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Auction Name Maps and Atlases, Natural History and Color Plate Books Total Sales (USD) 760,125.00
Auction Date July 09, 2020 - July 09, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 514,460.00
Sale Number #2540 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 757,440.00
Total Lots 390
Sold Lots 350 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 558,010.00
% of Lots Sold 89.74% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 824,240.00
Unsold Lots 40 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 92.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
350 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES.

Great Blue Heron. Plate CCXI.

1834 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 45,000.00
142 MEAD, BRADDOCK, alias GREEN, JOHN.

A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England Containing the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire with the Colonies of Konektikut and Rhode Island, Divided into Counties and Townships.

1755 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 40,000.00
292 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES.

The Birds of America.

1840-1844 USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 40,000.00
238 CHATELAIN, HENRI ABRAHAM.

Atlas Historique, ou Nouvelle Introduction a l'Histoire, a la Chronologie & a la Geographie Ancienne & Moderne.

1705-1720 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,500.00
271 ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM.

Abraham Ortelius His Epitome of the Theater of the Worlde Now Latlye… Renewed and Augmented, the Mappes All Newe Graven According to Geographicall Measure by Michael Coignet, Mathematitian of Antwarpe.

1603 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 17,500.00
56 CORONELLI, VINCENZO MARIA; and NOLIN, JEAN BAPTISTE.

Partie Occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France ou Sont les Nations des Ilinois, de Tracy, les Iroquois, et Plusieurs Autres Peuples; Avec la Louisiane Nouvellement Decouverte etc.

1688 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,250.00
252 HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST; and HEIRS.

Atlas Mapparum Geographicarum Generalium & Specialium Centum Foliis.

mid-18th century USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
43 CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL De.; and DU VAL, PIERRE.

Le Canada Faict par le Sr de Champlain ou sont La Nouvelle France, La Nouvelle Angleterre, La Nouvelle Holande, La Nouvelle Suede, La Virginie &c.

1677 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 11,875.00
64 DOOLITTLE, AMOS.

Plan of New Haven.

May 28th USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 11,875.00
77 FRY, JOSHUA; and JEFFERSON, PETER.

A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia Containing the Whole Province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina.

[1755] USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 11,250.00
58 DE BRY, THEODOR; after WHITE, JOHN.

Americae pars, Nunc Virginia.

1590 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,625.00
237

The English Pilot. Describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones.

1789 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 10,625.00
249 GOTTFRIED, JOHANN LUDWIG.

Archontologia Cosmica, sive Imperiorum, Regnorum, Principatuum, Rerumque Publicarum Omnium per Totum Terrarum Orbem.

1638 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,625.00
53 CORONELLI, VINCENZO MARIA.

America Settentrionale.

circa 1690 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,000.00
83 Delamarche, Charles-François.

[Pair of 18th-century Ptolemaic and Copernican armillary spheres.] Ptolemaic - Central 2 1/2-inch terrestrial globe comprised of 12 hand-colored engraved gores with orbiting Sun and Moon discs on brass arms, hand-colored engraved calibration rings pasted

circa 1780's USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,375.00
295 (BOOKPLATES.)

Over 750 eighteenth-to-nineteenth-century engraved bookplates, ownership labels, bookseller's tickets, etc.

vd USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 9,375.00
331 WILSON, ALEXANDER.

American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States.

1808-1814, 1824 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,450.00
84 S. Fortin.

[18th-century Ptolemaic armillary sphere.] Central 2-inch terrestrial globe comprised of 12 hand-colored engraved gores with orbiting Sun and Moon discs on brass arms, hand-colored engraved calibration rings pasted to equatorial, ecliptic and Zodiac bands

 circa 1770 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,125.00
254 JANSSONIUS van WAESBERGE, JOHANNES; after MERCATOR, GERHARD.

Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura.

1676 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,125.00
349 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES.

Golden-Winged Woodpecker. Plate XXXVII.

[1828] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,125.00
330 WILLIAMSON, CAPTAIN THOMAS; and HOWITT, SAMUEL.

Oriental Field Sports; Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East.

1807 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,250.00
310 Solvyns, Frans Balthazar.

[A Collection of Two-Hundred and Fifty Colored Etchings Descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos.] 190 (of 250)

 [1799] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 7,000.00
72 FADEN, WILLIAM.

The Province of New Jersey, Divided Into East and West, Commonly Called The Jerseys.

1777 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,750.00
81 Newton family.

Pair of 12-inch terrestrial and celestial table globes.

circa 1830 (terrestrial) USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,750.00
318 (MUSIC.)

Mason, Lowell.

1838 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 6,750.00
  • 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.
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    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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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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  • 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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