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By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas AuthorAnson, GeorgeHeadlineLarge paper subscriber's copy, Anson's VoyagePublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1748 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #10 Zeespiegel, inhoudende eene beschryvinghe der seekusten van de Oostersche ende Noordsche schipvaert. Wt ondervindinghen van veel ervaren zeevaerders vergadert... AuthorBlaeu, Willem JanszoonHeadlineVariant of Blaeu's Sea Atlas 1623PublisherGhedruckt by Willem Iansz BlaeuwDate Published1623 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #14 Two photographs of Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell with a holograph note by Bourke-White to a Mrs. Sprackling on Bourke-White's business card Heading(Bourke-White, Margaret and Erskine Caldwell)AuthorBourke-White, MargaretHeadlineVintage photos of Bourke-White and CaldwellDate Published1941 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #15 Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, In the Years 1824-1825 AuthorByron, Captain [George Anson]HeadlineByron returns the body of King KamehamehaPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1826 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #16 Observations upon the First Five Bookes of Caesars Commentaries, setting fourth the practise of the art military, in the time of the Roman Empire... Heading(Caesar, Julius)AuthorEdmondes, Clement, SirHeadlineEdmondes on Caesar's Commentaries, 1600PublisherPrinted by Peter ShortDate Published1600 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #21 Manuscript Diary of William Edgar Geil, Missionary and Explorer Documenting his Trip Through China in 1910 Heading(China)AuthorGeil, William E.HeadlineManuscript Diary of William Edgar Geil, 1910Date Published1910 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #22 Original watercolor painting, likely of Hong Kong harbor, with numerous ships and boats, both western and Chinese, before it Heading(China)HeadlineChina trade painting, likely of Hong KongDate Published19th century View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #23 Twenty Original Watercolor Illustrations Depicting Chinese and East Asian Tradesmen Heading(China)HeadlineBeautiful collection of Asian tradesmen illustrationsDate Publishedc. 1921-1922 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #30 A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 AuthorCook, James and James KingHeadlineCook's Third Voyage with Atlas Volume 1785PublisherPrinted by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol... and T. CadellDate Published1785 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #31 Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Turks, [Chinese], [Russians], [Austrians] - four volumes Heading(Costume)AuthorAlexander, WilliamHeadlineCostumes of the Turks, Chinese, Russians, AustriansPublisherJames Goodwin; Thomas McLeanDate Published[1825-29] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #36 Histoire generale des Antilles habitees par les Francois AuthorDu Tertre, Jean BaptisteHeadlineHistory of the French Antilles, 1667PublisherChez Thomas JollyDate Published1667 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #38 Enthroned initial letter portrait of Elizabeth Heading(Elizabeth I)HeadlineRare Enthroned initial letter portrait of Elizabeth IDate Published20th July [1576] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #40 Voyage aux Moluques et a la Nouvelle Guinée, fait sur la galere la Tartare en 1774, 1775 & 1776 par ordre de la Compagnie Angloise AuthorForrest, ThomasHeadlineFrench ed. of English voyage to New Guinea 1780PublisherHôtel de Thou, rue des PoitevinsDate Published1780 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #43 Herodotou Alikarnasseos I'storiōn logoith: epigraphomenoi Mousai tou autou Exegesis peri tes Homerou biotes = Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarvm lib. IX: Eiusdem narratio de vita Homeri AuthorHerodotus, Henri Estienne, Lorenzo Valla, Joachim Camerarius, and CtesiasHeadlineEstienne edition of Herodotus, 1592PublisherExcudebat Henricus StephanusDate Published1592 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #44 Atlas Geographique et Physique du Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne, fonde sur des Observations Astronomiques, des Mesures Trigonometriques et des Nivellemens Barometriques AuthorHumboldt, AlexanderHeadlineAtlas volume to Humboldt's Essai PolitiquePublisherChez G. DufourDate Published1812 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$23,750StatusSold Lot #48 Bronze Nias adu siraha salawa (ancestor figure) Heading(Indonesia)HeadlineRare bronze Indonesian Nias ancestry figureDate PublishedUndated [c.1880] View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 [Views in Russia, Sweden, Poland and Germany] Author[James, J.T.]HeadlineWith 21 hand-colored lithographsPublisher[John Murray]Date Published[1826-27] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #51 Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan Heading(Japan)HeadlineStunning visual document of monstrous Japan earthquakeDate Publishedc. 1923 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #58 Rerum Germanicarum Sub Matthia, Ferdinandis II. & III. IMPP. Gestarum, Libri LV... AuthorLotichius, Joannes PetrusHeadlineRare complete copy, Lotichius' Rerum GermanicarumPublisherTypis exscripti Wolfgangi Hoffmani, Impensa Matthaei MerianiDate Published1646-50 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #60 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1675 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherPrinted for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-BarDate Published1675 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #61 Amstelodami Celeberrimi Hollandiae Emporii Delineatio Nova Heading(Maps)AuthorBlaeu, JoanHeadlineBirds-eye view of Amsterdam c.1650Date Publishedc.1650 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #62 Americæ nova Tabula Heading(Maps)AuthorBlaeu, WillemHeadlineBlaeu's carte-à-figures map of AmericasDate Published1617-[1635] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #63 Asia Noviter Delineata Heading(Maps)AuthorBlaeu, WillemHeadlineCarte-a-figures map of Asia by BlaeuDate Publishedc.1631 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #64 Europa Recens Descripta Heading(Maps)AuthorBlaeu, WillemHeadlineBlaeu's