Sothebys: Printed Books and Maps including sections on Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, and the Middle East and Children's Books, Related Drawings and Comics, FLASH,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 28, 1993 - June 28, 1993
Page Size: 1733 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1101 SOUTH ATLANTIC

5th October, 1805

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1102 ASCENSION

1728

GBP 90.00 - 120.00 253.00
1103 BOWDICH (T. EDWARD) Mission from Cape Coast Casde to Ashantee

1849

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 322.00
1104 BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa

1979

USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
1105 BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa

1979

USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
1106 GLEANINGS IN AFRICA

USD 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1107 CAMPBELL (JOHN) Travels in South Africa

1979

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1108 LICHTENSTEIN (HENRY) Travels in Southern Africa

1812

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
1109 LIVINGSTONE (DAVID) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

1857

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 69.00
1110 [MORGAN (JOHN)] Several Voyages to Barbary

1736

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 149.00
1111 SPEEDY (Mrs.) My Wanderings in Soudan

USD 180.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
1112 TUCKEY (Captain J.K.) Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 218.00
1113 Rossi (G.G. de) ASIA Rome

1687

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 253.00
1114 [Ortelius (A.)] ASIA--- Antwerp

1574

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 575.00
1115 Schenk (Pieter) BATAVIA---

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 517.00
1116 CHINA AND JAPAN

GBP 300.00 - 300.00 368.00
1117 FAR EAST

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 575.00
1118 INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS

1799

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 172.00
1119 Arrowsmith (Aaron) INDIA

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 126.00
1120 [K'IEN-LUNG (Emperor of China, 1735-1795)] A pair of large engraved plates (2 of 16) France

1769-1774

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 977.00
1121 Jansson (J.) JAPAN AMSTERDAM

[c. 1659]

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 805.00
1122 [Jansson (J.)] JAPAN Amsterdam

[c. 1655]

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 897.00
1123 MANCHURIA

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 1,495.00
1124 SEACHARTS---van Keulen (J.) Nieuwe afteckening van de kust van Coromandel en een gedeelte van de Kust van Golconda

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 103.00
1125 Cassini (G.M.) SOUTH-EAST ASIA---

GBP 350.00 - 400.00 345.00
1126 Horsburgh (J.) SOUTH-EAST ASIA

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1127 Gastaldi (Giacomo) SOUTH-WEST ASIA--- Venice

1561

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
1128 ATKINSON (Capt. G.F.) The Campaign in India

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 437.00
1129 BELL (GERTRUDE) The Desert and the Sown

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 322.00
1130 BRUYN (CORNELIUS DE) Voyages... par la Moscovie Amsterdam

1718

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 920.00
1131 CALCUTTA DIRECTORY AND GUIDE

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
1132 CARON (F.) AND J. SCHOUTEN Wahrhastige Beischreibungen diener machtigen Konigreiche Japan

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 1,092.00
1133 CRAUFURD (QUINTIN) Sketches Chiefly Relating to the History

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 184.00
1134 [CASSIANO DA MACERATA (GIOVANNI BELIGATTI)] Alphabetum tangutanum sive tibetanum Rome

1773

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
1135 [CASSIANO DA MACERATA (GIOVANNI BELIGATTI)] Alphabetum brammhanicum seu indostanum universitads kasi

USD 200.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
1136 ELPHINSTONE (MOUNTSTUART) An Account of the Kingdom of Cabul

1819

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 414.00
1137 FERISHTA [(MUHAMMAD KASIM IBN HINDU SHAH, ASTRARABADI)] History of Dekkan... with continuation from other native writers [etc.] by Jonathan Scott Shrewsbury

1794

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
1138 TRIGAULT (NICOLAS) JESUIT RELATIONS Augsburg

1615

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 1,265.00
1139 FRYER (JOHN) A New Account of East-India and Persia

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 299.00
1140 FORBES (ANNA) Insulinde

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 207.00
1141 [FORGUES (PAUL-EMILE DURAND)] La Chine ouverte PARIS

[C. 1902]

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 69.00
1142 FREIRE DE ANDRADA (JACINTO) THE LIFE OF DOM JOHN DE CASTRO

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
1143 FRASER (JAMES BAILLIE) Journal of a Tour through part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains

1820

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 126.00
1144 HELMAN (ISIDORE STANISLAUS HENRI) Abrege historique des principaux traits de la vie de Confucius Paris

1788

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1145 HOLMES (SAMUEL) Voyage en Chine et en Tatarie Paris

1805

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
1146 LE GOBIEN (CHARLES) Histoire de l'edit de l'empereur de la China Paris

1698

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
1147 MACKENZIE (RODERICK) A Sketch of the War with Tippoo Sultaun

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 299.00
1148 MARTINI (MARTINO) Sinicae historiae decas prima Amsterdam

