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
226	Sanson (Francois)	17th century French diplomacy in the Islamic World.- Voyage, ou Relation de l'Etat Present du Royaume de Perse		1695	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 533.40
227		Middle East.- Ahmad ibn Muhammad, called Ibn Khallikan	Paris and London	1842-45	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 762.00
228	Al-Abbas (Dr. Qasim Ahmed)	Middle East.- [Iraq National Oil Company: Oil Concession Documents in Iraq. Part 1. Public Documents], text in Arabic	[Baghdad]	1972	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 107.95
229	Merian (Matthaeus) and others	Middle East.- Arabian Peninsula.- Collection of 15 maps of the Arabian Peninsula		16th to 19th century	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 3,302.00
230	Burton (Lady Isabel)	Middle East.- The Life of Captain Sir Richard Burton		[c.1898]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 82.55
231	Duguet (Dr.)	Middle East.- Le Pelerinage de la Mecque	Paris	1932	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 44.45
232	Forbes (Duncan, translator)	Middle East.- The Adventures of Hatim Tai, a Romance, translated from the Persian		1830	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
233	Freytag (Georg Wilhelm)	Middle East.- Lexicon Arabico-Latinum	Halle	1830-37	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
234	Garzoni (Maurizio)	Middle East.- Grammatica e Vocabolario della Lingua Kurda	Rome	1787	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 635.00
235		Middle East.- Gulmez Freres Three Panoramic Photographs of Istanbul...		[c.1890]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,016.00
236		Middle East.- IPC-BD Study: Development of Oil Facilities in central Libya: A Preliminary Report Prepared for the Oasis Oil Company September 1959	[San Francisco]	[1959]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 12.70
237	Irwin (Eyles)	Middle East.- A Series of Adventures in the course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt		1780	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 120.65
238	Irwin (Eyles)	Middle East.- A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt		1787	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 355.60
239	Jaussen (Antonin) and Raphael Savignac	Middle East.- Mission Archeologique en Arabie	Paris	1909	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
240	Kerim (A.)	Middle East.- Camera Studies in Iraq	Baghdad	[c.1925]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 152.40
241	Lawrence (T.E.)	Middle East.- Seven Pillars of Wisdom		1935	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 635.00
242	Lawrence (T.E.)	Middle East.- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph		1935	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 825.50
243	Lawrence (T. E.)	Middle East.- Seven Pillars of Wisdom		1935	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 127.00
244	Lawrence (T.E.)	Middle East.- Crusader Castles		1936	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,905.00
245	Meyers (Eric M.)	Middle East.- The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Archaeology in the Near East	New York & Oxford	1997	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 114.30
246		Middle East.- Middle East: Way to a Just Peace	Moscow	1970	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 25.40
247	Niebuhr (Carsten)	Middle East.- Voyage en Arabie	Amsterdam & Utrecht	1776-80	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 431.80
248	Schenk (Peter)	Middle East.- Ottoman Empire.- Imperium Turcicum Complectens Europae, Asiae et Africae, Arabiae		[circa 1700]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
249		Middle East.- Palestine.- D. W. T. Photos. 1914-18 War		1914-18	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 431.80
250	Price (Major David)	Middle East.- Chronological Retrospect, or Memoirs of the Principal Events of Mahommedan History		[1811]-21	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,524.00

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.