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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 297 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
255 Fordyce (Lieut. Alex. Dingwall)

Maritime.- Navy.- Outlines of Naval Routine

1837 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 355.60
256 [Bernacchi (L.C.) and others]

Polar.- The Polar Book

[1930] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 381.00
257 Borchgrevink (C. E.)

Polar.- First on the Antarctic Continent

1901 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 698.50
258 Fuchs (Sir Vivian) and Sir Edmund Hillary

Polar.- The Crossing of Antarctica

1958 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 889.00
259 Parry (William Edward)

Polar.- Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific

1821 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 228.60
260 Shackleton (Ernest H.)

Polar.- The Heart of the Antarctic

1909 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
261 Charcot (Dr. Jean)

Polar.- Antarctica.- The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic

[1911] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 698.50
262 Bulkeley (John) & James Cummins

Voyages.- A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740-1

Philadelphia 1757 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 215.90
263 Murray-Oliver (Anthony)

Voyages.- Captain Cook's Artists in the Pacific 1769-1779

New Zealand 1969 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 698.50
264 Parry (William Edward)

Voyages.- Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific

1824 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,016.00
265 Vincent (William)

Voyages.- The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea

1800 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
266 Acton (Roger)

Africa.- Ethiopia.- The Abyssinian Expedition and the Life and Reign of King Theodore

1920s-30s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 381.00
267 [Saleb (Lieutenant Colonel Hamed)]

Africa.- [Egyptian Army. Maps, Aerial Photographs, Field Drawings, Land Navigation]

[Cairo] [1949] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
268 Statham (Colonel J.C.B.)

Africa.- Through Angola: A Coming Colony

1922 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 95.25
269

Asia.- Singapore 1936-1937, c.170 vintage photographic prints, mounted on thin card

[Singapore] [c.1937] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80
270 Langlois (Hyacinthe, publisher)

Atlas.- Nouvel atlas portatif er itineraire de l'Europe

Paris 1819 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
271 Canadian School (19th century)

Canadiana.- Spencer Wood, Quebec, the Seat of M. H. Perceval, Esqr.

[circa 1820 or slightly later] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,413.00
272 Ellis (Henry)

China.- Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China

1817 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 635.00
273 Garstang (John)

Egypt.- The Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt, plates, some folding, newspaper clippings about Egypt loosely inserted, scattered spotting or foxing and marginal toning, cracking at gutter

1907 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
274

Europe.- Costume.- De Moleville (Bertrand) The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria

1804 [but c.1820] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 304.80
275 Skelton (Joseph)

Europe.- Historical Illustrations of the Chateau D'Eu

1844 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 457.20
276 Charpentier (Henri, editor)

France.- Paris dans sa Splendeur

Paris 1861 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 431.80
277

France.- Monaco.- Descriptive Catalogue (A) of Chateau Malet, the Residence of Sir Edward and Lady Ermyntrude Malet...

1898 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
278 Drinkwater (John)

Gibraltar.- A History of the late Siege of Gibraltar

1785 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
279

India.- [Photograph Albums]

c.1931-37 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 952.50
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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