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Travel, Atlases, Maps and Photographs

Name: Travel, Atlases, Maps and Photographs | 2022 | Sotheby's
Start: 2022-05-17T13:00:00Z
End: 2022-05-24T13:00:00Z
Location: London

24 May 2022•14:00 BST

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1. Mercurio geografico. Rome, 1692, contemporary vellum

Estimate:

12,000 - 15,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

2. Neptune François.... Paris, 1693 [but Amsterdam, 1700]

Estimate:

70,000 - 90,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

3. Abraham Ortelius | Theatrum orbis terrarum. Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1584, 3 parts in one

Estimate:

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

4. Claudius Ptolemaeus and Giacomo Gastaldi | La Geografia.... Venice, 1548

Estimate:

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

5. Giovanni Maria Pujati | Introduttione alla geografia.... Rome, 1766, manuscript, contemporary vellum

Estimate:

12,000 - 15,000 GBP

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6. Louis Renard—Reinier and Josua Ottens | Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt. Amsterdam, 1745

Estimate:

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

7. John Seller | A Pocket Book containing ...Arithmetick, Navigation, Astronomy.... London, [1676], 8vo, calf

Estimate:

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

8. Johannes and Gerard van Keulen | De Groote nieuwe vermeerderede Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Waereld, 1708 (1709)

Estimate:

60,000 - 90,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

9. John Wallis | Wallis's complete voyage round the world. A new geographical pastime. London, 1796, a geographical game

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

10. Wang Zhiyuan after Huang Shang | T'ien wên t'u [A Map of the Stars]. 1247 (stele), ?late nineteenth century (rubbing)

Estimate:

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

11. Douglas Carruthers et alia | Letters and postcards to Colonel Bailey, including letters relating to Tibet, 1904-1947

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

12. Captain James Cook and Captain James King | Troisième Voyage de Cook with Cartes et Figures. Paris, 1785, 5 volumes

Estimate:

800 - 1,200 GBP

Bidding is closed

13. Earl of Dunmore | Scenes in Many Lands: Arctic to Equator. [c. 1897], original cloth

Estimate:

800 - 1,200 GBP

Bidding is closed

14. Paul Jones | Memoires de Paul Jones. Paris, 1798, original boards

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

15. Vincent Lunardi—S.F. Fores (pub.) | The enterprizing Lunardi's Grand Air Balloon, September 23rd 1784

Estimate:

500 - 700 GBP

Bidding is closed

16. Ship's Log—William Alms | Captain's log of HMS Monouth, 1783-84, including an account of the Battle of Cuddalore

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

17. Charles Butler | The feminine monarchie, or history of bees. Oxford, 1634, later burgundy leather

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

18. Archibald Thorburn | British Birds, 1915-18, 5 volumes, including supplement

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

19. Norway | Collection of 53 glass stereoviews of a voyage to Norway, c. 1897

Estimate:

800 - 1,200 GBP

Bidding is closed

20. Polish Government in Exile | The mass extermination of Jews in German occupied Poland. London, 1942

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

No reserve

21. Rome—Domenico Amici | Raccolta delle principali vedute di Roma. 1835, red cloth gilt

Estimate:

500 - 700 GBP

Bidding is closed

22. Afghanistan—Sahibdad Abdulla | A collection of 38 photographs of Afghanistan. Kabul, c. 1919-1933

Estimate:

3,500 - 4,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

23. Badia y Leblich | Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey. 1816, 2 volumes

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

24. Demetrius Cantemir | The history of the growth and decay of the Othman Empire. 1734, folio, contemporary calf

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

25. Charles Henry Spencer Churchill | Mount Lebanon. A Ten Years' Residence. London, 1853, 4 volumes

Estimate:

1,000 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

26. Constantinople | Two large photograph panoramas of Constantinople from opposite sides of the Golden Horn, 1880s

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

27. Constantinopole—Mehmet Vedat Tek | Three architectural plans for Topkapi Palace, 1325AH [1907]

Estimate:

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

28. Vladimir P. Davidov | Atlas ... [Russian text: Views in the Ionian Islands and Greece]. St Petersburg, 1839

Estimate:

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

29. Dubai and Abu Dhabi | Photographs of Sheikh Shakbut Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, with a Gulf chart and letter relating to the USS Duxbury Bay visit, 1959

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

No reserve

30. Egypt and Aden—Zangaki and others | Collection of 25 photographs of views and portraits, c. 1880s

Estimate:

100 - 200 GBP

Bidding is closed

31. Greece—Moritz Guiot | Zur Erinnerung meines Aufenhaltes in Hellas, [Greece, 1834-1835]

Estimate:

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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32. Greece—Zographos | Collection of 12 matt photographs, c. 1930s

Estimate:

500 - 800 GBP

Bidding is closed

33. Greece—William Walker | Two watercolours of Greece: a view of Argos; and view of Corinth and the Acro, [c. 1803]

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

34. Greece—William Stillman | View of the Acropolis from the Musaeum Hill, [1870], carbon print

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

35. Greece | Twelve glass stereoviews of Mount Athos, c. 1900

Estimate:

700 - 900 GBP

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36. James Hamilton | Sinai, the Hedjaz, and Soudan.... London: Richard Bentley, 1857, red half morocco

Estimate:

2,600 - 3,400 GBP

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37. Jerusalem—Braun and Hogenberg | hand-coloured engraved view of Jerusalem, 1575 or later

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

38. Jerusalem—James Graham | Photograph of the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, 1850s

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

39. Jerusalem—James Graham | Three photographs of Jerusalem, 1850s

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

No reserve

40. Jerusalem—Félix Bonfils, attributed to | Photograph panorama of Jerusalem, c. 1880

Estimate:

800 - 1,200 GBP

Bidding is closed

41. Jerusalem—Deliverance of Jerusalem | Form of Service commemorating the Deliverance of Jerusalem. December 1917

Estimate:

700 - 900 GBP

Bidding is closed

42. Kuwait | The Story of Kuwait, 1957 with The Oil of Kuwait, 1965, together 2 volumes

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

43. Lawrence of Arabia—Thomas Lowell | With Lawrence in Arabia, Kodak Cinegraph 16mm. film reel, 1927

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

44. Lepanto—Balthasar Jenichen | Warhaftige conterfettung der grossen galleen so von neuen zu Venedig.... 1571

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

No reserve

45. Levant | Reise der Orientalischen Gesellschaft zu Leipzig, sommer 1894. Meiningen, [1894]

Estimate:

800 - 1,200 GBP

Bidding is closed

46. Mecca | Painting of Mecca showing the Kaaba and the Masjid al-Haram, 1290 AH [1873]

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

47. Mecca—al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar | Photograph of the Haram al-Sharif and Kaaba at Mecca, c. 1887

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

48. Mecca—Duca Pacha | Mouvement général du pèlerinage du Hedjaz.... Constantinople, 1902, folio, original wrappers

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed