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
251	Rice (D.S.)	Middle East.- The Unique Ibn al-Bawwab Manuscript in the Chester Beatty Library	Dublin	1955	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
252		Middle East.- Various Cartographers (19th & 20th century)		19th and 20th	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 889.00
253	Watson (Robert Grant)	Middle East.- A History of Persia from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the year 1858		1866	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 825.50
254	Barry (Martin)	Mountaineering.- Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc		[1835]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 406.40
255	Cunningham (C. D.) & Captain W. de W. Abney	Mountaineering.- The Pioneers of the Alps		1887	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 406.40
256	Freshfield (Douglas W.)	Mountaineering.- Round Kangchenjunga: A Narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration		1903	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,651.00
257	George (H.B.)	Mountaineering.- The Oberland and its Glaciers		1866	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 241.30
258	Hunt (John)	Mountaineering.- The Ascent of Everest		1953	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 457.20
259	Tilman (H.W.)	Mountaineering.- Snow on the Equator		1937	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 635.00
260	Tyndall (John)	Mountaineering.- Mountaineering in 1861		1862	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
261	Whymper (Edward)	Mountaineering.- Scrambles Amongst the Alps in Years 1860-69		1893	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,905.00
262	Visscher (Nicolas) and others	Netherlands.- Utrecht.- Collection of 15 regional maps of the Netherlands, mostly centred on Utrecht and Amsterdam		[mostly 17th and 18th century]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 381.00
263	Seutter (Matthaus)	Northwest Italy.- Cursus Padi per Longobardiam a fonte usque ad ostia, two sheet map covering parts of Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont, Liguria, and Lombardy		[circa 1730]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 533.40
264	Homann (Johann Baptist) and others	Norway.- Four maps of Norway, including variant impressions of Homann and De Wit's 'Regni Norvegiae Accurata Tabvula', Jansson's 'Bergen', and Scherer 'Suecia Norvegia Russia Moscovi tica'		17th and 18th century	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 431.80
265	Wit (Frederik de)	Norway.- Norvegia Regnum Divisum in suos Dioeceses Nidrosiensem, Bergensem, Opsloensem et Stavangriensem et Praefecturam Bahusiae		[circa 1670 or later]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 482.60
266	Amherst (Lord) and Basil Thomson	Oceania.- The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568		1901	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 457.20
267	Griffin (John)	Oceania.- Memoirs of Captain James Wilson...	Boston	1822	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 12.70
268	Guiart (Jean)	Oceania.- The Arts of the South Pacific	New York	1963	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 6.35
269		Oceania.- Houses of Parliament		1876	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 127.00
270	Yonge (Charlotte Mary)	Oceania.- Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands		1874	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
271	Homann (Johann Baptist)	Poland.- Prospect, Grundris und Gegend der Polnischen Vesten Reichs und Handels-Stadt Dantzig und ihrem Werder..., engraved plan of Danzig [Gdansk]		[circa 1730]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 304.80
272	Lotter (Tobias Conrad)	Poland.- Ducatus Pomeraniae Citerioris et Ulterioris		[after circa 1760]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 762.00
273		Polar.- Arctic Expedition 1875-6		1875-6	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
274	Cortesao (Armando) & Avelino Teixeira da Mota	Portugal.- Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica	Lisbon	1987	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
275	Faria y Sousa (Manuel de)	Portugal.- Europa Portuguesa		1678	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 508.00

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.