Bonhams: Travel and Exploration Sale, 30893, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
July 16, 2025 - July 16, 2025
Page Size: 58 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

[MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN)] Typus universalis,

Basle, c.1554 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,792.00
2 ANSON (GEORGE)

A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV,

1748 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
3 SHELVOCKE (GEORGE)

A Voyage Round the World, by the Way of the Great South Sea,

1757 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 640.00
4 COLNETT (JAMES)

A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round the Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean,

1798 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,048.00
6

A group of 45 ethnographic portraits, groups and views in Fiji (c.13), Samoa, Santa Cruz, New Hebrides/Vanuata, Papua New Guinea, Australia/Aboriginals, and New Zealand/Maoris,

c.1880s/early twentieth century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,280.00
8

A group of portrait studies or groups (8), and views (12) relating to New Hebrides, Fiji,

c.1880s-early 20th century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 704.00
10 BLIGH (WILLIAM)

A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty...,

1790 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,352.00
11 BLIGH (WILLIAM)

A Voyage to the South Sea...in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty,

1792 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
18 RAFFLES (THOMAS STAMFORD)

Substance of a Minute... on the Introduction of an Improved System of Internal Management and the Establishment of a Land Rental on the Island of Java,

1814 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,408.00
48 Elizabeth Keith

Wayside Bridge, Peking.

GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
49 BLACK (JOHN REDDIE, editor)

The Far East. A Monthly Journal, Illustrated with Photographs... New Series, vol. 1-2 only,

Shanghai, July 1876-June 1877 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,680.00
50

A good group of 23 albumen prints,

late 19th century GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,048.00
53

Shanghae [sic] Almanac for the Bissextile or Leap Year 1856, and Miscellany,

Shanghai, 1855 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,584.00
54 Circle of Youqua

An album of eight sheets of insect and flower studies

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 768.00
67 BOERSCHMANN (ERNST)

Chinesische Architektur, 2 vol.,

Berlin, 1925 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 768.00
68 SIREN (OSVALD)

The Walls and Gates of Peking. Researches and Impressions,

1924 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
69 SIREN (OSVALD)

The Imperial Palaces of Peking, 3 vol.,

Paris and Brussels, 1926 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
70 KNOX (ROBERT)

An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon, in the East-Indies,

1681 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,328.00
71 SPILBERGEN (JORIS VAN)

T Historiael Journael, van tghene ghepasseert is van weghen drie schepen, ghenaemt den Ram, Schaep ende het Lam...',

Amsterdam, 1617 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 768.00
73

group of portrait photos of Indian or Ceylon types, late 19th/early c. 20th (group)

late 19th/early c. 20th GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 563.20
75 BALDAEUS (PHILIP)

A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel...,

1704 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,816.00
76

Nineteenth century photograph views in India (61, including 4-part panorama of Ooty by A.T.W. Penn), Penang (6), Singapore (10), and Siam/Thailand (23),

1880s GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
77 Thomas Daniell, RA

'Mausoleum of Sultan Chusero, Near Allahabad'

GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 46,080.00
83 Charles William Bartlett

'Fruit Sellers, Madura, India'

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 512.00
85 BOURNE (SAMUEL) and others

Fourteen good albumen views of Delhi, Mumbai, Fatehpur Sikri, etc. by Bourne, Deen Dayal etc.,

c.1870s GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 832.00
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