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Please note that the results listed on this page are inclusive of any Sotheby's Premiums and exclusive of any applicable taxes and costs, unless otherwise noted.
Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History
3 November - 17 November 2020 • London

1. AGRICOLA | Neu- und nie erhörter doch in der Natur und Vernunfft. 1716-1717. 2 volumes in one, folio, vellum

3. ANDREWS | The Botanist's Repository of New, and Rare plants, 1810 etc.

5. BONNATERRE | Tableau encyclopédique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature, 1789-1790

10. CONCHOLOGY | Two works on shells by Perry and Lamarck

11. DARWIN | Remarks upon the habits of the genera Geospiza, Camarhynchus, Cactornis and Certhidea of Gould, 1837

12. DODOENS AND CLUSIUS | Cruydt-boeck, 1618

15. FERRARI | De florum cultura libri IV. 1633

16. GREENE | Parrots in Captivity, 1884-1887

17. GREVIN | De venenis libri duo, 1571

18. HERBERT | Amaryllidaceae, 1837

20. KIENER | Spécies générales et iconographie des coquilles vivantes, 1844-1850

22. L'HERITIER | Geraniologia, 1787
![MERIAN | Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium. 1719]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b015807/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1303x2000+0+0/resize/150x230!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fbf%2F06%2F3449603f4a1fa3915322ba8c67b8%2Fl20405-bmwxm-1.jpg)
23. MERIAN | Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium. 1719]

26. SOWERBY | A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville, 1825

27. WALLACE | Palm trees of the Amazon. London, 1853, original cloth

29. BRITISH ISLES | A collection of six maps, 16th and 17th century

30. ENGLAND, ESTATE PLAN | A decorative 18th-century manuscript plan of Witton, Lancashire

31. EUROPE | A collection of seven maps, 16th- and 17th-century

32. HOLLAR | Map of London, 1666

34. REBELLATO | Raccolta delle principale vedute di Venezia, c.1856

36. ROME | BRAUN AND HOGENBERG | Plan of Rome, c.1588

37. SPEED | Maps of Cornwall and Hampshire, 1627

40. BARKER, and others | Album of photographs of New Zealand, Jamaica and England, 1863-82

41. BLIGH--JOHNSTON | Proceedings of a General Court-Martial Held at Chelsea Hospital. 1811. The Streeter copy

42. BOUGAINVILLE | A Voyage around the World. 1772. First English edition, 4to, calf

45. COOK | The Journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery. 1968-1967-1974. 6 volumes and 3 pamphlets
![DALRYMPLE | An Historical Collection of Several Voyages. [1770] -1771. 2 volumes. The Beckford copy](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/704ecfa/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1337+0+0/resize/150x100!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Ff7%2F1c%2Ff53d8b054de08861a09386b591f1%2Fl20405-bj4qg-1.jpg)
46. DALRYMPLE | An Historical Collection of Several Voyages. [1770] -1771. 2 volumes. The Beckford copy

47. DARWIN | Narrative of the surveying voyages of his Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle. 1839. 4 volumes. Streeter copy.

49. FREZIER | A Voyage to the South Sea. 1717. First English edition, 4to, calf. The Keynes copy.

51. LA PEROUSE | Voyage... autour du monde. 1797, 5 volumes

52. PARKINSON | A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, 1773

54. COMPOSITE ATLAS | A volume of maps, compiled circa 1657

55. DONCKER | Zee atlas, 1672

56. SEA CHARTS | The English Pilot. Parts 1-4, 4 volumes, 1743-1740-1750-1742

57. WORLD MAP | Elwe, Mappe Monde, 1792

58. WORLD MAP--THOMPSON | A New Map of the World, engraved coloured map, 1798

65. ARABIA | Two British Government pamphlets, 1925 and 1934

67. ARABIA--WALDSEEMULLER | Sexta Asie tabula, 1513

69. BELL--OTTOMAN CARPET | Large hand-knotted Ottoman carpet, circa 1910, owned by Gertrude Bell

70. BELON | Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvees en Grece, 1555

74. CARTWRIGHT | Selections of the Costume of Albania and Greece, 1822, plates only

75. CENTRAL ASIA | Six photographs of Baku, Samarkand and Bokhara, c. 1870s
![CONSTANTINOPLE | Album of photographs, [1880s-90s]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4a7147c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x757+0+0/resize/150x57!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fc6%2F2d%2F9d06bbed4eb4bab07e9e21df7824%2Fl20405-9xhgr-1.jpg)
78. CONSTANTINOPLE | Album of photographs, [1880s-90s]

79. CORONELLI | Isola di Rodi. 1688, 8vo, contemporary vellum

80. DELACROIX | "Vieil homme devant la ville de Tanger", watercolour, 1850

81. DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE | Paris, 1809-1822, first edition, 20 vol.

82. EGYPT | Album of seventy six watercolours of Egyptian costume and views, 19th century

83. EGYPT and PALESTINE | Album of photographs, circa 1880s