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Sothebys: Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History - bidstart 4/27

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Auction Name Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History - bidstart 4/27 Total Sales (GBP) 1,369,305.00
Auction Date May 13, 2021 - May 13, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 686,500.00
Sale Number #L21401 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 992,550.00
Total Lots 191
Sold Lots 127 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,448,300.00
% of Lots Sold 66.49% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,075,150.00
Unsold Lots 64 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 65.99%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
41 Georg Braun und Franz Hogenberg

Civitates orbis terrarium.

1599, 1597, 1606, n.d, n.d. GBP 140,000.00 - 200,000.00 GBP 277,200.00
46 Qianren Huang

Da Qing wannian yitong dili quantu. [Complete map of the unified Qing dynasty empire].

19th century GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 94,500.00
9 Daniel Giraud Elliot

A Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants. 

 1870-1872 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 81,900.00
40 Willem and Joan Blaeu

Le Theatre du Monde.

1643-1645 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 81,900.00
37 Al-Idrisi

Charta Rogeriana. Weltcarte des Idrisi. [Tabula Rogeriana] [Nuzhat al-musht?q fi'khtir?q al-?f?q - ???? ??????? ?? ?????? ??????? - the book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands]. 1154

 1928 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 56,700.00
119 William Page (1794-1872)

Album of fifty-eight watercolours of Turkish, Greek, Swiss and Italian views and figure studies.

 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 52,920.00
50 Abraham Ortelius

Theatrum orbis terrarum.

1595 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 50,400.00
33 Archibald Thorburn

“Sketches”, a volume so titled, late nineteenth century

 late nineteenth century GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 44,100.00
107

Panoramic engraved view of Mecca, titled in Arabic 'Ka'bat Allah Aleulya' (The supreme Kaaba of Allah].

1791 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 35,280.00
54 John Speed

[The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain.

1676 GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 23,940.00
181 John Claude White

Tibet and Lhasa. Photographs by J.C. White Esq., C.I.E.

1908 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 23,940.00
32 George Ernest Shelley

A monograph of the nectariniidae, or family of sun-birds.

1876-1880 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 20,160.00
60 Joan Blaeu

Theatrum urbium Belgicae foederatae.

c.1649 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 16,380.00
81 Giovanni Battista Ramusio

Primo volume, & terza editione delle navigationi et viaggi; Secondo volume; Volume terzo.

1563; 1559 (1558); 1606 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 16,380.00
161 Charles W. Andrews

A Filipina standing at a fountain beneath a banana tree

 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 15,120.00
75 Captain James Cook

A complete set of the voyages, comprising:

 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
55 Ferdinand Verbiest

Kunyu quantu [A Complete Map of the World].

1674; c.1860 or c.1930 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
137

Album of photographs of the construction of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline.

c.1950s GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
180

Album of 48 photographs relating to the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet, 1903-4, including views of Gyantse. 

 circa 1904 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
16 James Edmund Harting

Manuscript copy of "The Fawkner’s glass… A perfect waie and order to be observed in chosing & keeping of sparhawkes”, together with copy number 1 of the limited edition

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 11,340.00
77 Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas

Description des Indes Occidentales qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le nouveau monde... avec la navigation du vaillant Capitaine de Mer Jaques le Maire & de plusieurs autres.

1622 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
120

Palestine—American Colony and others. Wooden box of ninety glass lantern slides, circa 1880s-1920s

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
27 Albert Millican

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of 'Adventures, Travels and Experiences of an Orchid Collector in South America', c.1890

 c.1890 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
38 Carel Allard

Novissima totius orbis tabula.

c.1683 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
49 Richard Marshall

A Curious map of the world corrected from the observations communicated to ye Rl. Society of London & the Royl. Accademy at Paris. Likewise from the late voyage round ye world, performed by the Honble. Comodore Byron Captn. Cook etc.

1785 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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.
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