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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, Photographs, Maps and Natural History
9 November - 17 November 2021 • London
1 Ceylon | Collection of forty-two photographs, circa. 1880s
2 China | Album of photographs of Beijing and the Great Wall, early 1900s
3 China—Tung Hing | Photographic Views of Foochow and Vicinity, [c. 1890; including images from the 1870s]
4 China | Collection of 50 photographs of Canton and Shanghai, circa 1880s
5 China | Collection of 70 photographs of Hong Kong and Canton, and 2 panoramas, circa. 1880s
6 China, Beijing | A very large watercolour of the Summer Palace, Beijing, [Qing dynasty]
7 China—Afong studio | Photograph panorama of Canton, circa. 1923
8 China and Japan—John Thomson, Milton Miller, John Dudgeon, J.C. Watson | Album of early photographs, 1860s
9 China—Thomas Child and others | A collection of photographs of China, circa. 1870s-80s
10 Doolittle | Vocabulary and Handbook of the Chinese Language. Foochow, 1872, photographic terms by Thomson and Dudgeon
11 Du Halde | Description de l'empire de Chine, Paris, 1735, 4 volumes, contemporary calf
12 India | Collection of seventy-three photographs, circa 1880s
13 India | Album of photographs, circa. 1880s
14 India | Collection of forty-seven photographs, circa. 1880s
15 India | Album of photographs, c. 1880s
16 India—Orr and Barton, and others | Collection of sixty-seven photographs, circa. 1880s
17 India, Southeast Asia and Africa | Album of cartes-de-visite, circa. 1860s
18 Japan | Collection of 53 photographs, circa 1880s
19 Japan | Collection of 48 photographs, plus a panorama of Japanese dancers, circa. 1880s
20 Japan | Collection of 73 photographs, many of Hokkaido, including a folding panorama, circa. 1880s
21 Japan—Felice Beato | Album of 50 photographs of Japanese portraits and views. [Yokohama, circa. 1868]
22 Japan—Kusakabe Kimbei and others | Eight photographs of Japanese wrestlers and Samurais, 1880s
23 Java and the East Indies | Collection of 56 photographs, circa. 1880s
24 Ricci and Trigault, De Christiana expeditione ad Sinas, Lyon, 1616, contemporary vellum gilt
25 Siam | A collection of thirty-eight photographs, circa. 1880s
26 Singapore and Southeast Asia | Album of 60 photographs, circa 1880s to early 1900s
27 Tibet and Bhutan—Fritz Kapp and Theodor Parr | Collection of portraits and a view of Darjeeling, circa. 1880s
28 Tibet—Younghusband Expedition | Group of 30 original photographs of Tibet and Sikkim, Henry Martin, c.1910
29 Algeria | Album of photographs, circa. 1880
30 Morocco | San Juan de el Puerto, Mission historial de Marruecos, Seville, 1708, nineteenth-century half calf
31 South Africa | Photograph panorama of Cape Town, circa. 1870
32 South Africa and Madeira | Album of photographs of Cape Colony and Madeira, 1888-89
33 Zanzibar | Five photographs of rulers of Zanzibar, late 19th- and early 20th-century
34 Zanzibar | 115 Zanzibar Gazettes and 61 supplements, 1912-1920
35 Arab Revolt—McMahon and Hussein | Four documents relating to the correspondence between McMahon and Hussein, 1939
36 Arabia | Map of the Arabian Peninsula, AH1325 [c.1907]
37 Arabia | Three maps of Arabia by Ruscelli, Renard and Doughty
38 Arabia—Israel Defence Forces | Neft ba-mizrah ha-tikhon (Oil in the Middle East), folding map, 1957
39 Aramco | The Arabian Peninsula and neighbouring regions: an introductory map, 1952
40 Aramco | Blueprint Map of the Middle East, May 1953
41 Aramco | 24 publicity photographs plus Annual Report in English and Arabic, with pamphlet 'Tapline Operations', 1958
42 Guillaume Abel Blouet | Expédition scientifique de Morée. 1831-1838. 3 volumes, folio, red half morocco
43 Bonfils | Folio volume of large format photographs of Egypt, Palestine, Greece and Constantinople, circa. 1870s
44 Félix Bonfils | Souvenirs d'Orient. Album pittoresque ... de la Terre Sainte. 1877
45 Marie Gabriel Florent Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier | Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce, Paris, 1809-1822, 3 volumes, green half morocco
46 Charles Cockerell | Temples of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina, and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, in Arcadia. 1860
47 C.R. Conder and H.H. Kitchener | Map of Western Palestine. Southampton, 1880
48 Vladimir P. Davidov | Atlas ... [Russian text: Views in the Ionian Islands and Greece], St Petersburg, 1839