Sothebys: Travel, Atlases and Natural History, LN8339,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 04, 1998 - June 04, 1998

Page Size: 451 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
202	Mercator (Gerard)	Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura	Duisburg	1595	GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	40,000.00
203	Mercator (Gerard)-Ptolemaeus (Claudius)	Geographiae libri octo graeco-latini	Amsterdam	1605	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	12,650.00
204	[Mercator (Gerard)]	[Atlas minor]	Amsterdam and Arnhem	1608	USD 12,000.00 - 14,000.00	Not Sold
205	Mercator (Gerard)	Atlas Minor, das ist eine kurtze jedoch grundliche Beschreibung der gantzen Weld	Amsterdam	1651	GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	5,520.00
206	Mitchell (Samuel Augustus Jr.)	Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the world, plans of cities, etc.	Philadelphia	1869	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
207	Munster (Sebastian)	Cosmographei, oder Beschreibung aller Lander	Basel	1550	GBP 18,000.00 - 22,000.00	34,500.00
208	Ortelius (Abraham)	Theatrum orbis terrarum	Antwerp	Comments 1573	GBP 22,000.00 - 26,000.00	26,450.00
209	Ortelius (Abraham)	Theatri orbis terrarum parergon: sive veteris geographiae tabulae	Antwerp	1624	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	9,200.00
210	Ortelius (Abraham)	Theatrum orbis terrarum	Antwerp	1579	GBP 30,000.00 - 35,000.00	34,500.00
211	Ortelius (Abraham)	Breve compendio dal Theatro Orteliano	Antwerp	[1601-2]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,760.00
212	Pinkerton (John)	A Modern Atlas		1815	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,565.00
213	Ptolemaeus (Claudius)	Geographia universalis, vetus et nova... libros viii	Basle	1545	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	6,670.00
214	Robert de Vaugondy (Gilles and Didier)	Atlas universe	Paris	1757-[1758]	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
215	Sanson d'Abbeville	(Nicolas, the elder and Nicolas, the younger) de tout l'univers, en plusieurs cartes, & en divers traitez de geographie et d'histoire	Amsterdam	1700	GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	9,200.00
216	Seminario Vescovile, Padua.	Tabulae Geographicae, quibus universa geographia vetus continetur	Padua	1699	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,830.00
217		Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The Atlas of Modern Geography	London	1873	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	517.00
218	Martin (Robert Montgomery)	The Illustrated Atlas	London and New York	[1851]	GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	3,680.00
219	Waghenaer (Lucas Janzoon)	Speculum nauticum super navigatione maris occidentalis confectum, continens omnes maritimas comprehensum... elaboratum per Lucam Iohannis Aurigarium	Antwerp	1591	USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
220	Basle, Switzerland-[Boisseau (Jean)]	Aspect ou profil oriental de la grande et petite ville de Basle canton des Suisses... key below	A Paris	[1648 or later]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
221	Haffnia, Copenhagen-[Boisseau (Jean)]	Profil de la ville de Haffnie vulgairement Copenhagen capitalle du royaume de Danemarck	a Paris	[1648 or later]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
222	Hamburg-Boisseau (Jean)	Hambourg ville imperialle et anseatique en la Basse Saxe	a Paris	[1648 or later]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
223	Loreto, Italy-[Boisseau (Jean)]	Profil et elevation de la ville de Lorette avec le transport de la chambre de la Ste. Vierge key below	[Paris]	[1648 or later]	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
225	Prague-[Boisseau (Jean)] de la ville de	Prague siege et metropolatome du royaume de Bohesme	[Paris]	1648 or later]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
226	Stockholm, Sweden-[Boisseau (Jean)]	Nouvelle description de la ville de Stocholme siege royal et metropolitan du royaume de Suede	[Paris]	[1648 or later]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,725.00
227	Valetta, Malta-[Boisseau (Jean)]	Description de la nouvelle cite et fortresse de Malta nommee Vallette	a Paris	[1648 or later]	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
228	Venice, Italy-[Boisseau (Jean)]	Description de l'opulente et manifique ville de Venise	[Paris]	[1648 or later]	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
229	Vienna, Austria-[Boisseau (Jean)]	Vienne en Austriche...	a Paris	[1648 or later]	USD 1,600.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
230	Baalde (S.J., publisher)	Reis-en Hand-Atlas van Vlaanderen, Braband en aanleggende Landschappen	Amsterdam	[1788]	USD 2,000.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
231	Europe, Curiosity-Rose (F.W.)	Angling in Troubled Waters	London	1899	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	517.00
232	Leo Belgicus-Visscher (Nicolaas Janszoon)	Nova XVII Provinciarum Germaniae Inferioris tabula, leonis effigie, accurate delineata, a Nicolao Ioannis Piscatore... Tot Amstelredam bij Claes Janss. Visscher in de Kalverstraet Ao 1656	Amsterdam	1656 or later	USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
233	Levasseur (V.)	Atlas national illustre des 86 departements et des possessions de la France	Paris	1858	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
234	Maire (F.I.)	Atlas des roiaumes de Galicie et de Lodomerie	Vienna	1780	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	747.00
235	Mediterranean-de Wit (Frederick)	Occidentalior tractus/Orientalior districtus Maris Mediterranei [title repeated in Dutch]	Amsterdam	[1680]	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,322.00
