Bonhams: Travel & Exploration, including the Roger Ward Photography Collection, 32186, London

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 15, 2026 - July 15, 2026
Page Size: 122 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
190 Cammidge H.C.

Group of 49 views or portraits/genre

1860s/70s GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
191 Miller Milton

Portrait of Liu Ch'ang-yu, the Governor-General of Canton, Kwangtung and Kwangsi

c.1861 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
192 Saunders William

Chinese official's (Mandarin's) procession

c.1870-1900 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
193 Saunders William

Group of 11 trades or genre scenes

c.1860s/70s GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
194 Saunders William

Studio portrait of two musicians; and another of two blind musicians

c.1870 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
195

Two collage photo images of young Chinese women

1880s GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
196 Williamson Alexander; Lanning George; Couling Samuel; Hubner Joseph Alexander von; Ogawa Kazumasa

4 Books, including: Journeys in North China

Bristol; Shanghai; Paris; Beijing 1870; 1921-1923; 1877; 2000 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
197 Fenton Roger

The Council of War held on the morning of the taking of the Mamelon

Manchester 1855 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
198 Paier Christian

Views of Egypt

1860s-1880s GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
199 Bourne Samuel; Shepherd; Robertson; Biggs Thomas

Views and portrait groups of India and Sri Lanka

1880s GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
200 Naya Carlo

Album of 144 albumen print views of Venice; and another album

1880s GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
201 Kuwada Seisindo

Japan Kiyotomeishho

late nineteenth century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
202 Uchida Kuichi

Album of 45 photographs

1880s GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
203

Album of 50 tinted albumen photographs of group studies and portrait types and views of Japan

1880s GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
204 Beato Felice

Forty-seven views of Japan, and 14 portraits or genre types

1860s-80s GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
205

Album of 56 views

c.1890-1900 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
206

A collection of 16 portraits, street groups, or views of Korea

1890s GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
207 Ludolf Hiob

Historia Aethiopica; sive, Brevis et succinta descriptio regni Habessinorum, quod vulgo male Presbyteri Johannis vocatur

Frankfurt 1681 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
208 Sutcliffe Frank Meadow

A group of 27 large views

1860s, printed later; 1890s GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
209

A group of eighteen views, street scenes and colonial residencies of Sarawak, and portraits of local inhabitants

1922 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
210

A collection of portraits and views in Thailand/Siam, Malaya, Indonesia, and Singapore

1860s-1880s GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
211

The photography reference library of Roger Ward

c.1970-2020s GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000