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
304	Cyprus-Blaeu (W. & J.)	Cyprus Insula	[Amsterdam]	[c.1635]	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	552.00
305	Cyprus- Mas Latrie (Jacques Marie Joseph Louis de)	Carte de l'Ile de Chypre ... 1862	Southampton	1878	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	1,955.00
306	Mediterranean Islands-de Jode (Gerard)	Sicilia insula/ Cyprus insula/ Corsica olim Cyrnus insula/ Candia/ Maiorca et Minorca/ Mitylene Aegei maris	[Antwerp]	[1593]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,680.00
307	Modon, Greece-[Breydenbach (Bernard von)]	Modon	[Mainz]	[1486]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	690.00
308	Palestine-[Adrichom (Christian van)]	[Palestine]	[Amsterdam]	[1741]	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	609.00
309	Persia-[de Jode (Gerard)]	Primae partis Asiae acurat	[Antwerp]	[1578]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	345.00
310	Athens, Panorama-	Panorama d'Athenes moderne, pris de la colline de l'observatoire. Novembre 1843	Paris	[c.1843]	GBP 800.00 - 900.00	977.00
311	[Barthelemy (Jean Jacques)]	Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece, dans le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire	Paris	1790	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
312	Chardin (Jean, chevallier)	Voyages... en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient... nouvelle edition	Paris	1811	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	977.00
313	[Choiseul-Gouffier (Marie Gabriel August Florent, comte de)]	Voyage pittoresque de la Grece	Paris	1782-1822	GBP 4,500.00 - 5,500.00	5,175.00
314		Constantinople, photographs-		[c.1870]	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
315	Cyprus-	The Illustrated London News	London	July-December 1878	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	552.00
316	Gell (Sir William)	The Topography of Troy and its vicinity	London	1804	USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
317	Hugues (Pierre Francois, calling himself d'Hancarville)	Antiquites etrusques, greques et romanes. Tirees du cabinet de M. Hamilton	Naples	1766-1777	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	9,775.00
318	Hugues (Pierre Francois, calling himself d'Hancarville)	Antiquites etrusques, grecques et romaines... gravees par F.A. David	Paris	1787	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,725.00
319	Noe (Bianchi)	Viaggio da Venetia al S. Sepolcro, et al Monte Sinai	Bassano	1705	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	920.00
320	[Peeters (Jan and Jacob)]	A Collection of 121 plates	[Antwerp]	[c.1686]	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	3,450.00
321	Pitts (Joseph)	A Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mahometans...	London	1731	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
322	Reinaud (Joseph Toussaint)	des monumens musulmans du cabinet de M. le duc de Blacas	[Paris]	1828	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	2,300.00
323	Reissner (Adam)	Ierusalem, die Alte Haubtstat der Juden	Frankfurt a. M.	1565	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
324	Roberts (David) and Louis Haghe.	The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia...	London	1842-1849	GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	28,750.00
326	Roberts (David)	La Terre Sainte	Brussels	1843	GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	3,220.00
327	[Rottiers (Bernard Eugene Antoine)	des monumens de Rhodes]	Brussels	[1828]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
328	Sadiq Bey (Muhammed)	A complete set of albumen prints of Mecca and Medina		[1880-1881]	GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00	1,376,500.00
329	Americas-[Chatelain (Henry Abraham)]	Carte tres curieuse de la Mer du Sud	[Amsterdam]	[1719]	USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
330	Americas-[Janvier (Sieur Jean), Mondhare and S.G. Longchamps.	Carte d'Amerique, divisee en tous ses pays suivant les nouvelles observations des plus celebres navigatuers, a Paris chez Mondhare et Jean rue St. Jean de Beauvais pres celle des Noyers 1788	Paris	[1788]	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	6,325.00
331	Americas-Sprengel (M.C.)	Ueber Ribero's alteste Weltkart	Weimar	1795	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
332	Americas-Arnoldi (Arnoldo di)	America il mondo nuouo su chiamato America da Amerigo Vespucci Fiorentino ilquale la scopri circa 5 anni doppo Christoforro Colombo	[Siena]	[c.1600]	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	7,820.00
333	Americas-Mercator (Michael)	America sive India Nova	[Duisburg]	[1595]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,875.00
