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
176	Barriere (Dominique)	Italy.- Piazza Navona, Rome.- Circum vrbis, agonalibus ludis olim caelebrem, dicata triumphali pompa Christo resurgeti Hispana pietas caelebriorem rediddit, Anno jubilei 1650		[circa 1650]	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,270.00
177		Japan.- H.M.S. Hawkins China Station 1919 - 1921		[1919-21]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
178	Liberty (Mrs. Lasenby)	Japan.- Japan. A Pictorial Record		[1910]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 279.40
179	Thunberg (Carl Peter)	Japan.- Voyages...au Japon...	Paris	An IV 1796	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
180	Hermalin (D[avid] M[oyshe])	Judaica.- Muhamad. A shtudium fun dem ershaynen, leben und thetigkayt fun dem Musulmanishen ...	New York	[1898]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 330.20
181	Arif Pacha (Muchir)	Levant.- Les Anciens Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman	Paris	[1863]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,413.00
182	Busbecq (Ogier Ghiselin de)	Levant.- Omnia quae extant	Leiden	1633	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,079.50
183	Busbecq (Ogier Ghiselin de)	Levant.- Travels into Turkey		1744	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 508.00
184	Capper (Col. James)	Levant.- Observations on the Passage to India, through Egypt, and across the Great Desert		1783	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 635.00
185		Levant.- Correspondence respecting the Rights and Privileges of the Latin and Greek Churches in Turkey. From May 1850 to July 1853		[1853]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 82.55
186		Levant.- Correspondence relating to the Affairs of Syria 1860-61		1861	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 558.80
187	Coronelli (Vincenzo)	Levant.- Coronelli (Vincenzo) Memoires, Historiques & Geographiques du Royaume de la Moree, Negrepont & des Places Maritimes	Amsterdam	1686	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 508.00
188	Davenport (W.)	Levant.- Historical Portraiture of Leading Events in the life of Ali Pacha		1823	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,079.50
189	Fryer (John)	Levant.- A New Account of East-India and Persia		1698	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,905.00
190	Guarin (Pierre)	Levant.- Hebraica.- Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaeo-biblicum	Paris	1746	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 69.85
191	Herbert (Sir Thomas)	Levant.- Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique		1638	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 381.00
192	Homann Heirs (publisher)	Levant.- Palaestina seu Terra olim Sancta, tum Duodecim Tribubus Distributa, tum a Davide et Salomone...		1744	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 304.80
193	Irwin (Eyles)	Levant.- A Series of Adventures in the course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt		1780	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,651.00
194	Knolles (Richard) & Paul Rycaut	Levant.- The Turkish History, comprehending The Origin of that Nation ...		1704-03	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20
195	[Lefevre (Raoul)]	Levant.- The Destruction of Troy, in three books		1702	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 88.90
196	Light (Henry)	Levant.- Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon, and Cyprus		1818	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
197	Lynch (W. F.)	Levant.- Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea		1849	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
198	MacFarlane (Charles)	Levant.- Constantinople in 1828		1829	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,079.50
199	Malcolm (Col. Sir John)	Levant.- The History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time		1815	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 330.20
200	Mayr (Heinrich von)	Levant.- Malerische Ansichten aus dem Orient. Vues Pittoresque de l'Orient	Munich, Paris & Leipzig	[1839-40]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,318.00

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.