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Abbey View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$87.50StatusSold Heading(Abbey, John R.)Author**PublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1991 Lot #2 Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland / Life In England / Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J.R. Abbey View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Abbey, John R.)Author**PublisherAlan WofsyDate Published1991 Lot #3 Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. From the Library of J.R. Abbey View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$87.50StatusSold Heading(Abbey, John R.)Author*PublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1991 Lot #24 Keramic Art of Japan View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorAudsley, George Ashdown and James Lord BowesPublisherBy the Authors & Henry SotheranDate Published1875[-80] Lot #26 Album containing approximately 96 mounted prints, most color or hand-colored, including 21 Baxter process color prints\ View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Baxter Color Prints)Author**Date Published19th century Lot #35 The American Practical Dyer's Companion... View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBird, F.J.PublisherHenry Carey Baird & Co.Date Published1882 Lot #48 Recuerdos de Lima. Album tipos, trajes y costumbres View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorBonnaffeì, A.A.Date Published1857 Lot #56 Hudibras View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorButler, SamuelPublisherThomas M'LeanDate Published1819 Lot #72 Costume of the Russian Empire, Illustrated by upwards of Seventy Richly Coloured Engravings... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Costume)Author**PublisherPrinted for E. Harding, et alDate Published1803 Lot #81 The Life, and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabitted Island on the Coast of America near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorDefoe, DanielPublisherPrinted for W. TaylorDate Published1722 Lot #123 Bermuda Houses View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorHumphreys, John S.PublisherMarshall JonesDate Published[1923] Lot #137 XVIIIme Siecle, Lettres, Sciences et Arts France 1700-1789 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorLacroix, PaulPublisherFirmin-DidotDate Published1878 Lot #187 A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorPope, Arthur Upham & Phyllis Ackerman, editorsPublisherUnder the Auspices of the American Institute for Iranian Art & Archaeology, Oxford University PressDate Published1938 Lot #191 The Costume of Great Britain View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorPyne, W[illiam] H[enry]PublisherPrinted for William Miller...by Howlett and BrimmerDate Published1804 [but circa 1821] Lot #192 The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorPyne, W[illiam] H[enry]PublisherA. DryDate Published1819 Lot #203 The Clans of Scotland. Their Tartans, Badges, and War-Cries View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Scots)Author**PublisherRomanes & PatersonDate Publishedc.1892 Lot #259 An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, in South America. Containing a Description of many Curious Productions in the Animal and Vegetable Systems of that Country. Together with an Accoung of the Religion, Manners and Customs of several Tribes of its Indian Inhabitants... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorBancroft , EdwardPublisherT. Beckett & P.A. De HondtDate Published1769 Lot #260 Life Histories of North American Birds, With Special Reference to Their Breeding Habits and Eggs View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBendire, CharlesPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1892 & 1895 Lot #264 Ten [i.e. Forty] Lithographic Coloured Flowers with Botanical Descriptions drawn and coloured by a Lady View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Botanical)Author**PublisherDavid BrownDate Published1826 [but c. 1828] Lot #266 Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain Descriptions and Figures of all North American Birds... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorCassin, JohnPublisherJ.B. Lippincott & Co.Date Published[1853]-56 Lot #273 The Reptiles of British India View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorGünther, Albert C.L.G.PublisherPublished for the Ray Society by Robert HardwickeDate Published1864 Lot #275 Prodome D'une Iconographie Descriptive des Ophidiens View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorJan, M. Le ProfesseurPublisherImprimerie de Mme. Ve. Bouchard-HuzardDate Published1859 Lot #276 The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorJohnstone, William Grosart & Alexander CroallPublisherBradbury and EvansDate Published1859 Lot #278 The Snakes of Australia; An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of All the Known Species View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorKrefft, GerardPublisherThomas Richards, Government PrinterDate Published1869 Lot #284 Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorPalmer, Julius A[uboinea], Jr., editorPublisherL. PrangDate Published1885 Lot #288 Orphidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorWall, FrankPublisherH.R. Cottle, Government PrinterDate Published1921 Lot #289 Island Life: or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1880 Lot #292 The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1876 Lot #293 Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorBack, Captain [George]PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1836 Lot #294 The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot, by W.H. Bartlett, J.D. Harding, T. Creswick, and Others. With Descriptions, Historical and Descriptive View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Bartlett, William Henry, et al.)Author**PublisherVirtue & Co.Date Published[c1850] Lot #295 An Authentic Narrative of the Proceedings of his Majesty's Squadron under the command of Rear-admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, from its Sailing from Gibraltar to the Conclusion of the Glorious Battle of the Nile, Drawn Up from the Minutes of an Officer of Rank in the Squadron View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Author[Berry, Sir Edward]PublisherT. Cadell, Jun., & W. DaviesDate Published1798 Lot #296 The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances between the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Headlands, on the Coast of North and South America... View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorBlunt, Edmund MPublisherEdmund and George W. BluntDate Published1827 Lot #297 La Figure de la terre... