Sothebys: Travel, Atlases and Natural History, LN8339,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 04, 1998 - June 04, 1998

Page Size: 451 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Decker (Paul)	Chinese Architecture, Gothic Architecture decorated	London	1759	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,150.00
102	Delafosse (Jean-Charles)	Algemeen Kunstenaars Handboek; of, Shatkamer voor alle boefenaaren van Kunsten en Handwerken	Amsterdam	[c.1775]	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
103	Jones (Inigo)	The Designs... consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings. Publish'd by William Kent, with some additional Designs	[London]	1727	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,300.00
104	Le Muet (Pierre)	Maniere de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes... reveue et augmentee en cette seconde edition	Paris	[c.1750]	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
105	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Diverse maniere d'adornare il cammini	Paris	1836	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,760.00
106	Rossi (Giovanni Giacomo, editor)	Insignium Romae Templorum	Rome	1684	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	977.00
107	Waring (J.B.)	Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862	London	1863	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,495.00
108	Rawlins (Thomas)	Familiar Architecture; or, original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen; parsonages; summer retreats; banqueting-rooms; and churches	London	1769	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	1,265.00
109	Ruggieri (Ferdinando)	Scelta di architetture antiche e moderne della citta di Firenze... edizione seconda pubblicata, ed ampliata in quattro volumi da Giuseppe Bouchard	Florence	1755	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	5,175.00
110	Africa-de Jode (Gerard)	Africae vera formis, et situs	[Antwerp]	[1593]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,840.00
111	Africa-de Wit (Frederick)	Nova et Accurata totius Africae tabula emendata a F. de Wit	Amsterdam	[1660]	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
112	Africa-Thevet (Andre)	Table d'Afrique	[Paris]	[1575]	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,380.00
113	Asia-de Jode (Gerard)	Asia, partium orbis maxima	[Antwerp]	[1593]	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	2,990.00
114	Japan-[Blaeu (Johannes)]	Iaponia Regnum	[Amsterdam]	[1655]	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
115	Japan-[Mercator (Gerard)]	Iaponia	[Amsterdam]	[1636]	USD 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	Not Sold
116	Japan-[Mercator (Gerard)]	Iaponia	[Amsterdam]	[1618]	GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00	920.00
117	Southeast Asia-Renard (Louis)	Orientaliora Indiarum orientalium cum insulis adjacentibus a promontorio C. Comorin ad Iapan	[Amsterdam]	[1715]	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,070.00
118	Baeckstrom (Anton)	Ett Besok i Japan och Kina, jemte bilder fran vagen dit ofver Goda-Hoppsudden, Bourbon, Nya Kaledonien, Manilla och Kokinkina	Stockholm	1871	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
119	Borget (Auguste)	La Chine et les Chinois	Paris	1842	USD 4,500.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
120	de Bruyn (Cornelis)	Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie	Amsterdam	1711	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,185.00
121	Burgess (James)	The Rock-Temples of Elephanta or Gharapuri	Bombay	1871	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	632.00
122	China-	A collection of 102 volumes most relating to China, most in French, most twentieth-century	various places	various dates	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
123	China-	A collection of 74 volumes in French, most relating to Chinese history, literature and civilization	mostly Paris	various dates (all twentieth-century)	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
124	Hong Kong and Shanghai,	photographs-Carte-de-visite album		early 1860s	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
125	Helman (Isidore Stanislas)	Abrege historique des principaux traits de la vie de Confucius	Paris	no date [1788]	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
126	Helman [(Isidore-Stanislas)]	Faits memorables des empereurs de la Chine, tires des annales chinoises	Paris	1788	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
127	India-	Original Sketches in the Punjaub. By a Lady	London	1854	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,840.00
128	Indian drawings-	An album containing 36 watercolour drawings of Indian trades, scenes and figures		[c.1800]	GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	5,290.00
129	Japan map-Cardim (Antonio Francisco)	Various			GBP 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	7,820.00
130	Judson (Adoniram)	Grammatical Notices of the Burmese Language	Maulmain	1842	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
131	Various	Various			USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
132	Mason (George Henry)	Various			GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,380.00
133	Morejon (Pedro de)	Historia y relacion de lo sucedido en los reinos de Iapon y China, en la qual se continua la gran persecucion que ha auido en aq[ue]lla Iglesia, desde el ano de 615. hasta el de 19	Lisbon	1621	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,900.00
