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Old World Auctions: Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics - online bidstart 3/21

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Auction Name Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics - online bidstart 3/21 Total Sales (USD) 141,093.00
Auction Date March 28, 2018 - March 28, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 158,040.00
Sale Number #167 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 197,910.00
Total Lots 462
Sold Lots 319 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 251,060.00
% of Lots Sold 69.05% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 312,135.00
Unsold Lots 143 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 45.20%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
36

Rare First Plate, First Edition of Ortelius' Influential Map of the New World"Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio", Ortelius, Abraham

1570 USD 5,500.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,175.00
16

Fascinating Japanese Satirical Map Published Prior to WWII"[At a Glance: Cartoon Map of the Current World Situation] Hitome de Wakaru Manga Sekai Manga Genjo Chizu...",

1932 USD 1,400.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,600.00
124

Fourth Edition of the Earliest First-Hand Narrative of the Lewis & Clark Expedition"Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, Under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the Army of the United States...", Gass, Patrick

1812 USD 5,500.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,600.00
436

Two Superb Miniature Atlases Bound in One Volume with 98 Maps"La Geographie Universelle qui fait voir l'Estat Present des 4 Parties du Monde, c'est a Dire, les Religions, les Coutumes et les Richesses des Peuples... [bound with] Le Monde Ch

1682 USD 5,500.00 - 7,500.00 USD 4,313.00
445

Part IV of Grand Voyages by Girolamo Benzoni with 29 Engravings"Das Vierdte Buch von der Neuwen Welt. Oder Neuwe und Grundtliche Historien/ von dem Nidergangishcen Indien/ so von Christophoro Columbo im Jar 1492...", Bry, Theodore de

1613 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,313.00
100

The First Printed Map to Draw Upon the Legendary Herrman Map of the Chesapeake Bay"A Map of Virginia and Maryland", Speed/Lamb

1676 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,450.00
449

One of 250 Copies of the First English Translation of Ptolemy's Geography"[Facsimile] Geography of Claudius Ptolemy", Stevenson, Edward Luther

1932 USD 700.00 - 850.00 USD 3,450.00
8

Pitt's Superb Double-Hemisphere World Map"Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula", Pitt, Moses

1680 USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,163.00
39

Speed's Popular Carte-a-Figures Map of the Americas"America with Those Known Parts in That Unknowne Worlde Both People and Manner of Buildings ", Speed, John

1626 USD 4,500.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,163.00
318

Braun & Hogenberg's First Plan of Moscow in Contemporary Color"Moscauw", Braun & Hogenberg

1575 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,163.00
30

The Whole World in Your Hands"[2" Miniature Globe] Newtons New & Improved Terrestrial Globe Containing the Latest Dist.", Newton, J. & Sons

1833 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,875.00
437

A General Atlas, Being a Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters the Principal Empires, Kingdoms &c. with Their Several Provinces, & Other Subdivisions, Correctly Delineated, Wilkinson, Robert

1794 USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 USD 2,185.00
48

Nolin's Spectacular Version of Coronelli's Map of North America"L'Amerique Septentrionale, ou la Partie Septentrionale des Indes Occidentales ou se Trouve le Canada ou Nouvelle France la Floride la Virginie les Isles Antilles...",

1704 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,070.00
268

Kent with Her Cities and Earles Described and Observed, Speed, John

1611 USD 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 USD 1,955.00
447

Includes Several Uncommon Tallis Maps"[6 Volumes with Maps & Plates] History of the United States of America, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time", Tallis, John

1850 USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,955.00
47

Two-Sheet Map Showing the Island of California"Amerique Septentrionale Divisee en ses Principales Parties, ou sont Distingues les uns des Autres les Estats...", Sanson/Mortier

1696 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,840.00
259

Miniature Version of Camden's Britannia Published by Blaeu"Guili. Camdeni Viri Clarissimi Britannia, sive Florentiss. Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae...", Camden, William

1639 USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 USD 1,725.00
19

Ancient Map of the World with Depictions of the Four Elements"Universalis Tabula Iuxta Ptolemaeum", Ptolemy/Mercator

1695 USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,610.00
425

Rare Set of Celebrated Explorers of the New World"[Lot of 3] Christophorus Columbus Ligur... [and] Americus Vespuccius Florentinus... [and] Ferdinandes Magalanes Lusitanus...", Stradanus, Joannes

1592 USD 1,900.00 - 2,300.00 USD 1,610.00
32

Sheet of Playing Cards Satirizing the Mississippi Bubble"Pasquins Windkaart. Op de Windnegotie", Anon.

1720 USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 1,380.00
104

A Seminal Map of the Southeast and Early American Cartography - Full Contemporary Color"Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, Nova Descriptio", Hondius, Henricus

1639 USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 1,380.00
440

French Edition of Blome's Work on British Colonial Interests in North America with 6 Maps"Description des Isles et Terres que l'Angleterre Possede en Amerique avec de Nouvelles Cartes de Chaque Isle && des Terres", Blome, Richa

1715 USD 1,800.00 - 2,100.00 USD 1,380.00
28

Chart Depicting Tycho Brahe's Model of the Universe"Planisphaerium Braheum, sive Structura Mundi Totius, ex Hypothesi Tychonis Brahei in Plano Delineata", Cellarius/Schenk & Valck

1708 USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,265.00
59

French Index Sheet of Popple's Map"Carte Generale de l'Amerique Septentrionale avec les Possessions Angloises dans Cette Partie du Nouveau Monde, Dressee sur la Carte de Pople...", Crepy, (Family)

1756 USD 1,800.00 - 2,100.00 USD 1,150.00
99

One of the Most Important 17th Century Maps of the Chesapeake Bay"Nova Virginiae Tabula", Hondius, Henricus

1636 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 1,150.00
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
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    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
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    Part IX
    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
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    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.
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    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.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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    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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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