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBouguer, [Pierre]PublisherCharles-Antoine JombertDate Published1749 Lot #298 The New American Practical Navigator... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBowditch, NathanielPublisherE. & G.W. BluntDate Published1848 Lot #299 The Sphinx and White Ghost Shelter and other Spitzkopje Sites View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorBreuil, HenriPublisherThe Trianon PressDate Published[1975] Lot #300 The Tsisab Ravine and other Brandberg Sites View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorBreuil, HenriPublisherThe Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation through Trianon PressDate Published[1959] Lot #301 Bound volume with five documents relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1842 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Canada-America Border)Author**PublisherPrinted by T.R. HarrisonDate Published[1843] Lot #302 Cary's New Itinerary: or, an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, both Direct and Cross, throughout England and Wales; with many of the Principal Roads in Scotland... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorCary, JohnPublisherJ. CaryDate Published1806 Lot #303 An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Cartaret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour. Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold AuthorCook, JamesPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1773 Lot #304 British Government in India. The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$175StatusSold AuthorCurzon, George Nathaniel, LordPublisherCassell & Co. Ltd.Date Published[1925] Lot #305 The Life of Lord Curzon. Being the Authorized Biography of George Nathaniel Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G. View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Curzon, George Nathaniel, Lord)AuthorRonaldshay, Lawrence, EarlPublisherErnest Benn Ltd.Date Published[1928] Lot #306 The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, With Plates; A Dictionary of Sea Terms... View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorDana, Richard Henry, Jr.PublisherThomas GroomDate Published1865 Lot #307 A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Author[Defoe, Daniel]. Captain Charles Johnson, pseud.PublisherCh. Rivington, et alDate Published1724 Lot #308 A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorDixon, GeorgePublisherGeo. GouldingDate Published1789 Lot #309 Drake and the Tudor Navy View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Drake, Francis)AuthorCorbett, Julian S.PublisherLongmans, Green, and CoDate Published1898 Lot #310 French Explorers in the Pacific View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorDunmore, JohnPublisherat the Clarendon PressDate Published1965-69 Lot #311 Histoire de la Marine Française View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorFarrère, ClaudePublisherFlammarionDate Published[1934] Lot #312 The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold AuthorFitzGerald, E[dward] A[rthur]PublisherMethuenDate Published1899 Lot #313 Sultan to Sultan. Adventures among the Masai and other Tribes of East Africa View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorFrench-Sheldon, [May], "Bebe Bwana"PublisherArenaDate Published1892 Lot #314 The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, During the Years 1849-'50-'51-'52 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorGilliss, J[ames] M[elville]PublisherA.O.P. Nicholson, Public PrinterDate Published1855 Lot #315 The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation View details Estimate$200 - $250Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorHakluyt, RichardPublisherAugustus M KelleyDate Published1969 Lot #316 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorHumboldt, Alexander vonPublisherGeorge Bell & SonsDate Published1884 Lot #317 An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and Some of His Officers, Who, in August, 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a Packet Belonging to the Honourable East India Company View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorKeate, GeorgePublisherPrinted by Manning & Loring for S. Hall, et al.Date Published1796 Lot #318 Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq., of Sarawak, (Now Agent for the British Government in Borneo.) View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorKeppel, HenryPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1846 Lot #319 In the Forbidden Land. An Account of a Journey in Tibet Capture by the Tibetan Authorities Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorLandor, A. Henry SavagePublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1898 Lot #322 Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorLawrence, T. E.PublisherDoubleday, Doran & Co.Date Published1935 Lot #323 Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U.S. Brig Dolphin, Made nder the Direction of the Navy Department