Forum Auctions: The Library of John and Suzanne Bonham, 1189, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 30, 2025 - October 30, 2025
Page Size: 250 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
228 Thompson (Thomas C. D., midshipman & acting sub lieutenant)

Royal Navy.- Log of H.M.S. Duke of Wellington

Portsmouth 1871 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
229 Thomson (John)

Polar.- A Chart of the Discoveries of Captains Ross, Parry & Franklin in the Arctic Regions in the Years 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821 & 1822

[1822] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 406.40
230 Thomson (Joseph)

Africa.- To the Central African Lakes and Back

1881 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 508.00
231 Wood (Herbert)

Central Asia.- The Shores of Lake Aral

1876 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,540.00
232 Tully (Richard)

Africa.- Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence in Tripoli in Africa

1816 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 825.50
233 Turner-Turner (J.)

Big Game Hunting.- Three Years' Hunting and Trapping in America and the Great North-West

1888 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
234 Vallard (Nicholas)

Australia.- 'The First Map of Australia'

[c. 1856 or later] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 355.60
235 van de Velde (C. W. M.)

Levant.- Narrative of a Journey through Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852

1854 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 508.00
236 Wallace (Alfred Russel)

South America.- A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro

1853 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,651.00
237 Ward (F. Kingdon)

Asia.- On the Road to Tibet

Shanghai 1910 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,286.00
238 Ward (F. Kingdon)

Asia.- The Land of the Blue Poppy: Travels of a Naturalist in Eastern Tibet

Cambridge 1913 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 571.50
239 Ward (F. Kingdon)

Asia.- The Mystery Rivers of Tibet

1923 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 762.00
240 Warkworth (Lord)

Levant.- Notes from a Diary in Asiatic Turkey

1898 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
241 Webb (Rev. Arthur J.)

South Pacific Ocean.- Fiji.- The History of Fiji

Sydney 1885 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,048.00
242 Weddell (James, navigator, (1787-1834)

Voyages.- Open face chronometer pocket watch

1811 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
243 White (Lieutenant-Colonel George Francis, 1808-1898)

India.- Indian landscape at sunset, with lake and mountains in the distance, presumably Northern India

1841 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
244 White (William)

Africa.- Journal of a Voyage performed in the Lion Extra Indiaman

1800 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
245 Whittingham (Ferdinand)

West Indies.- Bermuda: a Colony, a Fortress, and a Prison

1857 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
246 Wilbraham (Capt. Richard)

Levant.- Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia

1839 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 381.00
247 Wilson (Ernest Henry)

China.- A Naturalist in Western China

[1914] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
249 Wilson (Robert Thomas)

Africa.- History of the British Expedition to Egypt

1802 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
250 Wolff (Rev. Joseph)

Levant.- Journal of the Rev. Joseph Wolff ... to Sir Thomas Baring

1839 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
251 Wollaston (A. F. R.)

Africa.- From Ruwenzori to the Congo

1908 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 825.50
252 Tuckey (James Hingston)

Australia.- An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait, on the South Coast of New South Wales

1805 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
253 Wood (Robert)

Levant.- The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmore, in the Desart

1753 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
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