Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
London
30 April 2015
Viewing 25-29 April
(early viewing by appointment)
Online catalogue:
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2015/travel-atlases-maps-natural-history-l15401.html
Photographic highlights include:
Sir William Everett’s album of 43 silver prints and 14 watercolours of Eastern Turkey [1879-1887]
£5,000-7,000
Lot 210
Edward Chapman’s personal annotated set of 89 albumen prints of Yarkand and Kashgar (1873-74)
£10,000-15,000
Lot 215
Dr Charles Hose. Album of 169 platinum prints of Sarawak [c.1884-1900]
£30,000-40,000
Lot 224
John Thomson. The Antiquities of Cambodia, 1867, First edition, with 16 albumen prints
(illustrated above)
£20,000-30,000
Lot 225
John Claude White. Sikhim, and Sikhim & Tibet frontier. Two albums of 60 carbon prints [c.1903]
£10,000-20,000
Lots 226-234
SINGAPORE. A private collection of 19th century photographs of Singapore and region
Lot 240
St Julian Hugh Edwards. Album of 63 albumen prints of Amoy (Xiamen) and vicinity [China, 1860s]
£40,000-60,000
Lot 256
Major J.C. Watson. Presentation album of 100 albumen prints of Ningpo (Ningbo). [China, c.1870]
£40,000-60,000
Lot 257
Major J.C. Watson, Dr John Dudgeon, John Thomson. Album of 99 albumen prints of Peking (Beijing), Ningpo (Ningbo) and environs. [China, late 1860s]
£40,000-60,000
Other Photographs:
EUROPE & GENERAL TRAVEL
Lots 68-70, and 86
POLAR
Lot 77
NEAR & MIDDLE EAST
Lots 146, 148, 156, 157, 160, 163, 173, 179, 184-188, 190, 193,
ASIA
Lots 205-210, 212-220, 222, 224-234, 239-243, 245-247, 250, 256-258
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