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

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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
76	Aa (Pieter van der)	China.- Carte exacte de toutes le Provinces, Villes, Bourgs, Villages et Rivieres du vaste et puissant Empire de la Chine...		[circa 1670-1730]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,778.00
77	Aime-Martin (Louis, editor)	China.- Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses concernant L'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique avec quelques relations nouvelles des Missions...	Paris	1875-77	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 215.90
78	[Amiot (Jean-Joseph-Marie) & others.]	China.- Memoires concernant l'Histoire, les Sciences, les Arts, les Moeurs, les Usages, &c. des Chinois, par les Missionaires de Pekin	Paris	1777-89	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 381.00
79	Anderson (Aeneas)	China.- A Narrative of the British Embassy to China		1795	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 457.20
80	Andrade (Jose Ignacio de)	China.- Cartas Escriptas da India e da China nos annos de 1815 a 1835	Lisbon	1843	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
81	Bowlby (C.C., editor)	China.- An Account of the Last Mission and Death of Thomas William Bowlby		1906	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 609.60
82	Braam Houckgeest (Andre Everard van)	China.- Voyage de l'Ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales Hollandaises vers l'Empereur de la Chine, en 1794 et 1795	Paris, Garnery & Strasbourg	1798	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 381.00
83	Neuman (Charles Friedrich, translator)	China.- Chinese Pirates.- Translations from the Chinese and Armenian...		1831	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 330.20
84	Clerc (Nicolas Gabriel)	China.- Yu le Grand et Confucius, Histoire Chinoise	Soissons	1769	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 3,048.00
85		China.- Confucius.- Le Chou-King, un des Livres Sacres des Chinois	Paris	1770	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
86	Cordier (Henri)	China.- Bibliotheca Sinica: Dictionnaire Bibliographique des Ouvrages relatifs a l'Empire Chinois	Paris	1904	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
87	Du Halde (Jean Baptiste)	China.- The General History of China...		1736	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,016.00
88		China.- English-Chinese Dictionary (An) of the Kien-ning Dialect		1897	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 533.40
89	Foresti (Antonio)	China.- Del Mappamondo Istorico Tomo Settimo, Parte Prima	Venice	1716	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
90	Fuchs (Walter, editor)	China.- Der Jesuiten-Atlas der Kanghsi-zeit. Seine Entstehungsgeschichte...der Mandjurei, Mongolei, Ostturkestan und Tibet	Peking	1943	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,079.50
91	[Gaubil (Antoine) & others.]	China.- Observations Mathematiques, Astronomiques, Geographiques, Chronologiques et Physiques, tirees des Anciens Livres Chinois...	Paris	1729	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 635.00
92	Gray (John Henry)	China.- China. A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People		1878	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 241.30
93	Gregory (J.W.) & C. J. Gregory	China.- To the Alps of Chinese Tibet		1923	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 889.00
94	Hall (Commander W. H.) & W. D. Bernard	China.- Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843		1845	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 203.20
95	Helman (Isidore Stanislas Henri)	China.- Abrege Historique des Principaux Traits de la Vie de Confucius Celebre Philosophe Chinois [&] Faits memorables des Empereurs de la Chine...		N/A	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 762.00
96	Wu (Francis)	China.- Hong Kong.- China Mail Pictorial of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	[c.1948]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
97	[Huc (Abbe Evariste Regis)]	China.- Puteshestvie cherez Mongoliiu v Tibet, k stolitse Tale-lamy [A Journey across Mongolia to Tibet, and the Capital of the Dalai-Lama]	Moscow	1866	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
98	Jansson (Jan)	China.- China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicta	[Amsterdam]	[circa 1636]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,016.00
99	[Sapojnikoff (Geogii)], "Sapajou"	China.- Japan.- Four Months of War. A Pen and Picture Record of the Hostilities between Japan and China in and around Shanghai...1937	Shanghai	1938	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 381.00
100	Jenner (Thomas)	China.- The Nanking Monument of the Beatitudes		1911	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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.