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
253 Cook (Captain James)

The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook

1842 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,394.00
254 de la Harpe (Jean-Francois)

Abrege de L'Histoire Generale des Voyages

1780-86 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
255 Francis (Francis)

War, Waves. and Wanderings. A Cruise in the "Lancashire Witch"

1881 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 277.20
256 Hakluyt (Richard)

The Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation

1589 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,024.00
257 Markham (Capt. Albert Hastings)

The Cruise of the "Rosario" amongst the New Hebrides and Santa Cruz Islands

1873 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
258 Northcote the Younger (Samuel)

The Penguine from the Faukland Islands'

circa 1760-1790 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 226.80
259 Valle (Pietro della)

Les Fameux Voyages

1663 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
260 Vincent (William)

The Voyage of the Nearchus: from the Indus to the Euphrates

1797 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
261 Jansson (Jan)

Principatus Walliae Pars Borealis Vulgo North Wales, engraved map with original hand-colouring

circa 1647 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 81.90
262 Bartoli (Daniello)

Geographia moralibus et politicis discursibus illustrata...

1675 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
263

World.- China Proper

1944-45 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 252.00
264

World.- Collection (A) of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern. Particularly Old English Dresses

1757 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
265 Fonblanque (Edward Barrington de, editor)

A Life-Journey from Mannheim to Inkerman. from the Reminiscences of an Army Surgeon

1890 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 378.00
266 [Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (Jacques)] & Sylvain Marechal

World.- [Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (Jacques)] & Sylvain Marechal. Costumes Civil actuels de tous le Peuples Connus

1788 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
267 Guthrie (William)

Atlas Universel pour la Geographie de Guthrie

1799 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 693.00
268 Johnston (Robert)

Travels through part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland

1815 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 4,032.00
269 Johnston (R.F.)

From Peking to Mandalay: A Journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch'uan and Yunnan

1908 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 201.60
270 Lafreri School (Italian, 16th century)

Four battle plans and views of sieges, including 'Bologna in Francia'

late 16th century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,512.00
271 Lafreri School (Italian, 16th century)

Three maps of Islands, including 'Peloponnesus N. Morea' [Peloponnese, sometimes called Morea]

late 16th century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,772.00
272 Lattre (Jean)

Petit atlas moderne ou collection de cartes elementaires dedie a la jeunesse

1793 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 945.00
273 Markham (Clements R.)

Travels in Peru and India

1862 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 176.40
274 Picard (Bernard)

Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des tous les Peuples du Monde

1789 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 478.80
275

World.- Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography

1879-92 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,764.00
276 Purchas (Samuel)

His Pilgrimage. Or, Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in all ages and places discovered ...

1613 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 882.00
277 Abstract (An)

World.- Slavery.- Abstract (An) of the Evidence delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons ... on the part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, folding wood cut plate

1791 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    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€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    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€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    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€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    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.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    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
    Ketterer Rare Books
    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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