134	Parliamentary Papers.	Various			GBP 700.00 - 900.00	805.00
135	Pfyffer de Neueck (J.J.X.)	Esquisses de l'ile de Java et de ses divers habitants... traduit de l'Allemand par Girodz du Villard, revu et mis en ordre par G. Guenot Lecointe	Brussels	1837	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
136	Philippines, manuscript-Trade.	Report by Captain Pedro Sebil		20 May 1603	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	460.00
137	Philippines, photographs-	A collection of stereoscopic photographs	New York, London, Toronto, Ottawa	1899-1901	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
138	Philippines-El Archipielago Filipino.	Coleccion de datos geograficos, estadisticos, cronologicos..	Washington	1900	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
139	Philippines-Morga (Antonio de)	Sucesos de la Islas Filipinas... obra publicada en Mejico en el ano de 1609. Nuevamente sacada a luz y anotada por Jose Rizal	Paris	1890	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
140	Philippines-	The Naval Battle of Manila Bay		c.1898	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
141	Philippines-	Views near Manila	[Japan]	[c.1900]	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
142		Recherches asiatiques, ou memoires de la Societe etablie au Bengale pour faire des recherches sur l'histoire et les antiquites, les arts, les sciences et la litterature de l'Asia, traduits de l'anglois par A. Labaume	Paris	1805	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	575.00
143	Semmedo (Alvaro)	Imperio de la China. I cultura evangelica por los religios de la Compania de Iesus... Segunda impression	Madrid	1642	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	575.00
144	Sonnerat (Pierre)	Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine	Paris	1782	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,035.00
145	Stein (Sir Marc Aurel) Serindia.	Detailed report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, carried out and described under the orders of H.M. Indian Government	Oxford	1921	GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	9,200.00
146	San Francisco (Diego de)	Breve relatione della persecutione et morte, che han patito per la confessione della santa Fede Cattolica nel Giappone, quindici religiosi della provincia di San Gregorio, delli Scalzi Riformati dell'Ordine del nostro Serafico P.S. Francesco nell'Isole Fe	Naples	1630	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,900.00
147	Symes (Michael)	Relation de l'ambassade anglaise, envoyee en 1795 dans le royaume d'Ava, ou l'empire des Birmans... traduits... par J. Castera	Paris, F. Buisson; Hamburg, Fontaine	1800	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
148	Australia-Swoboda (Franz) & Martin Hartl.	General charte von Australien	Vienna	1815	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
149	Dumont d'Urville (Jules Sebastian Cesar)	Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe execute pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829...	Paris	1833	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,300.00
150	Victoria-Surveyor General's Office.	Map of Victoria	Melbourne	August 15th, 1872	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
151	Almanack-	Australian Almanack for the Year... 1832, published under the sanction and patronage of His Excellency Major-General Richard Bourke	Sydney	1832	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
152	Almanack-	Hobart Town Almanack, and Van Diemen's Land Annual for 1835	Hobart Town	[c.1836]	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
153	Almanack-	The Hobart Town Almanack, for the Year 1830	Hobart Town	[c.1831]	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
154	Directory-	The New South Wales Calendar and Directory, 1834	Sydney	[1834]	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
155	[Fleurieu (Charles Pierre Claret)]	Decouvertes des francois, en 1768 & 1769, dans le sud-est de la Nouvelle Guinee...	Paris	1790	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
156	Hawaii, Death of Captain Cook-	Mort du Capitaine Cook	Paris	Bance aine, [c.1800]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
157	Lang (John Dunmore)	The Australian Emigrant's Manual; or, a Guide to the Gold Colonies of New South Wales and Port Phillip	London	1852	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
158	Parliamentary Papers-	Various			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,035.00
159	Sydney-	Low's Directory of the City and District of Sydney, for MDCCCXLVII	Sydney	1847	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
160	British Isles-[Lily (George)]	Britannia insula[rum] quae duo Regna continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia adiacente... M.D.L.XII	Venice	1562	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	7,475.00
161	England and Wales-	[Plancius (Petrus)] Angliae insulae Britanniae... Hibernia quam Incolae erin vocant, regio est varia	[Antwerp]	[1593]	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	9,775.00
162	English Channel- Seller (John)	A Chart of the Sea coasts of England Flanders & Holland	[London]	[1675]	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	782.00
163	London-Stanford (Edward)	Stanford's Library Map of London and its Suburbs		[1862-1871]	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	805.00
164	Ackermann (Rudolph)	A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings	London	1814	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
