Bonhams: Travel and Exploration Sale, 30894, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Page Size: 58 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Sarah Hall (1846-1921)

TRAVEL JOURNALS Thirteen volumes of manuscript travel journals written by Sarah Hall (1846-1921) of Sheffield,

 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
2

A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCLXXII, LXXIII, LXXIV, LXXV. By Captain James Cook [sic], Commander of His Majesty's Bark The Resolution...

1781 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
6 ANGAS (GEORGE FRENCH)

The New Zealanders Illustrated

 1847 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
23

O-Edo ezu, Tokugawa era map of Old Edo [Tokyo]

 1750 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 768.00
36 some by William Saunders

SHANGHAI, CANTON, BEIJING, PORTRAITS AND GROUPS - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of 61 Chinese views,

c.1870s 80s GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 4,608.00
38 BRETON DE LA MARTINIERE (JEAN-BAPTISTE)

China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c., 4 vol. bound in 2

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 256.00
63 Henry Whistler

HANKOU - MERCHANT TRADER'S DIARIES Day diaries of Henry Whistler for 1883-1911,

 c.1878-1911 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,400.00
64 SEWALL (JOHN KIRK)

Shanghai, colour-printed pictorial map, populated with illustrations of numerous local "types" in silhouette,

Shanghai c.1930 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,088.00
65 HU (HSEN-HSU) AND WOON-YOUNG CHU, editors.

Icones Plantarum Sinicarum, Fascicles 3-5 (of 5),

 Beijing 1933-1937 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 140.80
68 KAI-SHEK (CHIANG) AND SOONG MEI-LING

Sian: A Coup d'Etat... A Fortnight in Sian: Extracts From a Diary

 Shanghai 1937-05-01 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,408.00
69 DANIELL (THOMAS AND WILLIAM)

A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the Way of China,

 1810 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,096.00
73 HOWARD-BURY (CHARLES KENNETH)

Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,216.00
76 Captain Thomas Williams (b.1846)

INDIA - MARITIME LOG BOOKS Papers of Welsh-born Master Mariner, Captain Thomas Williams (b.1846),

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,816.00
77 BLAGDON (FRANCIS WILLIAM)

A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India, for the Earliest Periods of Antiquity to the Termination of the Late Mahratta War

 1805 plates watermarked 1827-1828 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 14,080.00
84 MALCOLM (JOHN)

Sketch of the Sikhs, a Singular Nation, Who Inhabit the Provinces of the Penjab [sic], Situated Between the Rivers Jumna and Indus

 1812 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,048.00
86 HOISINGTON (HENRY RICHARD, translator)

The Oriental Astronomer: Being a Complete System of Hindu Astronomy, 2 parts in 1 vol

 Jaffna 1848 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 704.00
87 FORBES (WILLIAM, of the Bombay Civil Service)

A Grammar of the Goojratee Language with Exercises, Dialogues and Stories for the Assistance of the Student of the Colloquial Language of Goojrat

 Bombay Mumbai 1829 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,536.00
94 [APPERLEY (C

CALCUTTA IMPRINTS

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 704.00
95 Cartwright family

CALCUTTA, BENGAL, DURBAR, POLO, MILITARY AND COLONIAL LIFE - PHOTOGRAPHY Five photograph albums,

 1880s-1910s GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,664.00
96 WADDELL (CLYDE)

A Yank's Memories of Calcutta,

Houston 1946 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 832.00
97

MUMBAI, SRI LANKA, EGYPT, SUEZ AND MALTA - PHOTOGRAPHY Two albums of photographs,

GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,920.00
98 STEPHENS (IAN)

Collection of approximately 155 photograph portraits (and some views, groups) taken in 1950s northern Pakistan, Waziristan and Kashmir

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 896.00
100 Capt. F.E. Johnson...

[al-Sab al-Muallaquat] The Seven Poems, Suspended in the Temple of Mecca, Translated from the Arabic by Capt. F.E. Johnson...

 Bombay 1893 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,408.00
101 SOUBHY (SALEH DR.)

Pelerinage a la Mecque et a la Medine. Precede d'un apercu sur l'Islamisme et suivi de considerations generales au point de vue sanitaire et d'un appendice sur la circoncision

 Cairo 1894 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
104 ROBERTS (DAVID)

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia From Drawings Made on the Spot by David Roberts, With Historical Descriptions by the Revd George Croly, 6 vol.

 1855-1856 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,584.00
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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