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Auction Name Maps and Atlases - bidstart 6/5 Total Sales (USD) 237,105.80
Auction Date June 19, 2024 - June 19, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 251,720.00
Sale Number #198 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 307,480.00
Total Lots 752
Sold Lots 574.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 326,550.00
% of Lots Sold 76.33% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 398,970.00
Unsold Lots 178 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 59.43%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
125 Fry, Joshua & Jefferson, Peter

[On 4 Sheets] A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia Containing the Whole Province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina

1775 USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,650.00
4 Blaeu, Willem

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

1642 (circa) USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,350.00
3 Hondius, Henricus

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula

1641 USD 9,500.00 - 11,000.00 USD 8,625.00
50 Ortelius, Abraham

Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

1587 USD 5,500.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,100.00
258 Bry, Theodore de

[Grands Voyages, Part I - 27 Plates of Virginia Natives & Picts]

1608 USD 2,750.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,800.00
49 Munster, Sebastian

Die Neuwen Inseln /so Hinder Hispanien Gegen Orient bey dem Landt Indie Ligen

1556 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,500.00
123 Keulen, Johannes van

Pas Kaart van de Zee Kusten van Virginia Tusschen C Henry en t Hooge Land van Renselaars Hoek

1695 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 4,200.00
51 Speed, John

America with Those Known Parts in that Unknowne Worlde Both People and Manner of Buildings Discribed and Inlarged

1626 USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,300.00
190 Bry, Theodore de

[Grands Voyages, Part II] Der Ander Theil / der Newlich Erfundenen Landtschafft Americae, von Dreyen Schiffahrten / so die Frantzosen in Floridam...

1603 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,300.00
518 Haupt, Gottfried Jacob

Nova et Accurata Tartariae Europaeae seu Minores et in Specie Crimeae Delineatio Geographica...

1740 (circa) USD 1,000.00 - 1,400.00 USD 3,300.00
631 Ptolemy/Berlinghieri

Tabula Nona d Asia

1482 (circa) USD 1,900.00 - 2,200.00 USD 3,000.00
673 Blaeu, Johannes

America

1662 (circa) USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 3,000.00
717 Tanner, Henry Schenck

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

1845 USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 2,880.00
104 Maury, M. F.

The Washington Map of the United States

1861 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,520.00
609 Ortelius, Abraham

Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, Nova Descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio

1584 USD 4,000.00 - 4,750.00 USD 2,400.00
118 Johnston, Alexander K.

United States and Texas

1844 (circa) USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,160.00
127 Mercator/Hondius

Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, Nova Descriptio

1636 USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 2,040.00
333 Ortelius, Abraham

Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.

1579 USD 2,300.00 - 2,750.00 USD 2,040.00
618 Ptolemy/Fries

India Orientalis

1535 USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,040.00
11 Seutter, Matthias

Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei Statione Variante et Visu Intercedente, per Coluros Tropicorum, per Ambos Polos et Particul. Sphaerae Zenith...

1742 (circa) USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
90 Homann, Johann Baptist

Amplissimae Regionis Mississipi seu Provinciae Ludovicianae a R.P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss in America Septentrionali Anno 1687...

1720 (circa) USD 2,000.00 - 2,300.00 USD 1,800.00
347 Bowen, Thomas

Atlas Anglicanus, or a Complete Sett of Maps of the Counties of South Britain; Divided into Their Respective Hundreds, Wapentakes, Wards, Rapes, Lathes &c...

1777 USD 2,000.00 - 2,750.00 USD 1,800.00
295 Loon, Jan van

Pascaerte vande Caribes, S. Iuan de Porte Rico, de Oosthoeck van I. Spangnola als Mede de Vaste Cust van Nueva Andalusia...

1666 (circa) USD 750.00 - 900.00 USD 1,680.00
246 Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel

Texas

1843 (circa) USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,560.00
341 Camden, William

Guili. Camdeni Viri Clarissimi Britannia, sive Florentiss. Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, Insularumq Adiacentium ex Intima Antiquitate Descriptio...

1639 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD 1,560.00
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.