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Auction Name Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics - online bidstart 1/24 Total Sales (USD) 252,712.00
Auction Date February 07, 2018 - February 07, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 297,605.00
Sale Number #166 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 367,160.00
Total Lots 783
Sold Lots 536 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 456,885.00
% of Lots Sold 68.45% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 562,115.00
Unsold Lots 247 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 44.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
733 Braun & Hogenberg

Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Liber Primus - Braun & Hogenberg

1574 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,500.00
139 John Montresor

A Map of the Province of New York, with Part of Pensilvania, and New England... - John Montresor

1775 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,750.00
737 David H. Burr

A New Universal Atlas; Comprising Separate Maps of All the Principal Empires, Kingdoms & States Throughout the World..." - David H. Burr@@@1835@ - - - - This important and complete American atlas is from one of the country's earliest cartographe

USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 USD 5,750.00
663 Du Halde/D'Anville

Carte la Plus Generale et qui Comprend la Chine, la Tartarie Chinoise, et le Thibet Dressee sur les Cartes Particulieres des RR PP Jesuites - Du Halde/D'Anville

1734 USD 3,000.00 - 3,750.00 USD 5,175.00
54 Abraham Ortelius

Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio - Abraham Ortelius

1571 USD 5,500.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,600.00
58 Willem Blaeu

Americae Nova Tabula - Willem Blaeu

1642 USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD 4,600.00
55 Jodocus Hondius

America - Jodocus Hondius

1623 USD 4,750.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,025.00
144 Browne/Senex

A New Map of Virginia Mary-land and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey..." - Browne/Senex@New General Atlas@@1719@ - - - - This fine map of Chesapeake Bay is a derivative of the landmark map by Augustine Herrman. The map has been r

USD 4,750.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,025.00
20 Justus Danckerts

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula - Justus Danckerts

1685 USD 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 USD 3,738.00
103 Henry Abraham Chatelain

Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se Voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi Aujour d'hui S. Louis, aux Environs des-quelles se Trouvent les Etats, Pais, Nations, Peuples &c..." - Henry Abraham Chatelain@Atlas Historique...@@

USD 3,000.00 - 3,750.00 USD 3,738.00
174 Longman Co.

The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke, from St. Louis, by Way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, to the Pacific Ocean..." - Longman Co.@@@1809@ - - - - This is the London edition of The Apocrypha" - an 1809 unauthorized volume of the Lewis & Cl

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,450.00
723 Le Moyne/De Bry

[Lot of 43 - Complete Set of De Bry's Prints of Southeast Florida and Natives] - Le Moyne/De Bry

1591 USD 5,500.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,450.00
671 Ptolemy/Fries

Tabula Nova Indiae Orientalis & Meridionalis" - Ptolemy/Fries@Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae - @@1541@ - - - - This scarce map is a landmark in the cartography of Southeast Asia - the first printed map to focus on the region of Malay

USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,645.00
745 Giovanni Lorenzo d' Anania

L'Universale Fabrica del Mondo, Overo Cosmografia dell' Ecc. Gio. Lorenzo d'Anania... - Giovanni Lorenzo d' Anania

1596 USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,645.00
68 Jefferys/Sayer & Bennett

[On 6 Sheets] A Chart of North and South America, Including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the Nearest Coasts of Europe, Africa, and Asia - Jefferys/Sayer & Bennett

1775 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,530.00
155 John Speed/Francis Lamb

A New Description of Carolina - John Speed/Francis Lamb

1676 USD 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,415.00
121

[Lot of 2] Bill Whiffletree's Ration Map of U.S. [and] Bill Whiffletree's Bootleggers' Map of the United States -

1944 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,300.00
177 Fremont/Preuss

[Lot of 7] Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon Commencing at the Mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River, and Ending at the Mouth of the Wallah Wallah in the Columbia. In VII Sections... - Fremont/Preuss

1846 USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,300.00
43 Andreas Cellarius

Haemisphaerium Stellatum Australe, Aequali Sphaerarum Proportione - Andreas Cellarius

1661 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,185.00
636 Christian van Adrichom

Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et Biblicarum Historiarum cum Tabulis Geographicis aere Expressis - Christian van Adrichom

1600 USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,185.00
28 Samuel Dunn

[On 4 Sheets] A General Map of the World, or Terraqueous Globe; with All the New Discoveries and Marginal Delineations... - Samuel Dunn

1794 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,070.00
131 J. Calvin Smith

Map of the United States of America Including Canada and a Large Portion of Texas... - J. Calvin Smith

1844 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,070.00
274 U.S. Gov.

State of Sequoyah [with report] Proposed State of Sequoyah - U.S. Gov.

1906 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,070.00
740 G. W. & C.B. Colton

Colton's General Atlas, Containing One Hundred and Eighty Steel Plate Maps and Plans, on One Hundred and Nineteen Imperial Folio Sheets - G. W. & C.B. Colton

1868 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,070.00
268 J. Calvin Smith

Map of Long Island with the Environs of New-York - J. Calvin Smith

1836 USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,955.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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