165	Alken (Henry)	The National Sports of Great Britain	London	1823	GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	9,200.00
166	Blaeu (Johannes)	Geographiae Blavianae volumen quintum quo Angliae continetur [Atlas Major volume V]	Amsterdam	1662	USD 13,000.00 - 16,000.00	Not Sold
167	Boydell (John and Josiah)	An History of the River Thames		1794-1796	GBP 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	7,475.00
168	Brannon (Philip)	The Park and the Crystal Palace presenting a complete series of exterior views	London	1851	GBP 600.00 - 700.00	632.00
169	Camden (William)	Britain, or a Chorographical of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands adjoyning, second edition of Philemon Holland's translation	London	1637	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	4,600.00
170	Collins (Captain Greenvile)	Great Britain's Coasting Pilot	London	1763	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,450.00
171	Jenkins (James)	The Naval Achievements of Great Britain for the Year 1793 to 1817	London	[c.1828]	GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	3,910.00
172	Nash (Joseph)	The Mansions of England in Olden Time	London	1869-1872	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,150.00
173	Norden (John)	Speculi Britanniae pars: A Topographical and Historical of Cornwall	London	1728	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	805.00
174	Osbaldiston (William Augustus)	The British Sportsman, or Nobleman, Gentleman, and Farmer's Dictionary, of Recreation and Amusement, including a most improved System of modern Farriery, and Anatomical Dissections of a Horse..		1792	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
175	Payne (W.)	Picturesque Views in Devonshire, Cornwall &c.	London	1826	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
176	Pyne (William Henry)	The Costume of Great Britain	London	1804 (but Whatman watermarks dated 1821)	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	690.00
177		Cosmographia Blaviana volumen sextum	Amsterdam	1662	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	7,130.00
178	Westall (William) and Samuel Owen.	Picturesque Tour of the River Thames	London	1828	GBP 4,000.00 - 4,500.00	4,370.00
179	Bertius (Petrus)	Theatri geographiae veteris	Leiden and Amsterdam	1618-1619	GBP 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	6,900.00
180	Bertius (Petrus)	Petri Bertii Beschreibung der gantzen Welt abgebildet mit sehr schoenen cosmographischen Land-Tafel	Amsterdam	1650	GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	4,830.00
181	[Bonne (Rigobert) and others]	Atlas moderne ou collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre par plusieurs auteurs	Paris	[1771]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,840.00
182	Botero (Giovanni)	Relationi universali	Brescia	1599	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,300.00
183	Braun (Georg) and Frans Hogenberg. [	Civitates Orbis Terrarum]	Cologne	[1593]	USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
184	Brion de la Tour (Louis)	Atlas general, civil et ecclesiastique, methodique et elementaire pour l'etude de la geographie et de l'histoire	Paris	1766	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,265.00
185	Carey (Mathew)	Carey's General Atlas	Philadelphia	1796	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
186	Cluverius (Philippus)	Introductionis in universam geographiam	Amsterdam	1661	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
187	Colton (G.W.)	Colton's General Atlas	New York	1859	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	1,840.00
188	Composite Atlas-Jaillot (Alexi-Hubert)	Atlas ou recueil de cartes geographiques	Paris	1646-1764	GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	43,300.00
189	Composite atlas-Janssonius (Joannes) and Johannes Blaeu.	Composite atlas	Amsterdam	1653-1663	GBP 35,000.00 - 40,000.00	42,200.00
190	Dudley (Sir Robert, styled Duke of Northumberland and Earl of Warwick)	Dell'arcano del mare	Florence	1646-1647	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	11,500.00
191	de Fer (Nicolas)	Petit et nouveau atlas	Paris	1705	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	805.00
192	Delaporte (J.)	Atlas ou collection de cartes geographiques pour l'intelligence du voyageur francois	Paris	1787	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	862.00
193	Dury (Andrew)	A New General and Universal Atlas	London	[1763]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	747.00
195	Hondius (Jodocus)	Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii. Appendix Atlantis oder desz Weltbuchs	Amsterdam	1636	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	11,500.00
196	Jaillot (Alexis Hubert) [and Pieter Mortier].	Various			GBP 12,000.00 - 14,000.00	12,650.00
197	Johnson (Alvin J.)	Johnson's New Illustrated Steel Plate Family Atlas with Physical Geography	New York	1864	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
198	La Croix (A. Pherotee de)	Algemeene Weereld-beschryving	Amsterdam	1705	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,990.00
199	Lotter (Tobias Conrad)	Atlas geographicus portalilis	Augsburg	[1760]	GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00	920.00
200	Manuscript Atlas-Gy (Ursule)	[Atlas de Geographie]	[France]	1867	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	632.00
201	Martin (Robert Montgomery)	Tallis's Ilustrated Atlas	London and New York	1851	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,990.00

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

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