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84Jerusalem and the Holy Land in Photographs: 1850 to c.1930A magnificent collection of early panoramas, photobooks and individual prints, totalling over 1700 images; highlights include:LOT SOLD.965,000GBP -
41Blaeu, JohannesGrooten Atlas, oft Werelt-beschryving in welcke 't Aerdryck de Zee, en Hemel. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, [1662-1665]LOT SOLD.389,000GBP -
79Frith, FrancisEgypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem: a series of twenty photographic views... with descriptions by Mrs Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole. London: William Mackenzie, [c.1858]LOT SOLD.125,000GBP -
23Bonelli, GiorgioHortus romanus. Rome: Jean Bouchard and Jean-Joseph Gravier, 1772–1793LOT SOLD.118,750GBP -
24Buffon, Georges Louis Marie LeclercHistoire naturelle des oiseaux. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1786LOT SOLD.87,500GBP
Overview
Our sale on 28 April boasts a fine selection of works on natural history, maps and atlases, and books, drawings and photographs relating to exploration and travel. Highlights include: a magnificent copy of Dupré’s Voyage à Athenes et à Constantinople; Shackleton’s Aurora Australis, the first book to be printed and bound in Antarctica; a nine-volume Dutch edition of Blaeu’s Atlas Major in a fine original vellum binding; and a superb copy of Bonelli’s sumptuous Hortus Romanus. Among the photographic lots there are three stand-out items: a magnificent large panorama of Moscow from 1867; the large format edition of Francis Frith’s celebrated photographs of Egypt; and a unique and comprehensive collection of early photographs of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