1659

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
1149 MASON (GEORGE HENRY) The Costume of China

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 460.00
1150 [?MASON (Major G.H.)] The Punishments of China

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 299.00
1151 RICCI (MATTEO) HISTOIRE DE LEXPEDITION CHRESTIENNE AY ROYAUME DE LA CHINE LYONS

1616

GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 2,760.00
1152 R[USSELL] (F[RANCIS]) A Short History of the East India Company

1793

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1153 TANJORE

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
1154 VANSITTART (HENRY) A Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1155 WELSH (Colonel JAMES) Military Reminiscences

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 483.00
1156 (FANNY BULLOCK AND WILLIAM HUNTER) WORKMAN

1909

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 437.00
1157 (FANNY BULLOCK AND WILLIAM HUNTER) WORKMAN

1908

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 414.00
1158 Coronelli (V.M.) ARCTIC Venice

1696

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 253.00
1159 Janssonius (J.) ARCTIC Amsterdam

1650

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
1160 AMUNDSEN (ROALD) The South Pole

1912

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 632.00
1161 BYRD (RICHARD EVELEYN) Little America New York

1930

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 138.00
1162 CHARCOT (J.-B.) Le "Francais" au Pole Sud Paris

1910

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 437.00
1163 EGEDE (HANS) Des alten Gronlandes neue Perlustration Copenhagen

1742

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 862.00
1164 HORREBOW (N.) The Natural History of Iceland

1758

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
1165 LUCAS (F.W.) The Annals of the Voyages of the Brothers Nicolo and Antonio Zeno

1898

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1166 MARTENS (FRIEDRICH) Spitzbergische oder Groenlandische Reise Beschreibung gethan im Jahr 1671

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 1,265.00
1167 NORDENSKJOLD (OTTO) AU pole antarctique

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 276.00
1168 Ross (JAMES CLARK) A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions

1847

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 920.00
1169 MILL (HUGH ROBERT) The Siege of the South Pole

GBP 180.00 - 240.00 195.00
1170 MURRAY (J.) AND G. MARSTON Antarctic Days

1913

GBP 350.00 - 450.00 977.00
1171 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON) The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 vol.

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 299.00
1172 WEDDELL (JAMES) A Voyage towards the South Pole

1825

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 920.00
1173 [Menin (Ludovico)] POLYNESIA

1833-43 (2)

USD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1174 Bellin (J-N.) PACIFIC Paris

1776

GBP 180.00 - 220.00 184.00
1175 COOK (JAMES) AND JAMES KING A collection of 26 engraved plates

[1784] (26)

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 414.00
1176 BLIGH (WILLIAM) A Voyage to the South Sea

1792

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,265.00
1177 [BOUGAINVILLE (LOUIS ANTOINE DE)] Voyage autour du monde

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 713.00
1178 ELLIS (WILLIAM) Polynesian Researches during a Residence of nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands

1829

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
1179 GOODRIDGE (CHARLES MEDYETT) Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas and the Shipwreck of the Princess of Wales Cutter

1839

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
1180 GREY (GEORGE) Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia

1841

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1181 GULLY (JOHN) New Zealand Scenery

1877

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
1182 KEATE (GEORGE) An Account of the Pelew Islands

1788

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 126.00
1183 LA PEROUSE (JEAN FRANCOIS DE GALAUP DE) A Voyage round the World

1 NOVEMBER 1798

GBP 700.00 - 900.00 1,150.00
1184 PACIFIC AND EAST INDIES

USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
1185 RENEY (WILLIAM) A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Corsair Ferguson

1836

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 161.00
1186 PORTLOCK (NATHANIEL) A Voyage round the World but more particularly to the North-West coast of America

1789

GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00 1,322.00
1187 ROBERTSON ( - ) Voyage de Robertson Amsterdam

1767

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 172.00
1188 SHERER (JOHN) Adventures of a Gold-Digger

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 46.00
1189 SIDNEY (SAMUEL) The Three Colonies of Australia

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
1190 STURT (CHARLES) TWO Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831, 2 vol.

USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
1191 [WAKEFIELD (E.J.)] The Hand-Book for New Zealand

USD 180.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
1192 [WILSON (WILLIAM)] A Missionary Voyage to the South Pacific Ocean

1799

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
1193 CELLO AND VIOLA

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 230.00
1194 CHAMBER MUSIC

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 126.00
1195 LISZT (FRANZ) Autograph letter signed

1855

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 460.00
1196 PIANO

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 920.00
1197 MEYERBEER (GIACOMO) Good autograph letter signed ("JMeyerbeer")

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
1198 MISSALE ROMANUM ex decreto sacrosancti concilii tridentini restitutum

GBP 120.00 - 150.00 103.00
1199 MUSIC

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
1200 Music

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 690.00
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