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
602	Braun (F.) & G. Hogenberg	JERUSALEM	Cologne	c.1590	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	920.00
603	Haffner (J.C.)	JERUSALEM	Augusburg	c.1720	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	299.00
604	Lightfoot (J.)	JERUSALEM		1684	USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
605	JERUSALEM	Janssonius (J.)	Amsterdam	1657	USD 750.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
606	Janssonius (J.)	JERUSALEM	Amsterdam	1657	USD 250.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
607	Janssonius (J.)	JERUSALEM	Amsterdam	1657	GBP 750.00 - 900.00	862.00
608	Janssonius (Johannes)	JERUSALEM	Amsterdam	1657	USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
609	Merian (M.)	JERUSALEM	Frankfurt am Main	1645?	USD 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
610	Munster (S.)	JERUSALEM	Basle	1550	USD 350.00 - 380.00	Not Sold
611	Munster (S.)	JERUSALEM	Basle	1550	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
612	Schedel (H.)	JERUSALEM	Nuremberg	1493	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	805.00
613	Schenk (Pieter)	JERUSALEM	Amsterdam	c 1690	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	414.00
614	Senex (J.)	JERUSALEM		1721	USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
615	Stent (P.)	JERUSALEM		1639	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
616	Villalpando (J.B.)	JERUSALEM	Rome	1604	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	920.00
617	Visscher (N.)	JERUSALEM	Amsterdam	c. 1645	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
618	Visscher (N.)	JERUSALEM	Amsterdam	1640	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
619		MIDDLE EAST			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	184.00
620	Ortelius (A.)	MIDDLE EAST	Antwerp	1598	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
621		PALESTINE			USD 350.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
622	Adrichom (C. van)	PALESTINE	PARIS	1646	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	299.00
623	Adrichom (A. van)	PALESTINE		c.1690	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
624	Anon	PALESTINE		c.1600	USD 2,200.00 - 2,600.00	Not Sold
625	Anon	PALESTINE		[c.1600]	USD 2,200.00 - 2,600.00	Not Sold
626	Arias Montanus (B.)	.PALESTINE	Antwerp	1572	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
627	Arias Montanus (B.)	PALESTINE	Antwerp	1572	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
628	Anon	PALESTINE	Amsterdam	c.1680	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	230.00
629	Bonfrerius (J.)	PALESTINE	Amsterdam	1717	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	287.00
630	du Val (P.)	PALESTINE	Paris	[1677]	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
631	Elwe (J.B.)	PALESTINE	Amsterdam	[1792]	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	172.00
632	Funkenstein (Juda)	PALESTINE		[1873]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	552.00
633	[Fuller (T.)]	PALESTINE			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	172.00
634	Hollar (W.)	PALESTINE		[1657]	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
635	JANSSONIUS (JOHANNES)	PALESTINE	Amsterdam	[1658]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
636	[Greenhill (H.)]	PALESTINE		[c.1680]	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	598.00
637	[Mercator (G.)]	PALESTINE	Amsterdam	1619	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
638	[Munster (S.)]	PALESTINE	Basle	1545	USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
639	Ptolemaeus (Claudius)	PALESTINE	Lyon	1535	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
640	[Postel (G.)]	PALESTINE		[1568]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
641	Reland (A.)	PALESTINE	Utrecht	1714	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	299.00
642	STEPHANIS (BONIFACIUS DE)	PALESTINE	Venice	1569	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
643	[Ortelius (A.)]	PALESTINE	Antwerp	1598	USD 220.00 - 240.00	Not Sold
644	[Ortelius (A.)]	PALESTINE			USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
645	[Ortelius (A.)	PALESTINE	Antwerp	1603	USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
646	Sanson (N.)	PALESTINE			USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
647	Sanson (N.)	PALESTINE	Paris	[1695]	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
648	[Tirinus (Jacobus)]	PALESTINE	Antwerp	[1632]	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	299.00
649	Blaeu (W.)	PERSIA AND MIDDLE-EAST			GBP 300.00 - 350.00	368.00
650	Seutter (M.)	PERSIA			USD 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
651	Speed (J.)	PERSIA		[1676]	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
652	Speed (J.)	PERSIA			GBP 400.00 - 450.00	414.00
653	[Blaeu (J.)]	PERSIA	Amsterdam	c.1650	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	115.00
654	[Ortelius (A.)]	PERSIA	Antwerp	1595	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
655	[Ptolemaeus (Cl.)]	PERSIA	Strassburg	1525	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	287.00
656	Niebuhr (C.)	RED SEA AND EGYPT			GBP 250.00 - 300.00	230.00
657	ROBERTS (DAVID)	A collection of loose lithographs			GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	4,600.00
658	Hollar (W.)	TEMPLE OF SOLOMON		[1639]	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
659		WORLD			USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
660	Schaaf (C.)	ARABIC AND SYRIAC			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	138.00
