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Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

15 November 2016 | 1:30 PM GMT | London

SALE TOTAL

2,344,691GBP
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  • 131
    Description de l'Égypte
    Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publié par les orders de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1809-1822 (with additional material up to c.1838)
    Los Verkauft320.750GBP
  • 57
    Blaeu, Johannes
    Grooten Atlas, oft Werelt-beschryving in welcke 't Aerdryck de Zee, en Hemel. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, [1664-1665]
    Los Verkauft272.750GBP
  • 155
    Palestine
    A collection of over 1,300 nineteenth-century photographs of Palestine, highlights include:
    Los Verkauft248.750GBP
  • 184
    Roberts, David
    The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. London: F.G. Moon, 1842-1849
    Los Verkauft150.000GBP
  • 61
    Hondius, Henricus
    Nouveau theatre du monde ou nouvel atlas comprennt les tables et descriptions de toutes les regions dela terre. Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1639
    Los Verkauft81.250GBP
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Sale Number: L16405 Los : 226

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A Rare Glimpse of 19th Century Egypt

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This sale included a wide range of material with exceptional provenance and of outstanding quality. The top bids for books were £320,750 for a unique extra-illustrated first edition of the monumental Description de l’Egypte and £272,750 for the Dutch edition of Johannes Blaeu’s atlas. A fine hand-coloured susbcriber’s copy of David Robert’s Holy Land & Egypt sold for £150,000. The sale also included an extensive collection of over 1,300 19th-century photographs of Palestine which sold for £248,750. An unexpected result was achieved for an album of drawings and watercolours which contained two early photographs by Willian Henry Fox Talbot, including a photogenic drawing negative of a fern, which realised £56,250. Also included was a fine collection of original watercolour drawings for Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology which brought a total of £58,125.

AUCTION DETAILS

This sale contains books, manuscripts, maps, and historical photographs from around the world, including the two greatest books on Egypt: David Roberts’s Holy Land & Egypt (a rare hand-coloured subscriber’s copy), and a first edition of the monumental Description de l’Egypte. Egypt is also represented in a very scarce book, La Vallée du Nil, illustrated with over 100 original photographs taken in 1860 by Henry Cammas, the protégé of the Orientalist and explorer Koenig Bey, to whom this copy is inscribed. The natural history section includes eight original drawings by the ornithologist Prideaux John Selby, and among the atlases on offer is an immaculate 3-volume edition of Jansson’s Nouveau Theatre du Monde. The sale also includes a large collection of photographs of Palestine, to be sold as a single lot.

A Rare Glimpse of 19th Century Egypt

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Richard Fattorini
Senior Director
Senior Specialist
Books & Manuscripts
+44 20 7293 5301
richard.fattorini@sothebys.com
Dr David Goldthorpe
Senior Director
Head of Department
Books & Manuscripts
+44 20 7293 5303
david.goldthorpe@sothebys.com
Cecilie Gasseholm
Cataloguer
Travel and Atlases
+44 20 7293 5292
cecilie.gasseholm@sothebys.com
Alexandra Kett
Senior Administration Manager
Chinese Works of Art
+44 020 7293 5297
alexandra.kett@sothebys.com
   
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