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
152 Lydekker (Richard)

Big Game Hunting.- A Trip to Pilawin: The Deer-Park of Count Joseph Potocki in Volhynia Russia

1908 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
153 Lyell (Denis D.)

Big Game Hunting.- Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia

1910 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 762.00
155 MacFarlane (Charles)

Levant.- Constantinople in 1828

Saunders and Otley 1829 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
156 Macgillivray (John)

Oceania.- Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake

1852 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
157 Malcolm (Rev. Howard)

South-East Asia.- Travels in South-Eastern Asia

1839 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 698.50
158 Malleson (Col. G.B.)

Central Asia.- Herat: the Granary and Garden of Central Asia

1880 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 482.60
159 Marigny (Edouard Taitbout de)

Asia.- Three Voyages in the Black Sea to the Coast of Circassia

1837 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,016.00
160 Markham (Clements R.)

Asia.- Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa

1879 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 355.60
161 Markham (Col. Frederick)

Big Game Hunting.- Shooting in the Himalayas

1854 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 444.50
162 Marryat (Frank S.)

Asia.- Borneo and the Indian Archipelago

1848 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 635.00
163 Mayer (Attributed to Auguste Etienne Francois, French painter who participated in several Arctic expeditions, 1805-1890)

Polar.- Astrolable, the French ship under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842)

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
164 McCarthy (James)

South East Asia.- Surveying and Exploring in Siam

1900 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,016.00
165 Melly (George)

Africa.- Khartoum, and the Blue and Whilte Niles

1851 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,016.00
166 Melville (Baron of Carnbee)

South East Asia.- The Seaman's Guide round Java, to the Islands East of Java

1852 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 254.00
167 M'Leod (John)

Africa.- A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People

1820 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
168 Mundy (Captain Rodney)

Asia.- Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes

1848 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 825.50
169 Murray (George)

Polar.- The Antarctic Manual for the use of the Expedition of 1901

1901 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,540.00
170 Murray (James) & George Marston

Polar.- Antarctic Days: Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men

1913 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 508.00
171 Napier (Francis)

Oceania.- Notes of a Voyage from New South Wales to the North Coast of Australia

[1876] GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 762.00
172 Neumann (Arthur H.)

Africa.- Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa

1898 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 381.00
173 Neves (D. Fernandes das)

Big Game Hunting.- A Hunting Expedition to the Transvaal

1879 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,016.00
174 Newton (Charles Thomas)

Levant.- Travels & Discoveries in the Levant

1865 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 482.60
175 [Noble (Charles Frederick)]

Asia.- A Voyage to the East Indies In 1747 and 1748

1762 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,397.00
176 Oates (Frank)

Africa.- Matabele Land and The Victoria Falls: A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa

1889 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 304.80
177 Ogawa (Kikuzawa)

Japan.- Things Seen in Japan

[c.1907] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
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