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
151 Hulsius, Levinus

Sechste Theil. Kurtze Warhafftige Relation und Beschreibung der Wunderbarsten vier Schiffarten.

Nuremberg 1603 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,800.00
152 Hurley, Frank

Collection of photographs taken during Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Transantarctic Endurance Expedition of 1914-1916

USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 168,000.00
153 Hyginus, Gaius Julius

Poetica astronomica (ed: Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes Lucilius Santritter).

Venice USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,200.00
154 Hyginus, Gaius Julius

De mundi et sphaerae ac utriusq[ue] partium declaratione cum planetis et variis signis historiatis.

Venice 24 March 1517 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,640.00
155

(Iceland) Collection of 8 works in 9 volumes

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
156

(Inuits) A collection of 8 works in 9 volumes

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 12,000.00
157

(Inuits) Collection of 34 works in 37 volumes on Inuits

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,320.00
158

(Inuit Language) (Bible). Salomonib Okalagalaningit Profeteniglo. The Proverbs of Solomon and the Prophecies of Jeremiah, Ezekial, Daniel and the Twelve Minor Prophets:...

London 1849 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,000.00
159 James, Captain Thomas

The Dangerous Voyage of Capt. Thomas James, in his intended Discovery of a North-West Passage into the South Sea.

London 1740 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
160 Johnson, Charles

A General History of the Pyrates, from their first rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time. With the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny. ...

London 1724 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 10,800.00
161 Johnson, Charles

A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, etc. To which is added A Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Notorious Pyrates.

London 1734 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,000.00
162 Kerguelen Tremarec, Yves-Joseph de

Relation de deux voyages dans les mers Australes & des Indes. ...

Paris 1782 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,200.00
163 (Kidd, Captain William) --- [John Mitchell]

A Full Account of the Proceedings, in relation to Capt. Kidd. In two letters. Written by a person of Quality to a Kinsman of the Earl of Bellomont in Ireland.

London 1701 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,640.00
164 King, Richard

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean.

London 1836 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,600.00
165 Kohlmeister, Benjamin and Kmoch, George

Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay.

London 1814 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,040.00
166 Kotzebue, Otto von

Entdeckungs-Reise in die Sud-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordostlichen Durchfahrt: unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817, und 1818.

Weimar 1821 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,200.00
167 Kotzebue, Otto von

Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea, and to Behring's Straits, in Search of a North-East Passage; Undertaken in the Years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the Ship Rurick.

London 1821 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
168 La Peyrere, Isaac de

Relation du Groenland.

Paris 1647 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
169

(Lapland) Carolus Linnaeus. Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescents.

Amsterdam 1737 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,880.00
170

(Lapland) A collection of 14 works in 17 volumes

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
171 Leem, Knud

Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper, deres Tungemaal, Levemaade og forrige Afgudsdyrkelse.

Copenhagen 1767 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,000.00
172 Leupoldus, Duke of Austria

Compilatio de astrorum scientia.

Augsburg 9 January 1489 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,400.00
173 Lisiansky, Urey

A Voyage Round the World, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, in the Ship Neva.

London 1814 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,000.00
174 [Longueville, Peter]

The Hermit: Or, the Unparalled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman.

Westminster 1727 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
175 Mackenzie, Alexander

Voyages from Montreal, on the river of St. Laurence, through the continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the years 1789 and 1793.

London 1801 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,360.00
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