Parke Bernet: The Celebrated Collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter, 1966yr,

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Auction Date
October 25, 1966 - October 25, 1966
Page Size: 609 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
MELA, POMPONIUS Cosmographi Geographia. [Colophon] Venice

1482

USD - 1,900.00
COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER Epistola Christofori Colom: Cui Etas Nostra Multu Debet: de Insulis Indie supra Gangem Nuper Invetis. [Rome]

[1493]

USD - 30,000.00
[MONTALBODDO, FRACANZANO] Paesi Novamente Retrovati. [Colophon] Vicenza

1507

USD - 8,500.00
[WALDSEEMULLER, MARTIN] Cosmographiae Introductio. ... [Colophon]

August 29, 1507

USD - 7,750.00
PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Liber Geographiae cum Tabulis et Universali Figura. Venice

1511

USD - 4,500.00
PTOLEMY Claudii Ptolemei ... Geographie Opus Novissima Traductione ... Strasbourg

1513

USD - 6,500.00
MARTYR, PETER De Orbe Novo Decades ... [Colophon] Alcala

1516

USD - 7,000.00
MARTYR De Nuper ... Repertis Insulis ... Basel

1521

USD - 700.00
MELA, POMPONIUS De Orbis Situ ... Basel

1522

USD - 900.00
MAXIMILIANUS TRANSYLVANUS De Moluccis Insulis. [Colophon] Cologne

1523

USD - 12,000.00
PIGAFETTA, ANTONIO Le Voyage et Navigation Faict par les Espaignolz es Isles de Mollucques. Paris

[ca. 1525]

USD - 56,000.00
[HUTTICH, JOHN] Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum. Basel

1532

USD - 1,600.00
MARTYR, PETER, AND OTHERS Summario de la Generale Historia de I'Indie Occidentali ... [Colophon] Venice

1534

USD - 450.00
MELA, POMPONIUS Pomponii Melae de Orbis Situ. Paris

1540

USD - 950.00
PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS Geographia Universalis. Basel

1540

USD - 900.00
HONTERUS, JOANNES Rudimenta Cosmographica. Kronstadt

1542

USD - 4,000.00
PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS La Geografia. Venice

1548

USD - 325.00
APIANUS, PETER Cosmographia. Basel

1550

USD - 225.00
LAS CASAS, BARTOLOME The nine tracts

USD - 2,500.00
VILLEGAGNON, NICOLAS DURAND DE [Nicolas Barre] Copie de Quelques Letres sur la Navigation du Chevallier de Villgaignon es Terres de l'Amerique ... par un des Gens dudict Seigneur. Paris

1557

USD - 25,000.00
THEVET, ANDRE Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique autrement Nommee l'Amerique ... Antwerp

1558

USD - 1,500.00
COLUMBUS, FERDINAND Historie del S. D. Fernando Columbo ... dell' Ammiraglio D. Christoforo Colombo, suo Padre ... Venice

1571

USD - 550.00
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM America sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. [Antwerp]

[1574]

USD - 175.00
EDEN, RICHARD The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies. London

1577

USD - 950.00
LAS CASAS, BARTOLOME DE Tyrannies et Cruautez des Espagnols perpetrees es Indes Occidentales. Antwerp

1579

USD - 350.00
LOPEZ DE CASTANHEDA, FERNANDO The First Book of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias ... London

1582

USD - 1,800.00
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. [Antwerp]

1587

USD - 175.00
HAKLUYT, RICHARD The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation ... London

1589

USD - 6,500.00
WYTFLIET, CORNELIUS Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum sive Occidentis Notitia Brevi Commentario Illustrata. ... Louvain

1597

USD - 3,500.00
LAS CASAS, BARTOLOME DE Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam Devastatarum verissima. ... Frankfort

1598

USD - 300.00
LINSCHOTEN, JAN HUYGEN VAN ... His Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies. London

[1598]

USD - 4,250.00
ACOSTA, JOSE DE The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies. London

1604

USD - 600.00
GARCIA, GREGORIO Origen de los Indios de el Nuevo Mundo, e Indias Occidentales. Valencia

1607

USD - 1,700.00
HARCOURT, ROBERT A Relation a of Voyage to Guiana. ... London

1613

USD - 1,700.00
NODAL, BARTOLOME GARCIA DE, AND GONCALO Relacion del Viaje ... al Descubrimiento del Estrecho Nuebo de S. Vicente. ... Madrid

1621

USD - 1,000.00
PURCHAS, SAMUEL Purchas His Pilgrimes. London

1624--25

USD - 2,000.00
LAET, JOANNES DE Novus Orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis. ... Leyden

