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Sothebys: Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

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Auction Name Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History Total Sales (GBP) 2,635,557.00
Auction Date November 12, 2019 - November 12, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 1,616,250.00
Sale Number #L19405 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 2,314,751.00
Total Lots 319
Sold Lots 243 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,189,850.00
% of Lots Sold 76.18% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 3,108,451.00
Unsold Lots 76 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.79%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
228

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION DESCRIPTION DE L'ÉGYPTE Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publié par les orders de Sa Majesté l'Emp

 1809-1828 GBP 250,000.00 - 350,000.00 GBP 471,000.00
52 TREW, JAKOB CHRISTOPH

Hortus nitidissimis omnen per annum superbiens floribus, sive amoenissimorum florum imagines"¦ In publicum edidit Iohannes Michael Seligmann.

 1750 -1786 GBP 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 GBP 106,250.00
21 JACQUIN, NIKOLAUS JOSEPH VON

Plantarum rariorum horti Caesarei Schönbrunnensis descriptiones et icones.

1797-1804 GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 GBP 93,750.00
127 COLOM, JACOB AERTSZ.

Atlas ou Colom Ardante demonstrant toutes les costes de la Grand Mer, de tout l'Univers jusqu'a present Congnus Fort utile a tous Pilotes, Marchands, & Amateurs de la Navigation Nouvellement Mis en Lumiere.

1668 Folio (440 x 298mm.) GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 GBP 93,750.00
316 MARAINI, FOSCO AND GIUSEPPE TUCCI

TIBET - A glimpse of Tibet. 96 photographs taken for the 1937 Italian Expedition by Fosco Maraini with an introductory note by Giuseppe Tucci of the Royal Academy of Italy, leader of the expedition.

1938 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 93,750.00
68 CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE

Les voyages de la Novvelle France occidentale, dite Canada.

 1640 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 87,500.00
161 [BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, JEAN-BAPTISTE]

A collection of watercolours and drawings to illustrate Expédition scientifique de Morée. Section des sciences physiques, 1832-1836

 1832-1836 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 75,000.00
33 MERIAN, MARIA SYBILLA, AND DANIEL RABEL

Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe"¦ en deux parties"¦ troisieme edition, revue, corrigée, & considérablement augmentée"¦ A laquelle en a joint une troisieme partie qui traite des plus belles fleurs.

 1771 GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 68,750.00
133 LOON, JOHANNES VAN

Klaer-lichtende noort-star ofte Zee-atlas; waer in vertoont wordt, De gelegentheydt van alle de zee-kusten des geheelen aerdtbodems.

1666 GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 68,750.00
165 CARTWRIGHT, JOSEPH

[Views in the Ionian Islands].

 1821 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 68,750.00
259

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES A collection of over two hundred historic photographs,

c.1901 - early 1960s GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 56,250.00
177 DUPRÉ, LOUIS

Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes grecs et ottomans, peints sur les lieux, d'après nature.

 1825 GBP 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 47,500.00
216

ARABIA Map of the Red Sea and Nejd.

 c.1880s GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 43,750.00
45 SCHLEGEL, HERMANN AND A.H. VERSTER VAN WULVERHORST

Traité de Fauconnerie.

 1844-1853 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 37,500.00
248

PERSIAN GULF - ROYAL AIR FORCE A collection of fourteen photographs,

1929-1931 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 35,000.00
279

PROPERTY FROM THE GARRETT COLLECTION CHINESE PAINTINGS - YOUQUA An album of fifty paintings,

 c.1855 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 35,000.00
27 LEWIN, WILLIAM

The Birds of Great-Britain with their eggs.

 1789-1794 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 32,500.00
108 VINCENT, LEVINUS

Wondertooneel der Nature.

1706-1715 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 30,000.00
124 BAYER, JOHANN

Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa.

 1603 GBP 18,000.00 - 24,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
149 COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES

Complete set of first editions of the voyages, comprising: First Voyage - John Hawkesworth. An Account of the Voyages by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Ca

 1773 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
260

CANADA Album of topographical drawings and watercolours of Toronto, Guelph and Lake Simcoe, with maps, sketches, and ephemera, September 1854 to July 1856.

1854-1856. GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
89

NORTH WEST PASSAGE AND NORTH PACIFIC Two works bound in one volume: Müller, Gerhard Friedrich. Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the north west coast of America.

 1761 GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
178 FOSSATI, GASPARD

Aya Sophia Constantinople, as recently restored by order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul Medjid.

 1852 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
293 THOMSON, JOHN

Views on the North River.

1870 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
137 SCHEDEL, HARTMANN

Liber chronicarum.

 1493 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 22,500.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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