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Auction #128 begins on 15 Jan 2026

Auction #128 - Travel & Exploration

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Lot 2

Verhoeff (Pieter Willemszoon)

INDIAE ORIENTALIS PARS IX. HISTORICAM DESCRIPTIONEM

Lot 5

Walker (Mary Adelaide)

THROUGH MACEDONIA TO THE ALBANIAN LAKES

Lot 13

Kolbe (Peter)

NAAUKEURIGE EN UITVOERIGE BESCHRYVING VAN DE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP

Behelzende Een zeer omstandig Verhaal van den tegenwoodigen toestant van dat vermaarde Gewest, deszelfs Gelegenheit, Haven, Sterkte, Regerings-vorm,Uitgestrektheit,…

Lot 14

Paterson (Lieutenant William)

A NARRATIVE OF FOUR JOURNEYS INTO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOTTENTOTS AND CAFFRARIA

IN THE YEARS ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN, EIGHT, AND NINE. Illustrated with a map and seventeen copper-plates

Lot 15

Söderström (J.)

A. SPARRMAN'S ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION FROM JAMES COOK'S 2ND EXPEDITION (1772-1775)

Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Stockholm. New Series Publication No. 6, 1939

Lot 17

Arbousset (T.) & Daumas (T.)

RELATION D'UN VOYAGE D'EXPLORATION

Au nord-est de la colonie du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, entrepris dans les mois de mars, avril et mai 1836, par MM. T. Arbousset et F. Daumas, missionnaires de la…

Lot 23

Muller (Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas)

DE OOST-INDISCHE COMPAGNIE IN CAMBODJA EN LAOS; VERZAMELING VAN BESCHEIDEN VAN 1636 TOT 1670

The Dutch East India Company in Cambodia and Laos; a collection of documents from 1636 to 1670. With a map and two illustrated plates with views.

Lot 71

Balfour (Alice Blanche)

TWELVE HUNDRED MILES IN A WAGGON (sic)

Lot 72

Bunbury (Charles J. F.)

JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

With excursions into the interior, and notes on the natural history, and the native tribes

Lot 74

Campbell (John)

TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society

Lot 75

Cole (A.W.)

THE CAPE AND THE K....S

or, Notes on five years residence in South Africa

Lot 76

Coote (C.H.)

THE VOYAGE FROM LISBON TO INDIA, 1505-6

being an Account and Journal by Albericus Vespuccius, Translated from the Contemporary Flemish, and Edited with Prologue and Notes by C. H. Coote

Lot 78

Damberger (Christian Frederick)

TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO MOROCCO (Fabricated travel account)

From The Years 1781 To 1797; Through Caffraria, The Kingdoms Of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschako, Etc. Likwise Across The Great Desert Of Sahara, And The…

Lot 80

Du Chaillu (Paul B.)

EXPLORATIONS & ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA

with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus and other animals

Lot 81

Kolbe (Pierre)

DESCRIPTION DU CAP DE BONNE-ESPERANCE

Ou l’on trouve tout ce qui concernce l’histoire-Naturelle due pays; La Religion, les Moeurs et les Usages Des Hottentots, et L’établissement des Hollandois.…

Lot 82

Le Vaillant (François)

VOYAGE DE MONSIEUR LE VAILLANT DANS L'INTERIEUR DE L'AFRIQUE

par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance: nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement …

Lot 84

Baines (Thomas)

EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

Introduction by Frank R. Bradlow

Lot 97

Forbes (Vernon S.) & Rourke (John)

PATERSON'S CAPE TRAVELS 1777 TO 1779

Lot 98

[Gordon (R.J.)]

ROBERT JACOB GORDON

Cape Travels, 1777 to 1786, edited by Peter E. Raper & Maurice Boucher

Lot 109

[Van der Stel]

SIMON VAN DER STEL’S JOURNEY TO NAMAQUALAND 1685

With a revised introduction by Gilbert Waterhouse. Transcription of the original text by G.C. de Wet. English translation by R.H. Pheiffer

Lot 121

Green (Lawrence G)

PANTHER HEAD

The Story of the South African Bird Islands

Lot 122

[Livingstone (David)]

THE LIFE AND EXPLORATIONS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D.

Compiled from Reliable Sources

Lot 169

Andersson (Charles John)

LAKE NGAMI

Or, Explorations and Discoveries, During Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of South Western Africa

Lot 170

Forbes (V.S.)

PIONEER TRAVELLERS OF SOUTH AFRICA

A Geographical Commentary upon Routes, Records, Observations and Opinions of Travellers at the Cape 1750-1800

Lot 174

Victorin (J.F.)

TRAVELS IN THE CAPE, THE YEARS 1853-1855

Hunting and nature pictures from the late young naturalist's letters and diaries, by J.W. Grill. …

Lot 176

Leo Africanus (Johannes)

DE TOTIUS AFRICAE DESCRIPTIONE LIBRI IX (1559)

qvibvs non solvm Africae regionum, insularum, & oppidorum situs, locorumque intervalla accurate complexus est … with: Hannonis Carthaginiensium regis navigatio,…

Lot 177

[Kolbe (Peter)]

NIEUWE ALGEMENE BESCHRYVING VAN DIE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP

Lot 178

Camoëns (Luis de)

THE LUSIAD; OR THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA. AN EPIC POEM

Translated from the original Portuguese of Luis de Camoëns. By William Julius Mickle

Lot 181

Heylyn (Peter)

COSMOGRAPHIE, IN FOUR BOOKS. CONTAINING THE CHOROGRAPHIE AND HISTORIE OF THE WHOLE WORLD

and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof, by Peter Heylyn

Lot 202

Thompson (George)

TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Eight years a resident at the Cape, …

Lot 224

Thomson (Joseph)

MUNGO PARK AND THE NIGER

Lot 231

Keppel (Capt. the Hon. Henry)

THE EXPEDITION TO BORNEO OF H.M.S. DIDO FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY

with extracts from the Journal of James Brooke. Esq. of Sarawak

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