Forum Auctions: Online: Travel Books, Maps and Atlases, 1075, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026

Page Size: 346 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Beccari (Camillo, editor)	Africa.- Rerum Aethiopicarum Scriptores Occidentales inediti a saeculo XVI ad XIX	Brussels	1969	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 95.25
2	Cardonne (Denis Dominique)	Africa.- Histoire d l'Afrique et de l'Espagne, sous la Domination des Arabes	Paris	1765	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
3	Craster (Captain J. E. E.)	Africa.- Pemba, The Spice Island of Zanzibar		1913	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 406.40
4	Homann (Johann Baptist)	Africa.- Totius Africae Nova Repraesentatio...		[circa 1725]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 431.80
5	Homann (Johann Baptist) and others	Africa.- Twelve maps of Africa, including Homann's 'Totius Africae Nova Repraesentatio qua Praeter Diversos in ea Status et Regiones, Etiam Origo Nili...'		18th century	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 406.40
6	Jackson (G.A.)	Africa.- Algiers: being a Complete Picture of the Barbary States...		1817	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
7	Kamal (Youssouf)	Africa.- Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti	Frankfurt	1987	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 406.40
8	Mitterrutzner (Dr. J.C.)	Africa.- Die Sprache der Bari in Central-Afrika, Grammatik, Text und Worterbuch	Brixen	1867	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
9	Mortier (Pierre)	Africa.- Four maps of Africa, and the African coastline	Amsterdam	[circa 1700]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 635.00
10	Schumacher (Peter)	Africa.- Expedition zu den Zentralafrikanischen Kivu-Pygmaen	Brussels	1949	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 177.80
11		Africa.- Slavery.- Bill (A) for the more effectual Suppression of the African Slave Trade		1824	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
12	Clarkson (Thomas)	Africa.- Slavery.- The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament	Philadelphia	1808	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
13	Speke (John Hanning)	Africa.- Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile		1863	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 558.80
14	Arkell (A.J.)	Africa.- Sudan.- Addison (Frank) Jebel Moya		1949	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
15		Africa.- Uganda Journal (The): the Organ of the Uganda Literary and Scientific Society	Kampala	1934-42, 1971	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 215.90
16	van Someren (R. A. L.) & V. G. L. van Someren	Africa.- Studies in Birdlife in Uganda		1911	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 120.65
17	Ward (Harriet)	Africa.- Five Years in Kaffirland	[Mendelssohn II p.582]	1848	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 330.20
18	Wingate (Major F. R.)	Africa.- Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan		1891	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
19	Santini (Francois)	Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.- Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes au Nord de la Mer du Sud, tant a l'Est de la Siberie et du Kamtchatka, qu'a l'Ouest de la Nouvelle France		[circa 1776]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 508.00
20	Bowen (Emanuel)	America.- Atlantic Ocean.- A New & Accurate Chart of the Western or Atlantic Ocean Drawn from Surveys and Most Approved Maps & Charts		[circa 1744]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 228.60
21	Habermann (Franz Xaver)	America. American Revolution.- Die Zerstorung der Koniglichen Bild Sautz zu Neu Yorck / La Destruction de la Statue royale a Nouvelle Yorck		[circa 1776]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 203.20
22	Bowen (Emanuel)	America.- A New & Accurate Map of America		[circa 1744-1748]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
23	Bowen (Emanuel)	America.- A New & Accurate Map of Louisiana, with Part of Florida and Canada, and the Adjacent Countries...		[circa 1747]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 558.80
24	Bowen (Emanuel)	America.- A New and Accurate Map of Virginia & Maryland Laid Down from Surveys and Regulated by Astronl. Observatns		[circa 1747]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 330.20
25	Brenchley (Jules and Julius L.)	America.- A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City		1861	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 152.40

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.