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Auction Name Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books Total Sales (USD) 947,007.00
Auction Date December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 612,250.00
Sale Number #2724 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 871,200.00
Total Lots 371
Sold Lots 351.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 644,650.00
% of Lots Sold 94.61% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 919,100.00
Unsold Lots 20 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 103.04%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
341 John James Audubon

(BIRDS.) Carolina Parrot. Plate 26

1827 USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 95,250.00
284 Jan Huygen van Linschoten

(TRAVEL -- SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NAVIGATION.) Histoire de la Navigation aux Indes Orientales... Le Grand Routier de Mer... Description de l'Amerique

1619 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 30,480.00
311 (Lord John Elphinstone

INDIA.) Farewell address on the official departure of Lord Elphinstone as governor of the Madras district of India (1837-1842)

29 August, 1842 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 27,940.00
239 Fielding Lucas

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of all the Known Countries in the World

1823 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 25,400.00
310

(DRAWINGS -- SINGAPORE, PENANG, SOUTH AFRICA.) Assembled album containing over 80 ink sketches and watercolor drawings of various places, including Singapore, Penang, South Africa (Umgeni, Umlalaas, Zululand), St. Helena Island, etc.

1860s-1880s USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 22,860.00
42 [Jacques Nicolas Bellin]; and Jean Lattre

(BOSTON.) Plan de la Ville et du Port de Boston Capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre

[1760s-1770s] USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,050.00
156 Cornelis de Jode

(NORTH AMERICA.) Americae pars Borealis, Florida, Baccalaos, Canada, Corterealis

1593 USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 15,240.00
265 Sebastian Munster

(EARLY MODERN GEOGRAPHY.) Cosmographei, Oder Beschreibung Aller Lander

1558 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,970.00
263 John Bachmann

(CIVIL WAR.) Panorama of the Seat of War

1861 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,700.00
364

(PERSIAN MINIATURE -- SAFAVID DYNASTY.) Khusrau Before the Palace of Shirin

sixteenth century USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 12,700.00
283 Joris van Spilbergen

(TRAVEL -- EAST INDIA COMPANY.) Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum

1619 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 11,430.00
15 Vincenzo Coronelli

(AMERICAS.) America Settentrionale. [and] America Meridionale

circa 1690 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,220.00
89 Herman Moll

(COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA -- THE BEAVER MAP.) A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America

1715 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,795.00
111 Orange Green, surveyor

(GEORGIA -- GOLD RUSH -- CHEROKEE REMOVAL.) Map of the Third & Fourth Sections of that part of Georgia Now Known as the Cherokee-Territory in Which are Delineated all the Districts & Lots Which by an Act of the General Assembly Were Designated the Gold Di

early 1830s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 10,795.00
112

(GEORGETOWN.) Edward Sachse & Co. View of Georgetown D.C.

circa 1855 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 10,795.00
244 Thomas Gamaliel Bradford

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the United States and the Adjacent Countries

1838 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,795.00
233 Aaron Arrowsmith

(WORLD.) Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, Exhibiting all the New Discoveries to the Present Time: With the Tracks of the Most Distinguished Navigators Since the Year 1700, Carefully Collected from the Best Charts, Maps, Voyages, &c. Extant

1790 (but circa 1800) USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 10,160.00
237 John Reid

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) The American Atlas

1796 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 10,160.00
275

(NEW YORK CITY.) The Citizens' Association of New York, Council of Hygiene and Public Health; and Egbert Viele

1866 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,900.00
163 Gerard van Keulen

(NORTH AMERICA.) Carte de la Nouvelle France ou se Voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi Aujour d'hui S. Louis, Aux environs des Quelles se Trouvent les Etats Pais Nations Peuples & de la Floride, de la Louisiane, de la Virginie

[1720] USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,525.00
33 Laurent Fries; after Martin Waldseemuller

(ATLANTIC -- NEW WORLD.) Oceani Ocidentalis seu Terre Nove Tabula

1535 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,890.00
23 Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres

(AMERICAN NORTHEAST.) The Coast of Nova Scotia, New England, New-York, Jersey, the Gulph and River of St. Lawrence. The Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, St. John, Antecosty, Sable &c. and Soundings Thereof

1777 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,255.00
43 Joseph Frederick Wallet des Barres

(BOSTON.) [Boston Bay]

November 13th, 1776 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,255.00
238 Fielding Lucas

(AMERICAN ATLAS.) A General Atlas, of All the Known Countries in the World

circa 1820 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,255.00
190 John Thornton

(SOUTHEAST ASIA.) A Chart of the Easternmost Part of the East Indies and China, from Cape Comarine to Japan, with all the Adjacent Islands

circa 1703 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,858.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000