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Auction Name Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Views Total Sales (USD) 144,393.75
Auction Date October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 148,900.00
Sale Number #849 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 230,300.00
Total Lots 406
Sold Lots 257.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 224,400.00
% of Lots Sold 63.30% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 347,700.00
Unsold Lots 149 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
296 Cook, James and James King

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the

1784 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,000.00
392 Marcou, Jules

Resume Explicatif d'une Carte Geologique des Etats-Unis et des Provinces Anglaises de l'Amerique du Nord [bound with] Esquisse d'une Classification des Chaines de Montagnes d'une Partie de l'Amerique du Nord.

1855 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,625.00
20 Audubon, John James and John Bachman

The Quadrupeds of North America

1854 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,000.00
263 Winterbotham, W[illiam]

An Historical Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies

1795 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,437.50
38

Three early documents of Mexican Los Angeles

1836-1848 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,812.50
383 Trietsch, Davis

Palastina-Wirtschafts-Atlas

1926 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,812.50
246 Stein, Aurel

Eight offprints from The Geographical Journal

1916-42 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,125.00
253 Beaumont, G[ustave] de with A[lexis] de To[c]queville

On the Penitentiary System in the United States, and its Application in France; with an Appendix on Penal Colonies, and Also, Statistical Notes

1833 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,125.00
148

Program for Pacem in Terris, Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope John XXIII

[1963] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
81

Manuscript investigation into the drowning of two Chinese settlers on board a Portuguese frigate with signatures of Chinese witnesses

1866 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,625.00
269 Beechey, Captain Frederick W.

Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28.

1831 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,625.00
27 Bartram, William

Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, The Cherokee Country, The Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and Country of the Chactaws...

1793 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,500.00
405 Vandermaelen, Ph[ilippe]

Carte Geologique des Etats-Unis et des Possessions Britaniques de l'Ameriques du Nord d'apres Jules Marcou

1855 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,500.00
9 Lewis, John

Civil War letter from a Quaker missionary teacher of formerly enslaved children in Union-occupied Williamsburg, Virginia

December 25, 1864 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,375.00
70

Thirty-eight speeches by United States Senators and Representatives

1860-1861 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,375.00
257 Wagner, Theodore

The Silver Question From the Standpoint of the Producer

[1871] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,375.00
80

Manuscript investigation into deaths of Chinese laborers en route to Cuba

1866 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
130 Hayden, F[erdinand] V.

Geological Report of the Exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers by Dr. F.V. Hayden, Assistant, Under the Direction of Captain (Now Lieut. Col. and Brevet Brig. Gen.) W.F. Raynolds, Corps of Engineers, 1859-'60

1869 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,250.00
155 Mackenzie, Alexander

Voyages From Montreal on the River St. Laurence, Through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade in that Country

1801 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
217 Roosevelt, Theodore

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

1914 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,250.00
297 Anderson, George William

A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority, Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Las

[c.1784-1786] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
304 Dixon, George

A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon

1789 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
337 Portlock, Nathaniel

A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon

1789 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
146 Jones, Robert Tyre (Bobby), Jr.

Golf is My Game

1960 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,187.50
34 Spotts, David L.

Journal of the Washita Campaign of 1868-'69 Detailing the Experiences of David L. Spotts As a Trooper in Company L, Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry

1926 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,125.00
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
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