334	Americas-[Ortelius (Abraham)]	Americae sive Novi Orbis, nova descriptio... 1587	[Amsterdam]	[1602]	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,300.00
335	Atlantic Ocean-Seller (John)	A General Chart of the West India's		[c.1675]	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	1,725.00
336	Becker (George F.)	Atlas to accompany the Monograph on the Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District	Washington	1882	USD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
337	Bermuda-Blaeu (W.)	Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alis Bermudas dictarum	Amsterdam	[1640]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
338	Bermuda-Janssonius (Joannes)	Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alis Bermudas dictarum	Amsterdam	[165?]	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	862.00
339	Bermuda-Schenk (P.) & G. Valk.	Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alis Bermudas dictarum	Amsterdam	[1710]	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	747.00
340	Bermuda-Thornton (John)	The Iland of Bermudas [and] The Iland of Barbados		[1689]	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,840.00
341	California-[Dudley (Sir Robert)]	Carta prima Generale d'America dell' India Occide[n]tale e Mare del Zur	[Florence]	[1661]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
342	California-de Fer (Nicolas)	La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline	Paris	1720	USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00	Not Sold
343	California-Depot-general de la Marine	Carte reduite des cotes et du golfe de Californie depuis le Cap Corrientes jusqu'au Port St. Diego	[Versailles]	[1826]	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
344	California-Spanish Admiralty Chart.	Carta esde Cabo San Lucus ala Bahia di San Diego	Madrid	1882	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	575.00
345	Delaware River, Pennsylvania-	Des Barres (Joseph Frederick Wallet) A Chart of the Delwar River from Bombay Hook to Ridley Creek [and] A Plan of the Delewar River from Chester to Philadelphia		June 1st, 1779	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
346	Delaware River-Hassler (F.R.) & A.D. Bache.	Map of Delaware Bay	Washington	1845	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
347	Des Barres (Joseph Frederick Wallet)	The Coast of Nova Scotia, New England, New York, New Jersey, The Gulph and River of St Lawrence		March 29th, 1779	USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
348	Evans (Louis) and Thomas Jefferys.	Carte generale des Etats de Virginie, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvanie, Nouveau-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut et Isle de Rhodes ainsi que des lacs		[1787]	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
349	Falmouth Harbour-Des Barres (Joseph Frederick Wallet)	(Untitled Atlantic Neptune chart of Falmouth Harbour]	London	[1777]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	690.00
350	Great Lakes-Bellin (Jacques Nicolas)	Partie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada	Nuremberg	[1755, or later]	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
351	Hague (Arnold)	Atlas to accompany Monograph XXXII on the Geology of Yellowstone National Park	Washington	1904	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	402.00
352	Louisiana-de L'isle (Guillaume)	Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi	Amsterdam	[1730]	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
353	Magdalen Islands-Des Barres (Joseph Frederick Wallet)	The Magdalen Isles in the Gulph of St. Lawrence	London	Jan. the 20th, 1778	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
354	New York-Hassler (F.R.) & A.D. Bache.	General Chart of the Coast from Gay Head to Cape Henlopen	Washington	1851	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
355	New York-Hassler (F.R.) & A.D. Bache.	Map of New York Bay and Harbour and the Environs	Washington	1845	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
356	New York-Hassler (F.R.) & A.D. Bache.	Hell Gate and its Approaches	Washington	1851	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
357	North America-Haasis & Lubrecht (publisher) 1871	The American Union Railroad Map of the United States	New York	[1871]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	5,750.00
358	North America-Sanson (Nicolas)	Amerique septentrionale	Paris	1699	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	414.00
359	North America-Le Rouge (George Louis)	Amerique septentrionale suivant la carte de Pople faite a Londres en 20 feuilles	Paris	1742	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
