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
151	Gauthier (Henri)	Egyptology.- Le Livre des Rois d'Egypte	Cairo	1907-17	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 254.00
152	Armstrong (John)	Europe.- The History of the Island of Minorca		1752	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
153	Boswell (James)	Europe.- An Account of Corsica ... and memoirs of Pascal Paoli		1769	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 609.60
154	Le Petit (Alfred)	Europe.- Franco-Tunisian War.- Carte pour suivre les operations de la guerre de Tunisie		1881	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,540.00
155	Montalbo (Fr. Francisco de)	Europe.- Historia de las Guerras de Ungria	Palermo	1693	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 431.80
156	Porter (Sir Robert Ker)	Europe.- Napoleonic Wars.- A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia		[1813]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
157		Europe.- Philip V, King of Spain Capitulaciones de la Paz hecha entre el Rey nuestro Senor, y los Estatdos Unidos de las Provincias de Olanda	Madrid	1648	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 139.70
158		Europe.- Polemandre (Le) ou Discours d'estat de la necessite de faire Guerre en Espagne		1604	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 50.80
159	Riccio (Michele)	Europe.- De Regibus Hispaniae, Hierusalem, Galliae, Utriusqie Sicilliae & Ungariae, Historia	Naples	1645	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 279.40
160	Spencer (Edmund)	Europe.- Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, &c...		1839	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	GBP 508.00
161	Boucher (Ernest Lucien)	Europe.- World War One.- Images de la Vie des Prisonniers de Guerre	Paris	[1920]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 381.00
162	Seutter (Matthaus)	Finland.- Magni Ducatus Finlandiae Russiae Partim, Partim Sueciae Subjecti...		[circa 1772]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
163	Boucher (Lucien)	France.- Filatures de Sartel Wattrelos Nord France		[circa 1950]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
164	Stanford (Edward)	France.- Franco-Prussian War.- La Prusse s'Arre?tant		1871	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 4,318.00
165	Boucher (Lucien)	France & North Africa.- Credit Lyonnais Fonde en 1863...		[circa 1950 or slightly later]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
166		France.- Photograph album		1879-87	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
167	Rigaud (Jacques) and others	France.- Group of twelve Vues d'optique of French chateau and gardens		19th century	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 431.80
168	Blaeu (Johannes) and others	Greece.- Collection of 7 maps of Greece and the Greek islands, including an uncoloured Blaeu 'Graecia', Homann's 'Insula Creta hodie Candia...'		17th and 18th century	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 558.80
169	Horrebow (Niels)	Iceland.- The Natural History of Iceland		1758	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
170	Jansson (Jan)	Indonesia.- Insulae Javae Cum parte insularum Borneo Sumatrae et circumjacentium insularum novissima delineatio		[circa 1700]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 558.80
171	Cluverius (Philippus)	Italy.- Sicilia Antiqua ... eiusq Sardinia et Corsica antiqua	Wolfenbuttel	1659	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,651.00
172		Italy.- Homann Heirs (publisher) Four maps of Italian cities with fortifications and battle plans, locations include Parma, Modena, Cremona, and the River Po in Lombardy		[circa 1740]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
173	Homann Heirs (publisher)	Italy.- Six maps of Italian cities with fortifications and battle plans, locations include Parma, Modena, Cremona, and the River Po in Lombardy		[circa 1740]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 304.80
174	Lafreri (Antonio)	Italy.- [Rome] Stephanus du Perac Architet Studioso Lectori...	Rome	1573	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
175	Lear (Edward)	Italy.- Two views, from 'Views of Rome and its Environs'		[circa 1840]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 228.60

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.