The Travel & Exploration Auction

Atlas. England & Wales. Blaeu, Willem and Joan Blaeu. Le Theatre du Monde, Quatriesme Partie [Theatrum, Vol. IV: England & Wales], the first Frenc...

Panorama of Paris. An uncoloured wood engraving, published as a supplement to the Illustrated London News, 6 July 1867, linen-backed & rolled, 55c...

Double panorama of Liverpool. An uncoloured wood engraving, published as a supplement to the Illustrated London News, 29 April 1865, backed with J...

London. Hollar, Wenceslaus & Danckerts, Cornelis (after). "The Long View", A large panorama of London in 1647, lithograph by Robert Martin, 1832, ...

World. Delisle, Guillaume (after). Mappa Totius Mundi. A double hemisphere world map published by Tobias Conrad Lotter, [c. 1760-70]. Hand-coloure...

World. Blaeu, Joan & Valck, Gerard. Novus Planiglobii Terrestris Per Utrumque Polum Conspectus. A double hemisphere map of the world on a polar pr...

Southeast Asia. Jansson, Jan. Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio [c.1630-50]. An uncoloured copper-engraved map on creamy laid/chain-lined paper wi...

Southeast Asia. Valck & Schenk. India quae Orientalis dicitur et Insulae Adiacentes [c. 1695]. A scarce edition of Hondius's map, which was based ...

Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. A set of four gores of the Southern Hemisphere including Australia. Hand-coloured copper engravings on creamy laid/chai...

America. Mariette, Pierre. America Noviter Delineata. A scarce map of America derived from Hondius, uncoloured copper engraving on laid/chain-line...

Discovery of Tasmania & New Zealand. Valentyn, Francois. A scarce map of Australia, New Zealand and part of Southeast Asia, showing the track of A...

Sea Charts. A General Chart of the Indian and part of the Pacific Oceans, Shewing the various Passages to & from China, Australia, New Zealand, Lo...

Africa. Arrowsmith, Aaron. A large and historically important map of Africa, 1 November 1802, copper-engraving, dissected into 24 sections, linen-...

Cary, John. [New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland, 1794], large scale map, copper-engraved with outline colour by hand, map sections...

New York. A large and impressive view of Manhattan from the East River, aquatint with engraving, New York: F. & G. W. Smith, 1855. The third state...

Blaeu, J. Map of The Middle Part of Galloway, [c. 1654], uncoloured copper-engraving on laid/chain-lined paper, 49cm by 63cm, framed & glazed ......

Kip, William. Hertfordiae [Hertfordshire], copper-engraved map with later hand-colouring on laid/chain-lined paper, 31cm by 38.5cm, framed & glaze...

A small collection of maps comprising: New Map of Cairo, engraved by A. Nicohosoff, Alexandria: Arts Graphiques, 1932, publisher's card covers; Cu...

A collection of antique prints comprising: The North East Prospect of Richmond in the County of York, etching by Samuel & Nathaniel Buck, dated 17...

Ortelius, Abraham. Map of Ireland, oriented to the west, [1584]. Eryn. Hiberniae, Britannicae Insulae, Nova Descriptio. Irlandt. A hand-coloured, ...

Moll, Herman. Atlas Minor, London: Thomas & John Bowles, [1736 or later]. Quarto, 58 [of 62] hand-coloured, copper-engraved maps on laid/chain-lin...

John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910-1998), leader of the successful 1953 British Expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. John Hunt's down-filled left h...

A wooden propeller boss bearing a pencil inscription, 'Piece of the 1st German plane shot down by G Capt Ernest Norton, Newtown, Montg'. The boss ...

Georgian botanical card game. The Science of Botany according to the system of Linnaeus, by Mad'lle de Cély, complete with all 54 hand-coloured p...

Dollond brass telescope with tripod stand in wooden case

A cased set of late-Victorian & Edwardian specimen slides with manuscript labels, including 'Gizzards of 2 Fleas', 'Muscular fibre of Locust', 'He...

Pigot, J. The Commercial Directory for 1819-20, detailing the traders & merchants of the Midlands and parts of Northern England, including Birming...

Freeman, John George. Holiday Rambles: Scotland, 1876, South Wales, 1877. Manuscript travel journal, pp. 200 (both sides of 100 leaves), copiously...