1633

USD - 550.00
DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS Le Voyage Curieux, Faict autour du Monde, par Francois Drach, Admiral d'Angleterre. Paris

1641

USD - 4,750.00
SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, NICOLAS Amerique Septentrionale. ... Paris

1650

USD - 350.00
GAGE, THOMAS A Duell Between a Jesuite and a Dominican ... (caption title) [Colophon] London

1651

USD - 500.00
CAMOENS, LUIS DE The Lusiad, or, Portugals Historicall Poem. London

1655

USD - 550.00
[PEAKE, THOMAS?] America: Or an Exact Description of the West Indies ... by N.N. London

1655

USD - 550.00
SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, GUILLAUME Amerique Septentrionale. ... Revue et changee en plusiers endroits. ... Paris

1669

USD - 175.00
CORONELLI, VINCENZO L'Amerique Septentrionale, ou la Partie Septentrionale des Indes Occidentales. Paris

1689

USD - 225.00
CORONELLI America Settentrionale colle Nuove Scoperte fin all' Anno 1688. ... [Venice]

[1695]

USD - 300.00
LAS CASAS, BARTOLOME DE Relation des Voyages et des Decouvertes ... dans les Indes Occidentales ... Avec la Relation ... du Sieur de Montauban ... Amsterdam

1598

USD - 325.00
DELISLE, GUILLAUME L'Amerique Septentrionale ... A Paris. Chez l'Autheur Rue des Canettes prez de St. Sulpice. Paris

1700

USD - 325.00
DELISLE L'Amerique Septentrionale ... A Paris. Chez l'Autheur sur le Quai de l'Horloge. ... Paris

[1704?]

USD - 175.00
MOLL, HERMAN A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America. [London]

1715

USD - 500.00
MOLL To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham ... This Map of North America ... is most Humbly Dedicated. ... [London]

[1715?]

USD - 200.00
DELISLE, GUILLAUME L'Amerique Septentrionale ... Par G. de l'Isle Prem. Geographe du Roy. ... Double-page engraved map, disbound. Paris

[1718]

USD - 150.00
DELISLE Carte d'Amerique dresee pour l'usage du Roy. Paris

1722

USD - 175.00
BELLIN, JACQUES NICOLAS Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale ... Avec une Description Geographique de cette partie. ... [Paris]

[1755]

USD - 850.00
BELLIN Remarques sur la Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale ... avec une Description Geographique. Paris

1755

USD - 450.00
JEFFERYS, THOMAS North America from the French of Mr D'Anville. Improved with the Back Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio ... [London]

1755

USD - 325.00
MITCHELL, JOHN A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America ... [London]

1755

USD - 1,000.00
BOWLES, CARRINGTON North America, and the West Indies; A New Map ... According to the Difinitive Treaty of Peace, in 1763. ... London

[1763?]

USD - 450.00
ARROWSMITH, AARON Map of America. London

1804

USD - 110.00
ARROWSMITH A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America. ... [London]

1814

USD - 225.00
ARROWSMITH A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America. ... London

[1819]

USD - 250.00
STEVENS, HENRY Historical and Geographical Notes, 1453--1530. London

1869

USD - 225.00
MARGRY, PIERRE Decouvertes et Etablissements des Francais dans ... l'Amerique Septentrionale, 1614--1698. Memoires Inedits. Paris

1879--88

USD - 200.00
THACHER, JOHN BOYD Christopher Columbus. His Life, His Work, His Remains. New York

1903

USD - 110.00
MEDINA, JOSE TORIBIO El Descubrimiento del Ooeano Pacifico. Hernando de Magallanes y sus Companeros. Documentos. Santiago de Chile

1920

USD - 80.00
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. [Colophon] Antwerp

20 May, 1570

USD - 3,750.00
MERCATOR, GERARDUS Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura. Dusseldorf

1595

USD - 14,500.00
DUDLEY, ROBERT Arcano del Mare di D. Ruberto Dudleo Duca di Nortumbria ... Divisio in Libri Sei ... Impressione Seconda ... Florence

1661

USD - 10,500.00
SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, NICOLAS L'Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles ... Paris

[ca. 1662--67]

USD - 300.00
SEUTTER, MATTHEW Atlas Geographicus. oder Accurate Vorstellung der ganzen Welt ... Augsburg

1720

USD - 450.00
ANVILLE, JEAN BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON D'. Nouvel Atlas de la Chine ... The Hague

1737

USD - 250.00
AMERICAN GENERAL ATLAS A made-up atlas of North America.

