Sale 768: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography (#768) 08/11/2022 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 08/11/2022 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 101-147 of 147. Previous|12|Next Lot #335 The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them. Being a Narrative of Two Years' Residence in the Eastern Himalayas and Two Months Tour into the Interior. By a Lady Pioneer. Illustrated by Herself AuthorMazuchelli, Elizabeth "Nina" SarahHeadline1st western woman to see, and paint, Mt. EverestPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1876 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #338 Albuns fotográficos e descrítivos da colónia de Moçambique /Photographic and descriptive albums of Portuguese East Africa / Albums photographiques et descriptifs de la colonie portugaise de Mozambique Heading(Mozambique)AuthorSantos Rufino, José dosHeadlineMozambique in photogravure, 10 volumes 1929PublisherBroschek & Co.Date Published1929 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #340 Manuscript ledger listing in detail the ships of the naval powers in latter 19th century Heading(Naval Power)HeadlineMs. record of world naval power 1898Date Publishedc.1898 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #341 The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and other African Adventures AuthorPatterson, J.H.HeadlineMan-Eaters of Tsavo by Col. Patterson, 1927PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1927 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #342 Mission Pavie Indo-Chine 1879-1895. AuthorPavie, AugusteHeadlineMission Pavie Indo-Chine w/ hand-colored platesPublisherErnest Leroux, ÉditeurDate Published1901; 1906; 1904 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #343 A Tour In Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII Author[Pennant, Thomas]HeadlinePennant's Scotland with engravings & mapsPublisherPrinted by John MonkDate Published[1774] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #344 Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States. Heading(Perry, Matthew Calbraith)AuthorHawks, Francis L.HeadlineWith Nude Bathing Plate & Perry SignaturePublisherBeverley Tucker, Senate PrinterDate Published1856 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #345 Sailing Directions and Nautical Remarks by Officers of the Late U.S. Naval Expedition to Japan under the Command of Commodore M.C.Perry Heading(Perry, Matthew Calbraith)AuthorMaury, William L., compilerHeadlineWith scarce folding map of Japan and ChinaPublisherA.O.P. NicholsonDate Published1857 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #346 Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries AuthorPetherick, Mr. & Mrs. [John]HeadlinePetherick's Travels in Central Africa 1869PublisherTinsley BrothersDate Published1869 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #349 A Discourse of the Laws relating to Pirates and Piracies, and the Marine Affairs of Great Britain Heading(Piracy)HeadlineBritish laws combating pirates & piracy 1726PublisherPrinted by W. Wilkins, for J. Peele,Date Published1726 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #350 Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia AuthorRassam, HormuzdHeadlineHormuzd Rassam's mission to AbyssiniaPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1869 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #351 Speculum Metallurgiae Politissimum, oder, Hell-polierter Berg-Bau-Spiegel: Darinnen zu befinden wie man Bergwerck suchen, ausschürffen, mit Nutzen bauen, allenthalben wohl anstellen, beförden, dabey... AuthorRoessler, BalthasarHeadlineWith 25 engraved plates of mining worksPublisherBey Johann Jacob WincklernDate Published1700 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #353 Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833... Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross... and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole AuthorRoss, JohnHeadlineSecond Voyage in Search of a North-West PassagePublisherA.W. WebsterDate Published1835 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #354 Automobile guide book with color pictorial strip-style map of the trip from Moscow through Kyiv to Zakarpattia, western Ukraine Heading(Russia & Ukraine)HeadlineColor pictorial motor map, Moscow to UkraineDate Published1973 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #355 Nineteenth century original photograph album documenting a sporting trip by boat from Finland to Russia Heading(Russia - Photographs)Headline25 photos of an 1890's trip to the Finno-Russian frontierDate Publishedc. 1890's View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #356 Guide to the Great Siberian Railway [with] Winter Schedule 1911-1912 Heading(Russia)AuthorDimitriev-Mamonov, A.I. and A. F. Zdziarski, editorsHeadlineGuide to Trans-Siberian Railway w/ 1911 schedulePublisherArtistic Printing SocietyDate Published1900 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #357 A relation of a iourney begun an: Dom: 1610. Foure bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning AuthorSandys, GeorgeHeadlineSandys' Journey to Turkey, with mapPublisherPrinted for W. BarrettDate Published1621 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #359 Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja AuthorSchuyler, EugeneHeadlineSchuyler's Journey in Turkistan 1876PublisherSampson Low, Marston, Low, Searle, & RivingstonDate Published1876 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #361 Le Lapidaire du Quatorzième Siècle. Description des Pierres Précieuses et de Leurs Vertus Magiques, D'Après le Traité du Chevalier Jean de Mandeville... AuthorSotto, Isaac del, editorHeadlineNicely bound copy of Sotto's Lapidaire, 1862PublisherImprimerie Impériale et Royale de la Cour et de L'étatDate Published1862 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #363 Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile AuthorSpeke, John HanningHeadlineSpeke's Discovery of the Source of the NilePublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1864 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #364 In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria AuthorStanley, Henry M.HeadlineStanley's In Darkest Africa 1890 w/ AutographPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1890 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #365 Visas for Life AuthorSugihara, YukikoHeadlineJapanese Rescue Jews in Nazi Europe, SignedPublisher[Edu-Comm. Plus]Date Published[1995] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #367 Second Voyage du Père Tachard et des Jésuites Envoyez par le Roy au Royaume de Siam. AuthorTachard, GuyHeadlineJesuit mission to Kingdom of Siam, 1680PublisherChez Daniel HorthemelsDate Published[1689] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #368 A Voyage to East-India; Wherein Some Things are taken Notice of, In our Passage Thither, But Many More in our Abode There, Within that Rich and most Spacious Empire of the Great Mogul: Mixt With Some Parallel Observations and Inferences upon the Story, to profit as well as delight the