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Auction Name Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History - bidstart 11/2 Total Sales (GBP) 682,038.00
Auction Date November 17, 2021 - November 17, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 359,800.00
Sale Number #L21405 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 512,600.00
Total Lots 209
Sold Lots 135 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 994,900.00
% of Lots Sold 64.59% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,387,000.00
Unsold Lots 74 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 49.17%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
50

Maxime Du Camp | Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie. Dessins Photographiques. Paris, 1852

 1852 GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 75,600.00
184 Nicolaes Visscher

Nicolaes Visscher | Atlas minor sive geographia compendiosa, c.1716, hand-coloured maps, contemporary Dutch binding

 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 35,280.00
80 Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Mecca—Snouck Hurgronje | Mekka, with: "Bilder Atlas zu Mekka" and "Bilder aus Mekka". 1888-89, 4 volumes

 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 32,760.00
146 Roger Fenton, Oscar Gustave Rejlander and others

Photographic Club (Roger Fenton, Oscar Gustav Rejlander and others) | The Photographic Album for the year 1857

 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 32,760.00
25

Siam | A collection of thirty-eight photographs, circa. 1880s

 circa 1880s GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 22,680.00
82

Antoine Melling | Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople, 1819, 2 volumes, large folio, edge-bound plates, Atabey copy

 1819 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 22,680.00
188 Antonio Zatta

Zatta | Atlante novissimo, Venice, 1775-1785, 4 volumes, half calf

 1775-1785 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 20,160.00
3 Tung Hing (and others?)

China—Tung Hing | Photographic Views of Foochow and Vicinity, [c. 1890; including images from the 1870s]

 c.1890; including images from the 1870s GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 17,640.00
107 David Roberts

David Roberts | The Holy Land: Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. London, 1855-1856, 6 volumes in 3

 1855-1856 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 17,640.00
110

Saudi Arabia | Collection of photographs, twentieth century

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 16,380.00
11 Jean-Baptiste du Halde

Du Halde | Description de l'empire de Chine, Paris, 1735, 4 volumes, contemporary calf

 1735 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
127 Mercurio geografico

Mercurio geografico | Rome, 1741, 2 volumes, half leather

 1741 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
5 Lai Afong, William Saunders, Dutton & Michaels, and others?

China | Collection of 70 photographs of Hong Kong and Canton, and 2 panoramas, circa. 1880s

 circa 1880s GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
4 Lai Afong, William Saunders and others

China | Collection of 50 photographs of Canton and Shanghai, circa 1880s

 circa1880s GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
20 Adolfo Farsari studio (and others)

Japan | Collection of 73 photographs, many of Hokkaido, including a folding panorama, circa. 1880s

 circa 1880s GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
9

China—Thomas Child and others | A collection of photographs of China, circa. 1870s-80s

 circa 1870s-80s GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
12

India | Collection of seventy-three photographs, circa 1880s

 circa1880s GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
113 James Stuart and Nicholas Revett

James Stuart and and Nicholas Revett | The Antiquities of Athens. London, 1762-1816, 4 volumes, red half morocco

 1762-1816 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 8,820.00
16 Orr and Barton, and others

India—Orr and Barton, and others | Collection of sixty-seven photographs, circa. 1880s

 circa 1880s GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
62

Hajj—Pilgrimage to Mecca and life in Saudi Arabia | Collection of 119 colour slides, circa. 1970

 circa 1970 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 6,930.00
91

Palestine | A box of 50 glass magic lantern slides of the Holy Land, early 1900s

 early 1900s GBP 1,800.00 - 2,600.00 GBP 6,930.00
72 Dawson Dickson

T.E. Lawrence—Dawson Dickson | Collection of material comprising:

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
97 Bonfils

Palestine—Bonfils | Album of photographs of the Holy Land, circa. 1880s

 circa 1880s GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
130 Giovanni Battista Pacichelli

Giovanni Battista Pacichelli | Il regno di Napoli in prospettiva, Naples, 1703, 3 volumes, calf

 1703 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
144 George Bellas Greenough

George Bellas Greenough | A Geological Map of England and Wales, Geological Society, 1819

 1819 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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