236	Northwestern Europe-Colom (Jacob Aertz)	Nieuwe Pascaarte op hare rechte Distantie en streckingen beschreven door Jacob Aertsz Colom	[Amsterdam]	[1662]	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,600.00
237		Rome-Roma	Augsburg	[c1730]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
238	Seutter (Matthias)	Europa; Angliae, Scotiae Hiberniae; Archducat Austriae superioris; Bohemiae; Brandenburgensis; Pomerania; Saxoniae superioris	[Augsburg]	[1765]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,220.00
239	Venice-Probst (Georg Balthasar)	Venetia	Augsburg	[1730]	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,760.00
240	Aubry (Charles, artist)]	Collection des uniformes de l'armee francaise, presentee au Roi par S.E.M. le marechal duc de Bellune, ministre de la guerre	[Paris]	1823	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,600.00
241	Blaeu (Johannes)	Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae regiae [Townbooks of the Netherlands]	Amsterdam	[1649]	GBP 4,500.00 - 6,500.00	6,325.00
242	Blaeu (Johannes)	Nouveau Theatre du Piemont et de la Savoye... Tome I. Partie II	The Hague	1725	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	5,175.00
243	Blaeu (Johannes) [Tycho Brahe].	A bound set of 15 engraved maps, plans and astronomical instruments	[Amsterdam]	[1662]	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	5,060.00
244	Bodenehr (Gabriel)	Europas Pracht und Macht in 200 Kupfer-Stucken...	Augsburg	[c.1720]	GBP 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	4,830.00
245	Bradford (William)	Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, made during the Campaign, and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809	London	1809-1810	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	747.00
246	Guicciardini (Lodovico)	de touts les Pais-Bas	Antwerp	1582	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	3,565.00
247	Herculaneum-	Le pitture antiche d'Ercolano	Naples		GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,830.00
248	Harboe (F.C.L.) and others.	[Atlas of Denmark]		[1771-1805]	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	1,265.00
249	Knight (Captain Charles Raleigh)	Scenery on the Rhine		[c.1850]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
250	[Lewis (John Frederick)	Sketches of Spain & Spanish Character made during his tour in that country in the years 1833-4]	[London]	[1836]	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
251	Le Prince (Jean Baptiste)	Divers ajustements et usages de Russie	[Paris?]	[plates dated 1764-1775]	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
252		The Military Costume of Europe	London	1812	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
253	[Muller (William James)	Sketches of the Age of Francis the First]	[London]	[1841]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,415.00
254	[Melling (Antoine-Ignace) and J.A. Cervini]	Voyage Pittoresque dans les Pyrenees francaises et dans les departements adjacents	[Paris]	[c.1850]	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,495.00
255	Merian (Matthaeus)	Topographia Archiepiscopatuum Moguntinensis, Treuirensis, et Coloniensis	[Frankfurt]	Comments 1646 [but 1675]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,495.00
256	Magnus (Olaus)	Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus	Rome	1555	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,955.00
257	Pallas (P.S.)	Observations faites dans un voyage entrepris dans les gouvernements meridionaux de l'empire de Russie, dans les annees 1793 et 1794... traduit de l'Allemand	Leipzig, G. Martini, 1799 - Paris/Strassburg, A. Koenig, and Leipzig, Martini, 1802	1799, 1802	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	920.00
258	Pividor (Giovanni)	Collezione delle principali vedute di Venezia	Venice	[c.1840]	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	1,380.00
259	Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)	Vedute di Roma	Rome	[before 1778];	GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00	48,800.00
260		Paris dans sa splendeur, monuments, vues... dessins et lithographies par MM. Philippe Benoist [and others]	Paris	1861	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,265.00
261	Quadri (Antonio) and Dionisio Moretti.	Various			USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
262	[Reinhardt (Joseph)]	A bound collection of Swiss costume prints	[Basel]	[c.1823]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
263	Spain-[Laborde (Alexandre Louis Joseph, comte de)]	Viage pintoresco e historico de Espana	Madrid	1806	GBP 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	5,750.00
264	St. Petersburg-Nouvelle	collection de trente-six vues de Saint-Petersbourg et de ses environs, dessinees et imprimees lithographiquement par divers artistes. Accompagnees d'un plan de la ville	St. Petersburg	1824	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	2,990.00
265	[Smith (John)]	Select Views in Italy, with topographical and historical descriptions in English and French	London	1792-1796	GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00	943.00
266	Thornton (Colonel [Thomas])	A Sporting Tour through various parts of France	London	1806	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	460.00
267	Valdor (Jean)	Les triomphes de Louis le Juste... contenans les plus grandes actions ou sa Majeste s'est trouve	Paris	1649	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
268	Vivian (George)	Scenery of Portugal and Spain	London	1859	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,760.00
269	Barros (Joao de)	Various			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,760.00
270	Botero (Giovanni)	Relationi universali	Venice	1640	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	920.00
