Bonhams: Travel and Exploration Sale, 30894, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025

Page Size: 58 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
105		GEORGE YACOUB COLLECTION OF MAPS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND LEVANT			GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 33,280.00
108	KNOLLES (RICHARD) AND PAUL RYCAUT	The Turkish History, from the Origin of That Nation to the Growth of the Ottoman Empire: with the lives and conquests of their princes and emperours...		1687	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 960.00
109		OTTOMAN TURKEY MAP, IN ARABIC	Istanbul	1888	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 3,328.00
120	OGILBY (JOHN)	Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid		1670	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
127	STANLEY (HENRY MORTON)	Through the Dark Continent, 2 vol.		1878	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,280.00
131	CHRISTALLER (JOHANN GOTTLIEB)	A Grammar of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi [Chwee, Twi]: Based on the Akuapem Dialect, 1875; ...			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
132	BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.)	Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol.		1822-1824	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,152.00
133	LIVINGSTONE (DAVID)	Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa			GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 704.00
134	LIVINGSTONE (DAVID)	Autograph letter signed ("David Livingstone") to the Rev. Joseph Turnbull		1857	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,024.00
143	[CAZABON (MICHEL JEAN)] HARTMANN (HIPPOLYTE)	Album Martiniquais, lithographed title and 12 tinted lithographed views by Eugene Ciceri,	Paris	c.1860	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,304.00
144	LYELL (CHARLES)	A Second Visit to the United States of North America, 2 vol.,		1849	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 166.40
145	CURTIS (EDWARD S.)	Spirit of the Past, Apsaroke, 1908		1908, printed later	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
146		The North-West Coast of America being Results of Recent Ethnological Researches from the Collections of the Royal Museums at Berlin	New York	1885	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 115.20
149	NANSEN (FRIDTJOF)	Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration on the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen,		1897	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,024.00
150	PEARY (ROBERT E.)	The North Pole,			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 614.40
152	William Edward Parry	ARCTIC EXPLORATION -- PARRY & MCKINLEY Copy letter from William Edward Parry to Lord Melville, secretarial,		26 November 1825 to 23 May 1826	GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 6,144.00
153		ARCTIC EXPLORATION -- FRANKLIN, BACK & MCCLINTOCK Series of nine autograph letters to Admiral George McKinley (1766-1852) and his daughter, from his friend John Franklin and other figures of Arctic exploration,		8 February 1826 to 20 September 1837	GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 46,080.00
154	SOPER (GEORGE)	DISCOVERY' EXPEDITION, 1901-1904 "Relief of Capt. Scott after the Furthest South Expedition",		1903	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 960.00
155	SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)	The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 vol.		1905	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 3,328.00
156	AMUNDSEN (ROALD)	The South Pole. An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912,		1912	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 6,144.00
157		AMUNDSEN'S NORWEGIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1912 Danish pocket aneroid marine barometer belonging to Jorgen Stubberud,	Denmark	c.1910	GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 7,680.00
158	SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)	The Voyage of the 'Discovery', vol. 1 (of 2)		1905	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,584.00
159	ARMITAGE (ALBERT B.)	Two Years in the Antarctic. Being a Narrative of the British National Antarctic Expedition		1905	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,152.00
160	John Donald Morrison,	ANTARCTIC RELIEF EXPEDITIONS, 1902-1904 Sixteen photographs, attributable to Chief Engineer John Donald Morrison,		1902-1904	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,216.00
161	SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)	Scott's Last Expedition... Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Vol. II. Being the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition, 2 vol.		1913	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,072.00

Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 March

Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.