Sothebys: The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure - online 11/25, N11633, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 09, 2024 - December 09, 2024
Page Size: 312 items in 13 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Acerbi, (Giuseppe)

Travels through Sweden, Finland and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the Years 1798 and 1799.

London 1802 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
2

(Alaska and North-West America) Collection of 9 works in 10 volumes

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,440.00
3 Albertus Magnus

De natura locorum.

(Strassburg 1515) USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
4

(America) Collection of three eighteenth-century works on voyages and travel to America, 3 works in 4 volumes

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,160.00
5 Amundsen, Roald

Sydpolen: Den Norske Sydpolsfaerd med Fram 1910-1912.

Kristiania [May-September] 1912 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,360.00
6 (Amundsen, Roald)

Collection of 11 works in 15 volumes

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,360.00
7 (Amundsen, Roald)

A collection of 16 works

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,080.00
8 Amundsen, Roald, Nansen, Fridtjof and Sverdrup, Otto

Three autograph letters signed with the explorer's textual contributions for the historical publication "Den norske sjofarts historie" [The naval history of Norway]

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
9 Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo d'

L'Universale fabrica del mondo overo cosmografia.

Venice 1582 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,640.00
10 (Anson, George) --- [John Philips]

An Authentic Account of Commodore Anson's Expedition...Taken from a Private Journal.

London 1744 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,600.00
11 Anson, George

A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV.

London 1748 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,160.00
12

(Antarctic --- Australia and New Zealand) Collection of approximately 14 works in 26 volumes, mainly on Australian and Kiwi Antarctic expeditions

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,800.00
13 [Shirase, Nobu and others]

(Antarctic Expedition --- Japan) --- [Shirase, Nobu] ---Collection of 8 works in 8 volumes

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,000.00
14

(Antarctic --- Scandinavia) Collection of 13 works in 14 volumes on Scandinavian Antarctic exploration

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
15

(Antarctic --- Terra Nova/Discovery Expeditions) Collection of 17 works, mainly scientific journals and reports

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,320.00
16

(Antarctica --- Germany) A collection of approximately 36 works in 38 volumes, mainly on German Antarctic expeditions

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
17

(Antarctic) Collection of 38 volumes

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,600.00
18

(Antarctic) Collection of 72 volumes

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,400.00
19

(Antarctica) Collection of 4 works in 5 volumes on the Antarctic plus two maps and 24 panoramas

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,040.00
20

(Antarctic---French language) Collection of approximately 30 works in 38 volumes

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
21 Apianus, Petrus

Cosmographia (ed. Gemma Frisius).

Antwerp 1539 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,400.00
22 Apianus, Petrus

Cosmographiae introductio: cum quibusdam Geometriae ac Astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis.

Paris 1550 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,200.00
23 Apianus, Petrus

Cosmographia (ed. Gemma Frisius).

Antwerp: 1574 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,560.00
24

(Arctic) Collection of works, being 4 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books on Arctic exploration

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,280.00
25

(Arctic) Two works on the Arctic, 1876 and 1875

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,920.00
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