carte-à-figures map of EuropeDate Publishedc.1640 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #65 Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, Ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by Them Established as the Seat of Their Government After the Year MDCC Heading(Maps)AuthorEllicott, Andrew & Peter Charles L'EnfantHeadlineEllicott's Plan of Washington D.C. 1792PublisherEngraved by Thackara & VallanceDate Published1792 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #66 World at One View Heading(Maps)AuthorEnsign & ThayerHeadlineMarvelous pictorial map of the WorldDate Published1847 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #67 Le Golfe De Venise, Avec ses Principaux Caps, Promontoires, & Ports de Mer Heading(Maps)AuthorJaillot, Alexis-HubertHeadlineLarge detailed map of Gulf of Venice, 1693Date Published1793 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #68 Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita Heading(Maps)AuthorKeur, Hendrik & JacobHeadlineStriking world map with pictorial surround, 1682Date Published1682 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #69 Brasiliae qua parte paret Belgis Heading(Maps)AuthorMargraff, Georg, cartographerHeadlineRare oversized map of Brazil, 1657PublisherJoan Blaeu, publisherDate Published1657 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$179,000StatusSold Lot #70 Map of a Portion of Eden Township Alameda County. Compiled by Geo. L. Nusbaumer, C.E. County Surveyor 1891. Scale: 6 chains to 1 inch Heading(Maps)AuthorNusbaumer, George L.HeadlineLarge MS. map of part of Alameda Co., Cal. 1891Date Published1891 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #71 Abrahami Patriarchae Peregrinatio, et Vita Heading(Maps)AuthorOrtelius, AbrahamHeadlineOrtelius map of Holy Land with 22 vignette viewsDate Published1586-[1608] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States... AuthorMarshall, JohnHeadlineMarshall's Life of Washington 1st Edition 1804-07PublisherC.P. WayneDate Published1804-1807 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #75 Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of The Marquesas Islands; Or, A Peep at Polynesian Life AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineFirst Edition of Melville's First Book 1846PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1846 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #84 Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed In The Years 1819-20, In His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Griper. With an Appendix, Containing Scientific and Other Observations AuthorParry, William EdwardHeadlineFirst edition of Parry's search for NW PassagePublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1821 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #85 Outlines of the Globe [comprising] The View of Hindoostan [with] The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan [and] The View of the Malayan Isles, New Holland, and the Spicy Islands Author[Pennant, Thomas]HeadlinePennant's Outlines of the Globe, 1798-1800PublisherHenry Hughs; Luke HanfordDate Published1798; 1800 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #86 The View of Hindoostan Author[Pennant, Thomas]HeadlineWith lovely hand-colored platesPublisherHenry HughsDate Published1798 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #87 New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements Author(Phillips, Richard)HeadlineFifty-seven narratives of travel and explorationPublisherSir Richard Phillips and CompanyDate Published1819-23 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #88 Arte de navegar em que se ensinao as regras praticas, e os modos de cartear... e roteiro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guine, Angola, Brazil, Indias, e llhas Occidentaes, e Orientaes AuthorPimentel, ManoelHeadlinePortuguese navigation guide to world ports 1762PublisherOfficina de Miguel Manescal da CostaDate Published1762 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #92 The History of Java AuthorRaffles, Thomas StamfordHeadlineRaffles' Java with the rare atlasPublisherJohn Murray & Henry G. BohnDate Published1830 & 1844 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #93 A historical collection on Rasputin's assassination at Iusopov Palace on December 30, 1916 Heading(Rasputin, Grigori Efimovich)HeadlineRasputin's assassination documentedDate Published20th century View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #95 A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country... in the years 1809 and 1810... AuthorSalt, HenryHeadlineHenry Salt's account of Abyssinia, 1814PublisherPrinted for F.C. and J. RivingtonDate Published1814 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #96 Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschiedenen Rassen und Stâmme nach den neuesten Entdeckungen und vorzüglichsten Originalien bearbeitet von H.R. Schinz Med. Doct. und Professor der Naturgeschichte in Zürich... Dritte Vermehrte Auflage AuthorSchinz, H.R.HeadlineEthnographic lithos with Bodmer picturesPublisherLithographirt und gerausgegeben von der J. Honeggerschen Lithographischen AnstaltDate Published1845 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #107 An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, Sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795 AuthorSymes, MichaelHeadlineWith Symes to Burma and the Kingdom of AvaPublisherPrinted by W. Bulmer and Co.Date Published1800 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #108 The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo... with Large Additions and Compilations from modern voyages and travels and from original and authentic information AuthorThompson, G.A.HeadlineThompson's Alcedo 5 vols. 1812PublisherPrinted for James Carpenter, et al.Date Published1812-1815 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #109 A 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 AuthorVancouver, GeorgeHeadlineVancouver's Voyage, 1st edition with AtlasPublisherG.G. & J. Robinson, & J. EdwardsDate Published1798 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold Lot #110 Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia AuthorWaddington, George and Barnard HanburyHeadlineLovely fore-edge painting of the Nile RiverPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1822 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next