360	North America-[Quad (Matthias)]	Novi orbis pars borealis, America scilicet, completens Flordam, Baccalaon, Canadam	[Cologne]	[1600]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,092.00
361	North America-Lotter (M.A. & G.F)	A New and Correct Map of North America, with the West India Islands. Divided According to the last Treaty of Peace, Concluded at Paris, the 20th. of Jan. 1783 wherein are particularly Distinguished the Thirteen Provinces wich Compose the United States of		1784 [1785]	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	6,325.00
362	Northeast coast-[Goos (Pieter)]	Paskaerte van de Zuijdt en Noordt Revier in Nieu Nederlandt Streckende van Cabo Hinloopen tot Rechkewach	[Amsterdam]	[c.1666]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,840.00
363	Pacific-[Janssonius (Joannes)]	Mar del Zur hispanis mare Pacificum	[Amsterdam]	[1637]	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	862.00
364	Pacific-Doncker (Hendrik)	Pascaart vertoonende de Zeecusten van Chili, Peru, Hispania nova, Nova Granada, en California	Amsterdam	[1660]	USD 2,000.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
365	Pennsylvania-Lotter (Tobias Conrad)	Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York	Augsburg	[1735]	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	862.00
366	Spurr (Josiah Edward)	Atlas to accompany Monograph XXXI on the Geology of the Aspen District, Colorado	Washington	1898	USD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
367	United States-Bradley (Abraham)	Map of the United States exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connexions & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties & principal rivers	[Philadelphia]	1804	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	6,900.00
368	West Coast-[Dudley (Sir Robert)]	Carta particolare della parte ocidentale della nuova Spagnia, e del la California, America carta XXXI	[Florence]	[1661]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
369	West Coast-[Dudley (Sir Robert)]	Carta particolare della America e parte maestrale dal C. di Cedros... America carta XXXII	[Florence]	[1661]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
370	Wyoming-	Map of the Territory of Wyoming, 1833	New York	[1883]	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	805.00
371	Arfwedson (Charles David)	De colonia Nova Suecia in Americam Borealem deducta historiola	Upsala	1825	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
372	Campbell (Archibald) and Captain W.J. Twining.	Reports upon the Survey of the Boundary between the Territory of the United States and the Possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the Summit of the Rocky Mountains	Washington	1878	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
373	Crevecoeur (Michel Guillaume St Jean de)	Letters from an American Farmer	London	1782	GBP 1,600.00 - 2,200.00	1,840.00
374	Drake (Francis S., editor)	The Indian Tribes of the United States	Philadelphia	1891-1884	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,725.00
375	Dixon (George)	Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares, Esq. in a Letter to that Gentleman	London	1790	USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00	Not Sold
376	[Dumont (Georges Marie)]	Memoires historiques sur la Louisiane	Paris	1753	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,035.00
377	Duttenhofer (A.)	Bereisung der vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika mit besonderer Hinsicht auf den Erie-Canal	Stuttgart	1835	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
378		Geschichte der Kriege in und ausser Europa. Vom Anfange des Ausstandes der brittischen Kolonien in Nordamerika an	Nuremberg	1776-1777	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
379	Hilliard d'Auberteuil (Michel Rene)	Essais historiques et politiques sur les Anglo-Americains	Brussels	1781-1782	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,300.00
380	Maryland-White (Andrew, S.J., 1579-1656)	Relatio itineris in Marilandiam (Account of the voyage to Maryland)			GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	19,550.00
381	Parliamentary Papers. Slave Trade	Various			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	460.00
382	Sprengel (M.C.)	Various			USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
383	United States of America-	Actes passes a un congres des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique, commence & tenu dans la ville de New-Yorck, le mercredi quatre Mars en l'annee 1789, et la treizieme de l'independance des Etats-Unis... traduits par M. Hubert	Paris	1790	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,955.00
