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Auction Name
Online sale: Travel Books, Maps & Atlases
Auction Date
03/13/2025 - 03/13/2025
Sale Number
#977
Total Lots
295
Sold Lots
243
Lots Sold
82.37%
Unsold Lots
52
Total Sales (GBP)
163,983.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
75,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
106,240.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
108,950.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
154,090.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
106.42%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
56 Aitken (W., of Ashton-under-Lyne)

A Journey up the Mississippi River, from its Mouth to Nauvoo, the City of the Latter Day Saints

 1845 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 10,710.00
103 Anonymous (Liege-based cartographer)

Carte des etats desunis d'Europe

 [circa 1864] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 5,544.00
139 [Choiseul-Gouffier (Marie Gabriel Florent August de)]

Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece

 1792 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,032.00
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
250 De Ram (Johannes)

Insula Ceilon et Madura Exactsissime delineata...

 c.1685 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 3,780.00
10 Chesney (Lieut.-Colonel)

A Map of Arabia and Syria Laid down chiefly from Original Surveys... [with 13 others related]

 1850 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,780.00
112 Daniell (Thomas)

The Sacred Tree of the Hindoos at Gyah, Bahar

 1803 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,528.00
204 Vertot (Abbe De)

Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem

 1726 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,276.00
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
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
7 Malet (H. P.)

Circle of Light, or Dhawalegeri

 1869 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,394.00
253 Cook (Captain James)

The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook

 1842 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,394.00
65 Veitch (James Herbert)

A Traveller's Notes

 1896 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,016.00
14 Mylonas (Cyriacus Dion)

De Smyrnaeorum rebus gestis: pars prima, early portrait photograph to front pastedown

 1866 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,016.00
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
252 Anson (George)

A Voyage round the World

 (1872-1943). GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,016.00
149 Frankland (Charles)

Travels to and from Constantinople

 1830 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,016.00
162 Marsigli (Count Luigi Ferdinando)

L'Etat Militaire de l'Empire Ottoman, ses Progres et sa Decadence

 1732 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,890.00
140 Cobbold (Lady Evelyn)

Pilgrimage to Mecca

 1934 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,764.00
275

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

 1879-92 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,764.00
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  • <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000 <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000 <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000 <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000. <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000 <b>Koller, Mar. 26:</b> HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
  • <b><center>Sotheby's<BR>Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> William Blake | <i>Songs of Innocence and of Experience.</i> Sold: 4,320,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD <b><center>Sotheby's<BR>Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for <i>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.</i> Sold: 1,920,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Machiavelli | <i>Il Principe,</i> a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Leonardo da Vinci | <i>Trattato della pittura,</i> ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Henri Matisse | <i>Jazz,</i> Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
    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
  • <b><center>Swann<br>Printed & Manuscript African Americana<br>March 20, 2025</center></b> <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, <i>The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism,</i> London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 78: Victor H. Green, <i>The Negro Travelers' Green Book,</i> New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, <i>What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas,</i> Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000. <b><center>Swann<br>Printed & Manuscript African Americana<br>March 20, 2025</center></b> <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 263: Susan Paul, <i>Memoir of James Jackson,</i> Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 267: Langston Hughes, <i>Gypsy Ballads,</i> signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 367: Solomon Northup, <i>Twelve Years a Slave,</i> Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500. <b>Swann, Mar. 20:</b> Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, <i>A Voice from the South,</i> Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
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