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Auction Name Online Sale: Maps and Atlases Total Sales (GBP) 69,689.00
Auction Date December 06, 2019 - December 06, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 51,260.00
Sale Number #2138 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 74,520.00
Total Lots 232
Sold Lots 154 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 73,550.00
% of Lots Sold 66.38% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 105,960.00
Unsold Lots 78 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 65.77%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
11 Norie (John William)

To the Officers in the Honorable East India Company's Service This Outline Chart Intended for their Use to prick-off a Ship's Track

1812, but 1815. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,750.00
53 Valentyn (Francois)

Kaart der Reyse van Abel Tasman

1726 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
13

[Cyrillic - Double Hemisphere World Map]

1838 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,250.00
14 Teesdale & Co. (Henry, publisher)

A New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection with the Tracks of the Most Celebrated Recent Navigators

1842 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
57 Bowen (Emanuel)

A complete map of the southern continent

1744 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,875.00
208 Saxton (Christopher)

Mone Insulae modo Anglesey et Caernarvans duorum borialis...

[circa 1579]. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,750.00
1 Münster (Sebastian)

La Figure du Monde Universel

[circa 1552-68]. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,560.00
17 Gill (MacDonald)

Carte de la Charte de L'Antique

1943 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,500.00
22 Speed (John)

Africae

[1665]. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,250.00
223 [Braun (Georg) and Franz Hogenberg].

A Plan of London Westm.r and Southwark w.th ye Riv.r Thames

1708 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,250.00
12 Weimar Geographisches Institut.

Westlicher Planiglob Der Erder; Oestlicher Planiglob

1828 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,125.00
204 Speed (John)

The Kingdome of Scotland

[1676]. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,062.50
75 Speed (John)

Europ, and the Chiefe Cities Contayned Therin

[1676]. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,000.00
181 Homann (Johann Baptist) & Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.

Six celestial charts

[1742] (6) GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,000.00
196 Speed (John)

The Kingdome of England

[1676]. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,000.00
35 Vaugondy (Gilles Robert de)

Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland Dressée sur la Grande Carte Angloise de Mrs. Josué Fry et Pierre Jefferson

[1793]. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 937.50
52 Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria)

Nuova Guinea

[circa 1696]. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 937.50
221 Seutter (Matthäus)

Londinum celeberrima Metropolis

[circa 1730]. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 937.50
16 Bartholomew & Son Ltd. (John)

Bartholomew's Library Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection

[late 1870s] GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 875.00
219 Jonghe (Clement de, publisher)

Londinum Celeberrimum Angliae Emporium/ London

[circa 1660]. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 875.00
228 Speed (John)

Oxforshire described with ye Citie and the Armes of the Colledges of ye famous university

[1611]. GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 875.00
55 Zatta (Antonio)

Nuove Scoperte Fatte nel 1765. 67. e 69 nel Mare del Sud

1776 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 812.50
202 Moll (Herman)

A New Map of Ireland Divided into its Provinces

1714 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 812.50
80 Anonymous.

Comic Map of Europe

[circa 1880]. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 750.00
135 Speed (John)

The Kingdome of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described

[1676] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 750.00
  • 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
    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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  • 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.
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