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
202 ROYDS (CHARLES)

Autograph letter signed, to Admiral Markham, giving a report on the performance of the Discovery, Lyttleton, New Zealand, 10 December [19]01

Lyttleton, New Zealand 10 December [19]01 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,560.00
203 OATES (LAWRENCE 'TITUS')

Autograph letter signed, days prior to his departure on the , 10 June [19]10

[19]10 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
204 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

Autograph letter signed, to Rev. Rosslyn Bruce, regarding his marriage, and 4 other associated letters (5)

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 5,376.00
205 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

Autograph letter signed, Chelsea, 30 October [1904/1905]

[1904/1905] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
206 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

Typed letter signed, to B.H. Keall of Kirton Grammar School; with signed receipt, February 1910 (2)

1910 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
207 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

Autograph letter signed, 12 June [1910]; with photographic postcard

1910 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,048.00
208 STONE (BERNARD J.)

Autograph letter signed ("Bern... Antarctic Explorer 'I don't think so'"), "S.Y. Terra Nova, Antarctic", 24 January [19]13; with envelope (2)

[19]13 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,560.00
209 MARKHAM (CLEMENTS R.) AND EDWARD EVANS

Two autograph letters signed by Markham, n.d. and 1897; and another by Evans, [c.1917]

n.d. and 1897; [c.1917] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 704.00
210 CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY)

The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vol.,

1922 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,152.00
211 CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY)

The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vol.,

[1922] GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,024.00
212 BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-1904

Album of Photographs and Sketches with a Portfolio of Panoramic Views, 2 vol.,

1908 (2) GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
213 PONTING (HERBERT)

"The 'Terra Nova' at the Ice Foot, Cape Evans", [16 January, 1911]

1911 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,072.00
214 PONTING (HERBERT)

"Grotto in an Iceberg", [5 January 1911]

1911 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,560.00
214A PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)

"The 'Terra Nova' in McMurdo Sound", SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, [January, 1911]

1911 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
215 PONTING (HERBERT)

"An Iceberg off Cape Royds", [13 February 1911]

1911 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,560.00
216 PONTING (HERBERT G.) and others.

Collection of 87 direct positive glass lantern lecture slides relating to Scott's ill-fated expedition

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,152.00
217 PONTING (HERBERT)

"The Terra Nova Entering the Pack Ice",

[1910, printed 1920s] GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,664.00
218 SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY), L.C. BERNACCHI and APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD, .

South Polar Times, 3 vol.,

1907-1914 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
219 HURLEY (FRANK)

A Shattered Surface [Ice field]', 'Young Floe-ice of Adelie Land', 'Weather-worn Pack Ice near the Antarctic Circle', 'A Terminal Moraine',

[Between 1911-1914] GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 153.60
220 MURRAY (JAMES) AND GEORGE MARSTON

Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men,

1913 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,584.00
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