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Waverly Auctions: Rare and Important Books, Prints, and Maps on the Subject of Exploration, Travel, and the Natural World

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Auction Name Rare and Important Books, Prints, and Maps on the Subject of Exploration, Travel, and the Natural World Total Sales (USD) 78,812.00
Auction Date April 04, 2019 - April 04, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 65,060.00
Sale Number #583 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 102,420.00
Total Lots 262
Sold Lots 220 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 76,920.00
% of Lots Sold 83.97% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 120,730.00
Unsold Lots 42 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 65.28%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
185 [South America] Diaz Del Castillo, Bernal (ca 1492-1581).

Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva-Espana.

1632 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,660.00
66 [Freya Stark/Geniesse]

Jane Geniesse’s Archive of 10 boxes, 4 tubs, and 1 folder, mostly relating to her two books, American Priestess and Passionate Nomad

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,416.00
90 [Antarctic/Shackleton] Murray, James and Marston, George.

Antarctic Days: Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men...introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton.

1913 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,172.00
234 [Ornithology] Audubon, John James (American, 1785-1851).

Plate 332: Pied Duck - Fuligula Labradora. From "The Birds of America."

1827-1838. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,684.00
186 [South America] Falkner, Thomas (1707-1784).

A Description of Patagonia and the Adjoining Parts of South America.

1774 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,562.00
6 [Colonial America] Homann, Johann Baptiste (German, 1644-1724).

Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali.

circa 1720. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,952.00
15

[Americas] A New Chart of the Gulfs of Mexico and Florida Including the Windward Passages drawn chiefly from the surveys of Commanders Owen (1771-1849) and Barnett (1799-1879) combined with much valuable information received from masters of vessels and Ot

1847 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,952.00
187 [South America] Lozano, Pedro (1697-1759).

Descripcion chorographica del terreno, rios, arboles, y animales de las dilatadissimas provincias del Gran Chaco, Gualamba.

1733 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,708.00
197

[Travel/Exploration] The Compass used by Eduard Ingris on the Kantuta Expeditions.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,586.00
60 [Asia] Brinkley, Captain F.

The Oriental Series: Japan & China.

1901-2. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,464.00
81 [Antarctic/Ross] Ross, James Clark.

A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the years 1839-43.

1847 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,464.00
42 [World] Laurie, Robert and Whittle, James.

A New Map of the World, with Captain Cook's Tracks, his Discoveries and those of the Other Circumnavigators.

London USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,342.00
188

[Spain] Alfonso XI, King of Castile and Leon (1311-1350) – Chronica del muy esclarecido Principe e Rey don Alfonso el Onzeno deste nombre de los reyes que reynaronen en Castilla y en Leon.

1551 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,342.00
75 [Antarctic/Amundsen] Amundsen, Roald.

The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-1912.

1913 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,220.00
189

[Spain] Juan II of Castile – Cronica del serenissimo rey don Juan el segundo.

1517 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,220.00
44

[Atlas] Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World with Descriptions.

New York USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,098.00
164 [Natural History Illustration] Beaumont, John Colt, USN (American, 1821-1882).

Group of eight watercolors of Pacific and Asiatic fish. Illustrations in the manner of plates from "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan."

1856 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,037.00
84 [Antarctic/Scott] Doorly, Gerald S.

The Voyages of the ‘Morning’.

1916 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 915.00
61 [Asia] Heine, William (German-American, 1827-1885) and Eliphalet Brown Jr. (American, 1816-1888).

Group of 62 lithographed plates from Commodore Matthew Perry's "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854 under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy...."

c.1856. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 732.00
48

[Celestial] Four hand-colored and gold heightened plates of constellations. From "Atlas Celeste de Flamsteed."

1776 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 610.00
145

[Arctic] Watercolor painting depicting native peoples in daily work - hunting walrus, skinning, making camp, and building snow sledges.

USD 120.00 - 220.00 USD 610.00
143 [Arctic] Ross, John.

A Voyage of Discovery, Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin’s Bay, and Inquirings into the Probability of a North-West Passage.

1819 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 579.50
231

[Zoology] Group of six 19th century Chinese rice paper paintings, featuring botanicals, insects, and birds.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 579.50
142 [Arctic] Moss, Edward Lawton.

Shores of the Polar Sea: A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.

1878 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 549.00
57 [Native Americans] McKenney & Hall.

Two plates from "History of the Indian Tribes of North America."

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 518.50
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    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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