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Nicolau Antonio Facchinetti (Italian, 1824-1900) Serra dos Órgãos seen from Varzea in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro; and Barreira from Rio Soberbo, Brazil, a pair each 21 x 46cm (8 1/4 x 18 1/8in). (2)Nicolau Antonio Facchinetti (Italian, 1824-1900) Serra dos Órgãos seen from Varzea in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro; and Barreira from Rio Soberbo, Brazil, a pair each 21 x 46cm (8 1/4 x 18 1/8in). (2). Sold for £60,000 inc. premium
HAWAII, MARQUESAS ISLANDS and PITCAIRN An important album of sketches including the second known (and first detailed) panorama of Honolulu, and the earliest known view of Kealakekua Bay taken from Ka'awaloa, [Hawaii, Pitcairn, Marquesas Islands, Peru and Chile, 1837-1840]HAWAII, MARQUESAS ISLANDS and PITCAIRN An important album of sketches including the second known (and first detailed) panorama of Honolulu, and the earliest known view of Kealakekua Bay taken from Ka'awaloa, [Hawaii, Pitcairn, Marquesas Islands, Peru and Chile, 1837-1840]. Sold for £43,750 inc. premium
A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later,A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later,. Sold for £37,500 inc. premium
JOHNSON (WILLIAM J.) AND WILLIAM HENDERSON] Indian Amateur's Photographic Album, nos. 1-31 (no. 5 being an 'Appendix', see below) bound in 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, [Bombay, William Henderson, November 1856-May 1859]JOHNSON (WILLIAM J.) AND WILLIAM HENDERSON] Indian Amateur's Photographic Album, nos. 1-31 (no. 5 being an 'Appendix', see below) bound in 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, [Bombay, William Henderson, November 1856-May 1859]. Sold for £31,250 inc. premium
MURRAY-DARLING RIVER EXPEDITION, 1850 HUTTON (FRANCIS FREDERICK) Sketch book recording an expedition along the Murray-Darling river basin in 1850, including landscape scenes, encampments and Aborigines, [1850]MURRAY-DARLING RIVER EXPEDITION, 1850 HUTTON (FRANCIS FREDERICK) Sketch book recording an expedition along the Murray-Darling river basin in 1850, including landscape scenes, encampments and Aborigines, [1850]. Sold for £27,500 inc. premium
Michel Jean Cazabon (1813-1888) Landscape with figures and horse by a bridge, TrinidadMichel Jean Cazabon (1813-1888) Landscape with figures and horse by a bridge, Trinidad. Sold for £20,000 inc. premium
IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING KAZUMASA OGAWA. Photographs of Palace Buildings of Peking Compiled by The Imperial Museum of Tokyo... Collotyped from the Negatives Taken by K. Ogawa... with Explanatory Notes, 3 vol., NUMBER 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3)IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING KAZUMASA OGAWA. Photographs of Palace Buildings of Peking Compiled by The Imperial Museum of Tokyo... Collotyped from the Negatives Taken by K. Ogawa... with Explanatory Notes, 3 vol., NUMBER 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3). Sold for £14,375 inc. premium
MORITZ (BERNHARD) Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916MORITZ (BERNHARD) Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Sold for £12,500 inc. premium
ALLAHABAD, DARJEELING, AND FAKIRS Album containing 31 photographs, [c.1900]; and 3 other albums (4)ALLAHABAD, DARJEELING, AND FAKIRS Album containing 31 photographs, [c.1900]; and 3 other albums (4). Sold for £1,000 inc. premium

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Attributed to Armand de Gasmond (French, 19th Century) A naval officer's sketchbook containing 42 pages of drawings and watercolours depicting figure studies from various countries including Algiers, Africa, and the Caribbean, as well as several studies of military and naval officers and some ship portraits album size 20.5 x 27cm (8 x 10 5/8in).
