Montpelier Street, London I 6 February 2019 Montpelier Street, Travel and Exploration Travel Travel and Exploration I Montpelier Street, London I 6 February 2019 25106 Travel and Exploration Montpelier Street, London | Wednesday 6 February 2019, at 1pm BONHAMS SALE NUMBER PRESS ENQUIRIES REGISTRATION Montpelier Street 25106 [email protected] IMPORTANT NOTICE Knightsbridge Please note that all customers, London SW7 1HH CATALOGUE CUSTOMER SERVICES irrespective of any previous activity £15 www.bonhams.com Monday to Friday with Bonhams, are required to 8.30am – 6pm complete the Bidder Registration ENQUIRIES Form in advance of the sale. 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The following symbols are used to denote that VAT is due on the hammer price and buyer’s premium. † VAT 20% on hammer price and buyer’s premium * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on hammer price and the prevailing rate on buyer’s premium Contents LOTS General Travel and Pacific 1 – 16 Australia and New Zealand 17 – 32 Japan 33 – 37 China 38 – 46 South East Asia 47 – 52 India and Sri Lanka 53 – 75 Central Asia 76 – 82 Middle East 83 – 94 Persian Gulf 95 – 96 Turkey and the Ottoman Empire 97 – 109 North Africa 110 – 141 Sub-Saharan Africa 142 – 148 Mediterranean 149 – 157 West Indies 158 – 176 Cuba 178 – 179 Central and South America 180 – 188 North America 189 – 191 Polar 192 – 205 2 3 4 | BONHAMS General Travel and Pacific 1 MÜNSTER (SEBASTIAN) Portrait of Sebastian Münster, after Christoph Amberger, oil on canvas, framed, image approximately 515 x 415mm., [Germany, mid- nineteenth century] £1,500 - 2,000 €1,700 - 2,200 Finely executed nineteenth-century copy after Christoph Amberger’s portrait of Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), the most celebrated of all fifteenth century cartographers, his Cosmographia Universalis first appearing in 1544. The original is held by the Staatliche Museen in Berlin. 2 • WORLD MAPS BUNTING (HEINRICH) Die Eigentliche und Warhafftige Gestalt der Erden und des Meers. Cosmographia Universalis, woodcut map, later hand-colouring, German text on verso, small repairs at fold with a couple of letters of text in margin supplied in manuscript facsimile [Shirley 143], 290 x 372mm., [Madgeburg, 1581]--[RUSCELLI (GIROLAMO)] Orbis descriptio, good margins, [Venice, 1598]; idem, another edition, shaved within platemark at upper blank margin (not touching image), [Venice, 1651], engraved maps, Latin text on verso [cf.Tooley 110], platemark 180 x 260mm. (3) £800 - 1,200 €890 - 1,300 1 Bunting’s world map is celebrated for it’s inclusion of a landmass (captioned “India Meridionalis”) argued by some as depicting the west coast of Australia, therefore raising the the possibility of Portuguese knowledge continent before 1600. 3 • [COOK (JAMES)] ROBERTS (HENRY) A General Chart Exhibiting the Discoveries Made by Capt. James Cook in this and his Two Preceding Voyages; with the Tracks of the Ships Under his Command, engraved map, partially hand-coloured, dissected and laid on linen, framed and glazed (retaining the original marbled slipcase with printed label, loose), overall 580 x 905mm., [William Faden, 1784] £600 - 800 €670 - 890 A world map on which are identified the routes of Captain James Cook’s three voyages to the Pacific, made by Henry Roberts, who had accompanied the Endeavour and Resolution voyages. 2 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION | 5 A collection of works by the artist and traveller Edward Roper Lots 4-17 Born in London in 1833, Edward Roper was a writer and painter 1870-1 saw Edward, his wife and daughter travel to Australia on the who is best known for documenting his extensive travels. His family Newcastle. The trip was commemorated in an album Photographs moved to Canada around 1844 and Edward joined them two years from nature and from sketches made during a voyage round the later, undertaking the 71-day voyage from London to Montreal as a world in the ship “Newcastle”: 1870-1871 by Edward Roper (Mitchell fifteen year-old.