View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorLee, S[amuel] P[hillips]PublisherBeverley Tucker, Printer to the SenateDate Published1854 Lot #324 The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor, or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship. With an Appendix containing several figures illustrative of novelties and improvements in Rigging, &c &c &c View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorLever, DarcyPublisherJohn Richardson, et al.Date Published[1835] Lot #325 The Spirit of St. Louis View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorLindbergh, Charles A.PublisherScribner'sDate Published1955 Lot #326 Reflexiones sobre los contratos maritimos, sacadas del derecho civil, y canonico, del consulado del mar, y de los usos maritimos, con las formulas de los tales contratos... View details Estimate$70 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Maritime)AuthorTarga, CarlosPublisherEn la Imprenta de Francisco Xavier GarciaDate Published1753 Lot #327 The Story of the Seaman: Being an Account of the Ways and Appliances of Seafarers and of Ships from the Earliest Time Until Now View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorMeigs, John ForsythPublisherLippincottDate Published1924 Lot #328 A Trip Around the World View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorMoerlein, GeorgePublisherM. & R. BurgheimDate Published[1886] Lot #329 An Account of Denmark as it was in the Year 1692 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Author[Molesworth, Robert, Viscount]Date Published1694 Lot #330 Naval Evolutions: Or. A System of Sea-Discipline; Extracted from the Celebrated Treatise of P. L'Hoste, Professor of Mathematics, in the Royal Seminary of Toulon... To which are added, An Abstract of the Theory of Ship-Building; an Essay on Naval Discipline... A General Idea of the Armament of the French Navy... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorO'Bryen, ChristopherPublisherW. JohnstonDate Published1762 Lot #331 Lot of three titles, all presentation copies for Samuel Bligh View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorOliphant, LaurenceDate Published1852-56 Lot #332 Souvenirs de Marine: Collection de Plans ou Dessins de Navires et de Bateaux Anciens ou Modernes View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorParis, EdmondPublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1910 Lot #333 Voyage historique, pittoresque et philosophique de la Grece View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPausaniusPublisherChez DebarleDate Published1797 Lot #334 Magellan's Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$93.75StatusSold AuthorPigafetta, AntonioPublisherYale University PressDate Published1969 Lot #335 The Natural History of Man... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorPrichard, James CowlesPublisherH. BailliereDate Published1843 Lot #336 Across America and Asia: Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorPumpelly, RaphaelPublisherLeyboldt & HoltDate Published1870 Lot #337 The British Flag Triumphant! Or The Wooden Walls of Old England: Being Copies of the London Gazettes, Containing the Accounts of the Great Victories and Gallant Exploits of the British Fleets, During the Last and Present War... View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Radstock, Sir William Waldegrave and Park, J. A.]PublisherMessrs. Rivington, et al.Date Published1806 Lot #338 Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery: Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780. Illustrated with Cuts, and a Chart, Shewing the Tracks of the Ships Employed in this Expedition View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Author[Rickman, John]PublisherPrinted for E. NewberyDate Published1785 Lot #339 The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorRoberts, DavidPublisherDay & SonDate Published1855-56 Lot #340 The Evolution of Naval Armament View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold AuthorRobertson, Frederick LesliePublisherConstable & Co.Date Published1921 Lot #341 Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1820, 1831, 1832, 1833...and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorRoss, JohnPublisherA.W. WebsterDate Published1835 Lot #342 Algemeine Geschichte der Laender und Voelker von America View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Author[Schroeter, Johann Friedrich]PublisherJohann Justinus GebauerDate Published1752-53 Lot #343 The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorStanley, Henry M[orton]PublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published[1885] Lot #344 Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of Any Navigable Communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of War, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the Command of Captain George Vancouver View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorVancouver, GeorgePublisherJohn StockdaleDate Published1801 Lot #345 Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorWagner, Henry R.PublisherJohn HowellDate Published1926 Lot #346 Wanderings in South America, The North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. The Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural History View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorWaterton, CharlesPublisherJ. MawmanDate Published1825 Lot #347 Maori Superstitions: A Lecture... Delivered for the "Young Men's Christian Association," in the Odd Fellow's Hall, June 20th, 1856 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorWhite, JohnPublisherWilliamson and WilsonDate Published1856 Lot #348 The Yukon Sun and Klondike Pioneer. Official Paper of the Yukon Territory. Special Number View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Yukon)Author**Date PublishedSeptember 1900 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next