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Auction Info

Auction Name
Travel and Exploration Sale
Auction Date
12/17/2025 - 12/17/2025
Sale Number
#30894
Total Lots
58
Sold Lots
53.0
Lots Sold
91.38%
Unsold Lots
5
Total Sales (GBP)
207,834.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
80,100.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
128,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
90,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
143,300.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
145.03%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
153

ARCTIC EXPLORATION -- FRANKLIN, BACK & MCCLINTOCK Series of nine autograph letters to Admiral George McKinley (1766-1852) and his daughter, from his friend John Franklin and other figures of Arctic exploration,

 8 February 1826 to 20 September 1837 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 46,080.00
105

GEORGE YACOUB COLLECTION OF MAPS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND LEVANT

 GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 33,280.00
77 BLAGDON (FRANCIS WILLIAM)

A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India, for the Earliest Periods of Antiquity to the Termination of the Late Mahratta War

 1805 plates watermarked 1827-1828 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 14,080.00
2

A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCLXXII, LXXIII, LXXIV, LXXV. By Captain James Cook [sic], Commander of His Majesty's Bark The Resolution...

1781 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
157

AMUNDSEN'S NORWEGIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1912 Danish pocket aneroid marine barometer belonging to Jorgen Stubberud,

c.1910 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 7,680.00
170 SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY), L.C. BERNACCHI and APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD, editors.

SOUTH POLAR TIMES South Polar Times, 4 vol., volumes 1 & 2, volume 3, volume 4

1907-1914; 2010 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 7,040.00
63 Henry Whistler

HANKOU - MERCHANT TRADER'S DIARIES Day diaries of Henry Whistler for 1883-1911,

 c.1878-1911 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,400.00
156 AMUNDSEN (ROALD)

The South Pole. An account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912,

1912 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,144.00
152 William Edward Parry

ARCTIC EXPLORATION -- PARRY & MCKINLEY Copy letter from William Edward Parry to Lord Melville, secretarial,

 26 November 1825 to 23 May 1826 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,144.00
36 some by William Saunders

SHANGHAI, CANTON, BEIJING, PORTRAITS AND GROUPS - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of 61 Chinese views,

c.1870s 80s GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 4,608.00
69 DANIELL (THOMAS AND WILLIAM)

A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the Way of China,

 1810 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,096.00
158 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

The Voyage of the 'Discovery', vol. 1 (of 2)

 1905 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,584.00
104 ROBERTS (DAVID)

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia From Drawings Made on the Spot by David Roberts, With Historical Descriptions by the Revd George Croly, 6 vol.

 1855-1856 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,584.00
155 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 vol.

 1905 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
109

OTTOMAN TURKEY MAP, IN ARABIC

 1888 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
161 SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)

Scott's Last Expedition... Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Vol. II. Being the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition, 2 vol.

 1913 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,072.00
1 Sarah Hall (1846-1921)

TRAVEL JOURNALS Thirteen volumes of manuscript travel journals written by Sarah Hall (1846-1921) of Sheffield,

 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
76 Captain Thomas Williams (b.1846)

INDIA - MARITIME LOG BOOKS Papers of Welsh-born Master Mariner, Captain Thomas Williams (b.1846),

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,816.00
169 MAWSON (DOUGLAS)

The Home of the Blizzard, 2 vol.

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
143 [CAZABON (MICHEL JEAN)] HARTMANN (HIPPOLYTE)

Album Martiniquais, lithographed title and 12 tinted lithographed views by Eugene Ciceri,

 c.1860 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,304.00
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