Bonhams: Americana, Natural History, and Travel, 29515, New York

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October 24, 2024 - October 24, 2024
Page Size: 102 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 BOWEN, WILLIAM WARD. 1784-1839.

Calumny Refuted: an Answer to the Exposition of Thomas H. Lewis.

New Orleans 1839 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 896.00
77 WHITAKER, JOHN S. 1817-1897.

Sketches of Life and Character in Louisiana.

New Orleans 1847 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 563.20
78 Cohen, A. and H.

Cohen's New Orleans Directory: Including Jefferson City, Carrollton, Gretna, Algiers and McDonogh, for 1853.

New Orleans 1852 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 588.80
79 NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC HEALTH.

Report of the Sanitary Commission of New Orleans on the Epidemic Yellow Fever, of 1853.

New Orleans 1854 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,024.00
80 MARIGNY, BERNARD DE. 1785-1868.

Thoughts upon the Foreign Policy of the United States....

New Orleans 1854 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,280.00
81 ROUQUETTE, ADRIEN. 1813-1887.

L'Antoniade ou La Solitude Avec Dieu.

New Orleans 1860 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 307.20
82 GRAVIER, GABRIEL, editor.

Relation du voyage des dames religieuses ursulines de Rouen a la Nouvelle-Orleans.

Paris 1872 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 140.80
83 WILLIAM STRUVE. 1872?--1937.

Blue Book.

[New Orleans:] 1912 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,048.00
84

Ten works about or from New Orleans:

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 409.60
85 BYRD, RICHARD EVELYN. 1888-1957.

40 original photographs of Byrd's second Arctic Expedition by Joseph A. Carpenter, ship's carpenter aboard the Bear of Oakland,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 614.40
86 COOK, JAMES. 1728-1779.

Cook's Voyages.

London 1773 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
87 LAFITAU, JOSEPH FRANCOIS. 1681-1746.

Moeurs des sauvages Ameriquains, comparees aux moeurs des premiers temps.

Paris 1724 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 640.00
88 LA PEROUSE, JEAN FRANCOIS GALAUP DE. 1741-1788.

Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde.

Paris An V [1797]. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,096.00
89 ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. 1527-1598.

Parergon sive Veteris Geographiae aliquot Tabulae. [Theatrum orbis terrarum....]

[Antwerp c.1595.] USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,360.00
90 HEINE, WILHELM.

Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition.

New York 1856 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,160.00
91 VARGAS PONCE, JOSE DE. 1760-1821.

Relacion del Ultimo Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes.

Madrid 1788-1793. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 832.00
92 FERDINAND II, KING OF ARAGON. 1452-1516

Document Signed ("Yo el rey"), a privilege for his bodyguard Sancho Sanchez of Avila

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,560.00
93 [ALFONSO XI, KING OF CASTILE AND LEON. 1311-1350.]

Chronica del muy esclarescido Principe & Rey don Alfonso el Onzeno deste no(m)bre de los reyes que reynaron en Castilla y en Leon.

Valladolid 1551 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 896.00
94 PHILIP III, KING OF SPAIN. 1598-1621.

Carta executoria of King Philip III of Spain.

Valladolid 1612 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,632.00
95 CABRERA DE CORDOBA, LUIS. 1559-1623.

Historia del rey Don Phelipe el segundo de las Espanas.

[Madrid 1619.] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
96 CARLOS II, KING OF SPAIN. 1665-1700.

Carta executoria of King Carlos II of Spain.

Valladolid 1685 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,632.00
97

The Achievement of the Right Honourable William Lord Fitzwilliam of Liffer in the Kingdom of Ireland.

[Ireland or England c.1715.] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,632.00
98 MICHELOT, HENRI, and LAURENT BREMOND.

[Le Portulan de partie de la mar Mediterrannee.]

[Marseilles 1715-1726.] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,376.00
99 [MOLESWORTH, RICHARD, VISCOUNT. 1680-1758.]

Manuscript book of general orders of the Regiments of Foot at Dublin Castle, 1750-1755,

1750-1755 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,328.00
100 SCHULTENS, ALBERT, editor. 1686-1750.

Vita et res gestae Sultani, almalichi alnasiri, Saladini.

Leiden 1755 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 563.20
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