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
126 (Franklin, Sir John)

Collection of works regarding the Franklin Search, 18 works in 20 volumes

USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 4,560.00
127 (Franklin, John, Sir)

Collection of works regarding the Franklin Search, being 4 works in 5 volumes

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,600.00
128 (Franklin, Sir John)

Collection of works regarding the Franklin Search, being 6 works in 6 volumes

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,880.00
129 (Franklin, John, Sir)

Collection of works regarding the Franklin Search, being 14 works in 16 volumes

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,800.00
130 Frobisher, Sir Martin and Dionyse Settle

I. N. J. Historia navigationis Martini Forbisseri Angli Praetoris sive Capitanei, A. C. 1577 ...

Hamburg 1675 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,400.00
131 Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo

Theatrum mundi, et temporis, in quo non solum precipuae horum partes describentur ... sed accomodatissimis figuris sub oculos legentium facile ponuntur.

Venice 1588 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,200.00
132 Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo

Della fabrica et uso di diversi stromenti di astronomia et cosmografia.

Venice 1597 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,760.00
133 Gonzalez de Agueros, Pedro

Descripcion historial de la provincia y archipielago de Chiloe, en el reyno de Chile.

[Madrid], 1791 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,640.00
134

(Greenland) Collection of 3 works in 3 volumes

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,040.00
135 Paul and Hans Egede

(Greenland) --- Collection of works on Greenland by Paul and Hans Egede, 5 works in 5 volumes

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,800.00
136

(Greenland) Collection of 31 works in 33 volumes

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,800.00
137

(Greenlandic) Collection of 4 works in 23 volumes

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
138 Gunter, Edmund

The Works ... containing the Description and Use of the Sector, Cross-staff, Bow, Quadrant, and other instruments ... the fifth edition.

London 1673 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
139 Habrecht, Isaac, II and Christoph Sturm

Planiglobium coeleste et terrestre, Platte Stern-und Lander-Kugel.

Nuremberg 1666 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,000.00
140 Hacke, William

A Collection of Original Voyages:

London 1699 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,840.00
141 Hakluyt, Richard

The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land, to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth.

London 1598 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,200.00
142 Hakluyt, Richard

The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or ouer-land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres.

London 1598-1600 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,000.00
143

(Hakluyt Society---The Argonaut Press---Golden Hind) 76 volumes

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 960.00
144 Harris, John

Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca.

London 1764 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,200.00
145 Hawkins, Sir Richard

The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins ... in his voiage into the South Sea. Anno Domini 1593.

London 1622 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,200.00
146 Hearne, Samuel

A Journey from Prince of Wales' Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. ...

London 1795 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
147 Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de

Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appele aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde ... avec La Navigation du vaillant Capitaine de Mer Jaques le Maire.

Amsterdam 1622 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,600.00
148

(Hudson's Bay Company) Report from the Committee, Appointed to enquire into the State and Condition of the Countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, and of the Trade carried on there. .

[London 24 April 1749 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
149

(Hudson's Bay) Collection of 3 works in 4 volumes

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
150

(Hudson's Bay) Collection of voyages and explorations, 5 works

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
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