Sothebys: The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure - online 11/25, N11633, New York

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Auction Date: December 09, 2024 - December 09, 2024

Page Size: 312 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51	Cherry-Garrard, Apsley	The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913.	London	1922	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,040.00
52	Cherry-Garrard, Apsley	The Worst Journey in the World.	New York	[1922]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 6,000.00
53	[Clerke, Charles]	A Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Ship the Dolphin, Commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron,...	London	1767	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
54	Collins, John	The Mariner's Plain Scale New Plain'd (Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale new plain'd).	London	1659	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 2,160.00
55	Colnett, James	A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean: for the Purpose of Extending the Spermaceti Whale Fisheries, and Other Objects of Commerce.	London	1798	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,120.00
56	Colson, (Nathaniel)	The Mariners New Kalendar.	London	1675	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,040.00
57	(Columbus, Christopher)	Collection of 4 works in 4 volumes			USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 9,600.00
58	(Cook, Captain James)--- Louis Antoine de Bougainville and James Magra	Voyage autour du Monde, par la Fregate du Roi La Boudeuse, et la Flute l'Etoile, en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769 [with:] ...	Neuchatel	1772-1773	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,040.00
59	(Cook, Captain James) --- John Hawkesworth	An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, ...	London	1773	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,640.00
60	(Cook, Captain James) --- Captain King	A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere...	New York	1796	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,680.00
61	(Cook, Captain James) --- [Marra, John]	Journal of the Resolution's Voyage, In 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775, on Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere...	Dublin	1776	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 960.00
62	Cook, Captain James	A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775.	London	1777	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 19,200.00
63	Cook, Captain James	A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World. Performed in his majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure in the years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775.	London	1777	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,880.00
64	(Cook, Captain James) --- George Forster [and Johann Reinhold Forster]	A Voyage Round the World, In His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5...	London	1777	USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,560.00
65	(Cook, Captain James) --- Anders Sparrman,	Collection of 4 works in 7 volumes in English, French, and Swedish			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
66	Cook, Captain James Cook	A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.	Dublin	1784	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
67	(Cook, Captain James) --- Captain James Burney	A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians.	London	1819	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,320.00
68	(Cook, Captain James) --- G.W. Anderson	A Collection of Voyages Round the World: Performed by Royal Authority.	London	1790	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,080.00
69	(Cook, Captain James)	Collection of 9 works in 9 volumes			USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
70	Cooke, Captain Edward	A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World.	London	1712	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
71	Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria	Epitome cosmografica, o Compendiosa introduttione ll''stronomia, geografia, & idrografia.	Cologne [but, Venice]	1693	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 7,800.00
72	Coxe, William	Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America. To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China.	London	1780	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,920.00
73	Cranz, David	Historie von Gronland enthaltend Die Beschrsreibung des Landes und der Einwohner... .	Leipzig and Barby	1765	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 840.00
74	Crozet, Julien-Marie --- Alexis Marie Rochon (editor)	Nouveau Voyage a la Mer du Sud...	Paris	1783	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
75	Curtis, Edward S.	The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska.	[Cambridge, Mass.]	1930	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,640.00

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