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Auction Name Maps and Atlases - bidstart 11/2 Total Sales (USD) 277,535.60
Auction Date November 16, 2022 - November 16, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 307,215.00
Sale Number #190 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 376,325.00
Total Lots 757
Sold Lots 596 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 424,995.00
% of Lots Sold 78.73% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 520,525.00
Unsold Lots 161 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 53.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
155 White/De Bry

"Americae Pars, nunc Virginia Dicta, Primum ab Anglis Inventa, Sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh...", White/De Bry

 1590 (circa) USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 14,375.00
6 Blaeu, Willem

"Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula", Blaeu, Willem

 1635 (circa) USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,350.00
102 Sayer & Bennett

"The Theatre of War in North America, with the Roads and a Table of the Distances", Sayer & Bennett

 1776 USD 9,500.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,050.00
716 Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche

"Atlas Universel", Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche

 1788 (circa) USD 9,000.00 - 11,000.00 USD 7,475.00
723 Tanner, Henry Schenck

"A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World...", Tanner, Henry Schenck

 1836 USD 7,000.00 - 8,500.00 USD 5,400.00
71 Moll, Herman

"To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham ... This Map of North America According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations...", Moll, Herman

 1730 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 4,500.00
319 Dudley, Robert (Sir)

"Carta Particolare dell' Isole di Islandia e Frislandia, con l'Isolette di Fare...", Dudley, Robert (Sir)

 1661 USD 3,750.00 - 4,500.00 USD 3,900.00
330

"L'Europe en Sept 1939",

 1939 USD 7,500.00 - 8,500.00 USD 3,900.00
9 Blaeu/Valck

"Novus Planiglobii Terrestris per Utrumque Polum Conspectus", Blaeu/Valck

 1695 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,600.00
156 Hondius, Jodocus

"Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, Nova Descriptio", Hondius, Jodocus

 1628 USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 3,600.00
673 Blaeu, Johannes

"Effigies Tychonis Brahe O.F. Aedificii et Instrumentorum Astronomicorum Structoris. Ao. Domini 1587, Aetatis Suae 40", Blaeu, Johannes

 1662 (circa) USD 600.00 - 750.00 USD 3,300.00
407 Sanson/Mariette

"Cartes Geographiques des Gaules et de la France ", Sanson/Mariette

 1707 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
5 Ritter, Franz

"[Untitled - World and Horological Diagrams]", Ritter, Franz

 1607 USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,880.00
580 Blaeu, Willem

"Asia Noviter Delineata", Blaeu, Willem

 1635 (circa) USD 3,250.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,880.00
32 Pitt, Moses

"A Map of the North-Pole and the Parts Adioining", Pitt, Moses

 1680 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 2,760.00
325 Blaeu, Willem

"Europa Recens Descripta", Blaeu, Willem

 1635 (circa) USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,640.00
111 Bellin/Homann Heirs

"Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada", Bellin/Homann Heirs

 1755 USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 2,520.00
146 Robert de Vaugondy, Didier

"Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland Dressee sur la Grande Carte Angloise de Mrs. Josue Fry et Pierre Jefferson...", Robert de Vaugondy, Didier

 1755 USD 2,500.00 - 3,250.00 USD 2,160.00
622 Elwe, Jan Barend

"[On 4 Sheets] Partie de la Nouvelle Grande Carte des Indes Orientales...", Elwe, Jan Barend

 1792 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
327

"Comic Map of the Seat of War with Entirely New Features",

 1854 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 2,100.00
328 Rose, F. W.

"Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877", Rose, F. W.

 1877 USD 3,500.00 - 4,250.00 USD 2,100.00
1 Jansson, Jan

"[Lot of 5] Typus Orbis Terrarum [with] Americae Descriptio [and] Africae Descriptio [and] Asia [and] Europae Nova Tabula", Jansson, Jan

 1634 USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,040.00
8 Stoopendaal, Bastiaan

"Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita", Stoopendaal, Bastiaan

 1682 (circa) USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,920.00
97 Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

"Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale Depuis le 28 Degre de Latitude Jusqu'au 72", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

 1755 USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 1,920.00
712 Le Rouge, George Louis

"Atlas Nouveau Portatif a l'Usage des Militaires, et du Voyageur Contenant 91 Cartes Dressees sur les Nouvelles Observations", Le Rouge, George Louis

 1756 USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
  • 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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