Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Travel Books, Maps and Atlases, 2661, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 07, 2024 - March 07, 2024
Page Size: 220 items in 9 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Kinahan Cornwallis

Two Journeys to Japan. 1856-7, 2 vol., first edition

 1859 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 403.20
102 Kobayashi Ikuhide

River Festivals at Famous Places in Tokyo: The Great Firework Display at Ryogoku Bridge, woodblock prints

 c.1888 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 196.80
103

Japan.- Japan: Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office.- No. 79

 1919 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
104

Japan.- Photograph Album, c.1900; and another similar (2).

 c.1900 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 819.00
105 John Galt

Voyages and Travels ... containing statistical, commercial, and miscellaneous observations on Gibraltar, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Serigo & Turkey, first edition

 1812 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
106 Frederic Auguste Antoine Goupil-Fesquet

Voyage d'Horace Vernet en Orient, first edition,

 Paris 1843 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 378.00
107 Peter Edmund Laurent

Recollections of a Classical Tour through various parts of Greece, Turkey, and Italy, 2 vol., second edition

 1822 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
108 Charles MacFarlane

Constantinople in 1828, 2 vol., second edition

 1829 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
109 William Turner

Journal of a Tour in the Levant, 3 vol., first edition

 1820 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
110

London.- Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis

 1805 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
111 Sebastian Munster

Londen oder Lunden die Hauptstatt in Engellande, woodcut bird's-eye view,

 c.1598 or later GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 524.80
112 Cooper Willyams

A Voyage up the Mediterranean, first edition

 1802 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 579.60
113 Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

Parte della Nuova Spagna, o del Mexico doue Sono le Provincie di Guadalaira Xalisco Mecoacan e Mexico; together with five others similar

 19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 419.84
114 Royal Engineers 517 Corps Field Survey

13 folding maps from the Transjordan Topographical Series, lithographed maps,

 c.1941 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 91.84
115 The Admirality Hydrographic Office

Collection of 20 large sea charts, mainly of the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea,

 late 20th century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 419.84
116 Hans van Daalhoff

Mineral Locality Map of the Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [two copies in English and Arabic]

 1974 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 524.80
117

Middle East.- Aramco.- Oil and Arab Politics,

Egypt 1960 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
118

Middle East.- Area 16 - Stadium Complex. Area 17 - VIP Villa. King Khalid Military City, Al Batin, Saudi Arabia, 3 vol. only (of 5), comprising vols. 3-5 only, US Army Corps of Engineers, Middle ...

 1982 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
119 Gertrude Bell

The Arab of Mesopotamia, first edition,

Basrah, 1917 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 756.00
120 Helen W. Brand

Middle East.- [Brand (Helen W.)] Over Arab Lands: notes of a tour through Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey, first edition,

Dundee, 1867 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 302.40
121 John Murray

Journeys to Constantinople and the Qajar Empire.- Collection of passports and travel documents relating to several journeys undertaken between the 1840s and 1860s,

mid-19th century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 56.70
122 Tristram J. Ellis

On a Raft, and Through the Desert, 2 vol., first edition

 1881 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
123

Middle East.- First World War.- c.300 vintage snapshots of the Mesopotamian Campaign, including images of Baghdad, Basrah, Kermanshah, military operations and locals,

c.1916-18 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 277.20
124 C. G.

A Fortnight's Tour amongst the Arabs on Mount Lebanon, first edition

 1876 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 327.60
125

Middle East.- Holy Land.- [American Colony - Jerusalem Album], 48 vintage albumen prints,

 c.1920. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 604.80
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    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: ORWELL, George. ANIMAL FARM. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. $8,000 to $12,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: MILNE, A.A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London, Methuen, 1928. Deluxe limited edition. $3,000 to $4,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: TWAIN, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. $1,000 to $1,500 AUD.
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    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
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  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
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    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
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