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Auction Name Maps and Atlases - Internet bidstart 1/27 Total Sales (USD) 391,586.40
Auction Date February 10, 2021 - February 10, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 400,565.00
Sale Number #181 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 491,770.00
Total Lots 772
Sold Lots 766 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 423,565.00
% of Lots Sold 99.22% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 521,270.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 75.12%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
260 Dury, Andrew

A Plan of Boston, and Its Environs. Shewing the True Situation of His Majesty's Army. And Also Those of the Rebels. Drawn by an Engineer at Boston. Octr. 1775, 1776

 1776 USD 24,000.00 - 28,000.00 USD 23,575.00
253

A Map of Chicago's Gangland from Authentic Sources Designed to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue in Young Persons and Graphically Portray the Evils and Sin of Large Cities, 1931

 1931 USD 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 11,500.00
733

Cherokee Orphan Asylum Press. Vol. 1. No, 2., 1880

 1880 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 10,350.00
183 Lloyd, James T.

Lloyd's Map of the Lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico. Compiled from Government Surveys in the Topographical Bureau, Washington, D. C., 1863

 1863 USD 8,000.00 - 9,500.00 USD 9,200.00
157 Smith, John (Capt.)

New England die Mercklichsten Dheile..., 1617

 1617 USD 7,500.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,475.00
140 Delisle, Guillaume

Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressee sur un Grand Nombre de Memoires Entrautres sur ceux de Mr. le Maire, 1718

 1718 USD 6,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 6,900.00
740 SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

General Atlas Published Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Compiled from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources..., 1852

 1852 USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 USD 5,400.00
2 Ortelius, Abraham

Typus Orbis Terrarum, 1572

 1572 USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD 4,800.00
146 Arrowsmith, Aaron, Sr.

[On 4 Sheets] A Map of the United States of North America Drawn from a Number of Critical Researches, 1802

 1802 USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 USD 4,800.00
69 Hondius/Jansson

America Septentrionalis, 1645

 1645 USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,500.00
702 Cook, James (Capt.)

Chart of New-Zealand, Explored in 1769 and 1770, 1772

 1772 USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 4,500.00
102 Gastaldi, Giacomo

Tierra Nueva, 1548

 1548 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,900.00
3 Belleforest, Francois

Typus Orbis Terrarum, 1575

 1575 USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 USD 3,600.00
176 Lewis, Samuel

A Map of Part of the N:W: Territory of the United States: Compiled from Actual Surveys, and the Best Information, 1796

 1796 USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,600.00
406 Saxton, Christopher

Suffolciae Comitatus Continens in se Oppida Mercatoria 25 Pagos et Villas 464 una cum Singulis Hundredis & Fluminibus in Eodem Vera Descriptio, 1575

 1575 USD 2,300.00 - 2,750.00 USD 3,600.00
85 Popple, Henry

[Index Sheet] America Septentrionalis [or] A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto, 1733

 1733 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,300.00
113 Gastaldi/Ramusio

La Nuova Francia, 1606

 1606 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,300.00
114 Visscher, Nicolas

[Lot of 2] Nova Tabula Geographica Complectens Borealiorem Americae Partem... [and] Carte Nouvelle Contenant la Partie d'Amerique la Plus Septentrionale, ou sont Exactement Decrites les Provinces..., 1696

 1696 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,300.00
725

[Lewis & Clark] The Medical Repository, and Review of American Publications … Second Hexade. Vol. IV, 1807

 1807 USD 300.00 - 375.00 USD 3,300.00
156 Speed/Lamb

A Map of New England and New York, 1676

 1676 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 3,000.00
52

The Land of Make Believe, 1930

 1930 USD 800.00 - 950.00 USD 2,640.00
55 Gastaldi/Ramusio

Universale della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrovata, 1606

 1606 USD 3,000.00 - 3,750.00 USD 2,640.00
10 Homann, Johann Baptist

Planiglobii Terrestris cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti Generalis Exhibitio..., 1720

 1720 USD 2,000.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,520.00
105 Palairet, Jean

Carte des Possessions Angloises & Francoises du Continent de l'Amerique Septentrionale, 1755

 1755 USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,400.00
739 Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World..., 1847

 1847 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,400.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    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.
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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