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Auction Name	Online Sale: Travel Books, Maps and Atlases	Total Sales (GBP)	96,973.98
Auction Date	March 07, 2024 - March 07, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	57,650.00
Sale Number	#2661	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	83,300.00
Total Lots	220
Sold Lots	191	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	66,400.00
% of Lots Sold	86.82%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	96,150.00
Unsold Lots	29	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	100.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
135		Middle East.- Persian Gulf Pilot. Comprising The Persian Gulf and its Approaches, from Ras al Hadd, in the South-West, to Cape Monze, in the West, eighth edition,	1932	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 5,796.00
204	Abbe Prevost	Histoire Generale des Voyages ou Nouvelle Collection de toutes les Relations de Voyages par Mer et par Terre	1746-1770	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 4,032.00
20	Matthaeus Merian	Virginia. Erforshet und Beschriben durch Capitain Iohan Schmidt, engraved map	c.1627	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,886.40
91	Edward Lear	Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 2 vol. comprising first and second series, first edition	1846	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,394.00
200		Turkey.- [Plan and map of Constantinople and it's environs, 1827, engraved map	1828	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,099.20
28	Maximilian von Sonnenstern	Mapa de La Republica de Nicaragua Levantado por Orden del Gobierno	1863	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,836.80
9	Robert Hay	Illustrations of Cairo, first edition	1840	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,764.00
60	Captain James Alms	Monmouth's Log Book Comm. June 20th 1783	1781-4.	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,705.60
93	Giovanni Battista Nolli	Urbis Ichnographiam a Leonardo Bufalino Ligneis Formis Evulgatam Servata Proportione Contractam Atq. Aeri incsam Jo. Bapta. Nolli..., engraved map	c.1748	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,574.40
168	(Georg) and Franz Hogenberg. Braun	and Franz Hogenberg. Olissippo quae nunc Lisboa, Civitas Amplissima Lusitaniae, ad Tagum..., engraved map	circa 1572-1617	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,574.40
84		India.- Photograph Album of Indian Views,	c.1890s	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,512.00
159	Apsley Cherry-Garrard	The Worst Journey in the World, 2 vol., first edition, from the library of a member of the Terra Nova expedition	1922	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,386.00
191	Thomas Roscoe	& W. H. Harrison. The Tourist in Spain, 5 vol., large paper copies, illustrated by David Roberts and James Holland,	1835-39	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,386.00
92	Giovanni Battista Nolli	La Topografia di Roma di Gio. Batta. Nolli dalla maggiore in questa minor tavola dal medesimo ridotta, engarved plan	c.1748	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,312.00
152	Abraham Ortelius	Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip., engraved map	c.1571	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,312.00
41	William Camden	Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English...by Edmund Gibson, F. Collins, for A. Swalle...and A. & J. Churchill	1695	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,260.00
80	William Hodges	Four plates from 'Select Views in India, drawn on the Spot, in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783	c.1785-1788	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,180.80
83	Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke	Four plates from 'Views in the Neilgherry & Koondah, Western Ghauts, Madras, at & about the Stations of Ootacamund and Concor, and the Segoor, Koondah and Cono...	1847	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,180.80
157	Robert Neal Rudmose Brown	The Voyage of the "Scotia" being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic Seas, first edition, inscribed "George Lockhart Ross from his ever affect. ...	1906	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,134.00
182	Alfred Russel Wallace	A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, first edition	1853	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,134.00
148	E. A. Fitz Gerald	& Stuart Vines. The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina ..., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by con...	1899	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,008.00
8	Samuel Daniell	Seven plates from 'African Scenery and Animals', lithographs	1831	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 918.40
216	Captain James King	A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, vol. 3 only (of 3)	1784	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 882.00
58	Johannes Blaeu	Nanking sive Kiangnan, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Nona, engraved map	c.1655	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 852.80
56	Maurice Karns	& Pat Patterson. Shanghai: High Lights Low Lights Tael Lights, first edition,	1936	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 819.00

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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000

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