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ION T XPLORA E ND A Tuesday 3 November 2015 Tuesday Knightsbridge, London TRAVEL TRAVEL TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION | Knightsbridge, London | Tuesday 3 November 2015 22811 TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION Tuesday 3 November 2015 at 1pm Knightsbridge, London BONHAMS SALE NUMBER PRESS ENQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS Montpelier Street 22811 [email protected] Front cover: Lot 126 Knightsbridge Back cover: Lot 18 London SW7 1HH CATALOGUE CUSTOMER SERVICES Inside front cover: Lot 16 www.bonhams.com £15 Monday to Friday 8.30am – 6pm Inside back cover: Lot 130 Opposite page: Lot 34 VIEWING ENQUIRIES +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Saturday 31 October Pictures Before end paper: Lot 71 11am – 3pm Rhyanon Demery LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS Contents: Lot 90 AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE Sunday 1 November +44 (0) 20 7393 3865 Index: Lot 15 [email protected] Please email [email protected] 11am – 3pm with “Live bidding” in the subject Monday 2 November Veronique Scorer line 48 hours before the auction 9am – 4.30pm +44 (0) 20 7393 3962 to register for this service. Tuesday 3 November [email protected] 9am – 11am Please see page 2 for bidder Administrator information including after-sale BIDS Christopher King collection and shipment +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0)20 7393 3866 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax [email protected] Please see back of catalogue To bid via the internet for important notice to bidders please visit www.bonhams.com Books & Photographs Matthew Haley Please note that bids should be Luke Batterham submitted no later than 4pm Simon Roberts on the day prior to the auction. Jennifer Ebrey New bidders must also provide Sarah Lindberg proof of identity when submitting +44 (0)20 7393 3828 bids. Failure to do this may result +44 (0)20 7393 3879 (fax) in your bids not being processed. [email protected] Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with the lower estimate of or in excess of £500. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Leslie, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Gordon McFarlan, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. Central SALE Middlesex Hospital INFORMATION Park Royal Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V PAYMENTS All other sold lots will remain PAYMENT IN ADVANCE A surcharge of 2% is applicable in Bonhams Knightsbridge Tel: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 when using Mastercard, Visa and West Acton Horn Lane Buyers Collections department withoutStation to ascertain amount due by: overseas debit cards. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 charge until 5.30pm Tuesday cash, cheque with banker’s +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax 24th November 2015. Lots not card, credit card or traveller’s The following symbols are used collected by then will be returned cheque. to denote that VAT is due on CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the department. Storage the hammer price and buyer’s To obtain any Bonhams charges may apply. 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CONTENTS General Travel 1-5 Pacific and Australia 6-17 Japan and China 18-39 South-East Asia 40-48 India 49-66 Central Asia and Russia 67-70 Turkey and The Middle East 71-87 Egypt and North Africa 88-103 Sub-Saharan and South Africa 104-110 Malta 111-118 Greece 119-125 Caribbean and South America 126-133 North America 134-139 Arctic and Antarctic 140-148 GENERAL TRAVEL 1 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 inscribed throughout and dated on the title page ‘1836-1840’ pencil, pen and ink and watercolour album size 20.5 x 27cm (8 x 10 5/8in). £5,000 - 7,000 €6,800 - 9,500 2 • 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, sailing from Madeira to Rio, then to the Cape, Simon’s Bay, Bombay, Mauritius, 1 Simon’s Bay, St Helena, Ascension Island, Fayal, returning to Portsmouth on 11 October 1872; the remaining sequence of logs recording service on HMS Doris between 16 October 1872 and 17 January 1876, cruising off the coast of Spain, from Funchal to Barbados, in the West Indies, from Halifax to Gibraltar and Gibraltar to Halifax, off the Cape de Gatte, in the Mediterranean, from Malta to Corfu, Navarino to Salamis, St Vincent to Monte Video via Stanley and back via the Falklands and the Cape, from Gibraltar to the Cape, and from there to India; illustrated throughout with inserted plans in watercolour, decorative title-pages, pen-and-ink charts, etc., c.500 pages bound in one volume, some leaves loose or missing, usual dust- staining and signs of wear, bookplate of Juha Nurminen, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, folio, [1870-76] £600 - 800 €810 - 1,100 An attractive series of midshipman logs recording life at sea in the Victorian navy.