Reader. AuthorTerry, EdwardHeadlineA Voyage to the Mogul Empire, 1777 EditionPublisherJ. WilkieDate Published1777 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #369 Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chile, &c. With a Scientific Appendix AuthorTownsend, John KirkHeadlineTownsend's Journey Across the Rockies, 1st edPublisherHenry PerkinsDate Published1839 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #370 The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains AuthorTristram, H.B.HeadlineAnecdotes from a Brit in North Africa, 1860PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1860 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #371 Narrative of Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa: From The Original Correspondence in the Possession of the Family of the Late Richard Tully, Esq. The British Consul. Comprising Authentic Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Reigning Bashaw, His Family, and other Persons of Distinction; Also, An Account of the Domestic Manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. AuthorTully, RichardHeadlineTen Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa 1817PublisherPrinted for Henry ColburnDate Published1817 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #372 An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time... Heading(Universal History)HeadlineWorld History in 25 vols, 1736-1765, Illus.PublisherT. Osborne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes et al.Date Published1736-1765 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #373 Collection des Uniformes des Armées françaises, de 1791 à 1814,... [with] Collection des Uniformes des Armées françaises, de 1814 à 1824… AuthorVernet, Horace and Eugene LamiHeadlineWith 148 hand-colored plates of French uniformsPublisherGide files; Anselin et PochardDate Published1822; 1825 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #374 Letters From Van Dieman's Land, Written During Four Years Imprisonment For Political Offences Committed In Upper Canada AuthorWait, BenjaminHeadlineCanadian rebel exile narrative 1843PublisherA.W. WilgusDate Published1843 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #377 The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselHeadlineMalay Archipelago 1898PublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1898 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #379 Journal of a Voyage to the River Plate; including observations Made During a Residence in the Republic of Monte Video. AuthorWhittle, W.HeadlineThe River Plate and Monte Video, 1846PublisherBradshaw and BlacklockDate Published1846 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #380 The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Being the Results of a Survey for a Railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Made by the Scientific Commission Under the Direction of Major J.G. Barnard... AuthorWilliams, J.J.HeadlineWith eight engraved folding maps of Mexico, 1852PublisherD. Appleton & CompanyDate Published[1852] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #381 Travels in Egypt and The Holy Land. AuthorWilson, William RaeHeadlineTravels in the Holy Land, Inscribed to AmbassadorPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and GreenDate Published1824 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #382 A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries. With a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands; and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite AuthorWilson, WilliamHeadlineVoyage of the Ship Duff in Southern PacificPublisherT. ChapmanDate Published1799 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #383 Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara in the Years 1843-1845 to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly AuthorWolff, JosephHeadlineWolff's Mission to Bokhara 1845, 2nd EditionPublisherJohn W. ParkerDate Published1845 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #385 Kashmir AuthorYounghusband, FrancisHeadlineWith color plates of Kashmir from paintingsPublisherAdam and Charles BlackDate Published1909 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #387 A Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History. Synchronized by Sebastian C. Adams AuthorAdams, Sebastian C.HeadlineA Chronological Chart of Ancient & Modern HistoryPublisherStrobridge & Co.Date Published1871 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #389 Pictorial map of Yeveran, Armenia, on large sheet with numerous illustrations of buildings, historical edifices, statues, etc. Heading(Armenia)HeadlineLarge map & guide to Armenian capital 1973Date Publishedc.1973 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #395 A General Atlas, Being a Collection of Maps of the World & Quarters, the Various Empires, Kingdoms & States, &c., in the Known World AuthorBrown, ThomasHeadlineEarly 19th-century atlas w/ 36 hand-colored mapsPublisherThomas BrownDate Published[c. 1814] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #409 Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire, April 18th, 1906: Every building shown in the above picture was destroyed by the Great Fire Heading(California - San Francisco)AuthorFicke, FrancisHeadlineColor print of post-quake San Francisco in flamesPublisherLouis Roesch Co., Lith.Date Published1906 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #422 Colton's Traveler and Tourist's Guide-Book through the Western States and Territories, Containing Brief Descriptions of Each, with the Routes and Distances on the Great Lines of Travel.... AuthorColton, J.H.HeadlineColton's guide with hand-colored map, 1857PublisherJ.H. Colton and CompanyDate Published1857 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #429 Map of the Mexican Central Ry. and Connections. Heading(Mexico)HeadlineMap of the Central Mexican Railroad, 1885PublisherRaymond & WhitcombDate Published[c. 1885] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #441 The Tourists' Guide, Containing Maps of Mount Hope Bay, Narragansett Bay, Long Island Sound, East and Hudson, Showing the Course of Steamers, Light Houses, Islands, and Points of Interest... Heading(New York)HeadlineHudson River tourist route maps and guide, 1901PublisherPublished by John F. MurphyDate Published[1901] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #445 Touring Scout. Strip Maps... Principal Highways Canada to Mexico. Heading(Pacific Coast)HeadlinePacific Coast automobile strip maps, 1928PublisherTouring League of AmericaDate Published1928 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #448 Carte du Detroit de Magellan dans laquelle on an Insere les Observations et les Decouvertes du Capne. Byron, du Capne. Wallis, et du Capne. Carteret Heading(South America)AuthorBernard, Jean FredericHeadlineStrait of Magellan from French Cook 1778Date Published1778 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #454 Pleasure Map of Ceylon Heading(Sri Lanka)HeadlinePictorial tourist map of Sri Lanka, 1951PublisherGovernment Tourist Bureau CeylonDate Published1951 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next