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
326	[Rochefort (Charles de)]	West Indies.- The History of the Caribby-Islands, viz. Barbados, St Christophers, St Vincents, Martinico ...		1666	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 508.00
327	Sartine, comte d'Alby (Antoine de)	West Indies.- Carte de la Dominique Prise par les Francois	Paris	1778	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
328	Seller (John)	West Indies.- The Island of Tobago		[circa 1680]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,079.50
329	Riland (Rev. John)	West Indies.- Slavery.- Memoirs of a West-India Planter		1827	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
330	Speed (John)	West Indies.- Mappa Aestivarum / A Mapp of the Sommer Ilands Once Called the Bermudas	Bassett and Chiswell	[1676]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 482.60
331	Marryat (Joseph)	West Indies.- Sugar & Slavery.- A Reply to the Arguments contained in various publications, recommending an Equalization of the Duties on East & West Indian Sugar		1823	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 76.20
332		West Indies.- Trinidad and Tobago.- Colony committee members (Trinidad and Tobago) Two manuscript presentation documents addressed to Sir Henry Moore Jackson, Governor of Trinidad and Tobago...		[one dated 1907]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
333		West Indies.- Various cartographers (18th and 19th century) Collection of 28 maps of the West Indies		[mainly 18th and 19th century]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
334	Weigel (Christoph)	West Indies.- Insulae Antillae Francicae Superiores cum Vicinis Insulis... [AND] Insulae Antillae Francicae Inferiores Commentariis Manuscriptis...		1718	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
335	Ramusio (Giovanni Battista) and Giacomo Gastaldi	Western Hemisphere.- Americas.- Universale della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata		[1565]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 825.50
336	Boucher (Lucien)	World.- Air France, Reseau Aerien Mondial		[circa 1937]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 889.00
337	Boucher (Lucien)	World.- Air France Reseau Aerien Mondial		1948	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 304.80
338	Bryant (Jacob)	World.- Observations and Inquiries relating to various parts of Ancient History ... together with an Account of Egypt in its most early state ...	Cambridge	1767	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 76.20
339		World.- Collection (A) of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern		1757	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
340	de Vaugondy (Robert)	World.- Nouvel Atlas Portatif	Paris	[c.1806-14]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 762.00
341	Fermor (Patrick Leigh)	World.- Between the Woods and the Water		1986	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 558.80
342	Lewis (Matthew Gregory)	World.- Journal of a West India Proprietor		1834	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
343		World.- [Photograph Albums]		c.1914-45	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
344	Plancius (Petrus)	World.- Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro Multis In Locis Emendatus auctore Petro Plancio 1594		[circa 1594, or slightly later]	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 5,842.00
345		World.- Slavery.- Correspondence with the British Commissioners, at Sierra Leone, the Havana, Rio de Janeiro, and Surinam, relating the Slave Trade		1830	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 152.40
346	Levasseur (Victor)	World.- Texas.- Planisphere, with six maps of the continents		[circa 1845]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40

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.