 Barrington (Hon. Daines)

The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted, half-title

1818 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
230 Belcher (Capt. Sir Edward)

The Last of the Arctic Voyages

1855 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 756.00
231 Cassini (Giovanni Maria)

Emisfero terrestre meridionale [and] Emisfero terrestre settentrionale

1789 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
232 Cherry-Garrard (Apsley)

The Worst Journey in the World

1922 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 302.40
233 Cook (Dr. Frederick A.)

My Attainment of the Pole

1911 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
234 Greely (Adolphus W.)

Three Years of Arctic Service

1886 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 428.40
235 Nansen (Fridtjof)

Farthest North

1897 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
236 Nares (Capt. Sir George S.)

Narrative of A Voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6

1878 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 138.60
237

Polar.- Polar Record (The)

-202 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
238 Scott (Captain Robert)

Scott's Last Expedition

1947 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
239 Shackleton (Ernest H.)

South: the Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

1919 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 529.20
240 Worsley (Frank Arthur)

Endurance: an Epic of Polar Adventure

1931 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 226.80
241 Bernard (Paule)

[Collection of photographs and colour diapositives relating to "An adventure film in Bolivia"]

1962-63 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
242 Bedford (Commander)

The Gate of the Pacific

1863 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
243 Dance (Charles Daniel)

Recollections of Four Years in Venezuela

1876 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 277.20
244 Mawe (John)

Travels in the Interior of Brazil, particularly in the Gold and Diamond Districts ...

1812 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
245 Molina (Juan Ignacio)

The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili

1809 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 327.60
246

South America.- Peru

1910 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
247 Laurie & Whittle (publishers)

A Chart of the Western Coast of of Sumatra From Touroumane to Indrapour

1794 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
248 Saleh Sarief Bustaman (Raden)

The Attack of the Lion (Die Anfall des Lowen), lithograph with original hand-colouring

circa 1860s-1870s GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,016.00
249 Talbot Kelly (R.)

Burma: Painted & Described, half-title

1905 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 239.40
250 De Ram (Johannes)

Insula Ceilon et Madura Exactsissime delineata...

c.1685 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 3,780.00
251 Salt (Henry)

View near Point de Galle, Ceylon, from 'Twenty Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India...'

1809 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,386.00
252 Anson (George)

A Voyage round the World

(1872-1943). GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,016.00
  • Sotheby's
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
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    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
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    Auction 59
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    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    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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    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
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    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
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