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Auction Name Maps and Atlases - Internet bidstart 9/2 Total Sales (USD) 307,320.00
Auction Date September 16, 2020 - September 16, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 315,925.00
Sale Number #179 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 388,275.00
Total Lots 895
Sold Lots 713 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 425,540.00
% of Lots Sold 79.66% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 523,135.00
Unsold Lots 182 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 58.75%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
52 Keere, Pieter Van Den

Leo Belgicus, 1617

 1617 (published) USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 11,500.00
1 Wit, Frederick de

[Lot of 5] Nova Orbis Tabula, in Lucem Edita [and] Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio [and] Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula [and] Accuratissima Totius Asiae Tabula... [and] Nova et Accurata Totius Europae Descriptio, 1680

 1680 (circa) USD 8,000.00 - 9,500.00 USD 6,900.00
9 Hondius/Jansson

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula, 1639

 1639 (circa) USD 8,000.00 - 9,500.00 USD 6,900.00
25 Brion de la Tour/Desnos

Mappemonde Dressee sur les Relations les Plus Nouvelles et les Plus Approuvees Assujeties aux Observations de Mrs. de l'Ac. Rle. des Sciences..., 1786

 1786 (dated) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,750.00
2 Ptolemy/Fries

Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem Exactissime Depicta, 1522

 1522 (dated) USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,400.00
777 Walton, Robert

A New, Plaine, & Exact Mapp of Africa, Described by: N:I: Vischer and Done into English..., 1660

 1660 (circa) USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD 4,680.00
464 Camden, William

Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland..., 1610

 1610 (published) USD 5,000.00 - 6,500.00 USD 4,500.00
71 Blaeu, Willem

Americae Nova Tabula, 1660

 1660 (circa) USD 4,750.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,200.00
8 Hondius/Le Clerc

Orbis Terrae Novissima Descriptio, 1633

 1633 (dated) USD 4,750.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,080.00
67 Ortelius, Abraham

Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, 1587

 1587 (dated) USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,600.00
164 Melish, John

United States of America Compiled from the Latest & Best Authorities, 1818

 1818 (dated) USD 1,800.00 - 2,300.00 USD 3,600.00
866 Finley, Anthony

A New General Atlas, Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, Representing the Grand Divisions of the Globe..., 1824

 1824 (published) USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 3,300.00
336 Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

Map of Mexico, Including Yucatan & Upper California, Exhibiting the Chief Cities and Towns, the Principal Travelling Routes &c., 1847

 1847 (dated) USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,000.00
409 Vandermaelen, Philippe Marie Guillaume

Atlas Universel de Geographie Physique, Politique, Statistique et Mineralogique ... Cinquieme Partie. - Amer. Merid., 1827

 1827 (published) USD 5,000.00 - 6,500.00 USD 3,000.00
767 Ortelius, Abraham

Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus, 1574

 1574 (published) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,880.00
221

[On 2 Sheets] Topographical Map of Central California Together with Part of Nevada , 1873

 1873 (dated) USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 2,760.00
20 Le Raye, Jean

Nouveau Planisphere Terrestre, Divise en Vingt Quatre Parties Egales, Dresse sur le Meridien de Paris, 1762

 1762 (circa) USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,520.00
428 Cary, George

Carta Geographica que Comprende los Rios de la Plata, Parana, Uruguay y Grande y los Terrenos Adyacentes, 1827

 1827 (dated) USD 275.00 - 350.00 USD 2,400.00
771 Gastaldi/Ramusio

Seconda Tavola, 1554

 1554 (circa) USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 USD 2,400.00
38 Hondius, Henricus

[Lot of 2] Poli Arctici, et Circumiacentium Terrarum Descriptio Novissima [and] Polus Antarcticus, 1639

 1639 (circa) USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
69 Mercator, Michael

America sive India Nova, ad Magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui Universalis Imitationem in Compendium Redacta, 1606

 1606 (published) USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
188 Depot de la Marine

Carte d'une Partie des Cotes de la Floride et de la Louisiane... [on sheet with] Carte Reduite des Cotes et de l'Interieur de la Presqu'ile de la Floride, avec le Detroit de Cette Presqu'ile et le Canal de Bahama, 1778-80

 1778-80 (dated) USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
621 Wit, Frederick de

Peloponnesus Hodie Moreae Regnum, Distincte Divisum, in Omnes suas Provincias..., 1690

 1690 (circa) USD 2,500.00 - 3,250.00 USD 2,160.00
869 Colton, Joseph Hutchins

Colton's Atlas of America, Illustrating the Physical and Political Geography of North and South America and the West India Islands..., 1857

 1857 (published) USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,160.00
108 Homann, Johann Baptist

Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae nec non Insularum Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali Accurata Tabula, 1720

 1720 (circa) USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 USD 2,040.00
  • 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.
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