Sotheby’s Book Week in June and July brings auctions in Paris, London, and New York, offering rare manuscripts, major literary works and historic materials across eras.
Aymard de Banville | Album photographique de la mission remplie en Égypte..., Paris, 1865, an exceptionally rare work from the earliest days of travel photography
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Charles Dickens | Pictures from Italy, London, 1846, first edition, warmly inscribed by the author to Lady Blessington the day after publication
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Otto von Stackelberg | Costumes et usages des peuples, Rome, 1825
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Claudius Ptolemaeus | Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, Strassburg, 1525, contemporary Venetian burgundy morocco, including one of the earliest Ptolemaic maps of America
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Description de l'Égypte, Paris, 1820-30, second edition, 37 atlas volumes plus 24 text volumes bound in 26
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India and the Himalayas--Album of photographs titled 'Simla and Kashmir 1879'
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Bernhard von Breydenbach | Die heyligen reyssen gen Jherusalem, Mainz, 1486, first German language edition of the first illustrated travel book, the duc de Luynes' copy
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Maxime du Camp | Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie. Dessins Photographiques..., Paris, 1852, first edition of a pioneering photobook, the duc de Luynes' copy
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Antoine Phérotée de La Croix | Algemeene Weereld-Beschryving, Amsterdam, 1705, first edition in Dutch, 3 volumes, contemporary hand-colouring, heightened with gold
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Robert Adam | Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian, 1764, first edition
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Greece—Pausanias | Atticae descriptio. Trans. Domitius Calderinus, [Venice, c.1500], very rare first edition of the first travel book published about Greece
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Louis Dupré | Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, Paris, 1825, contemporary red half morocco gilt
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