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Auction Name Travel Books, Maps and Atlases Total Sales (EUR) 239,877.00
Auction Date May 05, 2022 - May 05, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 114,300.00
Sale Number #50522 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 149,480.00
Total Lots 201
Sold Lots 119 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 266,990.00
% of Lots Sold 59.20% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 339,100.00
Unsold Lots 82 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
115

Costumes Ottomans, important album de peintures. Pigments polychromes, argent et or sur papier, reliure en cuir brun estampé et doré. Turquie, circa 1660 pour les peintures.

 circa 1660 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 33,750.00
2

Recueil de cartes géographiques et marines du XVIIIe siècle par Delisle, d'Anville, Après de Mannevillette, Dheulland et d'autres.

 XVIIIe siècle EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 30,000.00
114 Camille ROGIER (1810-1896).

Un album de 38 feuilles dont 31 comportent des dessins faits à Constantinople. Mine de plomb, deux dessins sont agrémentés d’aquarelle 24,2 x 33 cm.

 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 18,750.00
28 GAGARINE (Grigori).

[Costumes du Caucase]. Paris, A. Hauser, s.d. [vers 1845]. – Le Caucase pittoresque.

 1847 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 15,625.00
116

Costumes Ottomans, album de peintures. Pigments polychromes, argent et or sur papier. Turquie, circa 1660 pour les peintures.

 circa 1660 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 11,250.00
23 LAPLACE (Cyrille).

Campagne de circumnavigation de la frégate l’Artémise pendant les années 1837-1840.

 1841 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
32 LABORDE (Alexandre de).

Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Espagne.

 1806-1820. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
117

Turkish Costumes, Album de peintures de costumes Ottomans. Pigments polychromes sur papier, reliure en cuir vert estampé et doré. Turquie, début du XIXe siècle.

 début du XIXe siècle. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
77 PLACE (Victor).

Ninive et l'Assyrie, avec des essais de restauration par Félix Thomas.

 1867-1870. EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
1 ANVILLE (Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d').

[Atlas de cartes géographiques].

 vers 1786. EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
66 LUYNES (Honoré d’Albert de).

Voyage d’exploration à la Mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain.

 1874 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
13 ROBERT DE VAUGONDY (Gilles et Didier).

Atlas universel, corrigé et augmenté de la carte de la République française, par C.-F. Delamarche.

 s.d. [vers 1793]. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 4,000.00
12 ROBERT DE VAUGONDY (Gilles et Didier).

Atlas universel, corrigé et augmenté de la carte de la République française, par C.-F. Delamarche.

 s.d. vers 1800. EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,875.00
20 GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR (Jacques).

Encyclopédie des voyages, contenant l'abrégé historique des mœurs, usages, habitudes domestiques, religions, fêtes, supplices, funérailles, sciences, arts et commerce de tous les peuples.

 1796 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
147 CASTRO (Casimiro) et Antonio GARCÍA CUBAS.

Album del Ferrocarril mexicano. Colección de vistas pintadas del natural... con una descripción del camino y de las regiones que recorre por Antonio García Cubas. / Album of the Mexican railway. – Alb

 1877 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
200 MOERENHOUT (Jacques-Antoine).

Voyages aux îles du Grand Océan, contenant des documents nouveaux sur la géographie physique et politique, la langue, la littérature, la religion, les mœurs, les usages et les coutumes de leurs habita

 1837 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
151

État de ce que Mr de Gennes a trouvé de plus remarquable dans son voyage fait en 1695, 1696 et 1697 aux côtes d'Affrique, détroit de Magellan et isles Antilles, Brésil & Cayenne, commandant une escadr

 1813 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
179 LE GENTIL DE LA GALAISIÈRE (Guillaume).

Voyage dans les mers de l’Inde, fait par ordre du roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus sur le disque du Soleil, le 6 juin 1761 et le 3 du même mois 1769.

 1779-1781. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
31 HELBRONNER (Paul).

Description géométrique détaillée des Alpes françaises. Annexe du tome second. Tour d'horizon du sommet du Mont-Blanc.

 1921 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,750.00
119

Album de dessins.

 1847-1852. EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,750.00
3

Recueil de cartes géographiques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles par Hubert Jaillot, Nicolas et Guillaume Sanson et d'autres.

 XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
4

Recueil de cartes d'Europe de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle par Sanson, Le Rouge et d'autres.

 première moitié du XVIIIe siècle EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,500.00
46

Kitab ül-ahd il atik [vel-cedid].

 1827 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,250.00
19 GARNIER (Francis).

Ensemble de 55 lettres autographes signées (sauf une), dont 47 adressées à ses parents ou son frère, 7 à son camarade de promotion le futur amiral et administrateur colonial Jean-Baptiste Éliacin Luro

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,875.00
103

Onze manuscrits, dont deux juz coraniques et neuf exemplaires de la Sourate la Caverne (al-kahf). Égypte ou Syrie, période mamelouke, XVe-début XVIe siècle.

 XVe-début XVIe siècle. EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,875.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    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.
  • 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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