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
201	De Vere (Aubrey)	Levant.- Middle East.- Picturesque Sketches of Greece and Turkey		1850	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 698.50
202	Osten (Hans Henning von der) & W.M.Krogman	Levant & Middle East.- The Alishar Huyuk Seasons of 1930-32		1937	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 50.80
203	Mouterde (R.) and A.Poidebard	Levant.- Le Limes de Chalcis: Organisation de la Steppe en Haute Syrie Romaine	Paris	1945	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 177.80
204	Munster (Sebastian)	Levant.- Die Heilige Statt Jerusalem Contrafehtet nach Form und Gestalt wie sie Ietz Erbauwen ist, bird's-eye panorama of Jerusalem		[circa 1560 or later]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 279.40
205	Narinsky (Shlomo)	Levant.- The Holy Land 1910-1921	Jerusalem	1921 & 1980	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
206	Newbould (Frank)	Levant.- Jaffa		[circa 1930]	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
207		Levant.- [Photograph Album], c.200 vintage photographic prints		[c.1930s-40s]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 381.00
208	Prior (James)	Levant.- Narrative of a Voyage in the Indian Seas		[c.1815]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,286.00
209	Roberts (David)	Levant.- The Holy Land		[c.1880]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 698.50
210		Levant.- [Royal Navy & RAF Photograph Albums]		[c.1920s-30s]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
211	Russell (Alexander)	Levant.- The Natural History of Aleppo, and parts adjacent		1856 [but 1756]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,524.00
212	Sansovino (Francesco)	Levant.- Gl'Annali turcheschi overo vite de principi della casa othomana	Venice	1573	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 584.20
213	Seutter (Matthaus)	Levant.- Ierusalem, cum Suburbiis, Prout Tempore Christi Floruit... / Abriss der Weltberuhmten Statt Ierusalem, samt Ihren vor Statten...		[circa 1740]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 406.40
214	Shaw (Thomas)	Levant.- Travels, or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant	Oxford	1738	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 355.60
215	Shaw (Thomas)	Levant.- Travels or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant		1757	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 152.40
216	Martin Trost, editor	Levant.- Syriac.- Bible, Syriac. Novum Domini nostri Jesu Christi Testamentum Syriace	Kothen	1622	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 355.60
217	Tavernier (Jean Baptiste)	Levant.- The Six Voyages ... through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies		1678	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 698.50
218	Vester (Frederick & Co.)	Levant.- Photographs of the Holy-Land	Jerusalem	[c.1918]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 152.40
219	Wheler (George)	Levant.- Voyage de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant	Amsterdam	1689	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 177.80
220	Wittman (William)	Levant.- Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and Across the Desert to Egypt		1803	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 457.20
221	Homann (Johann Baptist) and others	Low Countries.- Collection of nine maps of the Netherlands, with general and regional maps		N/A	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 482.60
222	Wit (Frederik de)	Malta & Gozo.- Insula Malta accuratissime delineata, urbibus, et fortalitiis	[Amsterdam]	[circa 1680]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 635.00
223	Mercator (Gerard)	Maps.- Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, facsimile reprint of the Dusseldorf edition of 1595	Brussels	1963	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 63.50
224		Matrimonial voyages.- Various Cartographers (19th & 20th century) Four imaginary maps of matrimony: a pair of early English, and a pair of American		1832	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
225	Murray (Elizabeth)	Mediterranean.- Sixteen Years of an Artist's Life in Morocco, Spain, and the Canary Islands		1859	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 431.80

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.