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Auction Name Travel, Photographs, Maps and Natural History - bidstart 5/12 Total Sales (GBP) 845,082.00
Auction Date May 24, 2022 - May 24, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 402,700.00
Sale Number #L22402 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 570,500.00
Total Lots 107
Sold Lots 69 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 957,700.00
% of Lots Sold 64.49% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,359,800.00
Unsold Lots 38 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 62.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
111 Sir Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton | Large manuscript map of Antarctica drawn and signed by Shackleton and dated 1918

 1918 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 176,400.00
8 Johannes and Gerard van Keulen

Johannes and Gerard van Keulen

 GBP 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 GBP 163,800.00
2

Le Neptune françois, ou atlas nouveau des cartes marines.

 1693 [1700] GBP 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 GBP 119,700.00
106 Ernest Shackleton (editor)

Ernest Shackleton (editor) | Aurora Australis. Antarctica [Winter Quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition], 1908-09

 1908-09 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 100,800.00
31 Moritz Guiot

Zur Erinnerung meines Aufenhaltes in Hellas.

1834-1835 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 32,760.00
105 Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Louis C. Bernacchi, and Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (editors)

Shackleton and others | The South Polar Times. London, 1907 and 1914, 3 volumes, vol. 1 inscribed by Scott to his mother

 1907 and 1914 GBP 24,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 27,720.00
28 Vladimir P. Davidov

Atlas' k puteshestvyu Vladimira Davidova po Yunicheskim Ostrovam, Gretsii, Maloi Assii I Turtsii [Atlas [of views] to the journey of Vladimir Davydov in the Ionian Islands, Greece and Asia Minor].

1839 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 22,680.00
94 Carlo Ambrogio Mezzabarba, Patriarch of Alexandria, Papal Legate

China—Carlo Ambrogio Mezzabarba | Manuscript account of his visit to China. 1720-21. Heber-Phillipps provenance

 1720-21. GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 18,900.00
6 Reinier and Josua Ottens

Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt. 

 1745 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
108 Herbert George Ponting

Herbert George Ponting | "The Castle Berg", large carbon print, c. 1912

 c. 1912 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
4 Claudius Ptolemaeus and Giacomo Gastaldi

La Geografia... con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fattevi da Sebastiano Munstero... con le tavole... nuove aggiuntevi di Messer Iacopo Gastaldo.

1548 (1547) GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
103

Tibet--Younghusband Expedition | Album of photographs, 1903-04

 1903-04 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
79 Alan Villiers

Alan Villiers | Collection of papers relating to his voyage in a Kuwaiti dhow. 1938-39

 1938-39 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
44

Lepanto—Balthasar Jenichen

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,820.00
91 Abbot Ilarione Bonaventura Sala

China—Abbot Ilarione Sala | Series of 12 autograph letters signed, describing his journey to China. 1702-1703

 1702-1703 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 8,820.00
95 Da Qing Luli Quancuan Jicheng

China | Da Qing Luli Quancuan Jicheng [The Laws and Statutes of the Qing Dynasty]. Beijing, 1799, Staunton's copy

 1799 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
33 William Walker

Greece—William Walker

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,930.00
88 Abraham Ortelius and others

North and Central America | A collection of 5 maps

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,300.00
86 Hakewill, James

Jamaica—Hakewill | A picturesque tour of the island of Jamaica. 1825. folio, 21 hand-coloured plates, green morocco

 1825 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,048.00
109 Frank Hurley

Frank Hurley | Shackleton on the Endurance, 1914

 1914 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,048.00
24 Demetrius Cantemir

The history of the growth and decay of the Othman Empire… translated into English … by N. Tindal.

 1734 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,032.00
11 Douglas Carruthers et alia

Letters and postcards to Colonel Bailey, including letters relating to Tibet and the Younghusband expedition, 1904-1947

  1904-1947 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,780.00
52

Middle East | A collection of 13 maps

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,528.00
25 Charles Henry Spencer Churchill

Mount Lebanon. A Ten Years' Residence.

 1853, [1862] GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,276.00
46

Painting of Mecca showing the Kaaba and the Masjid al-Haram

 [1873] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,024.00
  • 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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  • 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.
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