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Auction Name Travel and Exploration Total Sales (GBP) 206,123.00
Auction Date February 07, 2018 - February 07, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 94,200.00
Sale Number #24423 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 140,900.00
Total Lots 50
Sold Lots 41 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 107,500.00
% of Lots Sold 82.00% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 164,200.00
Unsold Lots 9 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 125.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
143 PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)

A group of 35 vintage gelatin silver and platinum contact prints depicting the British Antarctic Expedition, or 'Terra Nova Expedition', led by Robert Falcon Scott, [1910-1911]

 1910-1911 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 32,500.00
144 HURLEY (FRANK)

A Cavern beneath the Coastal Ice Cliffs, [1911-1914]

 1911-1914 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 23,750.00
4 [POPE (ARTHUR FREDERICK)]

Album containing 108 photographs of California, Singapore, Istanbul, Sri Lanka, China, India, and elsewhere, 1867-1870

 1867-1870 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 22,500.00
145 HURLEY (FRANK)

Lotus floe 'neath the Barrier Brink, [1911-1914]

 1911-1914 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
146 HURLEY (FRANK)

An Antarctic Mushroom, [1913]

 1913 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 11,875.00
1 HAWAII

Album containing 47 photographs of Hawaiian royalty and scenes, [1874-1877]

 1874-1877 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,625.00
125 Admiral Sir George Back

H.M.S. Terror off a spectacular iceberg, apparently in the Davis Strait, between Canada and Greenland

 1840 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 8,750.00
2 John Cleveley the Younger

HMS Resolution and Discovery at Morea; The Resolution and Discovery off Huaheine each 43.8 x 60.3cm (17 1/4 x 23 3/4in)(image).(2) both unframed

 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 7,500.00
139 PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)

Dog Team Resting by an Iceberg, [1911]

 1911 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,500.00
47 PHILIPPINES

GIRAUDIER (BALTASAR) Expedicio?n a Jolo? 1876: bocetos del cronista del Diario de Manila, [?Madrid, J.M. Mateu, 1877]

 1877 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,250.00
138 PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)

The Terra Nova at the Ice Foot, Cape Evans, [1911]

 1911 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,000.00
148 SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY)

Film poster for 'La morte de Shackleton. Derni?re exp?dition ? bord du "Quest". Document unique... enfants admis', depicting Shackleton's ship "Quest" in the Polart ice, Antwerp, F. De Smet, [1924]

 1924 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 5,625.00
31 KAEMPFER (ENGELBERT)

The History of Japan: Giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 2 vol., for the Publisher, and sold by T. Woodward and C. Davis, 1728

 1728 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,000.00
82 ROBERTS (DAVID)

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, 6 vol. bound in 3, Day, 1855-1856

 1855-1856 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,125.00
7 BURTON BROTHERS

Album of 52 views of New Zealand by the photographic studio of Burton Brothers, including native portraits/groups (4), Dunedin (6), Wakatipu (6), Milford Sound (10), Lake Manapouri (2), Lake Wanaka (2), Wanganuri River, Otira gorge, Queenstown, Rere Lake,

 1880s GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,750.00
129 MURRAY (GEORGE, EDITOR)

The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901... with a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham... Presented to the Expedition and Issued by the Royal Geographical Society, FIRST EDITION, Royal Geographical Society, 1901

 1901 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,750.00
44 DANIELL (WILLIAM)

'View from Strawberry Hill, Prince of Wales' Island', 522 x 760mm.; 'View of Mount Erkine and Pulo Ticoose Bay, Prince of Wales' Island', W. Daniell, 1821 (3)

 1821 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,375.00
5 MAORI ART

Collection of drawings, and illustrated letters from Major General Horatio Gordon Robley to book collector George Calvert, [no place or date but possibly c.1919-1920]

 c.1919-1920 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
140 PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)

An Iceberg off Cape Royds, [1911]

 1911 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
142 PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)

The Terra Nova at the Ice-Foot, Cape Evans, [January, 1911]

 1911 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
130 SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY)

The Heart of the Antarctic, being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 vol., first trade edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "To H.J.L. Dunlop in remembrance of the Expedition from the author E.H. Shackleton Nov. 1909", Wil

 1909 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,125.00
106 BRITISH COLUMBIA

Album of 71 views, portrait groups and informal studies including some identified as "Siwash Indians", mostly relating to British Columbia, [c.1890s]; and another late nineteenth/early twentieth century photograph album, including approximately 80 photogr

 c.1890s GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,000.00
127 POLAR EXPLORATION ? SCOTT, PEARY AND SHACKLETON

Autograph letter signed by Robert Falcon Scott ("R.F. Scott"), to Mr [W.F.G.] Anderson, accepting an invitation on behalf of himself and Shackleton, [?November 1904]; and two others by Peary and Lord Roberts

 1904 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,000.00
51 HAYES (JAMES WILLIAM)

The Maharajah's Tour: being a Narrative of the Royal Progress Made by His Highness Chamrajendra Wadeyar Bahadur, Maharajah of Mysore, through the Western Portion of his Dominions, from November 1885 to January 1886, FIRST EDITION, Bangalore, Richmond F. H

 1887 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,750.00
147 HURLEY (FRANK)

Snow Petrel on the nest, Cape Denison, [1911-1914]

 1911-1914 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 1,750.00
  • 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.
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