Peplow, S. H. Hong Kong About & Around, first edition, signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, 'To Edna, With affection from Uncle Peps,...

Botany & Horticulture. A collection of books to include The Trees and Shrubs of the British Isles, by Cooper & Westell, in two volumes, London: J....

Sporting & Country Pursuits. A collection of books to include Jottings of a Naturalist, by J. Whitaker, Nottingham: Walter Black, 1912; The Keeper...

Architecture. A collection of books on ecclesiastical architecture, stately homes, castles & ruins, furniture, to include Cathedrals, first impres...

Nottingham History & Topography. A collection of books to include History of Worksop, Sherwood Forest and Neighbourhood, by Edwin Eddison, London:...

Derbyshire History & Topography. Magna Britannia, Vol. V, Derbyshire, by Rev. Daniel Lysons & Samuel Lysons, London: T. Cadell, 1817, quarto, comp...

Culpeper, Nicholas. The English Physician Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines made of English Herbs, London: J. Scatcherd et al.,...

[Richards, W. History of Lynn, Plates], comprising 15 hand-coloured aquatint etchings and one engraved map, no title or publisher imprint, archite...

Strutt, Joseph. Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod, or, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, large paper edition with beautifully hand-coloured p...

Wilde, Lady. Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland, London: Ward & Downey, 1888. Octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth, pp. [...

Mountaineering. A collection of books comprising: Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, by Edward Whymper, second edition, folding map i...

Malton, T. Views of Oxford, comprising title and six line-engraved topographical & architectural views, slim folio, contemporary blue paper covere...

Manuscript Qur'an, possibly Indo-Persian, the text with interlinear Persian translation, the gloss and colophon in Persian. The date at the end of...

Edna Florence Stableford, pilot's log book, the final poignant entry at Elmdon Airport recording the outbreak of war, 1939

Cresse, Jr. Major Wadsworth. US Army Standing Operating Procedure No. 10, signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, 'To Edna Selwyn, who s...

Titanic Court Enquiry: Reports of Evidence on the “Loss of the Titanic”, Limited Edition numbered 117/300, signed by Millvina Dean [the youngest s...

Beesley, Lawrence. The Loss of the Titanic, 5 photo plates including 2 folding ship’s plans, published by W Heinemann, 1912, cloth a little faded ...

[Meall, Louis A.] Great Yarmouth Illustrated in a Series of Twenty-Four Engravings including the principal Objects of Interest in its Neighbourhoo...

Gillingwater, Edmund. An Historical and Descriptive Account of St. Edmund's Bury in the County of Suffolk, J. Rackham, 1804. 12mo, half-calf with ...

Ecclesiastical Architecture & Theology. Three books comprising Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales, by Prof. T. G. Bonney, in tw...

Gillingwater, Edmund. An Historical Account of the Ancient Town of Lowestoft, in the County of Suffolk, first edition, London: Robinson & Nichols,...

Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North, complete in two volumes, London: George Newnes, 1898. Octavo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth. Contents very go...

Ross, Sir John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions...and the Discovery of th...

Chinese Characteristics, by Arthur H. Smith, enlarged & revised edition, New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1894, octavo, publisher's yellow & r...

Egypt. Lane, Edward William. An Account of the Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians, in two volumes, London: M. A. Nattali, 1849, small octavo,...

Fellowes, W. D. A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, fourth edition, London: Thomas McLean, 1823. Tall octavo [large paper copy], contemporary r...

Costume of China, Russia, Austria. Alexander, William. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese + Russians + Austrians,...

Swedish Costume. Forssell, C. Une Année en Suède [A Year in Sweden], quarto, comprising 48 beautifully hand-coloured aquatint etched plates (inclu...

Russia. Wilson, Sir Robert. Brief Remarks on the Character and Composition of the Russian Army, and a Sketch of the Campaigns in Poland in the Yea...

[Powel, David. The historie of Cambria, now called Wales, translated into English by H. Lhoyd, 1584]. A first edition of the first printed history...

Phrenology. A manuscript report by Professor Hatfield, Graduate of the American Institute of Phrenology, dated October 1925, being the Synopsis & ...

Slavery. Manuscript indenture on laid paper, Jamaica, 13 February 1805, concerning "a negroe Slave named Frank". Made between William Peacan (merc...