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14 September 2021 | starting at 13:00 BST

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225 lots available

Follower of John Webber(British, London 1751-1793)A pair of mountain landscapes believed to be in French Polynesia, possibly the Marquesas Islands 45.4 x 60.6cm (17 7/8 x 23 7/8in), the third 35.6 x 47.6cm (14 x 18 3/4in). (3)

PACIFIC OCEAN ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM) Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio, [Antwerp], 1589 [but c.1609]

PREVOST (ANTOINE FRANCOIS) Histoire générale des voyages, our nouvelles collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer t par terre, 17 vol. (of 19, wanting vols. 8 and 9), Paris, Didot[-Pancoucke], 1748-1770

COOK (JAMES) [MAGRA (JAMES)] A Journal of a Voyage Round the World, in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771... To which is added a Concise Vocabulary of the Language of Otahitee, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1771

Lt. Col. William Godfrey Rayson Masters(British, 19th century)An album of sixty-five works on paper documenting Masters' 1857-1861 expedition from England to Southeast Asia with the Royal Marines, on board HMS Chesapeake album size 33.5 x 52 x 5cm (13 3/16 x 20 1/2 x 2in).

Continental Schoollate 19th centuryA mountain landscape, believed to be New Zealand mounted but unframed

Kevin Charles(Pro) Hart (Australian, 1928-2006)Lone figures in the Outback, a pair (2)

Arthur Boyd(Australian, 1920-1999) and John Perceval (Australian, 1923-2000)Bowl decorated with leaves

John Varley Jnr.(British, 1850-1933)A street scene in Japan

John Varley Jnr.(British, 1850-1933)A Japanese city wall and gate

THOMSON (JOHN) Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION of volumes 2-4, second edition (with title dated 1874) of volume 1, Sampson, Low, 1873-1874

CHINA - PANORAMA Panoramic photograph of an unidentified view in China, by an unknown photographer, [1860s]

POTT (FRANCIS LISTER HAWKS) Shanghai of To-day. A Souvenir of Fifty Vandyke Gravure Prints of "The Model Settlement", Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, Kelly and Walsh, 1930

European School19th centuryChinese banners at Newchwang (Yingkou)

John Rogers Herbert(British, 1810-1890)The Chinese Bride

School of Lamqua(Chinese, active 1805-1830)Portrait of a Beauty

Chinese Schoollate 18th centurySix studies of characters from Chinese folklore unframed

George Chinnery RHA(Tipperary 1774-1852 Macau)Study of a Chinese woman with a baby on her back

George Chinnery RHA(Tipperary 1774-1852 Macau)Tanka women and child

George Chinnery RHA(Tipperary 1774-1852 Macau)A Chinese man having his ears cleaned by a street barber together with a sketch of a street hawker the first 9.3 x 10.5cm (3 3/4 x 4 1/8in); the second 7.4 x 8.9cm (3 x 3 1/2in). (2)

Yong Mun Sen(Chinese, 1896-1962)A beach hut

Elizabeth Keith(British, 1887-1956)Forbidden City Gate, Peking

André Claudot(French, 1892-1982)Sampans moored in Hangzhou Harbour, China

After Lamqua19th Century A group of five medical portraits depicting Chinese people with large tumours each 52 x 35.5cm (20 1/2 x 14in). (5) unframed

Antonio Blanco(Filipino, 1912-1999)Reclining female nude with peacock feather

Antonio Blanco(Filipino, 1912-1999)The Rogan Josh Vendor

Antonio Blanco(Filipino, 1912-1999)Reclining nude with devil mask, large glass flask and bananas

Antonio Blanco(Filipino, 1912-1999)'Rani in the Clouds'

Raden Basoeki Abdullah(Indonesian, 1915-1993)A young woman holding a basket

Raden Basoeki Abdullah(Indonesian, 1915-1993)Portrait of a young girl seated

Raden Basoeki Abdullah(Indonesian, 1915-1993)Portrait of an Indonesian girl

Raden Basoeki Abdullah(Indonesian, 1915-1993)Two women walking beneath a flamboyant

Sir Gerald Festus Kelly RA, KCVO, PRA(British, 1879-1972)'Ma-Thein-Kin, with her Yellow Parasol'

Anatole Shister(Russian, 1884-1961)Indonesian lady with gold earrings

Tiểu sử Trương Thị Thịnh(Vietnamese, born 1928)Mother and children

Mochtar Apin(Indonesian, 1923-1994) and Baharoedin (Indonesia, born 1910)A folio of sixteen linocuts commemorating Indonesia's 1945 declaration of independence each sheet 45.5 x 37cm (17 15/16 x 14 9/16in).

Hong Viet Dung(Vietnamese, born 1962)'Perfumed Pagoda' 2004

Tay Bak Koi(Singaporean, 1939-2005)'Under the Shade'

Maung Su Yatanabon(Burmese, 1903-1965)Four portraits of Burmese sitters including a priest, elderly woman, and a smoking man and woman each 19.6 x 14.6cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/4in). (4)

Ketut Djodjol(Indonesian, born 1940)Returning home from the paddy field

TIPU SULTAN Portrait of Tippu Sultan, after Edward Orme, [1850s]; and 4 prints relating to the life of Tipu Sultan, all engraved by F. dal Pedro (8)

After Charles Emilius(Lt) Gold (British, born after 1803-died after 1871)'A Sepoy of Tippoo Sultaun's Regular Infantry'; and 14 further views, groups and "types" hand-coloured lithographs by Medland and others after Gold, laid down and window-mounted, Published by G. Nicol, 1799 33.5 x 26cm. (13 3/16 x 10 1/4in.), or similar (14)

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