LOGBOOKS Logs kept by Midshipman R. Wrey of voyages made on board HMS Wellington, Captain G. Hancock, Inconstant, Captain C.L.D. Waddilove, and Doris, Captain W.H. Edye; serving briefly (July to August 1870) on HMS Wellington (then a training ship at Portsmouth Harbour); from 11 December 1871 on HMS Inconstant and from 16 October 1872 until 17 January 1876 on HMS Doris, 1870-76
LOGBOOK "Log of HMS Minotaur. Commanded by Capt HH Rawson Kept by V Ch de Crespigny", 1879-83
GEOGRAPHICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL CARD GAME "Court Game of Astrophilogeon", [W. Davy for Charles Hodges, c.1828]
A rare 18 1/2-inch Vincenzo Coronelli terrestrial globe, Italian, gores published 1696, stand later,
English School19th CenturyA view in the South Pacific
Charles Meere(Australian, 1890-1961)Late Afternoon on the Tumut Plains, Southern New South Wales
Lawrence M. Daws(Australian, born 1927)Mandala
Donald Friend(Australian, 1915-1989)Portrait of a young Balinese man
George Rossi Ashton(British/Australian, 1857-died after 1895)The waiter
Sir William Dobell(Australian, 1899-1970)The Customers
Richard Read Jnr(Australian, 1796-1862)Portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Anderson (1790-1877)
MURRAY-DARLING RIVER EXPEDITION, 1850 HUTTON (FRANCIS FREDERICK) Sketch book recording an expedition along the Murray-Darling river basin in 1850, including landscape scenes, encampments and Aborigines, [1850]
AUSTRALIA - NAVAL "The First and Last Voyage of the Sea Cadet: A Simple Nautical Narrative. F. E.", a verse narrative illustrated with some ninety illustrations in watercolour and wash, [c.1844]
SPILBERGEN (JORIS VAN) Miroir Oost & West-Indical, Auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres Navigations, faictes en Années 1614. 1615. 1617. & 1618, Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1621
HAWAII, MARQUESAS ISLANDS and PITCAIRN An important album of sketches including the second known (and first detailed) panorama of Honolulu, and the earliest known view of Kealakekua Bay taken from Ka'awaloa, [Hawaii, Pitcairn, Marquesas Islands, Peru and Chile, 1837-1840]
COOK (JAMES) HAWKESWORTH (JOHN) An Account of the Voyages Undertaken... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell (9)
KUSAKABE STUDIO Album containing 50 views of Japan, [1880s]
Eizo Kato(Japanese, 1906-1972)A view of Hong Kong and Victoria Harbour by moonlight
Elizabeth Brunner(Hungarian, 1910-2001)'Japanese Lady'
Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, RA(British, 1879-1972)'The Great Wall of China'
Chinese School19th CenturyA view of Hong Kong
Chinese School19th CenturyWhampoa anchorage with British and American shipping
Chinese School19th CenturyA French concession on a bund, believed to be Chandernagore in India
Chinese School19th CenturyFigures in a landscape, a pair each 42 x 57.5cm (16 9/16 x 22 5/8in). (2)
Chinese School19th CenturyFigures by a river
Chinese Schoolearly 19th CenturyFigure studies of courtiers, a pair each 30 x 22.5cm (11 13/16 x 8 7/8in). (2)
Chinese Schoollate 19th CenturyChinese figure studies, a set of seven four: 21 x 16.5cm (8 1/4 x 6.5in); three: 16.5 x 21cm (6 1/2 x 8 1/4 in), all unframed. (7)
Chinese School19th CenturyA pair of bird studies each 30 x 30cm (11 13/16 x 11 13/16in).(2)
Chinese School19th CenturyBird studies, a set of four each 36 x 42cm (14 3/16 x 16 9/16in).(4)
Follower of Tingqua(Guan Lianchang) (Chinese, circa 1809-1870)Still life of flowers, a set of three each approximately 17.5 x 28cm (6 7/8 x 11in). (3)
Shen Ming Cun(Chinese, born 1956)Farmers resting from the midday sun
Shen Ming Cun(Chinese, born 1956)Two sisters brewing rice wine
IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING KAZUMASA OGAWA. Photographs of Palace Buildings of Peking Compiled by The Imperial Museum of Tokyo... Collotyped from the Negatives Taken by K. Ogawa... with Explanatory Notes, 3 vol., NUMBER 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3)
KUNG TAI 'Shanghai Bund. Kung Tai. Photographer', [1881]
THOMSON (JOHN) Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented, vol. 3 only (of 4), FIRST EDITION, Sampson, Low, 1874
THOMSON (JOHN) Group of twenty-three fine views of Hong Kong, [1868-1872, printed 1960s] (23)
TIANJIN, SHANDONG AND THE NORTH Views, native types and British life in Tianjin, Shandong and Shanxi provinces, [c.1900-1910] (2)
CHINA WRIGHT (GEORGE NEWENHAM) China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire, 4 vol. in 2, FIRST EDITION, Fisher, [1843]; idem, another copy, 4 vol. in 2 (4)
INDO-CHINA - VIETNAM Album of views and groups in French Colonial Vietnam, including Hanoi (6), Hué (14) and Nam Dinh (4), [c.1890-1900]
LAMBERT (GUSTAVE RICHARD) Group of 8 views in and around Bangkok, [1880s]
PHILIPPINES SERRANO (ANDRÉS) Los siete principes de los Angeles, Validos del Rey del Cielo misioneres, protectores de la tierra, con la practica de su devocion... secunda impression, Brussels [but probably Madrid], Francisco Foppens, 1707
Gerard Laenen(Belgian, 1899-1980)Yangon River, Burma
Chuah Siew Teng(Malaysian, born 1944)Ladies in a Kampong Scene
Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, RA(British, 1879-1972)The Well Beloved
Lewis Physioc(American, 1879-1972)A kampong
Ong Kim Seng(Singaporean, born 1945)North Canal Road, Singapore
Bui Xuan Phai(Vietnamese, 1920-1988)Musicians
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