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Auction Name Online Sale: Travel Books, Maps and Atlases Total Sales (GBP) 96,973.98
Auction Date March 07, 2024 - March 07, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 57,650.00
Sale Number #2661 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 83,300.00
Total Lots 220
Sold Lots 191 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 66,400.00
% of Lots Sold 86.82% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 96,150.00
Unsold Lots 29 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 100.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
135

Middle East.- Persian Gulf Pilot. Comprising The Persian Gulf and its Approaches, from Ras al Hadd, in the South-West, to Cape Monze, in the West, eighth edition,

1932 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,796.00
204 Abbe Prevost

Histoire Generale des Voyages ou Nouvelle Collection de toutes les Relations de Voyages par Mer et par Terre

 1746-1770 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,032.00
20 Matthaeus Merian

Virginia. Erforshet und Beschriben durch Capitain Iohan Schmidt, engraved map

 c.1627 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,886.40
91 Edward Lear

Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 2 vol. comprising first and second series, first edition

 1846 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,394.00
200

Turkey.- [Plan and map of Constantinople and it's environs, 1827, engraved map

 1828 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,099.20
28 Maximilian von Sonnenstern

Mapa de La Republica de Nicaragua Levantado por Orden del Gobierno

 1863 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,836.80
9 Robert Hay

Illustrations of Cairo, first edition

 1840 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,764.00
60 Captain James Alms

Monmouth's Log Book Comm. June 20th 1783

 1781-4. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,705.60
93 Giovanni Battista Nolli

Urbis Ichnographiam a Leonardo Bufalino Ligneis Formis Evulgatam Servata Proportione Contractam Atq. Aeri incsam Jo. Bapta. Nolli..., engraved map

 c.1748 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,574.40
168 (Georg) and Franz Hogenberg. Braun

and Franz Hogenberg. Olissippo quae nunc Lisboa, Civitas Amplissima Lusitaniae, ad Tagum..., engraved map

 circa 1572-1617 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,574.40
84

India.- Photograph Album of Indian Views,

c.1890s GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,512.00
159 Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Worst Journey in the World, 2 vol., first edition, from the library of a member of the Terra Nova expedition

 1922 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,386.00
191 Thomas Roscoe

& W. H. Harrison. The Tourist in Spain, 5 vol., large paper copies, illustrated by David Roberts and James Holland,

1835-39 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,386.00
92 Giovanni Battista Nolli

La Topografia di Roma di Gio. Batta. Nolli dalla maggiore in questa minor tavola dal medesimo ridotta, engarved plan

 c.1748 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,312.00
152 Abraham Ortelius

Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip., engraved map

 c.1571 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,312.00
41 William Camden

Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English...by Edmund Gibson, F. Collins, for A. Swalle...and A. & J. Churchill

 1695 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,260.00
80 William Hodges

Four plates from 'Select Views in India, drawn on the Spot, in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783

 c.1785-1788 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,180.80
83 Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke

Four plates from 'Views in the Neilgherry & Koondah, Western Ghauts, Madras, at & about the Stations of Ootacamund and Concor, and the Segoor, Koondah and Cono...

 1847 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,180.80
157 Robert Neal Rudmose Brown

The Voyage of the "Scotia" being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic Seas, first edition, inscribed "George Lockhart Ross from his ever affect. ...

 1906 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,134.00
182 Alfred Russel Wallace

A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, first edition

 1853 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,134.00
148 E. A. Fitz Gerald

& Stuart Vines. The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina ..., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by con...

 1899 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,008.00
8 Samuel Daniell

Seven plates from 'African Scenery and Animals', lithographs

 1831 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 918.40
216 Captain James King

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, vol. 3 only (of 3)

 1784 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 882.00
58 Johannes Blaeu

Nanking sive Kiangnan, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Nona, engraved map

 c.1655 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 852.80
56 Maurice Karns

& Pat Patterson. Shanghai: High Lights Low Lights Tael Lights, first edition,

 1936 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 819.00
  • Australian Book Auctions
    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.
    Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: RAND, Ayn. ATLAS SHRUGGED. Random House, New York, 1957. First edition. $800 to $1,200 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: [BAUM, L. Frank]. PICTURES FROM THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ By W.W. Denslow… Chicago, [1903]. $400 to $800 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: HELLER, Joseph. CATCH-22. London, Jonathan Cape, 1962. $400 to $600 AUD.
  • 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€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    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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