272	Bougainvillle ([Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien], baron de)	Journal de la navigation autour du globe de la fregate La Thetis et de la corvette L'Esperance pendant les annees 1824, 1825 et 1826	Paris	1837	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
273	Dapper (Olfert)	Various			GBP 18,000.00 - 20,000.00	27,600.00
274	Duperrey (Louis Isidore)	Voyage autour du monde... sur la corvette de sa majeste, La Coquille, pendant les annees 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825... hydrographie	Paris	1827	GBP 1,600.00 - 2,000.00	2,300.00
275	Franck (Sebastian)	Weltbuch, Spiegel und Bildtnis des gantzen Erdtbodens	[no place]	1542	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
276	Gonzalez de Mendoza (Juan)	Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costu[m]bres del gra[n] Reyno de la China... con un itinerario del Nuevo Mundo	Medina del Campo	1595	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,380.00
277	Howitt (Samuel), John Augustus Atkinson and others.	Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c., &c., from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. With a Supplement of New South Wales	London	1819	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,840.00
278	Henselius (Godofredus)	Synopsis universae philologiae, in qua: miranda unitas et harmonia linguarum totius orbis terrarum occulta...	Nuremberg	1741	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	690.00
279	Jesuit letters-	Cartas edificantes, y curiosas, escritas de las missiones estrangeras por algunos Missioneros de la Compania de Jesus. Traducidas del idioma frances por el Padre Diego Davin	Madrid	1753-1757	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	2,070.00
280	[Jeffreys (Thomas, publisher)]	A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern	London	1757-1772	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,220.00
281	La Harpe (Jean Francois)	Various			GBP 700.00 - 900.00	747.00
282	La Perouse (Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de)	[Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde]	[Paris]	[an V (1797)]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
283	Martin (R. Montgomery)	The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition and resources	London & New York	[c.1851]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,150.00
284	Medina (Pietro de)	L'arte del navegar	Venice	1554	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	3,680.00
285	Naval print-	Le Terrible vaisseau francois de 110 pieces de canons construit a Toulon en 1780	Paris	[c.1800]	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,380.00
286	Parliamentary Papers.	Various			USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
287	[Santiago (Pedro de)]	Relacion del transito que hizieron a las Indias los Padres Agustinos Descalcos de Espana el ano 1605. y progressos que han tenido en entrambas, hasta el ano de 1630	no place	no date [1630]	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	632.00
288	Sauer (Martin)	Voyage dans le nord de la Russie Asiatique, dans le Mer Glaciale... et sur les cotes de l'Amerique, fait par ordre de l'Imperatrice de Russie Catherine II, depuis 1785 jusqu'en 1794, par le Commodore Billings... traduit de l'anglais par J. Castera	Paris	1802	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
289	Thesaurus Geographicus.	A New Body of Geography: or a compleat of the Earth	London	1695	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	1,265.00
290	Japanese world map-Takahashi Kageyasu.	[Shintei bankoku zenzu] [revised map of the world]	Edo [Tokyo]	1810	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	9,775.00
291	World and Continents-Seutter (Georg Matthaus)	Various			GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,140.00
292	World-Merian (Matthaeus)	Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula	[Frankfurt]	[1638]	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	460.00
293	World-[Schedel (Hartmann)]	[Untitled]	[Nuremberg]	[1493]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
294	Broadsheet-Pagitt (Ephraim)	A of the Multitude of Christians in the World	London	1636	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,990.00
295	World-van der Aa (Pieter)	Nova orbis terraquei tabula accuratissime delineata	Leiden	Comments [c.1713]	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
296	World-Hondius (Jodocus)	Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula... 1638	Paris	[1638]	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	4,140.00
297	World-van der Aa (Pieter)	Planisphere Terrestre, suivant les nouvelles observations des astronomes	[Leiden]	[1713]	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	1,035.00
298	World-[Grynaeus (Simon, editor)]	Novus Orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum	Paris	25 October 1532	GBP 16,000.00 - 18,000.00	18,400.00
299	World-[Gryneaus (Simon) and Johann Huttich].	Typus Cosmographicus Universalis	[Basel]	[1532]	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	11,500.00
300	Arabia-Sanson (Nicolas)	Carte des trois Arabies tiree en partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, en partie de divers autres autheurs	Paris	1654	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	632.00
301	Arabia-van Langren (H.F.) and J.H. van Linschoten.	Deliniantur in hac tabula Orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani... Arabiae etc.	[Amsterdam]	[1596]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,070.00
302	Arabia-[Blaeu (J.)]	Arabia	[Amsterdam]	[1655]	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	747.00
303	Breydenbach [Bernard von]	Parens	[Mainz]	[1486]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.