661	ARIF, Pasha Mushir	LES ANCIENS COSTUMES DE L'EMPIRE OTTOMAN depuis l'origine de la monarchie jusqu'a la reforme du Sultan Mahmoud	Paris	[c. 1864]	GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	4,025.00
662		ALBUM OF THE MISSION OF FRANCISCANS IN HOLY LAND	Milan	1893	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	1,035.00
663	AMMAN (HANS JACOB)	Reiss ins Globte Land	Zurich	1630	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	299.00
664	ANDRES (JUAN)	Opera chiamata confusione della setta machumetana	Seville, Venice	1537	GBP 600.00 - 700.00	690.00
665	BELL (GERTRUDE)	The Arab War			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	460.00
666	BELLARMINO (R.)	Dottrina cristiana			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	115.00
667	BELON (PIERRE)	Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	276.00
668	BELON DU MANS (PIERRE)	LES OBSERVATIONS de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables			GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	3,450.00
669	BIAGIO (TERZI)	Siria Sacra	Rome	1695	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
670	BERNATZ (JOHANN MARTIN)	Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert. Bilder aus dem Heiligen Lande	Stuttgart	[1839]	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
671		BIBLE			USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
672	BRISSON (BARNABE)	De regio persarum			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	126.00
673	BURNES (ALEXANDER)	Travels into Bokhara			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	437.00
674	BURNES {Lieut. ALEXANDER)	Travels into Bokhara... in the years 1832		1835	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	161.00
675	BURTON (Sir RICHARD FRANCIS)	Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah		1857	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	368.00
676	BURTON (Sir RICHARD F.)	The Land of Midian (Revisited)		1879	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	276.00
677	BUXTORF (JOHANNES)	Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum	Basle	1735	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	115.00
678	CARNE (JOHN)	Syria			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	322.00
679	CARNE (JOHN)	Syria			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	218.00
680	CARNE (JOHN)	Syria			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	322.00
681	CHARDIN (JEAN, chevalier)	VOYAGES... EN PERSE			GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	3,450.00
682	CHATEAUBRIAND ([FRANCOIS AUGUSTE] Viscount de)	Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land through Egypt			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	276.00
683	[CHATEAUBRIAND (F.R. DEJ]	Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem			GBP 80.00 - 100.00	57.00
684	COLLIN (J.)	La composition decorative Arabe	Paris	[c. 1910]	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
685	DENON (DOMINIQUE VIVANT, baron)	Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte			USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
686	[Du CANGE DU FRESNE (CHARLES, sieur, editor)]	Histoire de l'empire de Constantinople sous les empereurs francois	Paris	1657	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	575.00
687	ERPENIUS (THOMAS)	Rudimenta linguae arabicae	Leiden	1628	USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
688	FARISOL (ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI)	Itinera mundi... Latina versione donavit & notas passim adjecit Thomas Hyde... Calce exponitur turcarum liturgia	Oxford	1691	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	184.00
689	FORMANTI (NERIOLAVA)	RACCOLTA DELLE HISTORIE DELLE VITE DEGL'IMPERATORI OTTOMANI sino a' Mehmet IV	Venice	1684	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
690	FRITH (FRANCIS)	Lower Egypt		[c. 1862]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	299.00
691	FRITH (FRANCIS)	Upper Egypt and Ethiopia		[c. 1862]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	299.00
692	FRITH (FRANCIS)	Sinai and Palestine		[c. 1862]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	391.00
693	FULLER (THOMAS)	The Historie of the Holy Warre	Cambridge	1647	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
694	GOLIUS (JACOBUS)	Lexicon Arabico-Latinum	Leiden	1653	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	172.00
695	GUARNELLO ( [ALESSANDRA] )	Canzone nella felicissima vittoria Christiana contra infideli	Venice	1571	USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
696	HEIDMANN (CHRISTOPHOR)	Palaestina sive Terra Sancta		1655	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	575.00
697	HEIDMANN (CHRISTOPHOR)	Palaestina sive Terra Sancta		1655	GBP 400.00 - 450.00	402.00
698	HEAD (CHARLES FRANCKLIN)	EASTERN AND EGYPTIAN SCENERY		1833	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,990.00
699	HELLERT (J.J.) AND P.A. DE LA NOURAIS	Histoire de l'ordre des assassins	Paris	1833	GBP 200.00 - 350.00	322.00
700	HEYDECK (JUAN JOSEPH)	Illustracion de la inscripcion Hebrea que se halla en la iglesia del transito de la ciudad de Toledo	Madrid	1795	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	345.00
701	HUBER (CHARLES)	Journal d'un voyage en Arabie	PARIS	1891	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	172.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $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.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.