1757--76

USD - 9,000.00
JEFFERYS, THOMAS, AND OTHERS The American Atlas: or, A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America ... London

1775

USD - 1,800.00
AMERICAN MILITARY POCKET ATLAS The American Military Pocket Atlas; being an approved Collection of Correct Maps ... of the British Colonies ... London

[1776]

USD - 550.00
FADEN, WILLIAM The North American Atlas, Selected from the Most Authentic Maps, Charts, Plans, &c. Hitherto Published. London

1777

USD - 9,000.00
MORSE, JEDIDIAH The American Geography: or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America. London

1794

USD - 200.00
NORMAN, WILLIAM A Pilot for the West Indies Including the Coast of America and Part of the Atlantic Ocean. Boston

1795

USD - 650.00
REID, JOHN. PUBLISHER The American Atlas ... New York

1796

USD - 350.00
NORMAN, WILLIAM The American Pilot Containing the Navigation of the Sea Coast of North America, from the Streights of Belle-Isle to Essequebo ... Boston

1798

USD - 4,000.00
CAREY, MATHEW Carey's American Atlas: containing Twenty Maps and One Chart ... Philadelphia

1800

USD - 1,800.00
RUSSIA. GEOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT [English translation of title:] Russian Atlas Consisting of Forty-Three Maps Comprising Forty-one Imperial Government Departments. [St. Petersburg]

1800

USD - 400.00
MELISH, JOHN A Military and Topographical Atlas of the United States; including the British Possessions and Florida ... Philadelphia

1813

USD - 450.00
CAREY, MATHEW Carey's General Atlas, Improved and Enlarged ... Philadelphia

1814

USD - 450.00
MELISH, JOHN A Military and Topographical Atlas of the United States; including the British Possessions & Florida ... Philadelphia

1815

USD - 425.00
ARROWSMITH, AARON Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo; or Dictionary of America and West Indies by Arrowsmith ... [Title from contemporary printed label containing key to the maps, pasted on verso front cover.] [London]

[1816--25]

USD - 325.00
CAREY, HENRY CHARLES, AND ISAAC LEA A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas ... Philadelphia

1822

USD - 325.00
TANNER, HENRY SCHENCK A New American Atlas Containing Maps of the Several States of the North American Union ... Philadelphia

1823

USD - 350.00
TANNER A New Pocket Atlas of the United States, with the Roads and Distances, designed for the use of Travellers. Philadelphia

1828

USD - 600.00
BRADFORD, THOMAS GAMALIEL An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the United States, and the Adjacent Countries ... Boston

[1838]

USD - 225.00
NORDENSKIOLD, NILS ADOLF ERIK Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography with Reproductions of the Most Important Maps Printed in the XV and XVI Centuries. Stockholm

1889

USD - 450.00
NORDENSKIOLD Periplus. An Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing-Directions ... Stockholm

1897

USD - 150.00
EUSEBIUS CAESARENSIS Eusebii Cesariesis Episcopi Chronicon ... [Colophon] Paris

1512

USD - 300.00
LESCARBOT, MARC Histoire de la Nouvelle France Contenant les Navigations, Decouverts, & Habitations faites par les Francois es Indes Occidentales & Nouvelle-France ... Paris

1609

USD - 3,500.00
SAGARD-THEODAT, GABRIEL Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons ... Paris

1632

USD - 1,500.00
SAGARD-THEODAT Histoire du Canada et Voyages que les Freres Mineurs Recollects y ont faicts pour la Conversion des Infidelles ... Paris

1636

USD - 3,500.00
SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, NICOLAS Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c. Paris

1656

USD - 200.00
DU CREUX, FRANCOIS Historiae Canadensis, seu Novae-Franciae. ... Paris

1664

USD - 1,000.00
[LE MERCIER, FRANCOIS JOSEPH] Relation de Ce Qui s'est Passe de Plus Remarquable aux Missions ... en la Nouvelle France, les Annees 1669. & 1670. Paris

1671

USD - 650.00
DABLON, CLAUDE Relation de Ce Qui s'est Passe de Plus Remarquable ... en Nouvelle-France ... 1671. & 1672. Paris

1673

USD - 1,300.00
DU VAL, PIERRE Le Canada faict par le Sr de Champlain ... Paris

1677

USD - 275.00
MARIE DE L'INCARNATION Lettres de la Venerable Mere Marie de l'Incarnation Premiere Superieure des Ursulines de la Nouvelle France. Paris

1681

USD - 800.00
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