Travel, Photographs, Maps and Natural History

India | Album of photographs, circa. 1880s

Margin Scheme

Lot Closed

November 17, 02:13 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

India

Album of photographs, circa. 1880s

Oblong folio (288 x 340mm.), 49 albumen prints (218 x 270mm., or the reverse), mounted on card, recto and verso, contemporary black half calf gilt, green cloth boards, some spotting and stains to mounts, occasional slight wear to images, contents slightly loose

A good album of photographs of Benares and Agra, including several of the Taj Mahal.

Photographs of India and the Himalayas titled 'Simla and Kashmir 1879'.

Estimate: 6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Perotti, Cornucopiae, siue linguae Latinae commentarii, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, July 1499, eighteenth-century mottled vellum with Fortescue blind armorial stamp on front cover

Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 EUR

Gellert, Christlieb Ehregott | First edition of Gellert’s rare supplement on assaying and metallurgical chemistry

Estimate: 5,000 - 7,000 USD

Phillips, John, and Alfred Rider | Mexico Illustrated; a fine and rare series of large-format views

Estimate: 7,000 - 10,000 USD

Jacobsz | Pascaarte van alle de Zee-custen van Europa, Amsterdam, 1655

Estimate: 30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Vandermaelen | Atlas universelle de geographie physique, Brussels, 1827

Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Edward Fitzgerald, translator | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam..., Bushey, [1911], Sangorski & Sutcliffe original vellum, elaborately gilt with jewelled clasps, signed by Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe

Estimate: 6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich | First edition of Osnovy khimii [Principles of Chemistry], with two early versions of the periodic table, St. Petersburg, 1869–1871

Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 USD

Illuminated Portolan Chart of Western Europe | by Dierick Vijt | Netherlands, probably Amsterdam | c.1575–1580

Estimate: 100,000 - 200,000 GBP

Roberts, David | The Holy Land, handsomely bound

Estimate: 25,000 - 35,000 USD