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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
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
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
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