Bonhams: Travel and Exploration, 29375, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Date
December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024
Page Size: 70 items in 3 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
163 BRUCE (JAMES)

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768... 1773, 5 vol., together with volume 8 "containing the plates of maps" of the second edition,

Edinburgh 1790; 1805 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 358.40
164 After Henry Salt

Six views of Ethiopia

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 460.80
165 EAST AFRICA MISSIONARIES

Two manuscript journals of young missionary James S. Seden (c.1853-1924); with manuscript Gospel of St Matthew in Swahili, and associated volumes (6)

1876-1877 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 768.00
166 STERN (IRMA)

Zanzibar, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 134 OF 150 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES,

Pretoria 1948 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
167 ZANZIBAR, SLAVERY AND SIR JOHN KIRK

Two documents relating to John Kirk's efforts to end slavery in Zanzibar, 5 Sept. 1890 (2)

1890 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
171 EKEBERG (CARL GUSTAV)

Ostindiska Resa aren 1770 och 1771,

Stockholm 1773 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 256.00
172 LEVAILLANT (FRANCOIS)

Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, par le cap de Bonne-Esperance; Second voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, 1798-1803

Paris An VI [1798]; An XI 1803, GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
173 ORME (EDWARD, publisher)

A Collection of Portraits of the Savage Tribes Inhabiting the Boundaries of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope,

1822 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,176.00
174 ANGAS (GEORGE FRENCH)

The Kafirs Illustrated in a Series of Drawings...,

1849 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
175 ALBERTI (JOHANN CHRISTOPH LUDWIG)]

Zuid-Afrikaansche Gezichten,

[Amsterdam 1810] GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 896.00
176 ROUPELL (ARABELLA E.)]

Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady,

1849] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,920.00
177 LIVINGSTONE (DAVID)

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, 1857; and 2 others by J.H. Speke and F. Oates on Africa (3)

1857 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 140.80
178 LIVINGSTONE (DAVID) & STANLEY

Autograph letter signed, making arrangements to stay in Kendal before the 1858 Zambesi expedition; with two letters by Henry Morton Stanley (3)

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,216.00
179 STANLEY (HENRY MORTON)

In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria,

1890 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 435.20
180 STANLEY (HENRY MORTON)

How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa,

1889 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 768.00
181 STANLEY (HENRY MORTON)

Through the Dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean, 2 vol., ,

New York [1878] GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 768.00
184 CAZABON (MICHEL JEAN)

Views of Trinidad,

Paris 1851 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 19,200.00
186 SLOANE (HANS)

A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, 2 vol.,

1707-1725 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,320.00
187 OGILBY (JOHN)

America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World,

1671 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
188 After George Catlin

Buffalo Hunt, Chase; Attacking the Grizzly Bear; Antelope Hunt, a set of three

GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 832.00
189 GRAHAM (MARIA)

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil and Residence There, during Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823,

1824 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 640.00
194 SCHMIDTMEYER (PETER)

Travels into Chile, Over the Andes, in the Years 1820 and 1821,

1824 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 640.00
195 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,

1795 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,152.00
196 ROSS (JOHN)

A Voyage of Discovery,

1819 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 704.00
197 ARCTIC EXPLORERS

Group of correspondence relating to Arctic explorers, including Franklin, John and James Ross, Parry, Back, McLintock, and others (12)

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,560.00
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