
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.
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
![China—Tung Hing | Photographic Views of Foochow and Vicinity, [c. 1890; including images from the 1870s]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/eb73925/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1371+0+0/resize/150x103!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fb0%2F25%2F31890a0d4e188089d7441a1c154b%2Fl21405-c2spk-1-t1.jpg)
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
![China, Beijing | A very large watercolour of the Summer Palace, Beijing, [Qing dynasty]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/391a32e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1038+0+0/resize/150x78!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fa0%2F1e%2Fa428ee7b4b8bb9f45dd95d5270fb%2Fl21405-c29jc-02-t2-01.jpg)
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
![Japan—Felice Beato | Album of 50 photographs of Japanese portraits and views. [Yokohama, circa. 1868]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c8e3ccb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1452x2000+0+0/resize/150x207!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fea%2Fe9%2Fc612df7e4344a15619967c3d79d1%2Fl21405-by6xg-4-t1.jpg)
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
![Arabia | Map of the Arabian Peninsula, AH1325 [c.1907]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1ffd9d6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1563+0+0/resize/150x117!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F15%2F8b%2F5c2e50ca4fcdacb30f5d07a9ab05%2Fl21405-bzrjn-1.jpg)
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
![Vladimir P. Davidov | Atlas ... [Russian text: Views in the Ionian Islands and Greece], St Petersburg, 1839](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/718b859/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1388+0+0/resize/150x104!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F89%2Fa0%2F02bda235425ea90f1b502df44edd%2Fl21405-byknq-1.jpg)
48. Vladimir P. Davidov | Atlas ... [Russian text: Views in the Ionian Islands and Greece], St Petersburg, 1839