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The Library of John and Suzanne Bonham

26 September 2017 | 10:00 AM BST | London

SALE TOTAL

635,318GBP
Browse Lots
  • 302
    Potocki, Joseph, Count
    Sport in Somaliland being an account of a hunting trip to that region. [London]: Rowland Ward, 1900
    LOT SOLD.27,500GBP
  • 113
    Darwin, Charles, and Philip Parker King, and Robert FitzRoy
    Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. London: Henry Colburn, 1839
    LOT SOLD.23,750GBP
  • 194
    India--[W.M.?]
    Album of fifty three photographs of India. [late 1850s or early 1860s]
    LOT SOLD.22,500GBP
  • 74
    Burton, Richard Francis
    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, [&c.], 1855-1856
    LOT SOLD.10,625GBP
  • 335
    Speke, John Hanning
    What led to the discovery of the source of the Nile. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1864 
    LOT SOLD.9,375GBP
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Sale Number: L17415 Lots : 393

SALE TOTAL

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  • Session 1: 26 Sep 2017 | 10:00 AM | Lots 1 - 201
  • Session 2: 26 Sep 2017 | 02:30 PM | Lots 202 - 393
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This wonderful library of world exploration and travel ranges from the seventeenth to the twentieth century and contains rare books, letters, photographs, maps and drawings. Some of the earliest volumes cover voyages in the Pacific and Australasia, and exploration eastwards to India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Following these are travels in the Levant, the Gulf and the Middle East, together with notable overland expeditions in Central Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas. The early twentieth century concludes the collection with works from the heroic age of Scott and Shackleton, expeditions to Antarctica. The library also includes albums of travel photographs, a pair of original Antarctic sketches by James Weddell, a belt from polar explorer Captain Oates, and two large mahogany bookcases which belonged to African explorer Henry Morton Stanley.

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Books & Manuscripts
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Cecilie Gasseholm
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Travel and Atlases
+44 20 7293 5292
cecilie.gasseholm@sothebys.com
Dr. Lukas Baumann
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Modern British Pictures
+44 20 7293 5287
lukas.baumann@sothebys.com
   
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