384	Urlsperger (Samuel) Erste [-Zweyte]	Continuation der ausfuhrlichen Nachricht von denen Saltzburgischen Emigranten, die sich in America niedergelassen haben	Halle	1738-1739	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
385	Victoria (Pedro Goveo de)	Joannis Bisselii, e Societate Jesu, Argonauticon Americanorum, sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria	Munich	1647	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
386	Winterbotham (William)	An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies	London	1795	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	1,380.00
387	De Bry (Theodor, Johann Theodor and Johann Israel)	[Great, or American, Voyages]			USD 30,000.00 - 35,000.00	Not Sold
388		Log of H.M.S. Flora and H.M.S. Berwick			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	575.00
389	Manuscript Log-	Journal of H.M.S. Amphitrite		1853	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
390	Brasil-Petroschi (Joannes)	Paraquariae provinciae Soc. Jesu cum adiacentib novissima descriptio	Rome	[1732]	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	805.00
391	Brasil-	Le pilote du Bresil, ou description des cotes de l'Amerique meridionale, situees entre l'ile Santa-Catarina et celle de Maranhao... compose sur les documens recueillis dans la campagne hydrographique enterprise par ordre du Roi... execute en 1819 et 1820	Paris	1826	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
392	Garcia y Cubas (Antonio)	Atlas Geografico y Estadistico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos	Mexico	[1880]	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	1,265.00
393	Gulf of Mexico-Lopez (Thomas) and Juan de la Cruz.	Mapa Maritimo del Golfo de Mexico e Islas de la America	[Madrid]	[1755]	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	1,495.00
394	Gulf of Mexico-Des Barres (Joseph Frederick Wallet)	[Untitled Atlantic Neptune Chart of the North East Shore of the Gulf of Mexico]		Feb. 1st 1780	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	1,380.00
395	Rio de Janeiro-	Planta da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e suburbios	Rio de Janeiro	[1906]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	977.00
396	Requena (Francisco)	Mapa de una parte de la America Merdional en que se manifiestan los paises pertenecientes al Nuevo Reyno de Granada y Capitainia General de Caracas	Ega. Rio Maranom (Teffe, Amazonas, Brazil)	1 April, 1783	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
397	West Indies-Ottens (Reiner) and Josua Ottens.	Grand theatre de la guerre en amerique suivant les plus novelles observations des Espagnols, Anglois, Francois & Hollandois	Amsterdam	[c.1740]	GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	7,475.00
398	South America-Arrowsmith (Aaron)	Outlines of the Physical and Political Divisions of South America	London	4th June, 1840	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	862.00
399	South America-de Bry (Theodor)	Chorographia nobilis & opulentai Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasilia... MDXCII	[Frankfurt am Main]	[1592 or later]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,105.00
400	South America-[Linschoten (Jan Huyghen van )]	Delineatio omnium totius Australis partis Americae..	[Amsterdam]	[1595 or later]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
401	Alcedo (Antonio de)	Diccionario geografico-historico de las Indias Occidentales o America	Madrid	1786-1789	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	2,070.00
402	Agia (Miguel)	Tratado que contiene tres pareceres graves en derecho... que trata del servicio personal... que se usan dar enlos reynos del Piru, Nueva Espana, Tierra Firme... y asientos de minas, de oro, plata, y azogue	Lima	1604	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,140.00
403	Antepara (Jose Maria)	South American Emancipation.	London	1810	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	920.00
404	Brasseur de Bourbourg (Etienne Charles)	Monuments anciens du Mexique. Palenque et autres ruines de l'ancienne civilisation du Mexique... dessines d'apres nature et releves par M. de Waldeck	Paris	1866	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	9,775.00

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

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Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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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December 9-17, 2025

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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.