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

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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
105

GEORGE YACOUB COLLECTION OF MAPS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND LEVANT

 GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 33,280.00
108 KNOLLES (RICHARD) AND PAUL RYCAUT

The Turkish History, from the Origin of That Nation to the Growth of the Ottoman Empire: with the lives and conquests of their princes and emperours...

 1687 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 960.00
109

OTTOMAN TURKEY MAP, IN ARABIC

 Istanbul 1888 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
120 OGILBY (JOHN)

Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid

 1670 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
127 STANLEY (HENRY MORTON)

Through the Dark Continent, 2 vol.

 1878 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,280.00
131 CHRISTALLER (JOHANN GOTTLIEB)

A Grammar of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi [Chwee, Twi]: Based on the Akuapem Dialect, 1875; ...

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
132 BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.)

Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol.

 1822-1824 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,152.00
133 LIVINGSTONE (DAVID)

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 704.00
134 LIVINGSTONE (DAVID)

Autograph letter signed ("David Livingstone") to the Rev. Joseph Turnbull

 1857 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,024.00
143 [CAZABON (MICHEL JEAN)] HARTMANN (HIPPOLYTE)

Album Martiniquais, lithographed title and 12 tinted lithographed views by Eugene Ciceri,

 Paris c.1860 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,304.00
144 LYELL (CHARLES)

A Second Visit to the United States of North America, 2 vol.,

 1849 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 166.40
145 CURTIS (EDWARD S.)

Spirit of the Past, Apsaroke, 1908

 1908, printed later GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
146

The North-West Coast of America being Results of Recent Ethnological Researches from the Collections of the Royal Museums at Berlin

 New York 1885 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 115.20
149 NANSEN (FRIDTJOF)

Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration on the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen,

 1897 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,024.00
150 PEARY (ROBERT E.)

The North Pole,

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 614.40
152 William Edward Parry

ARCTIC EXPLORATION -- PARRY & MCKINLEY Copy letter from William Edward Parry to Lord Melville, secretarial,

 26 November 1825 to 23 May 1826 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,144.00
153

ARCTIC EXPLORATION -- FRANKLIN, BACK & MCCLINTOCK Series of nine autograph letters to Admiral George McKinley (1766-1852) and his daughter, from his friend John Franklin and other figures of Arctic exploration,

 8 February 1826 to 20 September 1837 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 46,080.00
154 SOPER (GEORGE)

DISCOVERY' EXPEDITION, 1901-1904 "Relief of Capt. Scott after the Furthest South Expedition",

1903 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 960.00
155 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 vol.

 1905 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
156 AMUNDSEN (ROALD)

The South Pole. An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912,

1912 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,144.00
157

AMUNDSEN'S NORWEGIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1912 Danish pocket aneroid marine barometer belonging to Jorgen Stubberud,

Denmark c.1910 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 7,680.00
158 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

The Voyage of the 'Discovery', vol. 1 (of 2)

 1905 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,584.00
159 ARMITAGE (ALBERT B.)

Two Years in the Antarctic. Being a Narrative of the British National Antarctic Expedition

 1905 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,152.00
160 John Donald Morrison,

ANTARCTIC RELIEF EXPEDITIONS, 1902-1904 Sixteen photographs, attributable to Chief Engineer John Donald Morrison,

1902-1904 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,216.00
161 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

Scott's Last Expedition... Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Vol. II. Being the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition, 2 vol.

 1913 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,072.00
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    Year in Review
    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
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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