Exemplary of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bre𝓀sson's wit, this evo⛄cative photograph dates from his trip to New York City in 1959.

Bee' is one of the last remaining Stroma Yole⛦s, and was bu𒉰ilt in 1904. She is being sold to benefit the Berwickshire Maritime Trust.

Views by the Berlin-based Norwegian artist Adelsteen Normann such as this quintessential view brought new fame to th🐎e Norway's fjords at the t꧙urn of the 20th century.

Trained at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, Rico was one of the leading painters of Venice o🌌f his day. Bathed in light, this view in the Cannaregio area of Venice looks North from the Grand Canal, a view which is little changed today. The same subject was also painted by art꧋ists ranging from Francesco Guardi to John Singer Sargent.

Situated on the Pearl river, Whampoa (today known as Pazhou) served as the main anchorage for foreign ships trading with Canton (Gu𝓀angzhou).

From 1947 onwards Henri Cartier-Bresson made several trips to India. Set in the south-western region of Kerala, this compo🤡sition dates from 1966.

Stéphane Couturier is known for his hyperreal photographs of 𒊎locations including Paris, Berlin, Algiers and Havana, or as here the South Pacific French territory of Nouvelle Calédonie.

🃏Majorelle first visited Mali, the Ivory Coast, and Senegal in the late 1940s, embracing ever more vibrant colour harmonies.

Born in Brno in Moravia, Ludwig Blum became celebrated for his scenes of everyday life in Jerusalem, and moved to the ci🍃ty in the 1920s. Shown here, the Damascus Gate is one of the main en﷽trances to Jerusalem's Old City.

Best remembered today as t🅘he first western artist to see and document the Victoria Falls in southern Africa, this is one of a series of paintings by Thomas Baines depicting the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1868.

Extinct by the 17th century or perhaps𓆏 earlier, the elephant bird was a three-metre-high flightless bird💝 indigenous to Madagascar. Rare survivors, their eggs, believed to be the largest of any oviparous animal, are prized by collectors. This example is intact and complete.

This topographical view by the marine painter♐ Hans Bohrdt sh💮ows the busy harbour of Funchal, the largest city and capital of the island of Madeira.

The French artist Jacques Majorelle is synonymous with Marrakech, and especially his luminou𝄹s paintings such as the present work, set in the artist's garden.

Situated on the Western side of the Bosphorus north of Istanbul, Rumelihisari was constructed in the 15th century by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II. Frère was renownꦫed for his Orientalist subjectsꦍ, which also included views on the Nile (see lot 7).