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
51	Picart (Bernard)	Asia.- Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres	Amsterdam	1728	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 304.80
52		Asia.- [Sino-Japanese War: images of torture]		[c.1940]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
53		Asia.- Various cartographers (18th and 19th century) Large collection of over 60 maps and prints of South East Asia, including New Guinea, Borneo, Indonesia, with Java, Timor, and the Maluka Islands, some Indian interest, and others of the region		mainly 18th and 19th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 508.00
54	Winston (W. R.)	Asia.- Four Years in Upper Burma		1892	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
55	Hursthouse (Charles)	Australasia.- An Account of the Settlement of New Plymouth, in New Zealand		1849	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 330.20
56	Atkins (Rev. T.)	Australia.- The Wanderings of the Clerical Eulysses		[1859]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 63.50
57	Potter (Charles, publisher)	Australia.-Photographs. New South Wales	Sydney	1896	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
58	Jansson (Jan)	Azores.- Insulae Flandricae olim Asores dictae	Amsterdam	[circa 1690]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
59	Mayer (Tobias)	Baltic Sea.- Sinus Finnici delineatio geographica... /Partie Occidentale du Golfe de Finnland		1751	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
60	Ortelius (Abraham) and others	Belgium.- Five maps of Flanders, including Ortelius's 'Flandriae Comitatus Descriptio' and 'Flandria', Blaeu's 'Flandria et Zeelandia Comitatus', Sanson's 'Les Provinces des Pays-Bas Catholiques...', and Blaeu's 'Tabula Castelli ad Sandslitam...'		16th to 18th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 457.20
61	Robertson (Thomas Campbell)	Burma.- Political Incidents of the First Burmese War		1853	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
62	Vaugondy (Didier Robert de)	Canada.- American eastern seaboard.- Partie de l'Amerique Septentrionale, qui Comprend le Cours de l'Ohio, la Nlle. Angleterre, la Nlle York, le New Jersey, la Pensylvanie, le Maryland la Virginie, la Caroline		1755	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 406.40
63	De L'Isle (Guillaume)	Canada and the Great Lakes.- Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France et des Decouvertes qui y ont ete Faites...		1703 [but circa 1745]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 698.50
64	Bellin (Jacques Nicolas)	Canada.- A New Chart of the Coast of New England, Nova Scotia, New France, or Canada, with the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, St. John's &c		[circa 1746]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
65	Bowen (Emanuel)	Canada.- Gulf of St. Laurence.- A New & Accurate Map of the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, St. John and Anticosta		[circa 1747]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
66		Canada.- [Photograph Album including Sun Dance, Blackfeet Indians at Gleichen N. W. T.], photograph captioned "1517 Sun Dance, Blackfeet Indians, Gleichen, N. W. T." and with studio "R. H. Truemen & Co. Photo, Vancouver B. C." in the negative		[late 19th - early 20th century]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
67		Canada.- Vancouver Island. Exploration	Victoria	[1864]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 952.50
68	Boucher (Lucien)	Celestial.- Air France "Horoscope" poster with celestial planispheres	Paris	[1951]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 508.00
69	Doppelmayr (Johann Gabriel) and Johann Baptist Homann	Celestial.- Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale [and] Coeli Australe		[circa 1730]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 508.00
70	Bowen (Emanuel)	Central America.- A New & Accurate Map of Mexico or New Spain Together with California New Mexico &c...		[c.1747]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 406.40
71		Central America.- Government Gazette British Honduras Published by Authority		1885-1903	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 508.00
72	Atkinson (Thomas Witlam)	Central Asia.- Oriental and Western Siberia		1858	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 508.00
73	Stein (Sir Marc Aurel)	Central Asia.- Innermost Asia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and Eastern Iran	Oxford	1928	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,794.00
74	Vambery (Arminius)	Central Asia.- Travels in Central Asia, being the Account of a Journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand		1864	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 381.00
75	Ortelius (Abraham) and others	Central Europe.- Large collection of c.50 maps of Central Europe		mainly 17th and 18th century	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,397.00

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.