Sothebys: The Library of Jean-Paul Morin/Never Lost at Sea, pf2585, Paris

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 160 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 Lobo, Jerome

Voyage historique d'Abissinie. Traduite du portugais, continuee & augmentee de plusieurs dissertations, lettres & memoires

 Paris 1728 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,651.00
177 [Poivre, Pierre]

Voyages d'un philosophe ou Observations sur les moeurs & les arts des peuples de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique

 Yverdon 1768 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 635.00
178 [Coetivy, chevalier de]

Extrait du journal de la flutte du Roy l'Isle de France aux archipelles des Philippines et des Moluques

 1771-1772 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,016.00
179 [Charpentier de Cossigny, Joseph-Francois]

Lettre a Mr Sonnerat

 A l'Ile de France 1784 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 3,810.00
180 Le Vaillant, Francois

Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance, dans les annees 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85

 Paris 1790 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
181 Grandpre, Louis Ohier, comte de

Voyage a la cote occidentale d'Afrique, fait dans les annees 1786 et 1787

 Paris An IX - 1801 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 508.00
182 Alberti, Louis

Description physique et historique des Cafres sur la Cote meridionale de l'Afrique

 Amsterdam 1811 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
183 Correard Alexandre -- Jean-Baptiste Savigny

Naufrage de la fregate La Meduse, faisant partie de l'expedition du Senegal, en 1816

 Paris 1818 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 635.00
184 Bowdich, Edward T.

Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of other Parts of the Interior of Africa

 London 1819 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 762.00
185 Denham Dixon -- Hugues Clapperton

Voyages et decouvertes dans le nord et dans les parties centrales de l'Afrique, au travers du grand desert, jusqu'au 10e degre de latitude nord, et depuis Kouka, dans le Bornou, jusqu'a Sackatou, capitale de l'empire des Felatah

 Paris 1826 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 254.00
186 [Iles Maurice et Bourbon]

Voyage aux Iles Maurice et Bourbon, a la cote Coromandel et a Calcutta

 1841-1846 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 635.00
187 Gouhot, Francois

Memoire sur la colonisation et la conquete de l'ile de Madagascar

 1842 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,270.00
188 Raffenel, Anne

Voyage dans l'Afrique occidentale comprenant l'exploration du Senegal, depuis Saint-Louis jusqu'a la Faleme, au-dela de Bakel

 Paris 1846 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 635.00
189 Descamps, Henry

Histoire et geographie de Madagascar depuis la decouverte de l'ile, en 1506, jusqu'a nos jours

 Paris 1846 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
190 Boilat, David

Esquisses senegalaises. Physionomie du pays, peuplades, commerce, religions, passe et avenir, recits et legendes

 Paris 1853 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,397.00
191 Mouchez, Ernest

Missions en Algerie

 1867-1876 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 127.00
192 Mouchez, Ernest

17 lettres et documents manuscrits, certains autographes, relatifs au canal de Suez

 1869-1870 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,270.00
193 Lesseps, Ferdinand de

Lettres, journal et documents pour servir a l'histoire du canal de Suez (1854 - 1855 - 1856)

 Paris 1875-1881 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,985.00
194 Bertillon, capitaine Hector Emile

Travail d'hiver. Guerre sud-africaine

 1899-1900 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 889.00
195 Gide, Andre - Marc Allegret

Voyage au Congo

 Paris 1929 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 762.00
196 Cortes, Hernan

[Preclara de nova maris Oceani Hyspania narratio]

 Nuremberg 1524 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 6,985.00
197 [Mena, Cristobal de, attribue a]

L'histoire de la Terre Neuve du Peru en l'Inde Occidentale, qui est la principale mine d'or du monde, nagueres descouverte, & conquise, & nommee la nouvelle Castille, traduitte d'Italien en Francoys

 Paris 1545 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 15,240.00
198 Castanheda, Fernao Lopes de

Histoire des Indes de Portugal, contenant, comment l'Inde a este decouverte, par le commandement du Roy Emanuel, & la guerre que les capitaines Portugalois ont menee pour la conqueste dicelles [...] traduict du Portugais en Francois par Nicolas de Grouchy

 Anvers 1554 EUR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 6,350.00
199 [Portulan - Joan Martines, attribue a]

Carte portulan de la cote atlantique de l'Amerique du Sud

 [Messine] [vers 1570-1591] EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 33,020.00
200 Guichard, Claude

Funerailles & diverses manieres d'ensevelir des Rommains, Grecs et autres nations, tant anciennes que modernes, descrites par Claude Guichard Docteur es droits, & dediees a Treshaut, trespuissant, et tresmagnanime Prince, Charles Emanuel Duc de Savoye

 Lyon 1581 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
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