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Auction Name Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History Total Sales (GBP) 1,871,934.00
Auction Date July 28, 2020 - July 28, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 1,066,700.00
Sale Number #L20401 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 1,587,900.00
Total Lots 236
Sold Lots 191 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,374,300.00
% of Lots Sold 80.93% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,024,400.00
Unsold Lots 45 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 92.47%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
141

Description de l'Égypte. Paris, 1809-1822, first edition, 23 volumes, housed in a custom made cabinet

 1809-1822 GBP 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 GBP 435,000.00
296 KEULEN, JOHANNES VAN

Keulen. De Groote Nieuwe Vermeerderde Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Werelt. 1685, fine hand-colouring

 1685 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 87,500.00
263 COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES

Cook. Complete set of the voyages. 1773-1785. 10 volumes. The Morritt copy.

 1773-1785 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 52,500.00
342 VENTENAT, ETIENNE-PIERRE

Ventenat. Jardin de la Malmaison. An XI-1803-[1805]

 1803-1805 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 43,750.00
122 FREDERICK FRASER HUNTER

Hunter. Correspondence relating to his classified "Secret" Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf. 1905-6

 1905-6 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 40,000.00
201 SEVRUGUIN, ANTOIN AND B. AGAIANTZ

Sevruguin. Album of photographs of Persia. 1870s, oblong folio

 1870s GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 40,000.00
290 FLAMSTEED, JOHN

Flamsteed. Historiae Coelestis. 1712. 2 parts in one, folio, calf

 1712 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 40,000.00
354 LEVAILLANT, FRANÇOIS

Levaillant. Histoire naturelle des perroquets. 1801-[1805]. 2 volumes, folio, green tinted boards

 1801-1805 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 40,000.00
203 ROBERTS, DAVID

Roberts. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia. 1842-1849. 3 volumes, deluxe hand-coloured issue, red morocco

 1842-1849 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 35,000.00
126 BLOUET, GUILLAUME ABEL, AND OTHERS

Blouet and Bory de Saint-Vincent. Expédition scientifique de Morée. 1831-40, complete work in 9 volumes, uniform calf

 1831-40 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 30,000.00
230 HOSE, CHARLES AND ROBERT SHELFORD

Hose. Album of photographs of Sarawak. [c.1884-1900], the Hose family copy, with three books from Hose's library

 c.1884-1900 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 30,000.00
308 ÅKERMAN, ANDERS

Åkerman. Globus terraqueus. 1762. Miniature terrestrial globe.

 1762 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
204 ROBERTS, DAVID

Roberts. Holy Land and Egypt. 1842-49. 6 volumes bound in 4, folio, red half morocco gilt

 1842-49 GBP 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
297 MORTIER, PIETER ? ROMEIN DE HOOGHE

Mortier de Hooghe. Le Neptune François. 1700-1708. 3 parts in one volume, large folio

 1700-1708 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
301 ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM

Ortelius. Theatrum oder Schawplatz des Erdtbodems. 1572-[73]. Rare German edition

 1572-73 GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
341 TENORE, MICHELE

Tenore. Flora Napolitana. 1811-[1838]. 7 volumes

 1811-1838 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
177 MIRZA & SONS

Mecca--Mirza. Twelve photographs of Mecca and Medina. early 20th century

 early 20th century GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 23,750.00
227 Hasshu Gafu

Hasshu Gafu (????). [Eight kinds of painting manual]. [1672], first Japanese edition, 8 volumes, original wrappers

 1672 GBP 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 GBP 23,750.00
181 BESANCENOT, JEAN

Jean Besancenot. 55 photographs of Morocco, c.1980

 c.1980 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 22,500.00
251 FER, NICOLAS DE

De Fer. L'Amerique [wall map]. 1717

 1717 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 18,750.00
197

Palestine. Box of 75 lantern slides of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, including King Faisal and T.E. Lawrence., c.1917

 c.1917 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 17,500.00
269 HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON

Hooker. The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of the H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror. 1844-1855. 2 volumes in 4

 1844-1855 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 16,250.00
294 [KEERE, PIETER VAN DEN]

Keere. Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula. 1626

 1626 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
351 ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD

Elliot. A Monograph of the Bucerotidae, or Family of the Hornbills. [1876]-1882

 1876-1882 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
179 LATTEUX, P.

Latteux, P. Voyage en Orient. Five large volumes with 1400 photographs illustrating a journal of travels. 1895

 1895 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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